Seek First The Kingdom of God and His Righteousness

  Psalm 16:11 You will show me the path of life; In Your presence  is  fullness of joy; At Your right hand  are  pleasures forevermore.   James 4:1 Where do wars and fights  come  from among you? Do  they  not  come  from your  desires for  pleasure that war in your members?   This morning Psalm 16:11 came up during a prayer meeting I attend through Zoom.  As we were praying for those countries that are at war the Holy Spirit brought James 4:1 to my mind.  What He showed me was that we war and fight with one another from our desire for earthly pleasures that will not last while God has pleasures that are forevermore that we can have in His presence.  His presence that everyone who is born again can have right now.  Pleasures that are not based upon our circumstances or abilities. Pleasures that we don’t have to earn or take from someone else. Why, because they are offered freely as a gift to all who will believe.   Do we not see the trick that the enemy continues to play on us?  We fig

  I can do nothing   One of the biggest traps and lies that I can fall into is thinking that I am enough and that I can do it or handle it.  This statement may seem to be wrong by many because of the self-empowerment slogans we hear from all around us is that tell us how we are enough, we can do it and we have the power. What we fail to see is that if we are enough and we have to power to do it then we have the ultimate responsibility for accomplishing everything in our lives. It doesn’t take living very long to realize that this is a lie.  There are things that come up in life that we don’t have the intelligence, talent, ability, power, or finances to handle.  Seriously if we are enough to handle it we would never fail.  Yet the truth, and comfort, is found in the last part of John 15:5 John 15:5 b. “for without Me you can do nothing.” Jesus statement here isn’t a narcissistic, ego driven put down. He is stating a fact and one that brings me great comfort. Comfort in that it reminds m