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I Choose Today to stay filled by God

Molinda Hern October 31, 2023

This morning, my husband told me that the “Friends” actor, Matthew Perry, succumbed to his addictions and died in his hot tub. That is indeed very sad. But it also brought to mind the words/warning of Jesus I had just read in my quiet time: “When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, seeking rest but finding none. Then it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’ So it returns and finds its former home empty, swept, and in order. Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation.” Matthew‬ ‭12‬:‭43‬-‭45‬ ‭NLT‬‬ These verses are very interesting to me. I heard it once described as a person can work to get sin out of their life like addiction (drug, alcohol, sex, gambling, spending, gluttony, etc.), they are excited to be free of it. They work at cleaning out their house (soul, mind), but it is left empty. The problem lies when they do not fill it up with the power of the Holy Spirit,

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I Choose Today to go at God’s pace

Molinda Hern October 28, 2023

I am struggling though with God’s pace. I need to let go and allow Him to take the lead, rather than rushing ahead, which often leads to trouble. Paul understood the importance of letting the Lord set the pace and not getting ahead of God. He describes his experience after encountering Jesus on the road to Damascus to the Galatian church by saying, “…Then it pleased Him [God] to reveal His Son to me so that I would proclaim the Good News about Jesus to the Gentiles. When this happened, I did not rush out to consult with any human being… Instead, I went away into Arabia, and later I returned to the city of Damascus. Then three years later I went to Jerusalem…” Galatians‬ ‭1‬:‭15‬b-‭18‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Three years after Paul’s encounter with Jesus he went to Jerusalem. Three years before he felt God calling him into his ministry. Paul was an enthusiastic guy! He was a doer. He was known for his ability to take action. He was well known by all as the one who made it his mission to eliminate Christianity from the world! Paul was a “take no prisoners” kind of guy. So three years of

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I Choose Today to use my sword

Molinda Hern October 26, 2023

It is interesting to see that Satan uses the same tactic with Jesus that he did to Adam and Eve: manipulation. He is crafty. He is trying to use God’s Word against Jesus perverting and misdirecting the true meaning of it. Just like Matthew describes in chapter 4, “During that time the devil came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.”” (verse 3‬‬‬). It is the same thing he does with us. His tactics don’t change; they are the same. He is the master manipulator. So how do we combat the master manipulator? The same way Jesus did in chapter 4 of Matthew: He quotes/uses the Word of God! “But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”‭‭ Matthew‬ ‭4‬:‭4‬ ‭NLT‬‬ That is our offense, the Sword of the Spirit (which is the Word of God (Ephesians 6:17))! That gets me thinking about the importance of memorizing the Word of God! That way I will be ready take up the offensive by yielding the Sword of the Spirit when the devil

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I Choose Today to Follow

Molinda Hern October 24, 2023

“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If any of you wants to be My follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow Me.” Matthew‬ ‭16‬:‭24‬ ‭NLT‬‬ I think we have all had alarms go off for us personally we chose to ignore, wanting our own way, which, as we all know, lead further and further into sin and despair. As we all know, that one decision to ignore the warning, leads down a path to more and more sin; being led by the sin instead of subduing it. But we cannot do anything about ignoring past alarms, but we can repent and ask the Holy Spirit to redeem our sin (which Jesus already did on the cross), and choose not to ignore the warning bells going forward. Ask the Lord to use the mistakes made for His glory and don’t allow the enemy to keep reminding us of the mistakes of the past (so we cannot be fully focused on God and what God has for us to do in His perfect plan). Reminding us of our mistakes is one of the schemes of the devil, to get us to follow our sinful nature,

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I Choose Today to live abundantly

Molinda Hern October 21, 2023

Don’t miss the opportunity to live an abundant life because of your trauma. In the days, weeks, and months after my trauma, I can honestly say I did not have any joy, nor was I living a life of abundance. I was in survival mode. I was surviving, not thriving. My focus was on my loss. Who could blame me, right? Up to that point in my life, I had experienced a great deal of trauma: being abused, abandoned, belittled, marginalized, and having innocence stolen. God had brought me through those times, and I was beginning to thrive in a life that was finally good, more than I could have asked or hoped for. I was experiencing joy and abundance. That was until that morning in early June when I woke up to my worst nightmare. In the time following this traumatic morning, once the fog of despair and grief started to lift, I had a choice to make. I had to choose if I was going to continue to live in survival mode or if I was going to thrive with an abundant life. Jesus said in John 10:10, “A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.

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