Colossians 3:12 NLT
Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
Food for thought for me!
Peace.
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40 Day Devotional: Day 12: Falling down – Getting up
God loves you, even if you fall down. Just pray and get up again, even if it’s the umptieth time!
Superchick: Get up
I’m not afraid to fall
it means i climbed up high
to fall is not to fail
you fail when you don’t try
not afraid to fall
i might just learn to fly and
i will spread these wings of mine
it means i climbed up high
to fall is not to fail
you fail when you don’t try
not afraid to fall
i might just learn to fly and
i will spread these wings of mine
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40 Day Devotional: Day 13: Smile!
Romans 15:13 NIV
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
This is one of my favorite Bible verses. Very positive, loving and encouraging.
Wishing you joy, hope, peace and faith today.
SMILE!
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40 Day Devotional: Day 14: Grace
Grace
Every year I watch an animated video about Jesus’ death and resurrection when Easter is approaching. It always painfully touches me with the raw truth of Jesus BIG love and sacrifice for us on the cross.
I have a life because of this undeserved grace.
Even though the song is in Dutch, the animation is very clear.
Hoping you will be touched by it as well.
You can watch it by clicking this link:
Your grace is enough for me.
Peace.
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40 Day Devotional: 5th week of Lent
Tomorrow is the 5th Sunday of Lent already. Enjoy your day of rest and rejuvenation. May your heart be blessed from the rising of the sun till its setting.
Peace.
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40 Day Devotional: Day 15: hope for the brokenhearted
Today I want to share some hope with you.
Life is not always strawberries and daisies. If that’s you today, like me this afternoon, then know that you’re not alone. There’s always other people to reach out to and a wonderful God who is way bigger than you can ever dream of. You can trust Him with your stuff. Really!
Psalm 34:18
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Sending you love and hugs today.
Peace.
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40 Day Devotional: Day 16: my favorite prayers
Although I often pray by heart, I love praying words of others too!
Prayer to Do Good (F.B. Meyer England, 1847-1929)
Forgive me, most gracious Lord and Father, if this day I have done or said anything to increase the pain of the world. Pardon the unkind word, the impatient gesture, the hard and selfish deed, the failure to show sympathy and kindly help where I had the opportunity, but missed it; and enable me so to live that I may daily do something to lessen the tide of human sorrow, and add to the sum of human happiness.
Prayer from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Germany, 1906-1945)O God, early in the morning I cry to you. Help me to pray; and to concentrate my thoughts on you; I cannot do this alone.
In me there is darkness, but with you there is light; I am lonely, but you do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with you there is help; I am restless, but with you there is peace.
In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience; I do not understand your ways, but you know the way for me. . . .
Restore me to liberty, and enable me to live now that I may answer before you and before men.
Lord, whatever this day may bring, your name be praised.
Amen.
And this one is one of my favs as well:
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace!
That where there is hatred, I may bring love.That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness.
That where there is discord, I may bring harmony.
That where there is error, I may bring truth.That where there is doubt, I may bring faith.That where there is despair, I may bring hope.That where there are shadows, I may bring light.
That where there is sadness, I may bring joy.Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted.
To understand, than to be understood.
To love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.—Saint Francis of Assisi—
Be inspired!
Tell me, what are your favorite prayers?
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40 Day Devotional: Day 19: Spending wisely
New International Version (©2011)
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money
This afternoon I spent budgeting and tracking my finances. This thorough watching of my finances is new to me this year, because I was “leaking” money by subtly overspending on certain things.
I want to take ownership of my finances and make well-informed decisions about where I spend my money, in order to be able to give and be a good steward of the money God has entrusted me with.
Here’s an article with awesome tips from – again- Leo Babauta from Zenhabits.
How I save money (in 16 tips)
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40 Day Devotional: Day 20: Facebook Fasting
“And when you fast, don’t make it obvious, as the hypocrites do, for they try to look miserable and disheveled so people will admire them for their fasting. I tell you the truth, that is the only reward they will ever get.”
Matthew 6:16 NLT
When reading the above text, I can opt to keep it a secret what I’ve been trying to change for Lent: spending less time on social networks like Facebook, to be able to create more time and space for creating, praying, meditating and living…
Nevertheless I am sharing about it, to show you that you don’t die from cutting back on time consuming potentially addictive sites like Facebook. On the contrary.
I’ve been fasting Facebook for Lent for four weeks now. For me that means:
- not scrolling through the newsfeed like a zombie (ok once in a while my eye might fall on the top story but THAT’S IT)
- going on it only once every 3 or 4 days to check for private messages
- using it as a tool to promote my blogposts to my audience (I do that by autoposting, which means I don’t have to open Facebook at all to do that)
- scrolling quickly through my “notifications” (like I said: only every 3 or 4 days) to see if there’s something I might want to actually react to (instead of opening every single notification)
I think it’s been a success so far, I have been keeping this Daily Devotional up and I am sure I would have had a way harder time to accomplish that (among other things), if I would have been on Facebook, to scratch the unhealthy “I HAVE TO CHECK FACEBOOK NOW!!” urge.
In fact, I like this so much more than the way I used to go on Facebook and linger there and get lost and/or checking it compulsively ten times a day, that I don’t want to go back to my old ways.
Are you inspired to cut back too?
Read this post by Leo Babauta from Zenhabits:
Walled-in: Life without Facebook
or
A survival guide for beating information addiction
Enjoy!
Peace.
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