Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

 10.22- What fruits will I pick to enjoy today? I'll have some love some joy some peace some patience some kindness some goodness some faithfulness some gentleness and some self control. With this powering my life today I can do everything I'm supposed to do today. Thank you Father. Galations 5. 22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,   23  gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.   24  Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.   25  Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.   26  Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

 10.21- When we need rest it is important that we get it. Otherwise, our weakness leads to lack of focus, alertness and more defeat Lack of joy, which our secret power as children of God, does led to herd mentality instead of creative thought. This drift will lead to more low energy and lack of restance to bad thinking. People have had exceptional victory days and then amazing low points surprisingly and suddenly. So I remind myself today: Rest when you should. With God's help you can do some good. A day of complete rest will convince us that God can run the world without our activity. 2 Corinthians 13. 11  Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you. 12  Greet one another with a holy kiss.   13  All God’s people here send their greetings. 14  May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,...

 10.20- Against all the odds I'm praying for... Spiritual eyesight in a world that is blind Walking in the light in a dark world Clean heart in a dirty world Open ears in a deaf world Humble spirit in an arrogant world Simple life in a cluttered world Childlike heart in an "adults only" world Peaceful heart in a violent world Free heart in an addicted world Repentant heart in a resistant world Rested heart in a weary world. Larry Wishard 10.11.23 Matthew 11. 25  At that time Jesus said,  “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.   26  Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do. 27  “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. 28  “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, a...

 10.19- Running the race of life requires staying in your lane. When we look where we are going and give our best effort things go as well as they can. When we look around to see how far we are compared with others we get distracted and do not finish well. Without judging or putting others down or up on a pedestal my life has the very best peace possible for me. Matthew 7. 7  “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.   2  For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3  “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?   4  How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?   5  You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

 10.18- The author of life has a plan that so so amazing that it is difficult to believe. For seventy years it was not possible for people to bring open minded free speech into Russia. Then they opened their doors to the world of better thinking. 10.14.93 I was with a group who flew 14 time zones in Siberia, Russia. There I met Earnst. He was a psychiarist, medical doctor, whose job it was to treat people in mental institutions simply because they believe in God. He had heard of the love of God through radio out of Alaska. He studied about God's love and mental health based on grace mercy and peace. He became a Christian. I went back to the same town two years later. He met with me again. "How has your work changed?" "Instead of teaching that trust in God is mental illness I now teach belief in a God of love is mentally healthy. My town newspaper has asked me to write a weekly news column on mental health." Electronic media can pass love. grace and peace. Or it...

 10.17- Seasons. Fall. Leaves show the beauty of what our maker has made. This week a friend called me to tell me about a beautiful bird in a tall tree outside his window. He had been so busy trying to fix himself and others that he had not seen the beauty outside his window. He told me that he needed to relax and quit trying to fix everything and allow seasons to have their growth effects on those in his life. I find season change reminds me not to focus on what great humans have accomplished and to trust the maker of great humans. Fall is here Cool weather. Pumpkin pie. Football. Thanksgiving plans develop. Good times. Acts 14 14  But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting:   15  “Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens an...

 10.16- Exceptional people have chosen to be different in a good way. They convey love and affirmation with genuine smiles and handshakes. They are not thermometers bot thermostats. They set the temperature in any room. They take every thought captive. They know joy is their strength and refuse to let anyone steal it. Learning from failure is a part if the creative process. It is not a flaw in a fruitful life, but a feature. Matthew 7. 13  “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.   14  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.