The Devil Made Me Do It? No, I needed 300 changes of clothes because nothing looks right. There are several things in life that are related to our perceptions. Many people base a relationship on first impressions, or it’s called, “love at first sight.” The problem with love at first sight, is it is usually based on chemistry rather than a person’s character and track record of faithfulness/dependability.
I like this video by Flip Wilson about a woman who was telling her husband how the devil made her buy a dress. It was the third dress she bought in one week. This single man was joking last night when a man sees himself in the mirror he could be bald and have a big gut, but he sees himself as macho. Women tend to put themselves down when they look in the mirror. That is why we require several changes of clothes (at least around 300) because nothing looks good in the mirror when we try it on. Or we can get extremely bored with 50 pairs of shoes. I’ve spoken to women who have around 200 pairs of shoes. Sounds ideal to me, I have just arrived on a shoe planet yet.
It really depends on what mood I’m in when I try clothes on. I can walk into Macy’s shopping mall, and some days I like everything and other days I don’t like anything on me. I can’t count the divorced men that complain to me about women spending money on shopping. My husband was not unique in his previous marriage experience on his complaining about his ex-wife spending his money (his precious).
I had this book on dating called, “Call it Love or Call it Quits.” I gave it to my husband when we were dating and right after he read it, he proposed to me. There is this one part where Charlie Hedges was talking to his wife how stupid she was. His wife came back and said, “Charlie, God may have made you smart, but he made me stupid so I would marry you.” That about sums it up. Many things in life are stupid mistakes by ourselves or others including relationships.
Living under the grace of God is not an excuse to sin and be ignorant. Many Christians want to stay babies. It sort of reminds me of these children sucking on the breast until they are five years old. Are we ever going to grow up and accept responsibility for our actions? God will allow certain things to go on in our lives, but he was not happy with David in his sin he got into and mostly it was slandering the testimony of God. As Christians it is “Christ in us the hope of glory.” Col. 1:27
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? Romans 6:1
But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the Lord show utter contempt, the son born to you will die." 2 Samuel 12:14
It’s like blaming our behavior on PMS, or giving excuses for a man that he was tired. It’s like covering for an alcoholic. Part of my learned behavior was that I grew up with a brother five years old that accused me of being a “tattle tale” so I would not tell on him and then boys my age that had deranged behavior in my neighborhood. My big brother got in enough trouble on his own all the time that I did not have to add any fuel to the fire as his little sister. My problem became in marriage is if a person started sinning, rather than confess it and get it out and go for help (counseling with a pastor) what I did is that I covered over the fault so it never got dealt with. Than the sin grows like a cancer and then you have a large scale problem on your hands with a person in your marriage who is disobedient to God. Frankly, one day God popped up in my life and told me to quit covering a person’s wrong doings, making excuses for them, and being their scapegoat in life. Let them face the firing squad on their own.
A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough." Galatians 5:9
He told them still another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough." Matthew 13:33
I try to get through my life in not making stupid mistakes that can possibly cost me my life. When my friend Scott and I prayed before we went boating one day, I happened to catch out of the corner of my eye, a woman not yielding when she came on the highway. She could have slammed into the back of my wave runners unless I slowed down since she was supposed to yield not me. When I got in a car crash about a year ago, I was turning left in front of a semi-truck when someone was in a hurry to get around it and hit my right fender. The Lord reminded me when I was pregnant with my twins and my husband and I were driving through Atlanta, Georgia. I wanted to pass a semi-truck when it slowed down, when I was in the right lane on the interstate, but I decided not to pass it, because I could not see around it. In about an l/4 mile up the interstate there was an overturned car on the left hand side and no emergency vehicles were there yet. I could have slammed into that overturned car when I was pregnant with my twin daughters. Semi-trucks are very dangerous because people are usually in a hurry to pass them and they block the view of cars behind them. The semi-truck blocks our vision.
Are there things that block our spiritual vision in life? Jesus over and over talked about “he that has ears to ear let him hear what the spirit says to the church, and he talked about the seeing eye.” This was not physical eyes and ears, this was spiritual eyes and ears. The first commandment was “Hear O Israel.”
