I keep messing up. Last week I forgot to pray for someone I assured I would remember their prayer request. I saw her at church and the stress of her situation was written across her face and I was reminded that I need to pray. I was also reminded of my negligence.

I stand in the line at the grocery store and chit chat with the cashier or another person in line with me and forget to share the Lord in some way when God opens the door and gives me a moment to open my mouth and be a light in a dark world. When I get in my car and pull out of the parking lot I shake my head disappointed in myself because I let that moment slip out of my hands.

I have negative and critical thoughts about someone and then I am filled with guilt. I should know better. I do know better, and yet…there were those negative and critical thoughts exploding in my mind.

The list is endless.

There is bad news and there is good news.

Bad news: I have flaws and I mess up—consistently. I am not perfect. Not even close. Sometimes I am just a big mess.

Good news: I am a sinner saved by grace. Then the good news gets even better. There is someone who is perfect. Jesus is the perfect one. He perfectly loves me every day. He loves me although I am flawed and when I miss the mark. I am desperate for this kind of love and He offers it to me freely every day.

I don’t like myself when I mess up but I am reminded God’s grace is there for me and I can do better with His help. I want to do better. God is patient with me and He continues to work in me to make me more like Him. This gives me hope. I am deeply thankful there is hope and grace for this flawed heart of mine.

Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:6 NKJV

 
About Kathy Cheek:

After more than ten years as a freelance writer in the Christian market including LifeWay, Walk Thru the Bible, David C Cook, and Group Publishing, God has opened the door for Kathy to see her book, First Breath of Morning – Where God Waits For You Every Day – A 90 Day Devotional published in October 2018. You can also read Kathy’s devotions on her site Devotions from the Heart at www.kathycheek.com

First Breath of Morning – Where God Waits For You Every Day – A 90 Day Devotional is multi-themed in six chapters that portray a beautiful picture of our walk with God through drawing near, growing our relationship, leaning into His love, strengthening our faith, trusting Him through every circumstance, and exalting Him in worship. First Breath of Morning is an Invitation to the relationship God wants to have with us every day and it starts in the first breath of each new morning where He is already waiting for you.

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Yesterday I realized things I was upset about really came down to…being too caught up in my own interests. Busted!

Nothing?

Do nothing from selfish motives or self-conceit. Nothing? Oh, this is hard! Self-focus is the natural default setting of our sin nature. If we could see a print out of our motivations over the last week, we’d be shocked at how pervasive selfishness is in our thinking.

There is a striking contrast in the progression of verses in this passage. It’s kind of  Humble sandwich:

Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;

do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (Philippians 2:1-8).

These challenging words on selfishness are sandwiched between a description of how the body of Christ should be acting and how Christ showed true humility. Loving encouragement, compassion, and Spirit-led affection are the result of looking out for one another.

Caring about the interests of others and sharing their concerns creates unity and bonds of friendship.

The humility of Christ is a stark contrast to the self-focus that lurks in our hearts. He emptied Himself of divine glory and did not insist that He be treated according to His right. Sacrificing Himself for our benefit is the extreme act of looking out for the interests of others. Love grows when we let go of our own interests and we care for others.

10 Simple Ways Beat Selfishness:

1. Pay attention to what others are excited about.
2. Be a cheerleader. See the best in others, especially when they can’t.
3. Follow through with commitments to others.
4. Be thankful for the people God places in your life. Gratitude chases selfishness away.
5. Be intentional. Don’t let busyness crowd out the needs of others.
6. Share the load and lend a helping hand.
7. Give the grace-gift of belonging and welcome new friends. Be inclusive rather than exclusive in relationships.
8. Make a habit of giving thoughtful gifts and notes of encouragement.
9. Don’t compare or compete. Celebrate the victories of others rather than be envious.
10. Accept others as they are; nobody is perfect…including you.

 How can you beat selfishness today?

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There’s a saying about the little things in life. It’s the little things, so the saying goes that can end up being the big things. This can be true in relationships, careers, and attitudes. A teensy mouse can terrify a huge elephant, and so the story goes, one young man with the proper vision took down a giant who had defied armies. The unnoticed dripping faucet by day rings out like a maddening racket in the quietness of night, when one longs for quiet and sleep. It’s the little things we are thankful for, we rejoice in and the little things heaped upon us that can undo us in one moment.

