#360 Escape from Stress When We Fail 1 John 1.9 Part 1
I was discouraged because of being impatient with my husband. He was all excited about purchases he had made to help with our home food inventory. I was grateful for this, and I was also irritated at no where to put the items, and the clutter they were adding to the kitchen counter. I made some testy comments about the car he had driven not having gas, and about the ‘clutter that was everywhere.’ He became immediately quiet and I realized that I had poured cold water on his excited and happy spirit. I told myself I had failed again, in spite of all the prayers, efforts to be kind, as led by His Word and His leadings.
Earlier in the week I had received some thoughts from a Brother in Christ:
2Th 2:16-17 GW God our Father loved us and by his kindness gave us everlasting encouragement and good hope. Together with our Lord Jesus Christ, (17) may he encourage and strengthen you to do and say everything that is good.
Dear Father, thank you for your assignment today. Thank you for the knowledge that discouragement can be appeased by realizing thy grace imparted within my heart. Lead me always to Calvary that I may know wherein my justification arises and ne’er give up the love that excels…
2Co 5:14 Rotherham For, the love of the Christ, constraineth us;--
Our Everlasting encouragement was bought by everlasting love: the love of the Father, at such great cost, giving us His only Son; the love of Jesus, at such great cost, even to the death of the cross; forever purchasing our innocence in Christ…our Everlasting encouragement in the face of every Discouragement…
This week the Everlasting encouragement that helps me deal with stress that I created for myself, mentioned above, is from 1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
The LORD spoke to me very specifically through this promise:
The falling short that I recognize in this relationship and in other relationships is because of the Faithfulness of my Heavenly Father.
He is faithful. He is righteous.
And He is cleansing me from unrighteousness in all facets of my life.
And suddenly the view of “Failure” and Discouragement was replaced with deep gratitude for the Heavenly Father’s faithfulness, forgiveness in Christ, and ability to transform and make us ‘new.’
O how this love constrains us to love with His Wondrous Love. His Wondrous Love leads us to be open to see and be lead to obedience to His will and Word. His wondrous Love captivates our thoughts away from ourselves and focuses them on the perfect integrity and wisdom of the Father and the Son. This Love Relationship certainly does beget that same Wondrous Love in our hearts; by the power of the holy Spirit this Love does “encourage and strengthen you to do and say everything that is good.”
But for this Everlasting Encouragement to have its Power over our heart takes our ‘everlasting’—continual awareness and therefore continual praise.
“I will praise the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.” Psalm 34:1
I was discouraged because of being impatient with my husband. He was all excited about purchases he had made to help with our home food inventory. I was grateful for this, and I was also irritated at no where to put the items, and the clutter they were adding to the kitchen counter. I made some testy comments about the car he had driven not having gas, and about the ‘clutter that was everywhere.’ He became immediately quiet and I realized that I had poured cold water on his excited and happy spirit. I told myself I had failed again, in spite of all the prayers, efforts to be kind, as led by His Word and His leadings.
Earlier in the week I had received some thoughts from a Brother in Christ:
2Th 2:16-17 GW God our Father loved us and by his kindness gave us everlasting encouragement and good hope. Together with our Lord Jesus Christ, (17) may he encourage and strengthen you to do and say everything that is good.
Dear Father, thank you for your assignment today. Thank you for the knowledge that discouragement can be appeased by realizing thy grace imparted within my heart. Lead me always to Calvary that I may know wherein my justification arises and ne’er give up the love that excels…
2Co 5:14 Rotherham For, the love of the Christ, constraineth us;--
Our Everlasting encouragement was bought by everlasting love: the love of the Father, at such great cost, giving us His only Son; the love of Jesus, at such great cost, even to the death of the cross; forever purchasing our innocence in Christ…our Everlasting encouragement in the face of every Discouragement…
This week the Everlasting encouragement that helps me deal with stress that I created for myself, mentioned above, is from 1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
The LORD spoke to me very specifically through this promise:
The falling short that I recognize in this relationship and in other relationships is because of the Faithfulness of my Heavenly Father.
He is faithful. He is righteous.
And He is cleansing me from unrighteousness in all facets of my life.
And suddenly the view of “Failure” and Discouragement was replaced with deep gratitude for the Heavenly Father’s faithfulness, forgiveness in Christ, and ability to transform and make us ‘new.’
O how this love constrains us to love with His Wondrous Love. His Wondrous Love leads us to be open to see and be lead to obedience to His will and Word. His wondrous Love captivates our thoughts away from ourselves and focuses them on the perfect integrity and wisdom of the Father and the Son. This Love Relationship certainly does beget that same Wondrous Love in our hearts; by the power of the holy Spirit this Love does “encourage and strengthen you to do and say everything that is good.”
But for this Everlasting Encouragement to have its Power over our heart takes our ‘everlasting’—continual awareness and therefore continual praise.
“I will praise the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.” Psalm 34:1
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