Everything is possible for him who believes Mark 9:23
The "everything "mentioned her does not always come simply by asking, because God is always seeking to teach you the way of faith. Your training for a life of faith requires many areas of learning, including the trial of faith, the discipline of faith, the patience of faith , and the courage of faith. Often you will pass through many phases of faith before you finally realize the result of faith- namely, the victory of faith
When you have made your request to God, and the answer still has not come, what are you to do? Keep on believing His word. Do not be swayed by what you feel or see.
Then as you stand firm, your power and experience is being developed , strengthened and deepened.
God will often purposely delay in giving you the answer, and in fact the delay is just as much the answer to your prayer as is the fulfillment when it comes.
( If this thought interests you , you can read more on Page 191 at the date of 12 May in Streams in the Desert)
About the soul or mind side of life there is so much to say... I think the most important thing for me is to take control of thoughts because as you think , so you are ! It is so easy to fall into a nagative pattern of thinking, especially in today's world.
I like to turn my thoughts to the positive and part of this is to embrace your life ! I try to make my life a celebration because being alive is so special and time is short.... so I make my days as pleasant and festive as possible ! As we get older there is a tendency to get stuck in a rut and stagnating and not having an open mind .... We should counteract that by doing new things...learn something new- whether it is mastering your smartphone or learning a language or taking up dancing ...in all its wonderful forms... or setting up your Bucket List... things you still want to do.... if you dont think about it and plan for it..you might never do it!!!
I made a Powerpoint presentation of my list and will share it here....if I can figure out how to do it!!!??
Ok so the pictures are above this not below... I am still learning...more about this topic later...
Finally just a short few thoughts on the body... it is the only one we ve got and as we are "fearfully and wonderfully made"we should look after our bodies... we all know we need exercise but if you are naturally a bit lazy like I am, this could be a schlep... I have , however , discovered how good one feels after a nice fairly brisk walk, out in nature ...or even up and down the streets of your suburb,as I have recently started doing.....what helps if you have a smartphone is a little app called Runkeeper which works with GPS and tells you how far , how fast ect you have walked... nice encouragment
I find, and you can compete against yourself!!
Then of course there is the whole boring thing of eating right or your diet. I have been on the Banting for the past three months and feel wonderfully energetic , lost some weight and find it suits me to eat the one big meal- breakfast and something light at night- being a lazy cook! Point is eat healthily
Then there is the matter of sleep or rest ... I find that if I read until the wee hours of the night I battle to fall asleep, likewise if I am on my cellphone busy with facebook or whatever, my brain won't switch off. Then I read about digital burnout and how technology in the forms of cellphone , computers email ect can affect your sleeping pattern.
So I have made a rule to switch off around 9.30 ...to then start with a quiet routine eg a warm bath a book( not too a stimulating one ) and low light ( candlelight in these loadshedding days ) is perfect. They say you should try and go to bed more or less at the same time every night...it seems to work!
Thats it for now!
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