How you feeling today? Are you on edge? Are you upset it
is Monday and you have to go back to work or are you just “not feeling it”
today. Well sisters, today is the day for change. Today is the day that you
change your attitude, adjust your thinking, and start to take the spotlight off
yourself. Until you make the decision to get your thinking back on track for
the Lord life will seem just plain irritating. You will start to see yourself
complain more, nag more, yell more and just focus on negative more. It is Satan’s
plan for you to live outside of God’s will and you cannot go down like that. You
are a daughter of the King.
I was just telling my husband the other day how I crave
peace now and in fact purposely search for it. I started thinking about the
times I did not and how I made life for myself and probably him real irritating.
I use to pop out of bed irritated because I had to wake up and get started with
life. I just wanted to lie there and do nothing all day. So I carried that mindset
with me to the shower, to the kitchen, to the car, to work and relationships
were affected. I lived on the edge sisters. I had no peace. I needed change.
You see God needs to use you and me and he cannot use us
when we are always on edge. When we are on edge we spiral downward real fast to
a place that is not pretty. When we get to that place we try and invite others
and when they don’t want to come we get mad. We are something else huh? It is
time for change. Time for a different way to live, it is time to clean our
hearts and minds before our Father. Time
to let go and ask God for help.
Sisters, you have all
the resources and thee most powerful God to help make change happen right now
in your life. You have prayer, all the truth and encouragement you can find in
scripture and not to mention the ultimate guide, the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 5:22-23 says: But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness and SELF-CONTROL. You can control yourselves. You don’t
have to let your feelings control you. You can renew your mind. Go grab your
Bible and purposely pursue God’s peace. I want to remind you that you are a
child of the most high God and he has a plan for you. He wants you to flourish
and live with purpose and peace.
Ask God to tender your heart right now. Lift your hands and
ask God to forgive your complaining spirit and to please help you to renew your
mind.It is time to grow and you cannot grow with that same ol
attitude you had yesterday. Today is a new day filled with new grace for you to
enrich the lives of others. You were made to shine bright for God’s kingdom.
In Christ,
Monique Smith
Prayer Starter:
God, I do not want my frustration to become who I am because
I know I am more than that. I am ready to surrender my heart, my ways and my
thinking over to you. You are the only one that can make true change come about
in my life. I long to have the abundance of the fruit of the Spirit but I
cannot do this alone please Help me Father, I need you. Thank you for hearing
my prayers and thank you for your word as it soothes my soul. I love you. Amen
