SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND BY MARSHA BURNS:
You have had to endure some setbacks and disappointments, but I remind you that all things work together for good in the long run. Do not settle yourself in the mode of defeat, but learn from the past and move forward with resolution to not make the same mistakes. Remember that you can ask for wisdom, says the Lord.
Romans 8:28 But we know that all things work together for good to the ones loving God, to the ones who are being called according to His purpose.
December 8, 2023. You say, “Can I trust my heart?” I say, “Yes, child, if you are walking in My ways and steering yourself from unrighteousness.” I want you to be full of confidence and never wavering. Listen to My guidance and counsel. Tune your ears to hear Me as I speak to your heart. You no longer have a hardened heart, you have a soft, pliable, listening heart. Go ahead and do whatever I have put in your heart to do.
Ezekiel 36:26 “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.”
2 Corinthians 3:3 “You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.” Robin Robinson Bohlin
December 8, 2023. The world tells us happiness is found doing whatever feels good, so do what makes you happy. The Lord says today, “Stop being a pleasure seeker. Everything you need is found in Me. When you know Me, you will find all the pleasure you need. Your feelings will lie to you so do not give into what feels good. Do not pursue the things of the flesh. Come into My presence, come into My joy, allow Me to give you the happiness you are so desperately seeking.”
Romans 12:2 “So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life – your sleeping, eating, going-to-work and walking-around life – and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what He wants from you and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.” Pam Jackson
