Be thankful. Turn your life around.

(This podcast was previously recorded and published on August 29, 2020)  

 

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 

 

Each of us have thoughts where we could feel sorrowful or complain. We also have things for which we can be thankful.  If we learn to deliberately choose to think on those things for which we are thankful, we can turn our lives around.

 

Philippians 4:6  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

 

There are times when your husband or wife or friend does trifle things which annoy you. As you think on the grievances, you puff up and sometimes strike out.

 

If you will pray, asking God for help, and also deliberately think of things whereby your husband or wife or friend did things that caused you to rejoice, the grievances often fly away, disappearing.

 

Devils often attack by bringing negative thoughts to our minds. Our flesh sometimes wallows in those thoughts and things get much worse. And there is no good thing in our flesh, says Paul.  (Romans 7)

 

We, who have the power of the Holy Spirit of Jesus living in us, have in HIM a great power for good toward ourselves and toward others also if we will live in HIS power.

 

Galatians 5:15-16  But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit (that which God brings to your mind), and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

 

It is not that we act in a phony way. But there are real things that other person has done for us which we can think on, blessings from God by that other person.

 

Learn to think on those things, especially when you want to strike out.

 

And above all, pray, asking God to help you in the midst of the attacks, for God will help you when you desire help.

 

 

James 1:26   If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

 

 

John 4:23   But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 

 

 

I Timothy 2:1-4   I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 

2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 

 

3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 

4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 

 

 

Galatians 5:19-23  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

 

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

 

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

 

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

 

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 

 

 

Galatians 5:17   For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 

 

 

2 Peter 3:14  Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things (the return of Jesus), be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.

 

 

Luke 21:36   Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. 

 

 

2 John vv. 8-11   Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

 

9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

 

10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

 

11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. 

 

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