No Longer Updating This Blog

I want to thank you for following this blog. I have come to the realization that I cannot separate nor do I want to my everyday life from my spiritual life, so I will not be updating this blog. I am going to keep my other blog "Life From My Point Of View" with everyday happenings along with my love for Jesus.

The address is: http://iloveretirement.blogspot.com/

Our Conscience

When we know that we're doing what's right, we feel better about ourselves. Why? Because we have a little voice in our head called our "conscience." Our conscience is a feeling that tells us whether something is right or wrong. Have you ever spent sleepless nights because you listened to the wrong voice. If so, that is the perfect time to repent and ask the Lord for another day to do what's right. We all make bad decisions sometimes. God has given us a conscience to help us. The Holy Ghost is to lead and guide you into all truth. Our conscience is an important tool. It truly helps when we pay attention to it!

The more we listen to our conscience, the easier it is to behave ourselves. Here's what I try to do: first I need to slow down long enough to figure out the right thing to do-and then do it! When we can do this, we'll be proud of ourselves...and other people will be proud of us too. This life is full of hard knocks when we choose our fleshly ways instead of God's perfect ways. I am so glad that His patience is tender and long suffering. One last thought - when we get those guilty feelings because we don't pray enough - it may just be the Lord pulling you into your prayer closet.

Blessings are Like Sunbeams

The gospel of Christ is the highest blessing to give and the greatest blessing to receive.
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All other blessings are like sunbeams compared to the enormity of the sun, waves compared to the vast ocean, rocks compared to the mighty mountain, leaves compared to the tallest tree.
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When you carry the gospel to others, you bring the glory of God to their deepest darkness, the river of His delights to their desert places, the power of His might to their inner weakness, the tree of life to the barren places of their heart. Roy Lessin

A Blessing

God has blessed you to make you a blessing.

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He wants to give through your hands,

smile through your face,

care through your heart,

speak through your voice,

and shine through your eyes.

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Like bread,

He will break you and multiply you.

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Like a cup of cool water,

He will pour you forth.

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Like a well-planted tree,

He will make you fruitful to every good work.

Roy Lessin

Hope

There are few sadder sights on earth than the sight of a person who has lost all hope. In difficult times, hope can be elusive, but Christians need never lose it. After all, God is good; His love endures; He has promised His children the gift of eternal life.

If you find yourself falling into the spiritual traps of worry and discouragement, consider the words of Jesus. It was Christ who promised, "In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (John 16:33 NKJV). This world is, indeed a place of trials and tribulations, but as believers, we are secure. God has promised us peace, joy, and eternal life. And of course, God always keeps His promises.

Never be afraid to hope - or to ask - for a miracle.