Day 10

Greetings everyone hope you all have had a blessed day today.

The wonderful word has for us today Genesis 19:23-21:21; Psalm 7:1-8; Proverbs 1:28-31 and Matthew 7:13-8:4.

I enjoyed reading these verses because it showed how God can use certain people around you to help you get a relationship with Him. Sometimes we fall on hard times and think that God has forgotten about us, but in fact He is using the hard times so that we will appreciate and understand the full extent of the blessings He has for us when we receive them. I feel that sometimes He allows us to witness some of the struggles so that once we gain victory we can be able to tell others about the goodness of Jesus.

Just today, I had a conversation with a good friend and we discussed how we both had fallen on hard times and how it seemed like so many doors had been closed to us and how down we would get and not understand why these things were happening. He had to remind that everything we go through is a test and that we can't lose our faith because everything happens in God's will we have to remain strong despite our situations. Later, this evening I was having a conversation with another friend and we got into a disagreement and I just felt so upset about it that I called my friend to discuss it with him. After I told him how I felt about the situation and he just calmly reassured me that I shouldn't worry about and to just give it God and remain strong in our faith....I was so shocked by how easily he could just give this issue to God, but this is also why I love this friend so much because he turns it all over to God and I mean all.

I almost felt ashamed because I even though I felt that the issue was big I felt it was just too small to give to God. My friend quickly put those thoughts out of my head telling me that nothing is too big or small for God. That really made a huge difference for me because just like in the verses you never know how anyone will be able to strengthen your bond with God or even bring you to God for the first time. I truly thank God for using my friend to make the relationship between God and myself stronger while at the same time renewing the friendship between my friend and I. Thank you Lord :)

Prayer

O God, I am so thankful for the experience of my own conversion. May the wonder of it never dim within me. It began in a miracle and its sustained by a miracle. Blessed be your wonderful Name forever. Amen

Further Study

Acts 9:1-31; John 1:12

What suddenly happened to Saul?

How did he respond?

I want to thank all my readers for reading this and even if no one ever does read this God's glory will still be lifted up through His use of me and I am very glad that He chose me to reach all of you :) Be blessed, stay warm and I love you all.

(Both the prayer and further study have come from the Everyday with Jesus Bible: A One-Year Reading Bible by Holman Bible Publishers with Devotions by Selwyn Hughes)