It’s no wonder we find ourselves feeling overwhelmed when we deal with bits of discouragement daily. Who can avoid all negativity? It is impossible. Turn on the news at any given time and you will find a plethora of information that could cause you to think locking yourself and your family in the basement with rations is a better choice than walking out your front door and living life. Certainly it is safer. But as Christ followers we are not called to live our lives in fear or discouragement. That does not we always mean we remember or believe this truth

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.1 John 4:18

 In our flesh we are truly prone to wander from the truth. But we have One who never wanders from our side and He is Love. (1 John 3:16)

So, how do we rise above the daily onslaught of discouraging news, circumstances and events that life dishes onto our plate? How do we keep our heads above the water when we feel like we are drowning in a world sized ocean of needs we cannot meet? How do we remain positive in an increasingly disgruntled society?

I have found God’s answer through the words of Jesus Christ as set forth in Scripture in one verse in particular:

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

Jesus sets forth two facts, one directive and a promise as he prepares the disciples for his imminent departure. First, we live in a world that guarantees us trouble, recall who is ruler of this world (1 John 5:19). This is why we look forward ultimately to a new Heaven and Earth (Revelation 21:1). Second, Jesus has overcome this world through his death, burial and resurrection. Hallelujah! We are His spokespeople, the witnesses of His grace, the Redeemed. Third, Jesus affirms that in Him we may have peace. But, therein lies a choice hinging on a promise.

Jesus commands the disciples to “take heart”. Take heart? What is He saying? He is telling them to trust him! He is telling us the same thing today.

The fact is we will have trouble but the truth is Jesus lives!

As His disciples today we have a choice to make daily to fight discouragement that  would otherwise rob us of the peace that Jesus promises.

We can focus on the trouble we have in the world or on the fact that Jesus has overcome the world.

Friends, I don’t know what is troubling you today, “But take heart!”

Our Savior Lives!

Yelling is a choice …. Yelling is a choice. 

I am struggling. This is my ongoing battle as a mother. I am impatient, I want my girl to hurry up.

I am learning that being on time is never more important than speaking kindly to her.

Getting schoolwork done is never more important than living and breathing patience.

Obedience is not effective when enforced by fear, by volume.

When my frustration wells up in my throat and swells my voice and she hasn’t stopped moving, but never in the direction I want her to go, when I send her for shoes and she comes back barefoot with pen and paper …

 …. to write me messages about how much she loves me.

Yelling is a choice, and I am desperate to choose joy, to choose gratitude over Satan.

“When I choose–and it is a choice–to crush joy with bitterness, am I not purposefully choosing to take the way of the Prince of Darkness? Choosing the angry way of Lucifer because I think it is more effective–more expedient–than giving thanks? ~ A.V. One Thousand Gifts

Scripture is ripe with it …

“Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly” (Proverbs  14:29).

“My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires” (James 1:19-20).

“…. do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged” (Colossians 3:21).

They will become discouraged. How can we love each other sacrificially, joyfully when she is discouraged and I am angry?  

The reality is that I set the tone of this household on a moment by moment basis.

Do I choose patience and gratitude for my wee ones, and teach my babes that obedience can be joyful, that loving well takes time, and slow breaths, and sacrifice, and sometimes at the expense of punctuality?

My heart cries out for it. I need grace in the choosing. 

I sat in large circle with the rest of our church staff. I was with my favorite friends doing one of my favorite things. We were praying for one another and listening for the individual messages that God wanted to share with each person in the circle. We loved that God still speaks and this trusted group of people enjoyed the freedom to be His messengers with one another.

I listened to the prayers and messages given to my friends. “The Father has designed you to carry influence with governmental leaders.” “God is going to use you to help free women from the slave-market.” “You are so full of creativity. You will be using your painting and artistic ability to glorify God.”

Now it was my turn. I close my eyes to concentrate and be able to hear every word that God wants to speak to me. “Wow Susie, God just really, really loves you! Every thought of you brings Him deep pleasure.”

WHAT?! Of course God loves me. He loves everyone! That’s the very first song we learn as little kids in Sunday school! Yes, Jesus loves me, this I know. It is the most basic, foundational truth we all know! I already KNOW this. Where is my big prophetic message?

