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A Prayer When Seeking Direction at Life’s CrossroadsBy Ashley Moore  Bible ReadingThe LORD says, "I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you. – Psalm 32:8, NLT Listen or Read Below: I love growing Zinnias in our yard every summer. The flowers boast vibrant colors, texture variation, stem strength, and they can be cut repeatedly only to return with more brilliant blooms than before. Just this morning, I had to cut back several branching stems that had grown so dense the entire plant toppled to the ground. Cutting away perfectly useful and glorious flowers simply due to overcrowding reminded me of what it feels like to be faced with important decisions and an abundance of options.  Can you relate to the frustration of having too many choices but struggling to know which direction to take? Perhaps you juggle the roles of mother, manager, and most-involved parent in the PTO. Yet, you feel the weight of one more responsibility may make you collapse under the pressure. You wonder if it's time to let something go or ask for help. Or you could wrestle with something much more complex, like whether you have outgrown an important relationship with someone. This person’s behaviors harm your growth, and you consider whether the time has arrived to snip your ties to them. Leaving the relationship scares you as you think of the pain this may cause each of you.  Whether your crossroad decision pertains to something simple, like the day's agenda, or something weightier, like how best to educate your children, we need help sorting through all the options to find the best path for our lives. I love the reminder from our key verse about how God responds to us as we stand at our crossroads, wondering what to do. God, the perfect gardener, carefully tends and attunes to the details of our lives. He watches over His tender fledgling plants, adding nutrients and water to produce in us, strong roots and firm branches. God holds His pruning shears in hand where necessary, guiding and advising us on what needs to go so that we can flourish and bloom. He places supportive structures around us and puts us near other plants that complement our strengths and gird up our weaknesses. He guides us along the best pathways that promote the purposes He decided for us long before we ever emerged from the soil’s surface.  I know how attentive and careful I am with the flowers in my garden. I find myself weeding despite the heat and my fatigue, buying and installing netting to protect my precious plant babies from the deer and other garden predators, and watering multiple times if it hasn't rained often enough. I weigh every decision through the question: Does this serve the ultimate good of my garden? Yet, I am only a human with a fondness for flowers. How much more does our Heavenly Father care about helping us make decisions for the ultimate good of our lives? Thank God He guides, advises, and watches over us because He loves watching His garden flourish, too!  Let's Pray: Dear Lord, Thank you for the reminders from creation and your Word about how you care for us. As much as I love my garden, this pales compared to how you feel towards us. Thank you for caring about the big and small decisions that weigh us down and threaten to destroy our future. Thank you for cutting away the parts of us that do not serve your purposes for our lives, despite how painful it may feel in the moment. Please continue to pour out your wisdom on the best ways to spend our time and which pathways prove best for our particular situations. Thank you for guiding us to environments where we gain additional strength from structures like a local church or the wise counsel of a therapist, support group, or dear companion. When we feel panicky about what to do, Lord, remind us of how you watch over us and advise without end. Thank you that we can come to you and get the much-needed direction we seek for the many crossroads of our lives.We pray all these things in your name, Jesus, amen. Photo credit: ©Getty Images/Bulat Silvia Ashley Moore is a writer and host of be the twopodcast. She is known for her relatability and for passionately writing and speaking about mental, emotional, and relational health from a biblical worldview. She has written for Kingdom Edge Magazine, Guideposts, Crosswalk, The Secret Place, enLIVEn, The Bubbling Brook and more. If Ashley isn’t writing, you can find her with her husband, three children, and two floppy-eared Goldens on their south Georgia farmland. The best way to connect with Ashley is to grab a free devotional or Bible study and join her newsletter at free.ashleynicolemoore.com. Related Resource: Remember God’s Enduring Love for You in this Guided Meditation on Psalm 100! This guided Christian meditation from Psalm 100 will help you experience and praise God for his unending love for you. Become aware of God's presence with you, and praise God for his loyal and enduring love from the beginning of time and into the future. Listen to every episode of the So Much More Podcast on LifeAudio.com, or subscribe on Apple or Spotify so you never miss an episode! Now that you’ve prayed, are you in need of someone to pray for YOU? Click the button below! The post A Prayer When Seeking Direction at Life’s Crossroads – Your Daily Prayer – September 24 appeared first on GodUpdates.

