This blog is about today’s devotion in the book Hearing from God Each Morning by Joyce Meyer.
We are supposed to turn over our entire lives—our thoughts, our words, our actions—to God. The Holy Spirit needs to invade our lives completely, but we need to invite Him in. When we do this, though, we can’t have any thought, word, or action that offends God. We are to live every moment to please Him.
That’s impossible for me on my own. Fortunately, I don’t have to do it alone. I have the Holy Spirit living inside of me to help me honor God in all I do. The biggest thing I struggle with is bitter thoughts about things that may have happened years ago. Most of the time these thoughts never make it to words, and they very rarely make it to actions. But the bitter thoughts are offensive to God, and have no place in my life. Even yesterday as I was at a woman’s house, my heart was full of bitterness towards her daughter, who was not home. I was praying that her daughter wouldn’t show up because of the bitterness I had inside. Because of that feeling, I was quiet and not as friendly as I know I can be. As believers, that bitterness has no place in our lives, and it is offensive to God. He forgives us, and we need to forgive others.
I’m learning to let the Holy Spirit take control, but it’s still something I have to work on. I try to hard to do things on my own power, and that’s not what God wants. I need to give everything, big or small, to Him.
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