God's Voice v.s Satan's

Of course there is a drastic difference between God's and Satan's voices. These are some ways that you can tell the difference. Keep your eyes on God.

God's:

Stills 

Lovesrotects

Comforts

Reminds

Shows

Leads

Reassures

Enlightens

Encourages

Convicts

Satan's:

Rushes

Pushes

Frightens

Confuses

Discourages

Worries

Obsesses

Condemns

Remember to always be focused on what God is saying, do not stray from his path. When you are in doubt of what the voice is saying Satan is probably speaking to you. Just kneel down and pray. 

 

Fight!

When I say fight, I do not mean that you should throw punches or kick people, etc. What I do mean is that you should fight for what you believe in. Fight to spread God's word! God will also fight for you.              

                

Acts 18:9One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent.

Spread the word, do not let anyone tell you to be quiet, fight to shout the words of truth. 

Romans 8:31What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

God supports us, he is behind us, he helps us in proclaiming the good news! 

2 CorinthiansThat is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Fighting can be tough, it define toy brings hardships and pain, but it is what God pleases, and that is forever what I will do. 

Motivation

Finding motivation is hard. Really hard, but these are some verses that help me a lot! 

1 John 3:1- how Great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God.

Psalms 30:5- Joy comes in the morning! 

Isaiah 40:8- The grass withers and the flowers fade but the word of God endures FOREVER. 

2 Corinthians 12:9 - My grace is sufficient for you. 

Exodus 14:14- The Lord will fight for you, you need only be still. 

Titus 3:14- Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives.

Proverbs 31:27- She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Proverbs 14:23- All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

Colossians 3:23- Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. 

I hope these help some, but what can really motivate is prayer! 

Am I Generic?

First of all I don't know why I asked, because I know I'm not. I know I am fearfully and wonderfully made! That is the most awesome thing ever! I was made how God wanted me to be made. 

The thing is that I also do what God does NOT want me to do, and that isn't okay. I realized just today that I laugh at the things that aren't funny. At all.

At lunch I was being very quiet and just listening to the conversation around me, sadly I can only hear out of one ear at the moment, but what I did hear was not okay. I heard all my good friends laughing at sin. SIN?! I mean how is that supposed to be funny!? 

It struck me that sin is the butt of most jokes today and that I laugh at that. God wanted me to laugh for joy and love, not dirty rotten sin. I talked to some girls after school about this and I was saying this you could see the realization on their faces, like they just had a lightbulb moment. I promised to myself that If Jesus wouldn't laugh about it then, I shouldn't. No one should. 

Ephesians 5:4~ Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving!

 

I'm pretty sure this sums it up. I actually had to look up the word obscenity before I typed it, one of the relegated words that popped up was impure. I thought that put a pin on it. I want to let cheerful topics be the things we laugh about. 

I asked if I am generic because everyone else laughs about these things, including me. I didn't stop it I didn't do anything to change it or show that I am different from the others. I want to be special and not generic. 

-Emma Grace