Obedient Lifestyle

I’ve heard time and time again people complaining of what a “hard knock” life they have, I’ve literally heard those words, I’m guilty of saying it myself. When the enemy (devil) attacks us sometimes we get overwhelmed and since we are human we begin to get discouraged. This is normal and this is why we need to use God as our medicine. When we don’t have full trust in God our feelings of discouragement get worse because we forget God for help. I feel this way sometimes too. And it seems to happen when I am trying to do something good for others or for myself, for instance, a bible study to get closer to God, and that’s when I get attacked. Whether it’s a sick family member, a business problem, or strife from a household member, it always seems to steer me away from the truth. Then the stress sky rockets, insomnia kicks in, then comes depression and isolation play their part, and then eating junk food joins in, and now it’s a huge pity party in my head and I am the only one invited. Now it’s “Woe is me.” I am sure some of you had these feelings before, or you just think I’m crazy, but it’s definitely not a good feeling. It literally makes me sick, and from what I heard from others it makes them sick as well. Then the negative thoughts come into play. It basically felt like I was all out of options. It’s like a battlefield in our minds. This is exactly the evils plan, to get us stressed out to the max so we can’t function correctly, and if we allow him to do this, he will win. It can be tough sometimes but doable, God wouldn’t give us anything we can’t handle, the bible says this. It’s like with losing weight, building muscle or trying to cure a sickness, it’s not easy. But if we do it properly and stick to it we will see good results, and it will become easy to shrug off and avoid.

So while this stress was going on, I slowly start to remember how I felt when my faith was stronger and how I used to give all my problems to God. It was a good feeling, like a feeling of peace, knowing He will deal with it for me, as long as I ask Him and trust Him. I always trusted God but it wasn’t as strong as it used to be. I think I became so lost so quick because I wasn’t walking properly when these problems started to rain on me so I became lazy, angry and confused, slowly I was skipping my bible studies, not praying properly and just trying to take matters into my own hands. I am not sure why I thought it would work this time since it never worked before, maybe it was all of the sugar, caffeine, junk food, and lack of water I put in my body to make me confused. This is why it is so important to eat healthy, and to stay away from bad foods because there is overwhelming evidence on how most of our medical problems come from what we put in our bodies, but that’s another song.

I also think it’s important to keep like-minded and encouraging people around us. When we have negative people constantly bringing us down, it is hard to want to do good. It’s very addicting, we should really look at everything differently not like the world does, because we will find ourselves consumed once again. When we change the way we look at things on a positive note, or how we think about stuff, people or even ourselves, everything we look at or think of will start to change to positivity. We deserve to be happy, God didn’t put us on this earth to be miserable. He definitely didn’t put us here to gossip, or to disrespect one another. I’ve heard an older woman once say that gossip is the devils new, and it really is. Why talk bad about someone? Does this really make people feel good about themselves? It’s a shame there are still people out there like this. Instead we should be helping others, and paying it forward. Because there is always someone out there that needs someone to talk to, or just needs to hear an encouraging word. We should all try this because we never know what someone is really going through. You may even save their life.

There are people out there that never even heard of what God can do, and I learned this recently by talking with someone. I was surprised. I know some people were brought up not to believe or with no knowledge at all. This is really sad, especially because I know and experienced Gods hand in my life many times. This is why it is very important to keep a close relationship with God and to tell people about God, we can do this by reading the bible, praying, talking to God, bible studies and so on. The enemy loves to pull us away any chance he gets, this is why we should keep ourselves busy so it’s harder for the devil to interfere and so we can have more focus on God.

I consider myself a tough person, especially mentally, I’ve done and been through a lot in my early 20’s, dated the wrong guys and hung out with the wrong crowds. I really should be dead, but I know it was God who kept me alive. I feel the reason that the enemy is attacking all of us a lot more these days is because it is closer to the end. Now I know some think “they been saying it for years,” but do the research and you will understand what I mean.

So when we feel down and can’t seem to get back up, ask God for help. This is where trusting in God comes into play. We need to be strong and know God will help us. These are tests and trials we are going through. It’s like taking a test at school, we need to check the correct answer unless we fail. And we won’t pass this test if we keep failing at it. History will keep repeating itself. Once we ace it our brain gets stronger and now we are more knowledgeable. Once we pass God’s tests our faith gets stronger and we are more knowledgeable. Let this new year be the new you. Get right with God, get on the path of righteousness and let him deal with all of your problems. Don’t worry about what anyone else thinks about you or what you’re doing because their opinion doesn’t matter, the only one that should matter is God. Stay away from negative people and if it’s impossible then pray them away or to stop. If God knows you’re serious He will help you. If we keep letting others bring us down, we will never get ahead. Start a new diet and/or workout plan, if you need help, I may be able to help! Get lots of fresh air even if it means waking up extra early to walk, or run, or doing it after work. Walking and running always makes me feel better, it really clears my mind and makes me feel better about myself. It may be a little hard at first, I remember when I first started I thought a half block was equivalent to 3 miles, haha! at least It felt that way, but then it became easier and now I enjoy it. We should all wake up with determination while at the same time giving God priority by praying to Him and then going to bed with satisfaction, with praying goodnight to our Lord. I hope you all have a blessed New Year!

Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

1 Corininthians 10:13 ” There hath no temptation taken hold of you but such as is common to man. But God is faithful; He will not suffer you to be tempted beyond that which ye are able to bear, but with the temptation will also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

P.S. There is a song called “Be Mine – Ezekiel 16” by Sarah Draget, this song kind of reminded me of how easily we can be steered off the path of righteousness. If you haven’t listened to it you should, it’s a very sweet song.