Friday, December 21, 2018

Have I hurt others? ?

I have had many blessings from various Christian folks by way of prayer, encouragement, love and correction.My life has been enriched by having these people surround me. But right now I am thinking of the topic "What have I done or said to discourage a brother or sister along the way? ".You see, we as believers can still allow ourselves to be used by the devil to discourage one another. We say and do things we ought not. So I want you to search your heart right now and repent. I am going to do the same thing. We as believers can act horrendously at times. Our mouth can say cutting things that destroy others in a second. We must repent and then ask the Lord to make us sensitive to others feelings. A little more of others and a little less of me. Or a lot more of others and a lot less of me.

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Do I value Myself?

Jesus said that we are to love our neighbour as ourselves. Wow, that wouldn't go very far for a lot of us. We have to therefore love ourselves ! ME MYSELF and I !! But we look in the mirror and find so many flaws with our face and our body. So we change something by coloring it or excercising or Botox ! We hate ME !. I am not saying don't do the change. I am saying WHY am I doing the change? Cuz I hate the way others view me and I want to look different for others so they will respect me or value ME? So I can look in the mirror and say Hey Baby You look Great ! I am so proud of you . What about if I can't change anything? What about when I am sick? Can I love Me then? What about if I have tried to lose those 10 pounds and it won't go ? Can I love Me then? Pimples, blemishes? Or what about my personality ? Oh I wish I had the charisma of so and so . I wish I could do public speaking like so and so. I wish I could pray for people like she does. Wishing, hoping but never accepting Me for Me. God made you to be like you. He expects you to use what He gave you, not what He gave someone else. Maybe you need to do some devil rebuking to those evil thoughts when you demean yourself, and berate yourself. Yes it's not all the devil's fault but he does bring evil thoughts and then we go ahead and entertain those thoughts. We invite those thoughts to come in and stay awhile. Come for dinner. Why don't you stay for awhile. Then the thoughts get hold of you and like an overgrown weed, they attach to you. I know first hand about this for myself. When Craig and I first got married, I blamed myself for any little thing that went wrong. It was all my fault. After he went to work I would punch the walls and call myself all sorts of names. One day he came home early when I wasn't expecting him. I was upstairs screaming into my pillow. He came in and said What is going on? He sat down beside me and I started to pour out memories from my childhood. He asked me Why haven't you ever told me these things? I said Because I didn't remember them ! He had to get back to work but he prayed for me first. After he left , I felt a peace. I wrote in my diary every day about this peace I still felt. peace I had never had even though I am a born again Christian. After 2 weeks I wrote in my diary..I guess this Peace is here to stay ! One note extra I want to say about that is that the Lord closed my memory again. I never remembered later what I told Craig. Not even the next day. So..Now I always love myself? Well, it's an ongoing job. But the strangle hold is gone . Yes I am thinking of getting a perm for my long hair. Maybe! I think it would be fun but I do like my hair straight too. The question is Do I love Me? Do you love you? When we love ourselves, we will love others in a new miraculous way.