This same scenario played out many times over in my life. I kept hearing the same message from God, over and over again. “God loves you so much!” I was getting a bit grumpy about it, to be honest. Where was my big direction for my life? What did God design me to do?

Finally this slow learner caught on. The single most important message that I can share with you is that God loves you. It is a simple message. And it is a very difficult message. God knew that I did not believe it completely. He saw me rushing around, working hard in the church to gain His love and acceptance. So the only message He kept sending me was that I am loved.

The reason we have a hard time believing this truth is this; we think that God’s love is like our love. Our love for one another can shift and change and grow and shrink. As much as we say that our love is unconditional, I’m not sure we can live it honestly. But His love IS unconditional. Completely without strings.

We cannot outrun it or escape it. God is delighted with his children. All of us. He sees the good, the bad and the ugly, and still He loves with abandon. Our actions simply do not affect His love toward us. If God could love us more on some days than on others, it would mean that His love is conditional and less than perfect. Are you willing to make that accusation of him?

“I pray that you, being rooted and grounded in His love, may have power, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3: 17-19 NIV

Ephesians 3: 18 to 19 reminds us to seek to know the love of God, which is too much for us to understand. This passage is a call to get out of our minds. It is a challenge to those of us who tend to over-think and ultra-analyze our every waking moment. My desire to have everything understood and figured out can hold me back from grasping His love because it is simply too big for me to comprehend.

If we wait until we can understand God’s love, we will never be able to truly enjoy it and rest in it. God’s love for you is limitless, without boundaries or borders of any kind. Another Bible version says, “understanding the love of Christ which passes understanding.”

Sadly, many of us miss out on the fun of His love because we are using our heads to believe it. Remember the Ephesians passage? His love will not fit in our heads. It does not compute. It makes no sense. It is illogical. We are to seek to know the love of God because He wants us to know Him better. His love is who He is. There is no separation between God and the love of God, it is not a part of Him, it IS Him. God IS love.

So Dear Reader, the simple message you are here to gain today is just this…God loves you! He loves you completely and without reservation, today, at this moment. Thanks for allowing me to be the carrier of this important message today!

Sometimes we can lose the view on our journey and we need to remember the importance of learning to rest, to rejoice, and to refuel our souls. It is easy to forget the simple significance of this and soon find the evidence of its lack felt deep.

Taking the time to rest, rejoice and refuel in my day has not always been my habit. Yet, I have found, through those hard life lessons, this pattern has powerful results. More importantly, it keeps my heart close to the Father, the sole source of wisdom and peace which leads me to live out faith before those I love.

The reality is: Our greatest mission field is right in front of us.

Jesus is our example in all things, wouldn’t you agree? Like Christ we need to rest deep in the arms of the Father’s care and love so that we become women who seek Him first.

Consider the powerful paradigm He gives us in scripture so that you can meet your daily journey with grace.

To Rest 

To Rejoice

To Refuel

Let your soul wait in Rest.

Psalm 62:5 says, “My soul, wait only upon God and silently submit to Him; for my hope and expectation are from Him.”

Waiting upon God, resting in the recess of His presence, gives us the ability to adequately address whatever comes our way. The power of operating from a position of rest can undeniably change the course of our day. This preparation leads us to enter to His courts, and our days, with thanksgiving and praise proceeding from our lips.

Our words have power, friends, creative soul-filling depth that will alter our existence and those who we are destined to serve.

Rejoice from the depths of your soul.

Joel 2:23-25 says, “Be glad, … rejoice in the Lord, Your God; for He gives you the former rain in just measure,  and the latter rain in the first month. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten.”

Sometimes it feels like we are stuck in a desert of drought during the daily toil; we desperately need a splash of holy rain to revive us, arming us to finish the mission well. As praise exits the door of our lips, something changes within us, our perspective is enlightened and our attitude is lifted.

This gift of praise, the power to rejoice in ALL things, is the fuel that ultimately recharges our batteries.

Refuel with the encouragement of His Word.

2 Thessalonians 2:16 leads us to the seat of encouragement where we find the resting and rejoicing culminate together. “Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, Who loved us and gave us everlasting consolation and encouragement and well-founded hope through His grace, comfort and encourage your hearts and strengthen them [making them steadfast and keeping them unswerving] in every good work and word.”

