Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day ( Friday 8/28/09)

Today’s Devotional Written By A Young Woman That Is Opening Up As A Flower In Bloom: Tracy Koweh

Time for a Re-Fill

Psalm 27:8 (Amplified Bible)

⁸You have said, Seek My face [inquire for and require My presence as your vital need]. My heart says to You, Your face (Your presence), Lord, will I seek, inquire for, and require [of necessity and on the authority of Your Word].

The other day I was talking to one of my closest friends about an emotional breakdown she was having on her birthday. She was very upset and all over the place in the moment. The next day she had decided that her breakdown was because she had ran out of her prescription drugs that help control her feelings.

I closed out my email wondering how a person could need medicine to help keep their emotions in check. So the past few days, God thought it would be a good idea to let me live out the answer to my question. Sunday night my daughter came home from her daddy weekend and wasn’t feeling too well. By Monday night she had a temp of 105 and we were in the ER until 230am. The doctors told me that she had pneumonia AND a double ear infection. So needless to say, I was home from until yesterday.

Well, I had some serious and potential life changing moments happen throughout the week. There were days I had lost complete control of my emotions. My mind was the devil’s playground, and he was riding every ride at the park. I had completely drove myself and the people around me crazy. Then Thursday morning on my ride to work, I began to do my morning prayer………………when I realized the last time I had spent that type of quality time with God was the last time I was driving to work in the morning.

The Holy Spirit instantly flashed back the difference a dose of Jesus will do. I hadn’t even noticed how important my spiritual medication had become to day to day survival. I immediately thought back to the conversation I had earlier in the week with my friend, and I said to myself “I’ve run out of my prescription”.

Today as we prepare to head into the weekend, let us not forget to have a daily dose of Christ. If all you can handle is one pill a day right now, start from there. Jesus is the only drug, that an overdose won’t kill you. The doctor is in…………..let Him heal you.