May I ask or do I even need to? How was your 2020.. was it like mine..pretty rough? So sorry about that. Are you ready for a brand new start?
Let's pray about way into and through 2021 so we can walk in victory. Here's a tough true story that perhaps many can relate to. I pray that you can be encouraged in God's word this 2021.
It kinda reminds me of 2020. Have you heard about what happened to “CHIPPIE THE PARAKEET? He NEVER saw it coming. It was sorta like us -- we never saw 2020 coming our way.
One second Chippie was simply there peacefully perched in his cage. The next moment he was sucked up.. sucked on in, washed up, and blown over. It was rough. It was like 2020!
The problems began when Chippie’s owner decided to clean Chippie’s cage with a vacuum cleaner. She removed the attachment from the end of the hose and stuck it in the cage. The phone rang, and she turned to pick it up. She’d barely said ‘hello’ when ‘sssopp!’ Chippie got sucked in.
“The bird owner gasped, put down the phone, turned off the vacuum, and opened the bag. There was Chippie– still alive, but stunned. Since the bird was covered with dust and soot, she grabbed him and raced to the bathroom, turned on the faucet, and held Chippie under the running water. Then, realizing that Chippie was soaked and shivering, she did what any compassionate bird owner would do . . she reached for the hair dryer and blasted the pet with hot air.
“Poor Chippie never knew what hit him.
“A few days after the trauma, the reporter who’d initially written about the event contacted Chippie’s owner to see how the bird was recovering. ‘Well,’ she replied, ‘Chippie doesn’t sing much anymore he just sits and stares.’
“It’s hard not to see why. Sucked in, washed up, and blown over . . . that’s enough to steal the song from the stoutest heart.
Thinkin' about this new year ahead.. there are some bridges that you need to burn. There are some bridges that you need to cross over, and there are some bridges that you need to build.
“This book of the law should not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on a day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it.” Joshua 1:8
Let's burn on fire for Christ. Let's cross over into God's will for us..for each one. Let's build.. ourselves in the word..in prayer, in fellowship. Let's build up others too in Bible Study and in sharing the Gospel with an aim to win people to Christ.
Listen believer, the only way you can positively change your life is by positively changing your mind, and the only way you can positively change your mind is by the word of God. Think biblically..worshipfully. Read. Meditate upon the word and memorize Scripture too. Study the word and act obediently. I’m not into the religion of PMA. Want to live and be realistic, but positive thinking seems better to me than negative thinking.
The most miserable person is the believer living a defeated life. The happiest person is the victorious believer, walking by the Spirit’s power.
So many believers are wandering in the wilderness spiritually. God has something that’s greater than anything that you could conceive in your own mind. So many have not entered the promised land – walking here in victory, walking in the Spirit, not in the flesh as some worldly believer.
