TODAY IS ONE OF MY CLEANING DAYS…
EVER SINCE I WAS A LITTLE GIRL I loved cleaning my bathrooms. Don’t ask me why. I cannot to this day tell you why.
I’ve thought about it though.
Maybe it’s because I love clean. I hate dirty.
TODAY IS ONE OF MY CLEANING DAYS…
after which I take a nice break, have a nice lunch, crochet and do things I love to do for fun. Yes! God is into fun!
It’s fun He gave us authority over the dominion of darkness!
It’s fun He gave us delegated authority and power to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons!
It’s fun! It’s holy! It’s true!
AND AS I WAS CLEANING…
I’ve done this more than once: I have furniture polish in one hand (or window cleaner – or something) and paper towel in another…
OR SO I THINK…
FUN! I accidentally threw, yes threw, paper towel down the laundry chute! Better yet! Today it was paper towel with Russian Blue kitty fur!
MY POINT?:
- Choose laughter at silly! Choose hatred of sin!
- Choose fun that is holy! Choose hatred of sin!
- Choose making work fun! Choose hatred of sin!
- Choose to bless yourself with fun! Choose hatred of sin!
- Choose the joy of the Lord! Choose enmity for the devil!
Nehemiah 8:10-11
Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” The Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be still, for this is a holy day. Do not grieve.”
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
FUN!
What DID I DO? Laugh! That was no sin! That was a silly! Silly me! Funny me! I do these things!
AND: I know the difference between silly, mistake and sin!
When I became forty (I’m sixty-two now) I got some attacks from satan about becoming senile. Duh! Big Surprise? Not at all. He’s like that AND he likeS that!
FRIENDS: I grew up with close, close family members receiving and believing curses: curses of sickness, lack of finances – “financially embarrassed” – belief in “That’s going to happen to you too!”
NO WAY!
Selah.
HAVE FUN!
AND!
FIGHT THE DEVIL WITH SCRIPTURES!
1 Corinthians 16:14-16
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness,and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, “Who has known the mind of the Lordso as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Galatians 2:20-21
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”
SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR THIS “JOY STORY”
Mark 16:15-18
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”
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