“Oh, how that hurts so good!” is something my mom would say to us kids when we stubbed our toe, hit that funny bone or had a small “owee”. We’d usually shake it off and keep playing.
“You’re thinking so hard steam’s coming out your ears” is something we’d say when someone actually used their brain to think through an issue. As one friend says, “Are you reasoning through or responding to your situation?”
Healthy Jesus believers realize that both revelation and reason go hand in hand. We do not check our brains at the door when we leave our houses each morning. Instead, we use them to reason through life’s daily situations using the Scriptures we’ve put into our shield of faith, which is a real defensive weapon when we’ve put specific lie defeating truths into it.
Having to think through an issue using Scripture will cause steam thinking! Your brain will be strained as you critically think through a situation using specific truths the Spirit’s given you in your Bible reading to filter out the lies you hear to stay focused on the truths that bring you victory over your drugs of choice (aka our way of handling life).
Use each day to practice using your Set Free Nowww principles. It will cause some steam thinking that will hurt so good as you continue to enjoy your day with Jesus!
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“Oh what a stupid head” is what we as kids would say to each other when we did something rather, well, stupid. It’s those moments we knew we engaged long before we ever had a clear thought of what we were doing.
I believe the angels more than likely said this to each other as they were heading towards earth in response to their attempt to dislodge God from His throne. Adam and Eve probably said it as they were getting the boot from the garden in their attempt to become like God.
The each thought they knew better or were stronger than God even though they saw Him! Pretty dumb thinking, right? We have that same power to be stupid because of our own free will. Whenever we don’t slow life down and ask, “Jesus what do You want done here?” Or whenever we go full bore into something without asking for the Spirit’s power, we are being rather, well, stupid.
This is part of the reason Jesus came to save us…from our own stupid decision making processes. Because of Jesus, we have the power to be pretty smart by slowing life down, listening to Him and then making the decision to follow Him. Because of Jesus, the Spirit lives inside us to give us the strength to follow through on that decision. This exercise of our freewill is quite a smart move. It’s time to choose to pick up and use your biblical tools everyday everywhere to make the smart choices.
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Joy and disappointment are the norm for the growing believer. Hebrews 10:14 reveals the believer in Jesus is both perfect and being made perfect at the same time. Jesus has both changed us, joy, and is changing us, disappointment.
Christians often say, “Hey, I’m not perfect. I have a long way to go, but I’ve seen Jesus change my life.” This is not just a humble statement. It’s the true reality of a healthy believer who is exercising the truth as they walk with the Spirit. We are perfect in God’s eyes; and yet, we are being made perfect at the same time.
We will experience both great joy over defeating some drugs of choice and great disappointment at falling to others, quite possibly on the same day. Go with it rather than beating yourself up. This balance of joy and disappointment will be the day to day reality for those who love Jesus as they listen to and follow Him in their every day life situations.
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Fear is not the opposite of faith, doubt is, but it’s just as deadly. It’s one emotion that can lead me down the path to taking my drug of choice. I know what God has said in His Word will always come true. I, however, either doubt He will do what He did on the pages of Scripture in my life and/or I will have the ability or worthiness to follow Him.
It’s at times like these that I must exhale faith though I’m inhaling doubt. It’s time to exercise the truth of what the Psalmist wrote in 100:3, “Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture.”
Though we inhale doubt, let’s exhale faith and know our God better by jumping into His arms rather than our drugs of choice.
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Today, Thanksgiving, is a holiday where Americans are supposed to take one day of the year and give thanks for the many blessings in their lives. For the believer, however, this is to be an ongoing daily experience, not just when the turkey and stuffing hit the table.
Psalm 30:12, “O LORD my God, I will give You thanks forever.”
1 Thessalonians 5:17, “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
There you have it. Giving thanks is on the both sides of the book. Your God wants to be thanked everyday everywhere. Here’s an interesting side note to thanking Jesus throughout your day. It’s hard to be bummed or depressed, which can lead to your drug of choice, when you’re being thankful. The two don’t mix. Want victory today? Remember to thank your God for who He is and what He has, is and will do in and through you.
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