Faith Can Move Mountains

Welcome to day 80 as we are continuing with our devotional reading and reflection.God is amazing and so loving! We don't deserve anything and so often take it for granted. Day 80~ A bit of Grace for Today~ Our scripture reading comes from James 4:6, "But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” Today as I was working,  I realized how undeserving I am of God's blessings in my life. We are looking at God's grace. God loves us so much that he sent His son to die for our sins. As I struggle with learning new schedules and children,  I mess up a lot. People have been patient with me learning children and routines from all classrooms. It has made this transition to a new place easier!  Reflections ~ God's Grace is Sufficient  In Romans 5: 20, The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more." No matter how much we mess up,...

Day 79 welcome to our devotional reading and reflection as we are finishing up our discussion on Joyce Meyer's book,  " 100 Was to Simplify Your Life." Day 79~ Don't have an Overactive Conscience ~ Our scripture reading comes from Psalm 97:6, " The heavens declare His righteousness,  and all the people see His glory." Do you have an overactive conscience!? What does that mean? When we tend to apologize for everything because we don't want to offend anybody. I felt over anxious at times and I felt I did something wrong so I would always say " I'm sorry." I always think someone is mad at me but in reality they are having a bad day. I always seem like something is wrong. One day my friend said that I over react with my thinking. Sometimes they are just tired, not feeling well,  overly bad day or just chilling. Reflections ~ understanding God's Righteousness  It is better to be in good standing with God first. Simply living ...

Welcome to day 78 devotional reading and reflection as we continue our journey through Joyce Meyer's book, " 100 Ways to Simplify Your Life." After a few days to spend time with family through Thanksgiving, I had a bad spell. You know that spell where, it wasn't what you thought it should be like spell. I kinda hopped onto the pity train and derailed a few times. There is something that God reminded me in a few ways and we are going to talk about a clear conscience. Day 78~ Having a Clear Conscience~  Our scripture reading comes from Matthew 6:23, " But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very light in you [ your conscience ] is darkened, how dense is that darkness." Nothing worse to have is a guilty conscience that eventually complicates our lives. With a guilty conscience, it prevents us from enjoying anything that God has for us. We get all caught up in what that person did or how that situation unfolded ...

Welcome to day 77 devotional reading and reflection as we continue on with our discussion through Joyce Meyer book,  " 100 Ways to Simplify your life. " God is so good! We often take things forgranted! We are approaching Thanksgiving and how often do we say thank you to our Heavenly Father! Day 77~ Pray Ahead of Time~ Our scripture reading comes from Psalm. 88:2, " Let my prayer come before you and really enter into Your presence; incline Your ear to my cry! " When I was growing up,  I had Italian Christian neighbors who were a huge blessing to me and my family!  I was always eating with their family and nobody could make her baked ziti. This contributed to my weight issues because Italian food is my weakness. During the summer she would have a small VBS  in her home for all the neighborhood kids until we reached our teenage years.  After each VBS,  we were going to their church to receive our certificate. God provided them during the time my gran...

Welcome to day 76 with our devotional reading and reflection as we continue through Joyce Meyer's book, " 100 Ways to Simplify Your Life." Every day is a new beginning. Things come and go! But the one thing that remains is God. Day 76 ~ Don't Give up~ Our scripture reading comes from Romans 8:37, " Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us." It is so easy to develop a " give up" attitude with situations that happen throughout our life time. Problem with giving up, we start buying into all these "lies" that Satan starts repeating and then our thinking starts to react to those lies. The cycle begins when it starts to affect our emotions and attitudes. I am the most miserable when I am hanging around those that are always negative or want to make you feel less important because it's all about them. I am sure many of you have heard many things that people have s...

Welcome to day 75 devotional reading and reflection as we continue with our discussion of Joyce Meyer's book, " 100 Ways to Simplify Your Life." What happens when we loose our focus is that we forget who is in our corner all the time. We are making our way down this mountain to be prepared to start living the way God has intended us to live and to remember He is on our side. Day 75~ God is For Us~ Our scripture comes for Romans 8:31, " What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us."  We have to admit that everyone we encounter with will not like us nor some of our beliefs. Then we get wrapped up in getting people to like us by trying to please them more than God. Has anybody else fallen into that trap? I have numerous times. We have to realize the ones who loves us and accept us for who we are, are the ones that matter. Walk away from ones that bring you no purpose! Its' ok! When ever you face disapp...

Welcome to day 74 devotional reading and reflection as we continue our study through Joyce Meyer's book, " 100 Ways to simplify Your Life." Each new day God gives us a chance to do better. It takes a lot of hard work to improve things for the better. The best thing to do is to take one day at a time. Day 74 ~ Tackle Each Day~ Our scripture reading comes from Acts 24:16, " Therefore I always exercise and discipline myself [ mortifying my body, deadening my carnal affections, bodily appetites, and worldly desires, endeavoring in all respects] to have a clear (unshaken, blameless) conscience, void of offense toward God and toward men." This is so difficult at times to be reminded that I have to discipline myself to do better. I get sidetracked easily because I start a project and move on to the next because I get so far to realize I have to figure out another step before it is finished. If I ignore daily tasks for just a day, it seems that a week as come...