It is easy to feel defeated and want to throw in the towel when the journey seems long and the tasks are mundane. We need the encouragement, the reminder that joy is within our grasp. As you tackle the to-do lists, inherent with each new day,  take time to read through the life-words penned for the encouragement of our soul.

Rest. Rejoice. Refuel.

Remember to rest in Him, rejoice in praise, and refuel in the Word each day to prepare you for your mission field of blessing.

Blessings and Prayers,

Dawn

“And they came, bringing to Him a paralytic, carried by four men. And being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying. And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, ‘Son, your sins are forgiven.” Mark 2: 3-5

In Mark 1:40-45 Jesus filled with compassion, touched the leper and he was healed. In Mark 2, Jesus returns to Capernaum. Jesus meets many at a house. Can you imagine the excitement to hear Jesus speak, to be touched, to see his penetrating eyes? The people pressed in to listen to what Jesus was saying, there was no room in the house even near the door.

Four friends convicted by the paralytic’s plight were convinced Jesus would heal their friend. The paralytic lay on his mat discouraged as people walked past him on the way to meet Jesus. However, the friends were committed to the well-being of this man. With confidence as the plan unfolded, they said to one another, “If we do not help our friend who will?” These four men full of faith were compassionate, committed and convinced that only Jesus could heal their friend.

Upon arrival obstacles threatened success. The house was so crowded that the men could not get their friend to Jesus. Perhaps, another obstacle was that the people were so intent on their own needs that they had no desire to help this man. Beloved, there wasn’t cooperation from the people but the paralytic had four friends who believed that Jesus was the answer. They knew God cared about every detail of paralytic’s life. So with the man on the pallet they carried him up to the roof and dug a hole in the roof and lowered this man to the feet of Jesus. Jesus seeing the faith of the four healed the man spiritually, physically and emotionally.

What friend in your life needs your faith? Perhaps, there is an obstacle in your life paralyzing you preventing you from experiencing freedom, will you come to the feet of Jesus and accept His healing?

Father God, I pray for the beloved person that is reading this post, I ask that if she lonely, feeling paralyzed with fear that you would remind her in your word in 2 Timothy 1:7 that you did not give her a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind. I ask if she does not have friends that today she will recognize you as her friend. For the woman who hurting will you heal her spiritually, physically and emotionally as you did the paralytic man. Lord fill us with compassion, commitment and conviction to serve one another in love.

You see, dear one, God cares about all the details of your life. 1 Peter 5:7 “Cast all your anxiety on him because He cares for you.”

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Top Posts from Week #10

The Powerful Grace of Rejoicing in Our Authenticity
@ Journeys in Grace by Dawn Boyer

Caught But Not Trapped In New Age Religion
@  Being Woven by Linda Gill

Seven Secrets to a Confident Woman
@ A Homemaker Mom by Suzie

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Not schizophrenic voices, but the kind of self-talk that makes me feel less than. Voices that tell me I’m not good enough, not spiritual enough, not humble enough… That everyone around me succeeds in pleasing God, but that I don’t measure up because I can’t get my act together.

We all hear those accusing voices from time to time, and we often try to drown them out by trying harder.

We strive, adopting personal disciplines such as quiet times, tithing, fasting and serving in one form or another. We pray and read our Bibles and we do good things.

And then we fail. We snooze through quiet times, fall behind in our giving, grumble as we serve that 20% of us do 80% of the work. Our prayers become rote and our Bible reading mechanical. And we convict ourselves because we’re letting God down.

We understand that our doing doesn’t save us—that we’re saved by grace alone through faith alone. But we can easily fall into the trap of believing that we remain in that grace by our own personal set of rules. A set of rules we can’t keep.

Our accuser convinces us that when we continue to fail, God is aggravated with us. That He shakes His heavenly head and sighs, and with hands on hips wonders why we never can seem to get our acts together.

In our zeal to do better and please God, a lie can form in our minds: that God loves us more when we perform well.

“It is finished,” Jesus gasped and His yielded His spirit (John 19:30).

Finished was His work and mission on earth, but also finished was mankind’s striving to please God.

Through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, God is well pleased and now looks at us through the eyes of a loving Father. His hands aren’t on His hips—He’s clapping and cheering us on! He isn’t shaking His head—He’s nodding and encouraging us to keep going. He isn’t growing impatient—He’s gently guiding our paths.