September 24, 2024 Just When It Looks Like Evil Is Winning ...LYSA TERKEURST Lee en español "So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai." Esther 7:10a (NIV) In Esther 7, we read an account of the downfall of Haman, a man who was planning to kill the Jewish people. This included the godly Queen Esther and her beloved relative and guardian, Mordecai. But Haman's pride backfired, and his evil intentions led to his humiliation. Ultimately Haman, the one who had been scheming to kill others, became the one begging for his own life. The very device he built to kill Mordecai became the place of Haman's death: "So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai" (Esther 7:10a). He ate the fruit of his wicked schemes. No human could have possibly arranged for all this to happen ... but God could. Even though God's name is not specifically mentioned in the book of Esther, sometimes God does incredible moves without calling any attention to Himself at all. Esther certainly did her part to help her people (Esther 7:1-6), as did many others. But they didn't do wrong things to try and bring about right things. Doing things God's way and in God's timing is the right way and the right timing. And the book of Esther isn't the only time in Scripture where an evil plan looked like it was going to succeed. Jesus' enemies all believed they had created a foolproof plan to get rid of the Messiah and overthrow His reign. The ultimate enemy was Satan. But the irony is that the very plan of Satan led to the redemptive story of Jesus' resurrection. Evil forces set Jesus on the journey to the cross, but with every step Jesus took, evil was closer to defeat. In both Jesus' story and Esther's story: There was an evil plan. There was an enemy. Innocent people were going to be destroyed if someone didn't step in to save them. A hero came from humble beginnings and looked nothing like what the people expected. The heroes remained humble and honored God in their approach to handling the dire situation. The heroes were uniquely positioned by God to fulfill the plan of God. The heroes set aside what was best for them for a greater purpose. In the case of Haman, the guilty died in place of the innocent. In the case of Jesus, the innocent died in place of the guilty. Oh, friend, I pray we cling to this truth today: Darkness, sin and hopelessness have been overcome. Jesus did it for me and for you. Jesus loves you and sees you. The battle you're facing, no matter how dark it feels, isn't hopeless. We may not be able to see victory right now, but because of Jesus, evil is in the process of being ultimately defeated. The world as we know it, plagued with sin and pain, is not our home. The new heaven and new earth are closer than we think (Revelation 21:3-8). For now, our assignment is to follow and trust God. That's not easy, especially when so much of what we are facing feels incredibly unfair. But we don't serve a do-nothing God. Even in the silence, the unknown, and the places where it looks like evil is winning, He is working. We will experience evil in this world, but even still, God reigns. There is a Savior of the world who will right all the wrongs. Even if it takes a long time - even if we don't see it in our lifetime - victorious Jesus will have victory over the wrongs done to us and the evil committed against us. This doesn't mean we give up. It means we're giving God what was never ours to carry. In the meantime, we make room for what we don't understand ... for the mystery of God. Romans 11:33-36 reminds us of this: "Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and untraceable his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? And who has ever given to God, that he should be repaid? For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen" (CSB). Heavenly Father, purify my heart today. I trust You to handle all outcomes I feel unsure of or overwhelmed by. I lay down situations that are worrying me. Help me to be obedient to You. I want to walk in step with You, Your ways and Your timing. In Jesus' Name, Amen. OUR FAVORITE THINGS Have you ever thought, How can I trust God when I don't understand what He's allowing to happen right now? Lysa TerKeurst has been there. In her new book, I Want to Trust You, but I Don't, Lysa will help you release the heavy mental and emotional weight of what you don't understand - by learning how God's justice will always prevail. Preorder the Proverbs 31 Ministries Exclusive Edition, and start reading today! ENGAGE Find real-life encouragement when you connect with Lysa TerKeurst here on Instagram. FOR DEEPER STUDY Isaiah 43:2, "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze" (NIV). How does it help you to know God is with you as you walk through difficult circumstances? How is your trust growing in Him even in this hard season? We'd love to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments. © 2024 by Lysa TerKeurst. All rights reserved. Proverbs 31 MinistriesP.O. Box 3189 Matthews, NC 28106 www.Proverbs31.org The post Just When It Looks Like Evil Is Winning … –  Encouragement for Today – September 24, 2024 appeared first on GodUpdates.

