We get it all messed up. We try to open what God has shut and shut what God has opened. There is one door for you to open. It is the door to your heart. Stop messing with God's doors! He has them under control. Pay attention to your door! He is waiting to come in.

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If God has opened a door of opportunity, nothing can shut it. We can only choose to not walk through it.

If God has closed a door opportunity, nothing can open it. We can only choose to slam our heads against it.

Our great pursue is not to tell God what to open and close but to learn from God what he has opened and closed and walk in that path.

What should we do when we look like we are ok, but we're not?  Jesus has clear and helpful answers. He calls us to wake up and strengthen what remains. 

What lies do you tolerate? Maybe they aren’t big bad things. But are there impure or untrue things that you allow to hang around and influence what messages go into your brain? God really cares about that.

As we grow in our intolerance of Satan’s lies, we are better able to hear what God has to say to us!

Have you ever felt like God is fighting against you?

God is for us! He is fighting against sin. He loves us enough to not stop fighting against sin when that sin is in our lives. Let’s be careful to not misinterpret God’s discipline as rejection.   

Have you ever noticed that the Bible can say the scariest of things, and then tell us to not be afraid about it?

Well, there are good reasons why we don’t need to fear the scariest of things.

We don’t have to fear death when the one who is telling us to not be afraid has conquered the grave. 

We don’t have to fear death when we have the promise that the second death will not hurt us.

We don’t have to fear death when we have the promise that on the other side we receive the crown of life.

Our light to the world dims as our love for God fades. Don't let Satan blow it out!

It is a danger to shine something other than love in the name of Christ. If the world sees that light and desires it they will be drawn to a loveless experience of God. It would be better to not shine.

The day Jesus comes back will change every day after it, for eternity. It has the potential to do more than this. It could change every day we live on this earth, starting now.

2 Peter 3:11-12 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God.

How will you let that day change the way you live this day?