Vignettes Devotional

Vignettes Love Unblocks The Ears Luke 6:35 But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Whoever said Christianity was easy has never lived it! How could you possibly be nice to those who hate and despise you, whom you hate and despise in return?! You know who I am talking about... Those people who rub you up the wrong way every time you see them; those  jealous, rude, back-stabbing so-called friends; those  you know are always talking about you behind your back.  You regard them as your bona-fide enemies, people you could never sit at the same table with. And yet God says in His Word, Love your enemies! God, of all people, should know how they feel about you! After all, He is privy to all their conversations! And yet the Word stares back at you, reminding you to lov...

Vignettes Success Is Momentary   I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.  Philippians 4:13 NKJV Success is momentary. Holy Spirit spoke these profound words to me many years ago. His Words forever changed how I viewed the successes in my life. Through them Holy Spirit taught me to: 1. Take Note of the many successes I actually do achieve in my life.  2. To celebrate those successes the moment they happen, 3. Not to view life as unsuccessful just because success does not happen all the time.  Success is momentary.  We must teach ourselves to enjoy the moment . We must live with a constant expectation of good , expecting Christ to turn up in our lives; that He will do what He says in His Word and give us the strength we need to do and be our best every day in order that we may achieve His best for us.  Success is momentary.   Plan for success.  Take   careful note of your successes.  Give God thanks for those thin...

Vignettes Are You Sabotaging Your Future? For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11 God knows what He has planned for your life. Fact is, whenever God looks at you He is reminded of all the good things He still has in store for you, the better things than what you are experiencing today. God sees your future when He looks at you because He engraved it on your spirit pre-earth already! For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 Generation One of the Exodus  sabotaged their future. They k ept focusing on what they did not have,  what they could not do, and how impossible God's plan for them was. They loved to spend their days just murmuring and complaining to each other from their tent doors about how they could not take it anymore, about how bad things were for them, and abo...