If you can relate and like that, adapt it to your life and make it your own. Repeat daily and often.
When some one asks what do you do, you will have a good descriptive answer.
Sufficiency – 2nd Corinthians 3:5
Analogy: Life is a river with its smooth parts along with rapids. Our relationship with God like being in the kayak vs wading in the river. We float as long as we abide and intentionally bail. The Spirit has us strappes in, guides and protects us. The paddle moves and steers by faith and works (the two ends of one paddle). When we go with God, its like going with the current. Yes there are still rocks and other dangers but nothing like paddling up stream, the way of the world.
Jim the Broom Man
I had the pleasure of buying a couple more brooms from Jim. He’s been selling brooms at the Castleton, Indiana post office for years, maybe like 20 or more.
See, Jim is blind but doesn’t let that get him down.
He told me, “God watches out for me so people help me take care of things. I have lived a good life and God and my wife love me and I them”.
A while back I heard the Post Office banned him from selling his brooms on their grounds.
Well, enough people heard about it, we’re upset and it went viral. According to Jim, the US Postmaster received over 10,000 letters but that wasn’t enough. President Obama encouraged the Post Master to heed the people’s will and his opportunity to sell brooms there was restored.
Props to President Obama and all the letter writers. Jim has a great attitude and go buy some brooms and be blessed.
Yes, Jim lives vibrantly by faith not by mere sight.
Enjoying the good in labor – Ecclesiastes 2:22-24
For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
Ecc 2:22 — Ecc 2:24
Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.
This must be why having a passionate purpose in work is so important. Success is not a destination or lots of stuff, but making the most of the journey. Perspective!
Old Hickory’s Gospel Testimony
THE POWER OF THE MEEK
Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
James 4:7
SUPPORTING SCRIPTURE
Ephesians 4:27
and do not give the devil a foothold.
Ephesians 6:11
Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Ephesians 6:13
Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand.
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1 Peter 5:9
Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.
SELECT COMMENTARY
Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
To the will of God, with respect to worldly things, and be content with such things as are enjoyed, and be satisfied with the portion that is allotted; it is right and best for the people of God to leave themselves with him, to choose their inheritance for them, since by all their anxious cares, their striving and struggling, their impatient desires, wars and fightings, as they cannot add one cubit to their stature, so nothing to their worldly substance; and it becomes them to submit to God in all afflictive dispensations of his providence, and be still and know that he is God; as well as to submit to his way and method of salvation by Christ, and particularly to the righteousness of Christ, for justification; and to depend upon him for supplies of grace in the discharge of every duty, and the exercise of every grace:
resist the devil, and he will flee from you; Satan is to be looked upon as an enemy, and to be opposed as such, and to be watched and guarded against; the whole armour of God should be taken and made use of, particularly the weapon of prayer, the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, and the shield of faith; and also the grace of humility, than which nothing is more opposite to him: he is a proud spirit, and he endeavours to swell men with pride of themselves; and when he has worked them up to such a pitch, he is then master of them, and can manage them as he pleases; but a poor humble believer, with whom God dwells, to whom he gives more grace, and who comes forth not in his own strength, but in the strength of the Lord God, as David against Goliath, and who owns his vileness and sinfulness, and flies to the grace of God, and blood of Christ, Satan knows not what to do with him, he is puzzled, baffled, and confounded; such he leaves, from such he flees; he does not like the power of prayer, nor the strength of faith, nor the sharpness of the two edged sword, the word of God, nor the humble believer’s staff, bag, scrip, and sling.
M Henry writes:
Submit to God, ver. 7. Submit your understanding to the truth of God; submit your wills to the will of his precept, the will of his providence. Submit yourselves to God, for he is ready to do you good. If we yield to temptations, the devil will continually follow us; but if we put on the whole armour of God, and stand out against him, he will leave us. Let sinners then submit to God, and seek his grace and favour; resisting the devil. All sin must be wept over; here, in godly sorrow, or, hereafter, in eternal misery. And the Lord will not refuse to comfort one who really mourns for sin, or to exalt one who humbles himself before him.
KIRK’S COMMENTARY
It is God’s loving nature to quickly aid those who understand the order of creation, their circumstance and God’s omnipotence. Pride is the root of many sins. Puffed up pride led to the great angel Lucifer’s fall and name conversion to Satan. He then used it to entice Eve to ‘be like God’.
Puffed up pride is a sin no doubt. Let’s not confuse this pride with the good kind, like pride in a job well done, but let us neither elevate it beyond what it should be and usurp or forget God.
Furthermore, God has also made available spiritual resources for our use such as the spiritual armor referred to in Ephesians 6. It only works when applied. Like medicine is of no effect sitting in the bottle.
God expects us to employ the tools of the trade with His backing. When we do such, we can be assured of victory.
P. S. This victory, this success is from His perspective, in His timing but be assured we shall overcome by His might.
PRAYER
Father, You know best and we rely and need You desperately.
the Virus of the Mind
the effect of a physical virus is tiny compared to what the virus of the mind can do; put you in fear and keep you in bondage to fear, controlling …
the Virus of the Mind
Ultimate Victory! – 1 Corinthians 15
Death swallowed up in Victory! Rejoice brothers and sisters for we have the ultimate hope in Jesus. Lets give Him our all.
