Thursday – July 21st – James 4:2-3 -----
4:2) You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
3) When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
The Daily Walk Bible inspirational thought for today:
EVERY LOSS LEAVES A SPACE THAT CAN BE FILLED BY GOD’S PRESENCE.*
Good day Thursday to you! Wow this week is going fast. Hope your planned activities have all been successful and you are reaping the bounty of your hard work and great ideas. Our inspirational thought today is filled with wisdom, strength, and God’s peace for our lives. We will all experience losses in our life. Some will be missed opportunities, unfulfilled expectations, the loss of jobs, friends, relationships, or our closest loved ones through death. Grief has a normal, natural, and healthy process that must and will include times of denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. The final stage of grief is acceptance. From my years in the ministry, I have discovered that healthy acceptance requires allowing God to fill the spaces of emptiness in our hearts and minds. Acceptance doesn’t mean we agree, like, or will forget, but it does help us keep our eyes focused on God and God’s promise to care for us in the next steps of our lives.
In our pick verses today, we continue to unpack James’ teaching on the necessity of having pure hearts and clean hands for kingdom work. James is teaching is intended for all believes to know that it is important for us to have the right attitude when we come to God in prayer. Without self-control our desires stem from earthly goals and not kingdom goals. When we allow the ways of the world to motivate us, we can become agents of hate, we fight and war against each other, we manipulate our agendas to try and get the best of each other. Bottom line is that when we do not first talk with God about our desires and wants, we will reap the harvest of discontent we sow. When out of touch with God we offer up self-centered prayers that ignore God’s will, God’s word, and God’s way. And these selfish prayers will ultimately fail to bring us any enduring satisfaction or peace. What might we do today to adjust how we pray so that God’s will shall be done in our lives and in the lives of people we encounter?
Blessings
Pastor Jim
Friday – July 22nd – James 4:4
*Tyndale. The Daily Walk Bible NLT (Kindle Location 37941). Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
4:2) You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
3) When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
The Daily Walk Bible inspirational thought for today:
EVERY LOSS LEAVES A SPACE THAT CAN BE FILLED BY GOD’S PRESENCE.*
Good day Thursday to you! Wow this week is going fast. Hope your planned activities have all been successful and you are reaping the bounty of your hard work and great ideas. Our inspirational thought today is filled with wisdom, strength, and God’s peace for our lives. We will all experience losses in our life. Some will be missed opportunities, unfulfilled expectations, the loss of jobs, friends, relationships, or our closest loved ones through death. Grief has a normal, natural, and healthy process that must and will include times of denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. The final stage of grief is acceptance. From my years in the ministry, I have discovered that healthy acceptance requires allowing God to fill the spaces of emptiness in our hearts and minds. Acceptance doesn’t mean we agree, like, or will forget, but it does help us keep our eyes focused on God and God’s promise to care for us in the next steps of our lives.
In our pick verses today, we continue to unpack James’ teaching on the necessity of having pure hearts and clean hands for kingdom work. James is teaching is intended for all believes to know that it is important for us to have the right attitude when we come to God in prayer. Without self-control our desires stem from earthly goals and not kingdom goals. When we allow the ways of the world to motivate us, we can become agents of hate, we fight and war against each other, we manipulate our agendas to try and get the best of each other. Bottom line is that when we do not first talk with God about our desires and wants, we will reap the harvest of discontent we sow. When out of touch with God we offer up self-centered prayers that ignore God’s will, God’s word, and God’s way. And these selfish prayers will ultimately fail to bring us any enduring satisfaction or peace. What might we do today to adjust how we pray so that God’s will shall be done in our lives and in the lives of people we encounter?
Blessings
Pastor Jim
Friday – July 22nd – James 4:4
*Tyndale. The Daily Walk Bible NLT (Kindle Location 37941). Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
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