Change My Heart Oh God

Main Scripture: Create in me a pure heart Psalm 51:10

Song to Meditate On: Change My Heart Oh God by Hillsong (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwudqCO7mSQ)

 There is this little song on my heart, it goes:

Change my heart oh God,

Make it ever true.

Change my heart oh God,

May I be like You.

You are the potter,

I am the clay,

Mold me and make me,

This is what I pray.

 This song is so profound because it focuses on God changing our own hearts instead of changing everyone else’s. I remember I was having a conversation with a friend about an issue I had with someone and she said to me “Peta, you cannot change the person but you can change yourself.

I know how hard it is to focus on changing yourself when the person you just feel like slapping the person who gets on your last nerve every day. Your issues may lie with someone at work, your neighbor, someone at church or maybe even your husband but Ladies my encouragement to you today is - ask God to change you, ask Him to make you more flexible  instead of asking Him to change the person.

 The fact is ladies, we have no control over another person’s actions but we have control over how we react to the person’s actions. Therefore today, allow the Lord to mold you and make you instead of trying to change the person who is troubling you. Join me today in making this song the prayer of your heart.

Let’s Pray,

Lord Jesus help us to make this song a daily prayer. Help us to love those who persecute us daily and to forgive them. Lord Jesus we pray that you will give us hearts like yours

In Jesus Name

Amen

Have a God Filled Day Ladies

Putting Up a Resistance

Main Scripture: Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Luke 10:19

Song to Meditate On: Putting Up a Resistance by Beres Hammond (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVy86q3EFrc)

The title for today’s devotional is taken from a popular Reggae song by Beres Hammond.  In this song Hammond talks about the system and how much pressure there is when trying to beat it. He says

“There's no hope, no chance, no loophole,

No escape for a suffering man

Cause every time I lift my head above water

And try to save myself from drown

There's an overnight scheme all worked out

Designed to keep me down”

Ladies I am sure that just too much of us can identified with Hammond because a lot of us have given up hope of  a better life but Ladies today I just want to encourage you with the scripture. It tells us that God has given us power to overcome whatever system is trying to hold us down.

Like Beres, I am imploring you to put up a resistance, if you can just believe that nothing at all is impossible you will find a way out. Ladies there are some specific things I want you to resist today:

The first one is fear; most of us do not overcome because of fear. Today I want to remind us that fear is not of God.  Will Smith in his movie “After Earth”, said “Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist…. danger is very real” he said ,” but fear is a choice.” So today ladies make the choice and resist fear.

The second things I want us to resist today are lies. Often times we believe lies told to us by those around us or even ourselves. Many times we are told that we cannot make it or “you will not turn out to anything good.”  But ladies today I tear down those lies in Jesus Name. Deuteronomy 28:13 tells us that the Lord will make us the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath if we obey His commands. So today ladies resist every lie told to you by anyone, you can overcome.

Lastly resist the system, anyone or anything that tries to keep you from being what God ordained you to be. Romans 8:37 tells us that we are more that conquerors through Him who loves us. So there are people who will want to keep you down and control you, emotionally, physically or otherwise. I implore you today to resist them. The Lord has already made us overcomers therefore not can prevent us from being successful.

Ladies remember today that the very word resistance means “refusal to comply with or accept something." Ladies refuse to accept that you cannot make it.

Let’s Pray,

Father thank you for your grace and mercies because with these we would not make it. Lord help us to resist the things God that will want us to believe that we cannot make it. Increase our faith Lord Jesus knowing that all things are possible with you and that we already have the victory.

In Jesus Name

Amen

Have a God Filled Day Ladies

A New Day

Today’s Scripture: It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Lamentations 3: 22-23

Song to Meditate On: A Good Day by J.Moss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CLIuy-lH1I)

Have you ever had a bad day, a day where you feel so frustrated you feel like giving up or throwing in the towel? A day where you cried, you prayed and you cussed and just decided that you cannot bother because it is not worth it? but then you fall asleep; wake up and realize that it is a brand new day.

Ladies do you know what a brand new day means?

A brand new day means a fresh start, new opportunities and a new beginning. It is an opportunity to start all over again, it is an opportunity to come up with new ideas and to open new doors.

Best of all today’s scripture tells us that with a new day comes new mercies and compassion from God because He is faithful. You see ladies nothing that you have done is too great for God to overlook because He is so steadfast in His love for us.

Therefore ladies, harmed with God’s love, grab this new day and take advantage of what it brings. Do not focus on yesterday, today comes with its own opportunities, its own ideas and its own opportunity to start all over again. Make the best of it; walk into it as God walks with you.

Using Dr Steve Marboli’s words “There is beauty laced within this day…be courageous enough to find it, be kind enough to share it, and at the end of the day, be wise enough to let it go.” – Steve Maraboli

Let’s Pray,

Holy Father we thank you for this new day that you have given to. A day filled with new opportunities for a fresh start. Lord thank you for your mercies that are new as well and help us to use it to the best of our abilities according to your will.

In Jesus Name

Amen

Have a God Filled Day Ladies