With a soccer tourney this weekend and getting a cold, I was a bit behind. So sorry, and I guess I wasn't ready to blog just yet....I see it was one week ago that I posted for Chapter Six....
So, how are you? I did not see any responses, but trusting that the book study is going well and that you are beginning to see how you can get complete FREEDOM in this battle....
Chapter Seven was a good chapter as well. It started with the scripture: "I will mediate on YOUR precepts and have respect to Your ways"...Psalm 119.5
Quite frankly the chapter was very specific and to the point -- we must mediate on HIS word. What we spend our time on...is what we are ....this makes so much sense to us moms.
It is very easy for the Enemy to lie to us and tell us how un godly we are when we are in the middle of changing diapers and making lunches. And then we have so many other tasks and we practically don't have any time for our husbands.....does this sound familiar?
I so want to be like the tree that is firmly planted...what she reminded us of in Psm. 1.3...
How about you?
Mark 4.24 tells us to be careful in WHAT we think.
I loved how she gave her own testimony on her thought process..she would read the word and listen to the word but not ATTEND to HIS word..and when she began to put effort into learning HIS word and seeing what it said to her...she got her freedom.
I also could relate when she stated our flesh is basically LAZY...can I get a witness?
I want to walk in the counsel of the godly....I want my delight to be HIS desire and I want my delight to be the desire to SEEK HIS word and instruction and HIS teachings...
And she reminded us that we should meditate on it day and night..that was in Joshua 1.8
I believe she also had great insight toward the end of the chapter when she said, there are going to be many saved people in heaven...but they won't be free....they could of been.
I want that victory. I believe I have found that freedom and victory, my walk with Jesus and God is so different now ...so alive.
However, I am sorry to admit it took a LOT of pain and wake up calls to get to this place, but so be it.
I just want to encourage you, to continue to read and as we approach the 2nd part of this book, the Conditions of the Mind...I pray that you are thinking positively and that you can see and feel the victory that HE wants for you.
I also pray that YOU are enjoying a closeness with our Heavenly Father..one that is so different..one that is not like anything else...and may the two of you grow even closer. HE loves you so.
Amen.
PS. I am attaching a photo of my husband and I. It was the 'first' photo I asked him to take in awhile. For so long he did not want to be near me....near us...and today when I asked for photo and he sweetly bowed his head, I melted. There has been so much ugly and unpositive between us, praise God, HE did a miracle....HE can heal.
The photo reminded me today - to focus on the positive. Period.
Whatever hurts, whatever is going on in your life, I KNOW HE knows and HE can make a way when there seems to be no other way -- just ask.
Ok, I am going to add a comment to my post. A situation happened yesterday when I really felt the Enemy attacking and I did what I was suppose to do - pray and think about the positive and HE did it again, HE fixed it. Very simple. I kept quiet, and let GOD do the fighting. It is THAT simple, but yet so hard...right? So, I just wanted to encourage anyone reading this, don't give up...prayer and sticking to what God has told you to do - is the right path, and it DOES work. Amen.
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