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Duet. 6:4
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death. Rev. 2:11, Rev. 3:6, Rev. 3:13, Rev. 13:9
He who has ears, let him hear. Matthew 11:15, Matthew 13:9, Mark 4:9
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it. Rev 2:17
It was sometimes hard being married to an intelligent engineer. One Easter after my husband passed away, I accidentally left this plastic lid on the bottom of a roasting pan (it was like I was blind) while I was cooking a ham. The plastic just melted all over the stove and it was a bloody mess and smoked up the house. You try scraping off melted plastic from the bottom of your stove! My son likes to make jokes about my burning biscuits, and I told him that biscuits are perfectly fine to eat with having the bottoms cut off of them. My children and my step-son just laughed because I did something stupid. We were all stupid except for my husband. Hey my husband was stupid at times too. How stupid is it to have several warning lights going off on your body, and not go back to the doctor and get your heart checked out? Reminds me of this manager I had who ignored all those warning lights on his car dashboard, and finally his engine blew up.
God does not want his children to be stupid when it comes to our enemy. (that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices. 2 Cor. 2:11). I’m grieved in my spirit that a pastor was murdered this last week on the southside and he left a little child. When I woke up last Saturday morning, I heard in my spirit, “put on the whole armor of God so I may stand against the wiles (schemes) of the devil.” I started intercessory prayer for the Body of Christ. I noticed on Facebook a pastor’s wife life was threatened also.
God’s word has several admonishes. Not to be lazy, not to be stupid, and not to stay babies. There are several other don’t be stupid passages:
Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. 1 Cor 12:1
For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. Romans 10:3
He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness. Hebrews 5:2
I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you. Psalm 73:22
When my daughters and I were in beautiful Hawaii, and my daughter Paula, Jessica and I were getting ready to go to a shark tank. I got too close (did something stupid) to a cement barrier and ripped off the front bumper of the rental car. That little accident cost me $600 out of pocket since I did not want to claim it on my insurance and I have a $500 deductible anyway. It was a “little” damper proceeding the adventure to get in the shark tank. My daughter Paula said, “Mom s…happens it’s Murphy’s Law, we have to move on.” That is so right. Several times I praised and thanked the Lord in my mind until I could get my mind off the car accident.
The enemy is wanting our glory in life and I’m bound and determined not to give him glory for my stupidity or any junk he puts in my way and spoil my vacation. He is a downer in life when David said that God lifts us up.
The righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all; Psalm 34:19
He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. Psalm 40:2
David talked about giving glory to God with his tongue.
To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you for ever. Psalm 30:12
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue (my glory) rejoices; my body also will rest secure, Psalm 16:9
Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk 3:18
The Devil Made Me Do It? Flip Wilson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SLifea3NHQ
I like this video by Flip Wilson about a woman who was telling her husband how the devil made her buy a dress. It was the third dress she bought in one week. This single man was joking last night when a man sees himself in the mirror he could be bald and have a big gut, but he sees himself as macho. Women tend to put themselves down when they look in the mirror. That is why we require several changes of clothes (at least around 300) because nothing looks good in the mirror when we try it on. Or we can get extremely bored with 50 pairs of shoes. I’ve spoken to women who have around 200 pairs of shoes. Sounds ideal to me, I have just arrived on a shoe planet yet.
It really depends on what mood I’m in when I try clothes on. I can walk into Macy’s shopping mall, and some days I like everything and other days I don’t like anything on me. I can’t count the divorced men that complain to me about women spending money on shopping. My husband was not unique in his previous marriage experience on his complaining about his ex-wife spending his money (his precious).
I had this book on dating called, “Call it Love or Call it Quits.” I gave it to my husband when we were dating and right after he read it, he proposed to me. There is this one part where Charlie Hedges was talking to his wife how stupid she was. His wife came back and said, “Charlie, God may have made you smart, but he made me stupid so I would marry you.” That about sums it up. Many things in life are stupid mistakes by ourselves or others including relationships.
Living under the grace of God is not an excuse to sin and be ignorant. Many Christians want to stay babies. It sort of reminds me of these children sucking on the breast until they are five years old. Are we ever going to grow up and accept responsibility for our actions? God will allow certain things to go on in our lives, but he was not happy with David in his sin he got into and mostly it was slandering the testimony of God. As Christians it is “Christ in us the hope of glory.” Col. 1:27
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? Romans 6:1
But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the Lord show utter contempt, the son born to you will die." 2 Samuel 12:14
It’s like blaming our behavior on PMS, or giving excuses for a man that he was tired. It’s like covering for an alcoholic. Part of my learned behavior was that I grew up with a brother five years old that accused me of being a “tattle tale” so I would not tell on him and then boys my age that had deranged behavior in my neighborhood. My big brother got in enough trouble on his own all the time that I did not have to add any fuel to the fire as his little sister. My problem became in marriage is if a person started sinning, rather than confess it and get it out and go for help (counseling with a pastor) what I did is that I covered over the fault so it never got dealt with. Than the sin grows like a cancer and then you have a large scale problem on your hands with a person in your marriage who is disobedient to God. Frankly, one day God popped up in my life and told me to quit covering a person’s wrong doings, making excuses for them, and being their scapegoat in life. Let them face the firing squad on their own.
