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This is a daily email i get,... i confess, i don't always read it, but when it has a catchy title, like this one's: Are you in need of renewal
This week's promise: God will fight for you
Are you in need of renewal? For the Lord has driven out great and powerful nations for you, and no one has yet been able to defeat him. Each one of you will put to flight a thousand of the enemy, for the Lord your God fights for you, just as he promised. So be careful to love the Lord your God.
Joshua 23:9-11 NLT
About this week's promise
When strength fails and we grow weary, we need someone to come alongside us, show understanding, cheer us up, and inspire us to have the strength and commitment to move on.When bills pile up and money runs short, we need an encourager. When we become single parents and the world seems against us, we need an encourager. When friends and family turn against us, we need an encourager. Our strength and resolve weaken. Oh, for someone to come beside us and lift us up and comfort us. Encouragers help us stir renewed commitment, renewed resolve. They inspire us with courage and hope. Encouragers bring a beautiful gift, often a spiritual gift, when they bring renewal through encouragement
adapted from TouchPoint Bible with devotional commentary by Ron Beers and Gilbert Beers, Tyndale House Publishers (1996), p 1188
...there are times that i feel so very discouraged, like anyone else, ofcourse. it is at those times that i'm so very vulnerable to fall with tempetations. i feel so guilty afterwards. most of the time i deparately long for an accountability partner, and there is one person i know would be happy to be so. but for some reason, i feel so guilty about whatever i did, and would not even seek help with the "encouragement" department. i get back to being "good" again, after a delayed and repentful prayer. i don't know why i'm so proud that i can't admit my imperfection to anyone.it's not a real repent if i don't even acknowledge it to someone else. i do when i pray, but still...
but anyway, my new year's resolution, among many, is to surround myself with His words during those tempting times, and to open up more to the people i know love me. not an easy road, being vulnerable...