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Christian Living, Soul Detox

Guard Your Heart

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Day 1

Soul De-toxing = getting the toxins out.  The question of the day over at Soul Detox – You Version is this:

How have your toxic thoughts negatively affected your life and relationships?

via Proverbs 4 HCSB | YouVersion.com.

The reading passage for today is Proverbs 4.

If you will when you have completed your reading, comment the verses the HOLY SPIRIT highlighted for you today.

These are mine:

23Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.
24Don’t let your mouth speak dishonestly, and don’t let your lips talk deviously.

via Proverbs 4 HCSB | YouVersion.com.

Guard my heart. 

Okay. That means standing sentry over what comes into my soul by way of my senses. I see the challenge there. five-sensesAnd I see without the HOLY SPIRIT’s help, I’m sunk. How about you?

Don’t let my mouth speak dishonestly. I get that. And I might as well be truthful here with you :) The HOLY SPIRIT cured me of willful lying many years ago. If I tell you an untruth, it will for sure be through ignorance.  I promise you that!

Don’t let the lips talk deviously. A worthy challenge and for sure is a factor in detoxing our souls!  Reminds me of this:

Philippians 4:8 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)

8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things.

via Philippians 4:8 KJ21 – Finally, brethren, whatsoever things – Bible Gateway.

So when I think THIS way, what comes from my lips for sure will NOT be devious. 

That’s plenty to chew on today — don’t you think?

Any of you IN enough to comment your ‘highlights’ for today?

See you tomorrow – ABBA willing!

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Assurance - Promise, Theme Praying

Hold On Room

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First thing in my journal this morning was a request for help.

And the first Scripture I read was this:

13 For I, Yahweh your God, hold your right hand and say to you: Do not fear, I will help you.

via Is 41 HCSB – The LORD versus the Nations’ Gods – Bible Gateway.

Not all answers and assurances come that quickly but when they do the proper response is gratitude and holding on to the promise. I’m  delighted to share my Scripture with you this morning and there is plenty of hold on room for you too.

I know. Some answers are long in coming. And when they are our response must be the same: gratitude and holding on to the promises. 

Hold on today! Or perhaps it is one of those days when you just can’t hold on? That’s okay.  LET Him hold YOU today.

Praying for sisters and brothers to LET Jesus hold them today.

ABBA, thank You. You are awesome. You listen. You hear. And You answer when Your children call. Thank You for answering our fears with Your very own voice. And You say do not fear, I will help you. And there is nothing too small or too large. You help with it all. Thank You. Dawn. Help her today do all that demands to be done. And there are others. Many others, ABBA. Thank You for helping us. Thank You in JESUS name.

Blessings to you Dear Friends    +++

Remember YOU have the God-given RIGHT to do right in this wrong world!

Theme Praying

Two Things

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Two quick things this morning.

One.  A prayer theme for today.

Equal Awakenings

Awakenings equal to the needs and messes in our lives and the lives of those we love and are trying to love.

Two. A Scripture to carry with us today:

20 Guard me and deliver me; do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in You.
21 May integrity and what is right watch over me, for I wait for You.

via Ps 25 HCSB – Psalm 25 Dependence on the LORD – Bible Gateway.

ABBA, thank You for always hearing our prayers. Lee and every soul affected. Israel. America. The election. Equal awakenings, ABBA, for each of us and for every one we hold dear and especially for those we are trying to hold dear.  Thank You for this word from Your WORD. Help us hold it dear and be guided and guarded by remembering and applying it this day. We invite and even expect You to watch over us today, guarding, correcting, loving, providing, forgiving, and growing us in the likeness of JESUS today.

Blessings to you Dear Friends    +++

Remember YOU have the God-given RIGHT to do right in this wrong world!

Celebrations, Prayer Requests

Bound Together By This Day

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There’s a baby being born today; not sure boy or girl; but a brave mother. Brave because this baby was conceived in sin but the mother then made a godly choice. She decided to give the baby life rather than kill it by abortion. And then she went a step further in love  – she is giving the baby in adoption to a family that is prepared to receive the baby. Prepared to give the baby lots and lots of love and all things a baby needs – a soft bed, warm formula, clean clothes and some colorful toys too.

Will you pray with me for this blessed event and all those connected?

ABBA, thank You for her decision. Thank You for Your grace and mercy. Thank You for the adopting family. Thank You for doctors and nurses. Thank You for the laboring process and I pray for this dear young woman that she will have strength and courage. That You will comfort and assure her and for this family that they will forever be grateful for this precious life that You have placed in their family. I ask that this child grow in likeness of Your own Dear Son, The LORD JESUS CHRIST and that You receive honor and glory throughout these lives bound together by this day.

13 For You formed my inward parts;

You covered me in my mother’s womb.

14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Marvelous are Your works,

And that my soul knows very well.

15 My frame was not hidden from You,

When I was made in secret,

And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.

And in Your book they all were written,

The days fashioned for me,

When as yet there were none of them.

17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!

How great is the sum of them!

18 If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;

When I awake, I am still with You.

via Ps 139 NKJV – God’s Perfect Knowledge of Man – For – Bible Gateway.

Blessings to you Dear Friends    +++

Remember YOU have the God-given RIGHT to do right in this wrong world!