Expressions of Myself

SAY WHAT? She will be a 5-star friend at all times. BREAKDOWN: Imagine booking a night in a fancy hotel. You are so excited. You take in all it's beauty as the clerk at the front desk checks you in. You can't wait to get into your own private room, but when you do arrive you are greeted with chaos. The room doesn't appear to have been cleaned, the bathroom floor is sticky and the shower looks like it's been used by everyone else in the hotel. You're confused because the hotel has received a 5-star rating, but what you are experiencing is a 2-star disaster! We often become friends in the same manner when we "check-in" to what we believe will be the perfect friendship, only for it to end up being a complete nightmare. She lied on you. She betrayed you. She let you down. Let's face it, none of us have been the perfect friend, and the only friendship whose quality you can guarantee is your own. John 15:15 tells us that Jesus calls us frien...

SAY WHAT? Can God Trust Me? BREAKDOWN: Who's on your team? Our life is like a team and we are the team captain. We have the opportunity to manage our team, and that includes the people you encounter every day–your parents, siblings, friends, classmates, and yes, even your teachers. God blesses us with different types of relationships that He trusts us to handle well. Even when people are hurtful or annoying, like little brothers or sisters, He expects us to handle them with love and with kindness. Now ask yourself this question, "Am I helping or hurting my team?" It's easy to help the team when you feel appreciated and valued, but that task can be a bit more challenging when the team hurts us. Jesus is such a great example. God trusted Him with a great assignment, and Christ showed the greatest love to people who didn't love Him back. He was able to do this because He trusted God. "Her husband can trust her." Trust is the key to this wis...

SAY WHAT? Can God Trust Me? BREAKDOWN: Who's on your team? Our life is like a team and we are the team captain. We have the opportunity to manage our team, and that includes the people you encounter every day–your parents, siblings, friends, classmates, and yes, even your teachers. God blesses us with different types of relationships that He trusts us to handle well. Even when people are hurtful or annoying, like little brothers or sisters, He expects us to handle them with love and with kindness. Now ask yourself this question, "Am I helping or hurting my team?" It's easy to help the team when you feel appreciated and valued, but that task can be a bit more challenging when the team hurts us. Jesus is such a great example. God trusted Him with a great assignment, and Christ showed the greatest love to people who didn't love Him back. He was able to do this because He trusted God. "Her husband can trust her." Trust is the key to this wis...

SAY WHAT? Your results are inaccurate if you measure yourself with the wrong thing. BREAKDOWN: She was my cousin and she was beautiful. Not only was she beautiful, but she had everything she wanted and everything that I wanted, too. I remember going to her house to play. Her room was every girl's dream: pink and white with a beautiful canopy bed in the middle, and a Barbie dollhouse almost big as my own! While I was happy to play with her, I secretly measured my value and worth to her beauty and the things she had. Against what do you measure your worth? When determining who's taller, we use a ruler. When deciding the right amount of liquid in a container, we use a measuring cup. When looking to see how much weight we gain or lose, we use a scale. How silly would it be to measure your weight with a tablespoon, a glass of water with a ruler or salt on a scale? Pretty silly, huh? "For her price is far above rubies." Her price is known because her worth h...

Hi Sisters Join me in doing the devotional called : Proverbial Girl for the next 7 days! Be blessed! SAY WHAT? What you're actually worth is more valuable than anything on the earth, and that's priceless. BREAKDOWN: My kids love bread, and although I hate bread, I love it, too. I especially hate bread when they place it on the table at restaurants. I usually give the waiter or waitress the evil eye as I say to myself, "Now you know you're wrong for putting that delicious, buttery, hot bread on my table". As tempting and delicious as that bread is, it has absolutely no nutritional value. So, I stopped allowing the servers to put it on the table altogether. "For her worth is far above rubies" (Proverbs 31:10). How is this possible, and what makes this Proverbial Girl so valuable? What makes her valuable is not what's on the outside, but everything she responsibly deposits on the inside, like personal quiet time with the Father, healt...

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