It will take great intentionality and focus to keep your eyes fixed on Jesus and his purpose for your life in this season. Be careful that you are not taken off course by seemingly harmless distractions. It is often the little things that don’t seem to matter that actually matter the most. You rarely get off course due to one massive wrong turn, it’s normally due to one small compromise at a time. When we are on guard about not allowing big things to derail us we often drop our guard against small seemingly inconsequential things. Enjoy the journey but not at the expense of purpose. Keep your lamps full of oil. Don’t allow comfort, ease, pleasure or leisure guide your priorities. Stay alert. Stay awake. Stay on track. Run your race and finish your course. Life is but a vapor. Make yours count for the glory of God.
ANG KASIYAHAN KAPAG HINDI BINANTAYAN AY PWEDENG MAGING KASALANAN.
The primary goal in life is not to be happy but to do the will of God. Along the path of doing God’s will, we pick up happiness here & there. God wants us to be happy but within the boundaries of His will.
Until you find in & draw from God’s love & pleasing Him your security, acceptance, & sense of worth, you will easily fall into the cycle of being a slave to people’s opinion & validation to feel accepted & valued.
Every time you doubt your value as a person, look at the cross.
HEALTHY CONSCIOUSNESS is very important to effectively navigate our decisions in life. And the most important consciousness w/c is more important than self- consciousness is GOD- CONSCIOUSNESS. If you lose this, you’ll most likely miss the right path. (See Proverbs 14:12; 3:5-7)
Where do you build your life?
Don’t build your life upon your self. You’ll just be frustrated. You’re not strong enough to hold your life together. Build your life upon the solid rock foundation-Christ our Lord & His words. All other foundations are sand.
See Matthew 7:24-27
Unless you find your joy in the Lord, you will easily fall into the cheap substitutes of the world. “Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” (Psalm 37:4)
God is good— no matter what we may face. Don’t let external situations or influences rob what Christ has done for you.
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Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:4 💪🏼
You will never be delivered from something that is wrong or that isn’t right before God if you keep denying or justifying it. Truth, many times, hurts but it liberates. “And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32
What others call as freedom is actually bondage. Real freedom, be it physical, emotional, moral and spiritual has boundaries. Spiritual and moral freedom can’t be self- assumed.
There’s no true freedom apart from Christ and the truth of His words.
Waiting upon the Lord is not about doing nothing. It is about proactively seeking God, His presence and His words until you receive a renewal of His power. See Isaiah 40:31.
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LOVE CHECK Where is your love directed?
The world offers so many things that may seem harmless. But if these worldly things are keeping us from loving our heavenly Father, then we’re in trouble.
Love the LORD, not the things of this world. (See I John 2:15-17).
What’s most important to God is our spiritual status, not our social status. Oh, how important it is that at the start of this year, we pray: Lord, set my heart on fire for You! Fill me Lord with Your Spirit! Visit my family, our church, our nation w/ Your revival fire, I pray!
God, in His love, wants us to learn and grow. If we don’t strive to learn through the challenging yet easier way of obeying His words & guidance, He will still give us a chance to learn, although through a much harder way via the consequences of our disobedience & stubbornness.