Pearls of Delight

Grace Whispers ...fix your heart on my goodness. "Take your gaze away from all the troubles around you, let your heart dwell upon my goodness.  For I am good and my thoughts towards you are good all the time. The enemy may want you to believe otherwise by heaping up troubles to frustrate you, but let your heart dwell upon my goodness.  This consciousness will help you  overcome. It transcends the troubles of this world and lifts you above it.   Fix your heart on my goodness." Scripture For the Lord is always good and ready to receive you. He’s so loving that it will amaze you— so kind that it will astound you! And he is famous for his faithfulness toward all. Everyone knows our God can be trusted, for he keeps his promises to every generation! Psalms 100:5 TPT   Grace Whispers Rita Oladiran  

If you can prevent your five senses from dictating your actions, then faith will lift you out of disappointment and doubt - Marilyn Hickey  And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.  Hebrews 11:6 NLT I read this bible verse and I began to pray like Jesus' disciples, "lord increase our faith", and then I tried, and tried by my will, to stir up faith, even one as small as a mustard seed. If you've ever seen a mustard seed, you'd agree with me it can't be that difficult to work up that tiny bit of faith.  I told myself if I can muster up faith as small as that, surely it would get me over this challenge - at least thats what the bible says.... But no, I have seen from the scripture and by revelation, that it doesn't work quite that way.  With God, nothing comes by sheer force of will, following that way is a recipe for disappointment and frus...

  " Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. B eing grateful, is what makes you joyful"    - Ann Voskamp If we followed our feelings, with the way the year has been, there would be nothing in there to be thankful for.  But No! We are not thankful because we feel like it, but because of who God is. We know that, in the midst of all the troubles of life and inspite of them, God is still Good. I am not trying to convince myself or you of  his goodness but I am saying ...God is good and worthy of our thanksgiving from a grateful heart. I have joined a group of ladies on the 'A thousand gifts bible study', and we feel its a good idea to create a thanks giving jar, like the one pictured below ⤵, or start a thanksgiving journal.  Do this for the rest of this month, you'd be surprised just how much of Gods graces we all have to be thankful for inspite of all thats gone down in the year. According to Ann Voskamp the creator of the study and writer of the book - A...