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Hi Jen,
1. Sins can come through my eyes, my ears, and my thought when I take my eyes off God.
2.Through my ignorance, curiosity, foolishness or willfulness, I will disobey God’s word.
3.The devil is always prowling around like a roaring lion as he looks for someone to devour.
I must pray to God when I feel vulnerable to gambling and rest instead of gambling when I am physically and mentally tired. Can I do that everyday?
Dear dairy,
Today was one of those day, I just finish my part time job doing a 12 hours graveyard shift work on Saturday.
I came home so tired in the morning. I had gambling thought and felt so weak and vulnerable to resist the temptation to gamble. If I focus on me more and not God, listen more to “me”, my self justification, self righteousness and trust myself, it only made matter worst. I become more tired and weaker, it normally lead to gambling.
I can only remember telling myself to trust God, and give up my self-will today, otherwise I will gamble. I was not a discipline person all the time but I listen this time, and went to sleep.
I woke up after 5 hours of sleep and immediately update this journal. With my mental fatigue gone, the gambling thought was also gone without a struggle.
Just like the apostle Paul say in the bible, I have thorns in my flesh.
I have a tendency to gamble. Can I be trusted?
Praise the Holy Spirit for giving me the obedience to trust God today. I did not gamble. Praise God. Amen!
In 2 Corinthians 12:7-9
7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
8Three times I pleaded with the LORD to take it away from me.
9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
kinParticipantHi Jen,
How have you been? Hope all is well. Looking forward to your update!
kinParticipantkinParticipantkinParticipanthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzoVAdT4BmM
Endure to the End
kinParticipantkinParticipantkinParticipantkinParticipantI have proven myself on the new job now. I have proven to my boss and company that I can deliver and do well in my work. I have gain the trust of my suspecting colleagues with unconditional love. I have gain the trust of my unreasonable manager that I can be one of his most reliable asset.
The first 3 months at work was like a battle everyday, it was filled with stress, pressure, fear and obstacles to overcome. That is over now. I have pass the test with God’s grace.
It is now time for me to do some repair work on myself. I have paid a heavy price to keep this job, I have relapse in almost everything, it show in my finance and health, my debt and weight grew…when I say grew, it really grow big…haha.
I will have to find a time to start fasting soon to shed the 8 kg I have put on in such a short period. Everything else is in maintenance and recovery phrase now. If everything remain the same, the gambling has stop, the debts is shrinking over time, I only need to let go and be patient and let God do the rest, things is looking bright come end of the year.
I need God! Without God, I am nothing! God can help me do things that I cannot do for myself.
kinParticipantI was a gambler…With God’s grace, I am no longer! Amen!
kinParticipant“Watch your thoughts, they become words;
watch your words, they become actions;
watch your actions, they become habits;
watch your habits, they become character.”Dear diary,
I just woke up after a good night rest, the first thing I want to do is confess. I have been unwell and very tired at work in the last few days, and I found out it was the most vulnerable time for a recovering person. It was the best time for the prowling lion to attack me…I get attack by not only gambling thought but others as well. I remember in 1 Peter 5:8,
Be sober and alert. Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is on the prowl looking for someone to devour.
I have been more focus on God and prayers over the last 3 weeks. I am learning to focus more on God and less on me and my gambling over these days. When I am weak and vulnerable, I need to pray more and pray harder.
Saturday and Sunday are very important days for me to get proper rest physical and mentally. If I lose this discipline to rest, I will continue to be tired for the rest of the days in the new week.
kinParticipantI thought of gambling today, but as long as I did not gamble, I have not sin.
I was a gambler…With God’s grace, I am no longer! Amen!
kinParticipantI was a gambler…With God’s grace, I am no longer! Amen!
kinParticipantIn Mathew 22:37-40 37, Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is : ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.
40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Dear diary,
God wants us to love even those who are hard to love. Our ability to love others on our own is pretty limited. It’s circumstantial, based on how we feel about the other person and the way he or she treats us.
Without God, I am nothing! But with God’s help, we are able to love others the way Jesus wants us to — unconditionally the way God loves us all the time.
God is helping me to do what I cannot do for myself: loving the unlovable the way God loves an unlovable like me. Amen!
kinParticipantIn John 7:17, Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.
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