by Dona Hake
Psalm 19:14 (TLB)
“May my spoken words and unspoken thoughts
be pleasing even to you,
O Lord my Rock and my Redeemer.”
I personally think that this is such a wonderful prayer that we could never pray enough. Oh that we would ask the Lord more often, “Is what I just said okay Lord?” or “Lord Is my heart right in this matter? I think Jesus wants us to view Him as our best friend and we should be allowing our best friend to challenge our heart and bring accountability in our lives. I value the times when I feel a tug at my heart or a check in my spirit in those times that my thoughts or words are not pleasing to Him. When He is Lord of your life, you will truly welcome these disciplines into your life.
The Lord has promised to help us with all things that pertain to life and godliness so be encouraged that it is His heart to help you walk victoriously. Paul wrote in Philippians how to keep our thoughts in line with truth. If we just purpose to think on good things…
Paul proceeds in Philippians 4:9 , and I am sharing from the Amplified version…
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“Practice what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and
model your way of living on it, and the God of peace
of untroubled, undisturbed well-being) will be with you.”
As we practice thinking on good things, our spoken words and unspoken thoughts will be kept and guarded by the peace of God. I encourage you today to think upon all the good things that Paul instructed us in Philippians. It is as we do this that our thoughts, words, and actions will always line up with the will and ways of our Lord.
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