September Positivity Scripture Challenge Day 18

Welcome to the last few posts of the September scripture challenge!  It has been good to read and write a devotional each day. I have been challenged and God has spoken to me for sure.  I hope you have enjoyed it too!

Today is Day 18 of the September Scripture Challenge


“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭15:13‬ ‭ESV

Y’all I have felt alone.  I have been the one longing to be included in the conversations. I have been the one who wanted to be invited to the evening get togethers. I have been the one who wanted to go shopping with the girls or have your kids play together while we chatted. 

I have been the girl longing for friendship.  I have also been the girl who threw friends aside to pursue selfish desires. 

God designed friendship and somewhere along the years I have learned though I have friends and instead of wishing for a particular kind of friendship because what friendship looked like wasn’t what I thought it should be or wanted it to be. I needed to be that friend I was looking for.  I am to love others more than myself. God speaks to us about loving others more than ourselves. (See Matthew 22:35-39)  I am to make others feel like they aren’t alone or as a Mom our job and ministry is to raise and teach those little hearts to love God and others too! .

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So if you think you are alone. You are not! God is with you in every season.  God is the best friend to pray with and talk to. I know because as a pastors wife He has been my constant friend when moving town to town and change occurred so much raising my little ones.  I hope if you are feeling alone, you will seek out the girl or mom who might need encouragement today❤️

Blessings-

tracy

September Positivity Scripture Challenge Day 17

Today is Day 17 of the Positivity Scripture Challenge ‬‬

“We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭8:28‬ ‭CSB‬‬

God’s plan can’t be thwarted by our actions.  Even in the midst of our lives we make decisions and God already knew and does knows what will happen.  We still are to pray and to be used by Him to fulfill His purposes.  I have felt like the decisions I have made have really messed things up before and that’s just not the case.  Jesus called us to walk by faith so in that we are to trust Him and know that good will be the end result for us. 

Have a blessed day friends! 

Tracy 

September Positivity Scripture Challenge Day 16

Today is Day 16 of the Positivity Scripture Challenge 

“Whoever speaks the truth declares what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭12:17‬ ‭CSB‬‬

Speaking has always made me nervous.  I think it makes a lot of us nervous but is there anyone who doesn’t get nervous about public speaking? 

I use to never want to be the one who spoke up.  I was saved at a 13 but was never a confident girl. So speaking about God’s Word or my faith was something I wanted to do but like some of us we hide it in a compartment in our lives and don’t speak up much about it.  I mean when we aren’t confident in an area we usually aren’t the first ones to jump up to speak. 

As the years have passed and with the Holy Spirits guidance in my life, wisdom from the Word of God has filled me with Christ confidence to speak about God’s love for me and how He changes us.  

For years I lived in bondage to shame of my past sins, I knew I was forgiven but still couldn’t get beyond the lies of shame and guilt.  I wasn’t good enough to do the job God has given me.  I wasn’t equipped. I was a terrible person for the things in my past.   These are the lies I would replay in my mind.  

The lies I heard kept me quiet. I wanted to be hidden and it seen.  When I went through a time of prayer for one my children was when I realized God had a purpose for me that I wasn’t fulfilling. I saw God work in my life because I was praying for my child. I was praying for change in him but Jesus changed me! 

I believe God is working in our lives everyday and speaking Truth and believing God changes everything.  

So today I am a woman who wants you to know we can have the confidence to speak up for Christ when we are grounded in the Word. Dig deep into the Word and daily you will grow wisdom and be watered by the living water, Jesus Christ. 

One thing that I know is that God calls us to a purpose. It is as a Christ follower to share about His great love, forgiveness and the salvation we have through Jesus Christ. 

Blessings friends! 

Tracy 

Blessings -

Tracy 

September Positive Scripture Challenge Day 15

Today is Day 15  of the Positivity Scripture Challenge 

“But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;”

‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭2:9‬ ‭NASB‬‬

Today I am in awe of the things God has done in my life.  I once never thought I would be good enough to share anything about God because of my past.  My sins and the enemies lies had kept me in bondage. I believed the enemy over God.  

It wasn’t until I started listening to God’s truth that I realized He loved me more than anything, He chose me and makes me holy as I walk with Him. 

God calls me His!  He calls you His if you are a child of God.  Jesus sanctifies is daily and as we repent of sin, we can be assured of our salvation and it is forgotten.  

Jesus Christ died for all of our sins and brings us out of the darkness of this world into His light.  That is good news!  

Have a beautiful day friends! 

Blessings -

Tracy