Wednesday... So how is your faith today in God?

1 Timothy 1:19 (AMP), "keeping your faith [leaning completely on God with absolute trust and confidence in His guidance] and having a good conscience; for some [people] have rejected [their moral compass] and have made a shipwreck of their faith."

Wednesday... So how is your faith today in God?

Now that ios a very good question for each of us. We go through difference seasons in our life and in each of them we need faith. Have you found that to be true.

Now Margaret and I are in a different season of our life and faith is so important. Now, of course we're talking about our faith in God. Every once in a while it is easy to put our faith in ourselves and that is needed but it can be scary. I can't see any farther than right now.

Now Paul had this young man that he was developing and he wrote two letters to him to head him in the right direction. Now Margaret and I are not young and this time in our life has some real needs for out faith to be strengthen.

Now I found these words of Paul to Timothy that found to be uplifting. Now in 1 Timothy 1:18 (NLT) Paul writes to this young man and to those of us who are older, "Timothy, my son, here are my instructions for you, based on the prophetic words spoken about you earlier. May they help you fight will in the Lord's battles." And we all needs words to hold on to in our battles no matter our age.

And Paul goes on with his instructions. Verse 19 (AMP) says, "Keeping your faith [leaning completely on God with absolute trust and confidence in His guidance] and having a good conscience; for some [people] have rejected [their morals compass] and have made a shipwreck of their faith."

This is so important no matter what time in our live we are going through, "Keeping your faith [leaning completely on God with absolute trust and confidence in His guidance]." It is so easy to put our faith in ourselves and our abilities. Yes, at 78 I have had a lot of experience. I have lived all over the USA. I have done so much in myl ife but again, I have never lived in what is ahead. And yes, I need to leaning completely on God with absolute trust and confidence in His guidance. So asking the question, how is your faith in God? is such an important one.

Now the next part of this verse is also important. It says "and having a good conscience; for some [people] have rejected [their morals compass] and have made a shipwreck of their faith." So where are we putting our faith?

Verse 19b in The Message says it this way, "There are some, you know, who by relaxing their grip and thinking anything goes have made a thorough mess of their faith." And it is so easy for us to do that, to relax our grip and think anything goes but that is definitely a trap.

Again ask yourself and really be honest, so how is your faith today in God? Not in yourself but in God. Verse 19 says, "keeping your faith [leaning completely on God with absolute trust and confidence in His guidance] and having a good conscience; for some [people] have rejected [their moral compass] and have made a shipwreck of their faith." Such a tremendous thought no matter our age. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

Thursday... Maybe we need this word today.

Psalm 57:1b (NIRV), "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Thursday... Maybe we need this word today. There are words in life that give us confidence no matter what we are facing. Now we have to believe them in order for them to have an impact. David wrote Psalm 57 while he was in a cave hiding from Saul who wanted to kill him and he says in the last part of verse 1, "There I will stay." It was a safe place and Saul didn't know that he was there. But he doesn't stop there. With confidence he said, "There I will stay until." And until is definitely a word of faith and confidence. "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Do we need that today? Let me give you the whole verse. In verse 1 David says, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." And that is a great place to start in times of trouble. Maybe that is what we need to pray today, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." It is so great to have someone...

Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...

Friday... It is so exciting but wait a minute.

Proverbs 19:2 (NLT), "Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes." Friday... It is so exciting but wait a minute. This time of the year is so exciting. We get our paycheck from work and then we head to the store or Amazon and buy and buy and buy all those presents and then our check is gone Proverbs 19:2 (NLT) says, "Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes." But buying gifts can be so much fun and seeing how happy they are when opening those presents makes us feel so good. But then verse 3 says, "People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then they are angry at the Lord." Now for some that is their life. They get money and they spend it on their wants with no thought of what needs to be paid. An important lesson that we have learned is just because you have money in the bank doesn't mean you must spend it. But our enthusiasm takes over. But the problem is when it is gone and there is no money to pay th...

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