Are You Tired, Yet?Written by Joyce C. Lock
Are you tired of having more days at end of month than money? Perhaps you've missed family time, due to overtime, just to make ends meet. Maybe, your credit card bills are rising, too. Only, Murphy's Law goes into effect about time you'd intended to keep your word and pay on your debt. Suppose you borrowed from Peter to pay Paul, then failed at keeping your word to Peter, too. Exhausting creative ideas to your financial dilemma, end of your rope could be near. Are you ready to give up and admit solution is beyond your control? That would be a really good place to start because, then, we're ready to look higher for answers. Our enemy is same one it always was. "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy" (John 10:10) and he can not be dealt with by earthly methods. That's why God gave us 'how-to's', like this one. "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled law." Romans 13:8 Are we listening, really listening? Or, are we still in mode of learning everything hard way? If you want answer, pay attention. Owe no man any thing ... Not if car breaks down, furnace goes out, or anything else goes wrong. God isn't kidding. Don't forget that He gets jealous. Your faith, for remainder of your needs, is to be placed in none other than Him. If you have a debt to pay, pay it first. Just don't make any more debts.
| | In Ways You Never DreamedWritten by Joyce C. Lock
When we're not right with ourselves, we're not right with world, and we're not right with our God. It happens to best of us, brings out worst in us, and affects rest of us. No one can help us until we're ready to help ourselves. Often, least thing has become insurmountable. If we knew how to make it right, surely, most would. Since beginning of time, people have prayed prayers (for help and guidance) that appear to go unheard. God has a better plan than taking us around a problem. It is to our advantage, working a far greater glory, when He takes us through it. Bloom where you are planted. Do what you know to do. Take step provided. Then, He'll show you next step and next. One day, you'll look back to discover God was growing a most beautiful flower for His garden and that flower was you; sure, steady, faithful, and strong. Don't think it strange when God chooses you for a time of growth, I Pe. 4:17. He wants to love you in ways you've never dreamed. In all things we are more than conquerors, when we go through it with Him that loved us, (par.) Ro. 8:37.
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