All honor and glory to God! So, I came home and unintentionally begat one of my infamous naps. I woke up to the sound of my pets barking, and I immediately jumped up paranoid, thinking I had fallen asleep while they were still in my backyard (always scared to leave them outside for too long, because one of my pets drowned in my pool some years back, while I was upstairs sending off the SOD). So I called for them and I could hear their bells. As I was about to drift back off, they started barking again, and then I heard a loud sound like something popped. Now, my instinct was to grab for my gun, since I had an incident not too long ago where an intruder tried to kick down my door in the middle of the night, while I was home. But as I sat up, I smelled the scent of something burning, and remembered... 'I left some eggs boiling on the stove.' Smh... something told me to turn off the fire before I went upstairs, but again this nap was unintentional. When I got downstairs, I was greeted with an egg yoke explosion all over the wall, the cabinets, and my stove, a burnt pot, and fragments of eggs on the floor and counter tops. Praise God a fire didn't erupt. Anyway, continue to keep one another in prayer, thanking God for the victory, and refraining from claiming defeat from the enemy; ALWAYS pray for your desired result, NOT the unfavorable outcome. Do NOT lose sight of God in the midst of adversity, God Bless!
~~ Tylesha ~~
Passage James 3:5-8 (NLT):
"In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire. And the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself. People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish, but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison."
Mark 4:14-17 says, "The farmer plants seed by taking God's word to others. The seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear the message, only to have Satan come at once and take it away. The seed on the rocky soil represents those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy. But since they don’t have deep roots, they don't last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God's word." As it is translated in The Message, this passage reads, "The farmer plants the Word. Some people are like the seed that falls on the hardened soil of the road. No sooner do they hear the Word than Satan snatches away what has been planted in them. And some are like the seed that lands in the gravel. When they first hear the Word, they respond with great enthusiasm. But there is such shallow soil of character that when the emotions wear off and some difficulty arrives, there is nothing to show for it." I hope yall don't mind the use of multiple Bible translations, I just feel that it adds clarity to the message. For the next few SODs, we will be examining the continued verses from this chapter in the Book of Mark. This passage uses the analogy of the farmer to represent God's stewards - you and I. The farmer plants seeds to render good produce, whereas a true Christian (child of Christ - Christ-like) is to share God's Gospel so that every ear may be exposed to God's truth, deliverance, and salvation. The passage uses various types of soil to compare different kinds of individuals, and their decisions. Here, we learn about the individual who hears God's word but doesn't receive it; this person falls but never gets back up. Then there is the person who gladly receives the Word, shares the Word, and even advocates the Word, as long as life is all good; this person is indicative of many people, like myself, who claim Christianity... we praise the Lord openly and then curse Him or turn away from Him when trails become heavy. The cause of Your problem is NOT God; YOU have used the power of the tongue to speak Your own issues into existence, and through Your lack of faith and doubts in God's promise, You have allowed those problems to remain. If we were more faith-full, then we would be comfortable with saying and praying those things that be not as though they were. Instead of blaming God, we'd blame ourselves, yet continue to praise Him through our trials, confident that whatever we ask in faith, we SHALL receive, as we place our total TRUST in God to render our desired results.
Prayer of the Day:
Father God we come to you with praise and thanks for another day living. We are aware that our current status may not be our ultimate desire, but we have peace knowing that some day, according to your will and time, we will be blessed with the desires of our heart. We thank you now for victory and defeat over the enemy. We thank you for the peace that passeth all understanding. We thank you for relief and comfort from our past sorrows and pain. We thank you for blessing us abundantly in our health, within our homes, in our finances, in our spirit, in our heart, and in our mind. We thank you for taming our tongue, so that the seed that departs from our mouth is fruitful and produces good of its kind. We thank you for your promise, for discernment, and for new revelations. We thank you for restoring all the years we've spent in tears, by allowing us to reverse our undesired outcomes, to produce desired results by the very own words of our mouth. This is our affirmation of faith, we submit unto you, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!
~~ Tylesha ~~
"It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man." (Psalm 118:8)
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