Sometimes, that calendar in the kitchen can just be too kind. We've got a loaded week coming right up in the next several days.

Coming up is the Super Bowl this Sunday, followed by Mardi Gras on Tuesday, Valentine's Day on Wednesday (which also coincides with Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lenten season), and pitchers and catchers report to baseball's spring training facilities before week's end. Loaded up, indeed.

And that doesn't even count...

Power Study - G36

(Rule In The Midst Of My Enemies)

(Read Luke 9 & 1 Corinthians 1)

1 John 4:4 4You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. (Peace does not come from extreme indifference, nor is it from becoming so spiritual that you fail to notice a problem. It is being so confident in God’s love that I know, regardless of the battle and the difficulties in my circumstances,...

Luke 6:8 - "But He was aware all along of their thoughts..."

God always knows all of your thoughts. Your blessings and your problems are rooted in either right or wrong thinking -- you reap what you sow. Thoughts are seeds that produce a harvest in your life.

If you want to have more peace or be more joyful you cannot stay trapped in a secular consciousness thinking and meditating on problems, on what you cannot do, and how weak you are.

Before...

I love you, Lord God, and you make me strong. (Psalm 18:1)

Jesus is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety. (Psalm 18:2)

I call upon you Lord Jesus, You are worthy to be praised, you are my salvation. (Psalm 18:3)

He reached down from heaven and rescued me; he drew me out of deep waters. (Psalm 18:16)

He led me to a place of safety;...

You shouldn't say things about yourself that God says are not true. eg. "I am a work in Progress" (false humility) Colossians 2:18 - "Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement." v.2:13 ..."having forgiven us all our transgressions."

You are giving yourself an excuse to sin occasionally and live short of God's full will for you. By wet-nursing this mindset you disengage yourself from living up to your full potential...