God knows we’ll never have our acts together and He loves us anyway. The voices in our heads may accuse us, but His word affirms us:

So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God — all because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us in making us friends of God. ~Romans 5:11 (nlt)

It is finished in Christ Jesus. No sin will make Him love us less; no good deed will make Him love us more.

Heavenly Father, as we continue to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, let the truth of “It is finished” ring in our hearts and silence the accusing voices in our heads.

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“In Christ alone, who took on flesh,
Fulness of God in helpless babe!
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones he came to save:
Till on that cross as Jesus died,
The wrath of God was satisfied –
For every sin on Him was laid;
Here in the death of Christ I live.

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain:
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave he rose again!
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me,
For I am His and He is mine –
Bought with the precious blood of Christ.”

~Lyrics from In Christ Alone by Keith Getty and Stuart Townsend

Oh friends. It’s Resurrection Day tomorrow-Good Friday is behind us, the bleak and the dark as God turned His back on His only Son, hanging dead on a cross. For you. For me.

Our salvation, our reconciliation with our Creator, our victory-it all turns on the moment the empty tomb is revealed. The before and the After.

 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by His blood, much more shall we be saved by Him from the wrath of God.  For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation (Romans 5:6-11)

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Top Posts from Week #10

Extravagant Grace
by Beth Willis Miller

21 Things I Would Tell My Teenage Self
@  Tell a Better Story by Yolanda DeLoach

Resurrection Sunday – Easter – Looking to the Cross
@ Glorifying Him by Debbie

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Mornings have often been a source of stress in our home. I can remember trying to sneak down the stairs early in the morning, eager to get at least 5 minutes of quiet time before the troops descended upon me in mass chaos. This silence which comes as our senses are waking with the morning was a coveted time for me, a pause before the storm in the day, which I considered necessary.

The waiting moments, hanging in the twilight of day’s transition, often seemed just enough to let me arm myself for the day ahead. Unfortunately, there were many days that ‘just enough’ didn’t make it.

Either the light would slither under the closed doors and prod one of my children out of their innocent slumber, or I would step inadvertently upon the creaking floorboard trumpeting the morning’s wake-up call into their ears before I was fully ready to greet them. I think the days when they would beat me out of bed left me reeling the most. In all these instances, my failure to let grace rule kep me playing catch up the rest of the day.

This struggle to catch my breath overwhelmed me at times. I couldn’t find a balance to the flow, and joy seemed literally non-existent. Rather enjoying my children, I sorted my to-do list in my head,  always looking back a what was undone. I missed the power of grace in action when I lived in the ‘not enough’. Rather than resting in His power, I pushed forward in my own.

Grace isn’t about my capability, instead  it’s  fully resting in His Ability.

Our keen ability as mothers, who think we need to do it all, leads us to over analyze each of our insufficiencies, mistakes, and mess ups routinely. We give into the if-only thoughts rather than letting grace heap grace upon our hearts.

“If only I could train them better, get up earlier,  go to bed sooner, have a better schedule, etc.”

These if-onlies literally wipe away the fullness of His grace leaving us empty, unable to pour ourselves into others. When failure is a constant reminder of our lack, we miss the power of receiving grace for ourselves making it more difficult to extend grace to others.

When it seems easy to give up, can I encourage you to stop and listen to the soft gentle whisper that tells you His grace is more than enough?

And he said unto me, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9

The grace moment comes when we are at the end of ourselves; when we stop and let the consuming noise of not enough become silenced by the sufficient grace of more than enough.

• His Grace is more than enough to walk us through the quiet and gentle streams when the valleys overflow with chaos.
• His Grace is more than enough to lead us down the path of contentment when our cup runs over with out-of-control.
• His Grace is more than enough to shine a light in the dark cloud of our foggy momma days.

Friend, run into the throne of grace in every moment, let mercy wash over you filling up your reservoir with more than enough, because His grace is sufficient to meet all our if-only moments in gentle abundance.

Blessings,
Dawn

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Let Go of the Picture in Your Mind and Make Peace with Life
@ Live a Better Story by Yolanda DeLoach

Love One Another
@  Showered in Grace by Nicki Schroeder

How I Know God is With Me
@ Embracing His Will  – Guest post by Dawn Klinge

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