Daily Devotional From Joyce Meyer

Getting Rid of Unrealistic Expectations

Unrealistic expectations can quickly steal our peace and joy. We usually visualize a perfect day, with perfect people, and ourselves being perfectly happy in our perfect little world, but we all know that isn't reality. In reality, only God is perfect and the rest of us are under construction.

The devil knows what steals our peace and he sets us up to get upset when our unrealistic expectations fall apart.

After years of letting the devil steal my peace, I finally got it: Life is not perfect, and things are going to happen that we did not plan for and would rather not go through. My new attitude has become, "Oh well, that's life!" I have discovered that if I don't let those things impress me, then they can't depress me.

Everyone has to deal with inconveniences, but we can deal with them and avoid a bad attitude. Remember today that only God is perfect and trust in Him. He can always lead you past disappointing circumstances, strengthening you and helping you to hold on to your peace.

Prayer Starter: God, only You are perfect. I am so glad that even when people and circumstances fail, You never do. Instead of putting my hope in things that will disappoint, I choose a life of peace that only comes from putting my hope in You.

Where Have I Been?

Why, Hello everyone. It's been a long time. We have a lot of catching up to do. Things have really been moving in fast pace lately and I just haven't really had the opportunity or urge to blog. We all know that life can be busy and there are far too many distractions that can throw you off track. I recently took on a 2nd position with another employer and I must say that I now have my schedule full. No problem for me because idle time is 9 times out of 10 the devils workshop and I don't have the time to serve him. Keeping my time filled with work can be an overload, but in order to gain financial freedom I must take each opportunity and stride. I know the benefit of this will be a awesome reward and I am excited to take each step closer. I would like to make a vow that I will continue posting daily devotionals and keep you guys posted on things that I enjoy and encounter each day. Thanks for following my blog and encourage your friends to follow as well. We all have thoughts and ideas to share.

Experience A New Beginning. Daily Devotional From Joyce Meyer

Experience a New Beginning

The Bible is filled with stories about people who experienced new beginnings. Moses became a leader after being a shepherd for 40 years. Paul hated Christ until God renewed him and made him the greatest apostle of all time.

When we receive Jesus as our Savior, it is the ultimate new beginning. We become new creatures with an opportunity to learn a new way of living. But the first step to experiencing that new life is believing that it's available to you.

Ephesians 4:23 says we must be constantly renewed in our minds and attitudes. It's easy to read about great people in the Bible and think that you are nothing like them, but when you start to think that, you need to renew your mind right away.

Choose to think according to God's Word, not how you feel. Receive His love and experience a new beginning. Life will become so much sweeter if you live with an attitude that says "God is completely changing me from the inside out. He's giving me a new beginning and there are greater things ahead."

Prayer Starter: Lord, I renew my mind in You. I know that You have a new beginning and a calling for me just like you did for Moses and Paul. I receive it today, believing that You can bring it to pass.

My Last GlamBag and Birchbox Subscription

I enjoy sampling new products and I must say that both BirchBox and GlamBag are great starters. I will no longer continue my subscription with them any longer though ... only because I have enough of samples at this time. Here are some pictures via my instagram of the goodies I received.

We Are Called to Enjoy God

Daily Devotional From Joyce Meyers

We need to get comfortable with God. I don't mean we should be disrespectful, but that we don't have to be afraid of Him. In fact, I believe that the high call of every believer's life is to enjoy God. We are called to enjoy the Father because He is life and all life comes from Him,so we can't truly enjoy life if we don't enjoy God.

Sometimes we don't enjoy God's presence because we get all wrapped up in serving Him, discovering what gifts we have, and spending all our time working at our ministry. This happened to me. About five years into my ministry, God had to make me hit the brakes because I had become so proud of the work I was doing for Him that I was no longer enjoying Him.

We have to be careful when we start getting proud of ourselves because of all the things we're doing. That's not what God's after. As our Father, God wants us to know and enjoy Him.

So let me ask you, are you proud of your works today? Or are you truly enjoying God?

What's Your Favorite Place To Shop??

I absolutely love shopping at Kohl's ... This place has the best clearance and mark downs ever. We all know that clothes and shoes have no value, so why go out and spend lots of money on things that will soon be marked down much lower then what you spend on it. I can always walk out this place with lots of different items and have spent under $10.00 dollars. I just purchased these shoes on Wednesday ... check the price :)

Follow God's Wisdom, Not Your Own Feelings

Daily Devotional From Joyce Meyer

Life is no fun when we let our feelings run the show. Feelings change from day to day, hour to hour, even moment to moment. They often lie to us. In short, we cannot trust our feelings.

But we can choose, as Christ followers, to ignore false emotions and live by truth and wisdom. Let me give you some examples. Perhaps you have found yourself in a crowd of people and felt as though everyone was talking about you. That doesn't mean they were. Maybe you feel that nobody understands you, but that doesn't mean they don't. You may feel misunderstood, unappreciated or even mistreated, but that doesn't mean you are.

These are only feelings. We need to be mature, disciplined, Holy Spirit-controlled people, determined to walk in the Spirit. It takes a constant act of the will to choose to do things God's way rather than our way.

Even though we may feel occasionally bombarded by negative emotions, we cannot allow those feelings to control and spoil life. Instead, we can choose to follow the truth-godly wisdom, knowledge and understanding.