Start today with prayer. Ask God to guide you and teach you. Take time to calm your mind and heart. Don't rush into this time just to check it off your list. Savor these few moments of quiet with God. Remember, this is the time to fill your cup!
Read Exodus 16:1-3.
Why do you think the Israelites were grumbling?
Who were they really grumbling against?
They were hungry. Things weren't going like they thought...and they were ready to head back into bondage!
Think about your life today. In that area of desert or dryness in your life that you have shared about in our small groups, are you trying to fill that hunger with something else besides God?
Filling the hunger in our lives with anything other than God, will send us back into bondage. The Israelites were hungering for the times in Egypt, without remembering the bondage and slavery that they endured. Satan wants us to be ruled by our flesh and it's desires. He knows that it causes defeat and discouragement...and bondage.
Take time today to look at the areas in your life that you are filling some kind of hunger you experience with other things instead of letting God fill them. Do you hunger for acceptance? Do you hunger for security? Do you hunger for love? Do you hunger for someone to trust? Do you hunger for forgiveness?
God can fill all of these points of hunger in your life today. But, many of us hunger...and then rush right back to those devastating relationships, habits, thoughts, and behaviors that take us back into bondage. The first step to THRIVING today will be to realize that God is the only one who can fill that hunger in your life. He is freedom!
What are your thoughts on this today? Would you share what God said to your heart with the rest of the group?
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Well, I realized this am that I am trying my best to fix too many situations around me and my family...just trying to FIX them....ya know, I wear my self out trying to fix things. I need to let go and trust that God is in control and that even though it seems chaotic right now (and it is) that I need to trust that God has me in the "desert" to teach my husband, me and my children that he is our only provider....not a job, not money, not even time together.
Pray for my family this week as Arron starts a 3-midnight shift with only Mon and Wed off thru the end of December. We have not done this before and everyone is very anxious about not seeing him much at all. Help me make evenings at home somewhat collected and force us to get together for some type of time, my kids are old enough that they all go to their rooms and start homework and reading and we are all not together much.
Love you girls,
Lainie
Thanks Lainie for sharing! I'll be praying for you today...especially for those nights because I know how hard nights can be after being at school/work all day.
love ya!
Frances
This is chicken soup for my soul!!! It seems that no matter where in our lives we are, we share some of the same struggles. It makes me not feel so ashamed of where I am spiritually. Thank you ladies for the courage to tell your stories. They are not so different from mine. I look forward to seeing you all on Sunday. Again, thank you and may God bless each of your lives this week.
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