How often I need reminders of things, when I'm feeling down. I have a friend feeling down and while I was trying to encourage her, (notice I said trying, encouragement is definitely not my gift) this came to me:
Satan tries to take our focus off God, it's up to us to put it back on God.
Okay, so NOT a new concept or something I didn't know! But, I needed the reminder probably more than my friend does. It's easy to become discouraged when things aren't going right, our way, whatever. Our natural tendency is to focus on fixing the problem, focusing on the problem, worrying about the problem, etc. When we do that we are focusing on EXACTLY what Satan wants us to focus on! EVERYTHING OTHER THAN GOD!!!!
How do we begin to focus back on GOD? hmmm....
Good question. I tried to think of all the things GOD has done for me. How HE's got me out of this or that, carried me through, made me victorious! (Actually it was HIM being Victorious, I was just the receiver)
I tried to pray for others more that are going through similar circumstances . Somehow taking the focus off me and my problem.
I find verses in the Bible reminding me of GOD's promises for the situation and I try to memorize them or at least read them.
Yep, so sometimes I just need to remind myself stuff.
Blessings until next time!
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