The day with dianne Louise

Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. Isaiah 41:10 NLT Discouragement is a killer. If we know this is a strategy of the enemy they we must be prepared with good scriptural firepower. We don't have to accept the barbs of the enemy.  A Boy scouts motto is: be prepared. This should also be a Christian motto. We have become too laissez- faire! Who told you you didn't have an enemy? Who told you there is no satan? If Jesus believed in him and did battle with him that is good enough for me. Be prepared folks! Amen!

Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. Isaiah 41:10 NLT Our enemy, the devil, comes against us with discouragement and fear. These are his weapons and ours are the word of God and our faith in our God. Our enemy's goal is to destroy us, make us ineffectual and to marginalize us: take us out of the picture. We must recognize the enemy and rebuke him and have a meeting with our saviour. Our commander in chief is our God, He is also our father and friend. What is the Lord saying? This is more important than anything else. If you cannot hear Him remember His promises and the words spoken over your life. Remind the Lord of them. This helps build up your faith and opens the door in communion with your God. He is there! Amen!

But when I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. Psalms 56:3 NLT Part of living a focused life is being able to experience fear, rebuke it and decide to keep moving anyway. I find that of I give time to the 'what ifs' I am trapped in a web of anxiety. Therefore I acknowledge they may be around but if I don't chose them as an option, I will pass them by. Jesus chose to stay focused past the cross. He knew he had to go to the cross but the promise of what was on the other side took him through the cross. We will go through problems but we don't have to stay in the grave. Amen!

But when I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. I praise God for what he has promised. I trust in God, so why should I be afraid? What can mere mortals do to me? Psalms 56:3‭-‬4 NLT David wrote this psalm when he was seized by the Philistines in Gath. The whole psalm is very applicable to those hounded in social media and those vilified by the news reports. I am gratified that in Australia our Prime Minister has gained a reprieve because he has bravely and boldly administered in the times of Covid19. His counterparts in the US and Britian are not doing so well. It must be a very difficult time for them. Prior to the Covid19 outbreak the news media hounded our PM mercilessly. He administered through a severe drought and then bush fires that ravaged thousands of acres of forest, killed many amd burned down houses, not to mention destroying thousands of wild animals. Yet all the PM did was not good enough, for some. Nasty, critical voices railed against him. Praise God the voices are si...

Commit your actions to the Lord , and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16:3 NLT Action Man! These words create an image and unfortunately, or fortunately for you, they create an ideal of what we should be. If I am responding to the Lord, you can't stop me, however if mankind is attempting to motivate me, I am a couch potato. A long time ago I decided that the word 'should' was going to be eliminated from my life. The reason being is what I 'should' do constantly was in my face and motivating by condemnation. Now I put God first and His principles are my motivator, mostly. I say mostly because I am still capable of failure. Back to plans. I have, over the years, made many illustrious plans only to see them decimated. However, now I wait on the Lord as I plan and then commit them to Him. His timing is always a factor and I must trust Him for it. Much better outcome!

Put God in charge of your work, then what you’ve planned will take place. Proverbs 16:3 MSG Another two verses are also important: Mortals make elaborate plans, but God has the last word. Humans are satisfied with whatever looks good; God probes for what is good.Proverbs 16:1,2 We are inspired by a vision but God sees what else is coming, the tests amd trials. Anyone who welcome 2020 with vision and great plans will find them tested right now, yet now is a real opportunity for the entrepreneur. Some amazing developments are taking place. Our vision may inspire us and those we share it with yet much like prophesy it sees a future glorious hope. Now we must climb over the briar to obtain the prize, we must strengthen ourselves in resolve and the Lord. Amen

Love God , your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that’s in you, love him with all you’ve got! Deuteronomy 6:5 MSG This morning I considered what loving with all my strength looked like. It is interesting that the Message Bible interprets this as: all that you have got. All that I have got means all of me, not just my occasional thoughts, occasional bible study but treating Him as my new heartthrob. Everyone who has been in love knows what it is like to be desperate to see the one you love again, not eating well, not sleeping well but thinking continually about that person. This is all of me! Give it a try! Amen!