How is Satan Robbing Your Joy?

How is Satan robbing your joy? Lately I have felt so distracted. Hints of deceit had been allowed to creep into my thoughts. I do not know why this was a surprise since Satan is the master of lies. Not to give Satan too much credit…I realized the real problem was with me. I have the choice to listen to the “Voice of Truth”!  I am a child of God and have so much to be joyful about! Yet I allow myself to pay attention to these little deceptive seed plants ~ to get distracted from the plan God has for me.  If Satan can rob our joy and steal our witness, then he makes us useless in the kingdom of God. Why do we allow our flesh to rule us? Are we not slaves to Christ? Why do we feel the need to please people when the only one that matters is God?

I do not want to be the “Christian” that sits on the sidelines so distracted I am useless or even worse harmful to others salvation. There is so much that God wants to teach us if we are just willing to listen, and how exciting it is to hear Him when He speaks! These past few weeks God has spoke to me though many avenues over and over the same truths keep popping up…(I guess I am just like a child I have to be told over and over until it sinks in.) I am so thankful God is patient with me.

Today I will proclaim my JOY in JESUS!!! I pray all my fellow Brothers and Sisters in Christ can do the same.

And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD; It shall rejoice in His salvation. Psalms 35:9

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Lord How's my Training?

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Proverbs 22:6

 

Now that my son has finished high school and is officially an adult I have been thinking a lot about this verse….How well have I trained him? Did I do my best to point him toward God and teach him how to make difficult decisions? Will he follow God? Make the right choices? It is a difficult thing to let your children grow up! My natural response as a mother is to tell my kids what to do and when to do it…. Always wanting to protect them. The hardest thing to do is to let go and hope they stay on the right path. (This does not mean they do not have rules and expectations while living at home even as an adult) but with age comes more freedom to make life choices.

“My prayer is that I am doing and have done the training well”

Birth pains do not stop at the time of birth ~ they are constant for a mom in rearing her children. So weather you are a mom with natural born children or hand picked via adoption you can understand what this means.

Please… if you have any words of wisdom or encouragment I would love to hear from you!