Below are words of encouragement from our friend, Abbi Wright . . .
This was on my heart this morning. I don’t know if anyone else relates to this, but holidays can sure pull us out of our routines. This is a beautiful thing to jolt us out of our normal, but it can also disrupt our rhythms. Maybe less things are in your control this week— maybe you’re staying in someone else’s home like me, or your kids are with you 24/7 (😅), or you don’t have a lot of say so in meal times and food options and the list goes on and on right?
The Lord has highlighted for me recently that when I have less control over things like that, in my flesh I tend to try to control literally anything else that I can. 😂 But ya know what? Just because I am back in an old familiar environment does not mean I have to revert back to an old familiar lie or thought pattern.
If you catch yourself reverting back to old feelings of guilt and condemnation about what you’re eating this week or not getting a workout in, I hope these words encourage you as they did me today! We have been freely given the gift of Holy Spirit, and we do not have to revert back into our own striving and works!
”Your new life began when the Holy Spirit gave you a new birth. Why then would you so foolishly turn from living in the Spirit by trying to finish by your own works?“
Galatians 3:3 TPT
”Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the [Holy] Spirit who is from God, so that we may know and understand the [wonderful] things freely given to us by God.“
I Corinthians 2:12 AMP
We get to interact and respond differently with our families this year, guided by the love of Jesus within us, by His thoughts and purposes, not by my old familiar habits! What a promise and a privilege!
”For who has known the mind and purposes of the Lord, so as to instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ [to be guided by His thoughts and purposes].“
I Corinthians 2:16 AMP
Burning Bright! 