A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough." Galatians 5:9
He told them still another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough." Matthew 13:33
I try to get through my life in not making stupid mistakes that can possibly cost me my life. When my friend Scott and I prayed before we went boating one day, I happened to catch out of the corner of my eye, a woman not yielding when she came on the highway. She could have slammed into the back of my wave runners unless I slowed down since she was supposed to yield not me. When I got in a car crash about a year ago, I was turning left in front of a semi-truck when someone was in a hurry to get around it and hit my right fender. The Lord reminded me when I was pregnant with my twins and my husband and I were driving through Atlanta, Georgia. I wanted to pass a semi-truck when it slowed down, when I was in the right lane on the interstate, but I decided not to pass it, because I could not see around it. In about an l/4 mile up the interstate there was an overturned car on the left hand side and no emergency vehicles were there yet. I could have slammed into that overturned car when I was pregnant with my twin daughters. Semi-trucks are very dangerous because people are usually in a hurry to pass them and they block the view of cars behind them. The semi-truck blocks our vision.
Are there things that block our spiritual vision in life? Jesus over and over talked about “he that has ears to ear let him hear what the spirit says to the church, and he talked about the seeing eye.” This was not physical eyes and ears, this was spiritual eyes and ears. The first commandment was “Hear O Israel.”
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Duet. 6:4
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death. Rev. 2:11, Rev. 3:6, Rev. 3:13, Rev. 13:9
He who has ears, let him hear. Matthew 11:15, Matthew 13:9, Mark 4:9
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it. Rev 2:17
It was sometimes hard being married to an intelligent engineer. One Easter after my husband passed away, I accidentally left this plastic lid on the bottom of a roasting pan (it was like I was blind) while I was cooking a ham. The plastic just melted all over the stove and it was a bloody mess and smoked up the house. You try scraping off melted plastic from the bottom of your stove! My son likes to make jokes about my burning biscuits, and I told him that biscuits are perfectly fine to eat with having the bottoms cut off of them. My children and my step-son just laughed because I did something stupid. We were all stupid except for my husband. Hey my husband was stupid at times too. How stupid is it to have several warning lights going off on your body, and not go back to the doctor and get your heart checked out? Reminds me of this manager I had who ignored all those warning lights on his car dashboard, and finally his engine blew up.
God does not want his children to be stupid when it comes to our enemy. (that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices. 2 Cor. 2:11). I’m grieved in my spirit that a pastor was murdered this last week on the southside and he left a little child. When I woke up last Saturday morning, I heard in my spirit, “put on the whole armor of God so I may stand against the wiles (schemes) of the devil.” I started intercessory prayer for the Body of Christ. I noticed on Facebook a pastor’s wife life was threatened also.
God’s word has several admonishes. Not to be lazy, not to be stupid, and not to stay babies. There are several other don’t be stupid passages:
Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. 1 Cor 12:1
For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. Romans 10:3
He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness. Hebrews 5:2
I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you. Psalm 73:22
When my daughters and I were in beautiful Hawaii, and my daughter Paula, Jessica and I were getting ready to go to a shark tank. I got too close (did something stupid) to a cement barrier and ripped off the front bumper of the rental car. That little accident cost me $600 out of pocket since I did not want to claim it on my insurance and I have a $500 deductible anyway. It was a “little” damper proceeding the adventure to get in the shark tank. My daughter Paula said, “Mom s…happens it’s Murphy’s Law, we have to move on.” That is so right. Several times I praised and thanked the Lord in my mind until I could get my mind off the car accident.
The enemy is wanting our glory in life and I’m bound and determined not to give him glory for my stupidity or any junk he puts in my way and spoil my vacation. He is a downer in life when David said that God lifts us up.
The righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all; Psalm 34:19
He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. Psalm 40:2
David talked about giving glory to God with his tongue.
To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you for ever. Psalm 30:12
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue (my glory) rejoices; my body also will rest secure, Psalm 16:9
Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk 3:18
The Devil Made Me Do It? Flip Wilson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SLifea3NHQ
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