A Prayer When Seeking Direction at Life’s CrossroadsBy Ashley Moore  Bible ReadingThe LORD says, "I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you. – Psalm 32:8, NLT Listen or Read Below: I love growing Zinnias in our yard every summer. The flowers boast vibrant colors, texture variation, stem strength, and they can be cut repeatedly only to return with more brilliant blooms than before. Just this morning, I had to cut back several branching stems that had grown so dense the entire plant toppled to the ground. Cutting away perfectly useful and glorious flowers simply due to overcrowding reminded me of what it feels like to be faced with important decisions and an abundance of options.  Can you relate to the frustration of having too many choices but struggling to know which direction to take? Perhaps you juggle the roles of mother, manager, and most-involved parent in the PTO. Yet, you feel the weight of one more responsibility may make you collapse under the pressure. You wonder if it's time to let something go or ask for help. Or you could wrestle with something much more complex, like whether you have outgrown an important relationship with someone. This person’s behaviors harm your growth, and you consider whether the time has arrived to snip your ties to them. Leaving the relationship scares you as you think of the pain this may cause each of you.  Whether your crossroad decision pertains to something simple, like the day's agenda, or something weightier, like how best to educate your children, we need help sorting through all the options to find the best path for our lives. I love the reminder from our key verse about how God responds to us as we stand at our crossroads, wondering what to do. God, the perfect gardener, carefully tends and attunes to the details of our lives. He watches over His tender fledgling plants, adding nutrients and water to produce in us, strong roots and firm branches. God holds His pruning shears in hand where necessary, guiding and advising us on what needs to go so that we can flourish and bloom. He places supportive structures around us and puts us near other plants that complement our strengths and gird up our weaknesses. He guides us along the best pathways that promote the purposes He decided for us long before we ever emerged from the soil’s surface.  I know how attentive and careful I am with the flowers in my garden. I find myself weeding despite the heat and my fatigue, buying and installing netting to protect my precious plant babies from the deer and other garden predators, and watering multiple times if it hasn't rained often enough. I weigh every decision through the question: Does this serve the ultimate good of my garden? Yet, I am only a human with a fondness for flowers. How much more does our Heavenly Father care about helping us make decisions for the ultimate good of our lives? Thank God He guides, advises, and watches over us because He loves watching His garden flourish, too!  Let's Pray: Dear Lord, Thank you for the reminders from creation and your Word about how you care for us. As much as I love my garden, this pales compared to how you feel towards us. Thank you for caring about the big and small decisions that weigh us down and threaten to destroy our future. Thank you for cutting away the parts of us that do not serve your purposes for our lives, despite how painful it may feel in the moment. Please continue to pour out your wisdom on the best ways to spend our time and which pathways prove best for our particular situations. Thank you for guiding us to environments where we gain additional strength from structures like a local church or the wise counsel of a therapist, support group, or dear companion. When we feel panicky about what to do, Lord, remind us of how you watch over us and advise without end. Thank you that we can come to you and get the much-needed direction we seek for the many crossroads of our lives.We pray all these things in your name, Jesus, amen. Photo credit: ©Getty Images/Bulat Silvia Ashley Moore is a writer and host of be the twopodcast. She is known for her relatability and for passionately writing and speaking about mental, emotional, and relational health from a biblical worldview. She has written for Kingdom Edge Magazine, Guideposts, Crosswalk, The Secret Place, enLIVEn, The Bubbling Brook and more. If Ashley isn’t writing, you can find her with her husband, three children, and two floppy-eared Goldens on their south Georgia farmland. The best way to connect with Ashley is to grab a free devotional or Bible study and join her newsletter at free.ashleynicolemoore.com. Related Resource: Remember God’s Enduring Love for You in this Guided Meditation on Psalm 100! This guided Christian meditation from Psalm 100 will help you experience and praise God for his unending love for you. Become aware of God's presence with you, and praise God for his loyal and enduring love from the beginning of time and into the future. Listen to every episode of the So Much More Podcast on LifeAudio.com, or subscribe on Apple or Spotify so you never miss an episode! Now that you’ve prayed, are you in need of someone to pray for YOU? Click the button below! The post A Prayer When Seeking Direction at Life’s Crossroads – Your Daily Prayer – September 24 appeared first on GodUpdates.