Month: March 2014

Attitude adjustment

/ Kelly Savage / 1 Comment

Did you ever need an attitude adjustment?  I did!  God told me I needed one yesterday……I went by a church yesterday and they had a sign outside that read “Kindness beautifies like snow” and I laughed!  Then I laughed that I laughed and I felt the Lord clear his throat at me as if to say “would you please read that sign with a different attitude?”.  I have to admit……I needed an attitude adjustment.  That is the beautiful conviction of the Holy Spirit.  It isn’t condemnation….if our hearts allow it…..it is conviction and when we take it one step further……we will allow growth in our hearts…and I love personal growth……..This snow has really been getting to me so I was not in the right frame of mind….or as I have been talking about ….the right frame of heart…..

You see, where I was coming from at that moment, was the snow was weeks old…..dirty…..hard……icy…….and from what I gather…..we are all pretty tired of it this season……so beautiful wasn’t on the top of the list of the words for snow at least for this season anymore….so it just made me laugh…..so, at that moment…when I read “Kindness beautifies like snow” it wasn’t registering in my bad attitude with snow.  I am just being honest, real and raw if anyone can relate.  But stick with me…….

Now, here is where my conviction came in……when God asked me to read it again, with a different attitude……He even helped me.  He put me in a different scenario one day when I was driving on a back road when the snow was first falling and the roads were so empty……no one was on the road but me at that moment.  It was so peaceful, so calming to be honest……..trees were immensely covered with this beautiful white covering, actually nothing was NOT white.  Everything was so still.  And I remembered telling the Lord that day, at that moment, how awesome and beautiful the snow really is…..how calming, peaceful……and how it can take an ordinary surrounding that we pass everyday and turn it into something extraordinary and cover it totally……

hmmmmm, that is what kindness can do……one simple act of kindness can bring calmness, can bring peace, can take an ordinary day  and turn it into an extraordinary day!!!  How awesome is that!!

Colossians 3:14  And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

1 Peter 4:8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Guess what!  Conviction from the Holy Spirit, if we allow Him, really does work!  Actually, that is pretty awesome too!  I learn great and mighty things each and everyday when I allow Him to teach me and give me many needed attitude adjustments!  I might not look at snow the same ever again!  lol 🙂  – if up to Him – I won’t!

 

Have a great day!

 

Kelly

Next Thing You Know…..by Matthew West

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I was sitting eating my breakfast this morning and as I do every morning, I was thanking the Lord through out the morning, here and there for various blessings that were popping up that I was thankful for. The Holy Spirit reminded me that I had prayed about something and the Lord answered that prayer pretty quickly and sometimes we just don’t seem to recognize the “smaller blessings”. We seem to focus on the things we don’t have or are still waiting on……but He does listen! He does answer! He does care! It may not always be the way we want it to be or He may require us to adjust, there is no doubt about that. I am definitely here to testify to that one! I have had to have many attitude adjustments along the way and still do. Sometimes, spiritually, I am sure he looks at me like a teenager who is just wanting her own way 🙂 🙂 🙂

What I found interesting in my little talk with the Holy Spirit this morning was the fact of the what would be consider small, insignificant prayers as some people would call them. I beg to differ!! This is exactly what this one was! It was a small request, nothing big and it was all about little ole Kelly. However, the Holy Spirit did indicate to me that my heart was right in this one, and that is BIG to our Holy God. The Bible has allot to say about our heart. One verse that came to my spirit with this was……

Jeremiah 17:10:
“God searches the heart and examines the mind to reward each person according to their conduct , according to what their deeds deserve.”

and Acts 1:24 where it states that the Lord knows everyones heart and Proverbs 21:2 states that the Lord weighs the Lord in the matter

Gods word is full of heart scriptures and is clear that the condition of your heart is critical in our walk with the Lord.

Bottom line……God cares about even the smallest of things in our life and what our heart cares about. His precious Words even speaks about giving us our hearts desires! He wants to give us our hearts desires. He really does care that much. Does he want our heart to be right in the matter? Yes. We are to be walking each and everyday closer and closer to Him, be more and more refined into the image of Christ. And that means attitude adjustments. And that starts in the heart. And that is where God judges from.

The song I shared with you, Matthew West’s Next Thing I Know, catchy tune, isn’t it? I thought it tied in to today’s post for 2 reasons. First, at the age of 13 he was touched by Billy Graham. Where? In his heart but as you will listen he fell away a bit……we all do at times……where….in our hearts? But when he cried out in college again……a simple prayer….from his heart….God shows up……when we truly mean it from our heart….and I do mean from the heart ……and God will know when it is and when it isn’t….it will be a BEAUTIFUL thing……..soak this scripture in…..

Matthew 5:8 “Blessed are those who are pure in heart…..for they will see God”

Father God, thank You for the beautiful precious gift that you have given us in Jesus and that He died on the cross for us and that there is nothing that we have to do to receive that gift except to receive that gift in faith. Lord, thank you for receiving our prayers in faith and please search our hearts and minds and line them up according to Your will. That is our desire….is to live according to Your will. As we do that, we know that we will be blessed as Your Word says and we will see You. Thank you for answering our prayers, big and small and let us see how You are at work when we don’t see the prayers being answered right away. Open up our spiritual eyes to see. Thank You in the precious name of Jesus. Amen