Dear Ones,
Hope you had a wonderful weekend. I know I enjoyed the beautiful Spring Tea with all the gals in hats and a good message by one of the gals. Today I plan to do food prep, exercise class, shopping etc.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
It is good for us to do an attitude check throughout our day as we can let our circumstances determine our outlook and become negative. Sometimes it seems to sneak up on us as one thing happens after another, and we feel ourselves slipping on a downward spiral. But we can prepare ahead of time so our response at such times will remain positive no matter what. We can only do that because God’s presence is always with us and more than sufficient! When we know He is with us in every circumstance we can view the outlook as positive. Even if things come crashing down, we can focus on the good things God is going to do in our lives through it.

I must confess when I was without my computer for 2 weeks while it was getting fixed, I wondered what good was going to come if I couldn’t my devotionals out to you who are reading this now. But Al let me use his computer to put new daily devotions on our blog site, although I couldn’t get to those individual ones of you that depend on me to send it direct. Each day it took more time than normal and some devotionals I had to write more than once as they disappeared. But I found out that I had more time, since I didn’t surf the web or play scrabble online and was able to do more studying in some great Christian books. When I did finally get my computer back, I had a great sense of gratitude and felt I had grown through this experience.

Paul sure had a good attitude when he was writing his letters in prison. He could have complained that he was doing the Lord’s work and look how it ended up. But no, he used it as his time to write and encourage others and bless them. We might say it was his pulpit to get the Good News to others, only through the written mode. Let us learn how to stand strong in adverse circumstances and maintain a positive attitude. May we not excuse ourselves and say we can’t do anything about our thinking. We can decide that even ahead of time for the Lord can give us victory over negative thinking and actions if commit ourselves and our thinking to Him. One positive thought will lead to another. A verse I learned as a child is from II Tim 1:7, For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and love and self-discipline.” Let us discipline our thoughts to be positive and confident in the Lord.

Challenge for today: Catch yourself when you think negatively and turn your attention to the Lord and His power and simply trust.
Blessings on your week and prayers and love, Judy