Daily Dose with Denise

This episode shows the importance of humbling ourselves.  Serving is part of the Christian lifestyle.  Our positions in life should not prevent us from doing tasks that might seem beneath our pedigree.  In this lesson we will see our Savior, Jesus, demonstrating humility.  He is the Humble Servant!  

Our hearts are containers of everything we think and feel.  We have been cautioned to guard it carefully because it can influence our decisions and directions we take in life.  

Envy is another ill that lives in our hearts.   When someone is consumed with envy in their heart, they have a hard time celebrating the success of another.  They develop ill feelings and become annoyed that the person is doing well.  This is not a good place to reside.  We must search our hearts and eliminate envy.  Envy can have a devastating affect on your life, it can make you sick!  We can rid ourselves of this emotion by aligning with and obeying God's commands.

Pride is a destroyer!  It is an attitude that God hates!  We must not be so full of ourselves and our accomplishments that we no longer have room for God.  This episode reviews how pride brought about the destruction of a king who started out good with the Lord, but ended up separated due to his arrogance and pride.  

Our heart contains the issues of life.  Everything we feel and think flows through it.  It is important that we have a clean / pure heart towards God.  When our hearts are polluted with sin, especially deliberate sin, we become separated from God.  We do not want to be apart from Him.  Therefore, we must search our hearts, better yet,  ask God to search them to reveal any offensive way in us so we can be put back on the right path.  We do sin sometimes, but the willful sinful actions we take are detrimental to our relationship with God.  This episode reviews the consequences of cherishing iniquity.

The tongue reveals the condition of our overall physical health and James lets us know that it can reveal our spiritual condition, too!  This episode provides a set of self-examination questions to help determine the condition of your spiritual health!

We should not discount the words we say.   Every word will be judged, even the idle, careless, worthless, and pointless ones.  Jesus said so!  The words we speak with either show our innocence or guilt in relation to our thoughts, belief, and behavior towards Jesus!  Words really do matter!

It is important that our words align with what we are believing God to do in our lives.  When you pray make sure you say those things that are in keeping with the prayer and not confess the counter!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!  CHRISTMAS!  We have been given the most precious gift of all in Christ Jesus, but have we truly received the gift?  Is the gift we use seldomly or intentionally?  God's gift to us is good and very good.  It is the only gift we will ever receive that never changes.  It is the only gift that gives and gives and gives.  Let's consider this question: Have you received your gift?

Words really do matter!  We need to monitor what is coming from our mouths, particularly if we want to be prosperous and successful.  Our Heavenly Father has given us the solution to attaining a successful life, and much of it depends on the words we speak.  God's words are powerful and effective.  We must put His word in our hearts so that when we speak, they will come about.  Not only are we to speak His words, but we must be attentive to them and obey them.  The obedience is key!  Without it we will not acquire the success we seek.