COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
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Isn’t it amazing how time flies? It’s almost another Christmas day and the end of another year! How has it been for you? Are you looking forward to Christmas and the year ahead? For some, this has been the best year of their lives, so this Christmas will be one to remember for a long time to come. There are some that can’t wait for this year to roll past because it’s been one nightmare they can’t wait to wake up from, yet there are others who can’t seem to find a reason to be excited but don’t feel justified to be depressed. What category are you in?
A couple of days ago, my husband and I were discussing how unfair our human nature is towards God and how desperately we need trade our human nature for the divine nature. Why? Our human nature lacks the ability to retain the good and give up the bad, it has a terrible memory problem, it’s so short sighted and impatient. All it understands and lives for is me, mine and myself. For example, in less than a month after God delivered the Israelites from Egypt by signs and wonders, they turned their hearts against God and were ready to kill Moses, whom God used to deliver them. God destroyed the whole earth in the days of Noah because of the evilness of men’s heart, yet before the death of Noah and his sons who witnessed the earth’s destruction, their descendants had already began to turn away from the true God.
It’s easy to point fingers at those people, but in reality are we any different? There are answered prayers I was hoping will manifest before the end of this year but it hasn’t happened yet, as a result there were times this year I bought into Satan’s lie that God had abandoned me ( don’t buy into stuff like that, it’s poisonous!) I can’t tell you how many times I allowed the enemy to steal my joy because I chose to focus on the few things that has not happened, totally ignoring the countless blessings that have come my way this year. How dumb and miserable can we be when we chose to focus on the wrong things! Can the hand that parted the Red Sea not be able to provide water in the desert?
It is true that nobody drives ahead with their eyes totally focused on the rear view mirror. It is also true, like I said in my previous blogg, that if you are going to arrive safely at your destination in God, you must learn to leave the past in the past, however, there is a part of the past you must never leave behind – your blessings and victories. These should never depart from your eyes, you must keep them in the midst of your heart, they are the shields you will need to protect your joy, they are the sword you will need to extinguish the lies of the enemy, they are the belt you will need to gird yourself because every one of those blessings and victories are declarations of the faithfulness of our unchanging God!
Take out time today to count your blessings, name them one by one, and as the song writer said, “… it will surprise you what the Lord has done”
I want to challenge you to take it a step further, write down all your blessings and victories for 2007, recount them to yourself daily for the rest of this year, if possible share them with people who will rejoice with you and see what happens. Will you share your results with me? I’d be glad to read from you.
Rejoice in the Lord always! And again I say REJOICE! SHALOM!!
It’s always a pleasure to share my thoughts with you, thanks for stopping by!
Isn’t it amazing how time flies? It’s almost another Christmas day and the end of another year! How has it been for you? Are you looking forward to Christmas and the year ahead? For some, this has been the best year of their lives, so this Christmas will be one to remember for a long time to come. There are some that can’t wait for this year to roll past because it’s been one nightmare they can’t wait to wake up from, yet there are others who can’t seem to find a reason to be excited but don’t feel justified to be depressed. What category are you in?
A couple of days ago, my husband and I were discussing how unfair our human nature is towards God and how desperately we need trade our human nature for the divine nature. Why? Our human nature lacks the ability to retain the good and give up the bad, it has a terrible memory problem, it’s so short sighted and impatient. All it understands and lives for is me, mine and myself. For example, in less than a month after God delivered the Israelites from Egypt by signs and wonders, they turned their hearts against God and were ready to kill Moses, whom God used to deliver them. God destroyed the whole earth in the days of Noah because of the evilness of men’s heart, yet before the death of Noah and his sons who witnessed the earth’s destruction, their descendants had already began to turn away from the true God.
It’s easy to point fingers at those people, but in reality are we any different? There are answered prayers I was hoping will manifest before the end of this year but it hasn’t happened yet, as a result there were times this year I bought into Satan’s lie that God had abandoned me ( don’t buy into stuff like that, it’s poisonous!) I can’t tell you how many times I allowed the enemy to steal my joy because I chose to focus on the few things that has not happened, totally ignoring the countless blessings that have come my way this year. How dumb and miserable can we be when we chose to focus on the wrong things! Can the hand that parted the Red Sea not be able to provide water in the desert?
It is true that nobody drives ahead with their eyes totally focused on the rear view mirror. It is also true, like I said in my previous blogg, that if you are going to arrive safely at your destination in God, you must learn to leave the past in the past, however, there is a part of the past you must never leave behind – your blessings and victories. These should never depart from your eyes, you must keep them in the midst of your heart, they are the shields you will need to protect your joy, they are the sword you will need to extinguish the lies of the enemy, they are the belt you will need to gird yourself because every one of those blessings and victories are declarations of the faithfulness of our unchanging God!
Take out time today to count your blessings, name them one by one, and as the song writer said, “… it will surprise you what the Lord has done”
I want to challenge you to take it a step further, write down all your blessings and victories for 2007, recount them to yourself daily for the rest of this year, if possible share them with people who will rejoice with you and see what happens. Will you share your results with me? I’d be glad to read from you.
Rejoice in the Lord always! And again I say REJOICE! SHALOM!!
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