Dear Ones,
Happy weekend to you! What gorgeous weather we have been having and the Paul Bunyan trail is just beautiful with color. But at the same time let us not forget those down south who are suffering from the hurricanes without water and shelter and food. 40 Million are without power.  Pray! Pray! and give to those organizations helping.
Devotions from Judy’s heart
Feelings are important but they don’t trump God’s promises. In fact, our feelings can many times be fickle and the enemy loves to mess with them as we believe what he says over what God says. That results in us living in fear and anxiety.

Maybe we wake up one day with thoughts of dread for what is on our schedule. As we dwell on the “what ifs”, we find we get anxious and expect the worst to happen. But if we are wise, we will catch and reject the enemy’s tactic quickly and focus on what the Lord says. He tells us to ask of Him for Jesus said in John 16:22-24, “This is what I want you to do: ask the Father for whatever is keeping with the things I’ve revealed to you. Ask in my name, according to my will, and He’ll most certainly give it to you. Your joy will be a river overflowing its banks.”

We know it is God’s will that we choose to believe His promises over what the enemy is whispering to us. It is our choice to believe the Word and receive His grace and let go of the negative thoughts of doom. When fear tries to take over our thoughts we can make a shift and quickly ask the Holy Spirit for faith and right thoughts that line up with the Word.  Yes, like a couple days ago I woke up at 5 a.m. to send out over 100 e-mails ready to go and couldn’t get online. My thoughts immediately went, Oh no! Will I have to spend time with the Geeks today and waste my whole day! But I told Al the enemy is trying to get a foothold and I want to trust the Lord and not go with negative thoughts. Al tried things on my computer also, but we soon discovered our router was not working right and he put a call in to CTC and later that morning I was up and running again, along with a host of others having trouble. My heart was filled with such gratitude to the Lord.

Every time we choose to believe God rather than our feelings of the enemy’s forebodings, our faith becomes stronger. We are told to ask the Lord and to cast our care on Him, knowing He will either remove the problem or give us grace to go through it and make us stronger. Let us do the latter!

Challenge for today: Choose carefully and quickly to believe God’s promises over the enemy’s whisperings!
Blessings on your weekend and prayers and love, Judy