#1025 Thurs. Sept. 12 2019 5:25am, at home (Serving and Joy)
Do not crowd out God with other things you think need to be done. Not so, not so.
There is nothing else that should stand between you and your God.
Make Me the top priority in your life.
Let all else, tell Me you want all else to fall away and that you want to BE with Me first and foremost and do My Will for the World.
How hard that is when we let other ‘things’ creep in and we let them take first place.
If I, the infinite God, am not first place, what finite thing have you let take over and rule you??
Cause yes it does!
Yes, it does rule you or you would not have moved away from Me.
So, check yourself when you go to do things and ask if they are of My Making or your making. Or acceptable from you to be ruled by them.
I am not being mean.
I am endeavouring to help you to discern what is best for you and I am really the only Best for you!
Pray for the Grace to Put Me First, to keep Me first in your life each day.
Beg Me that you will be more attentive to My Voice and act on it obediently and with Joy!
If you are not Joyful serving Me, then you are not serving Me.
So do not waste your time serving Me if you are not doing it with Joy.
Serving and Joy go hand in hand.
So, serve Me, sometimes even in the midst of pain and sorrow, with great Joy.
Why would you not be full of Joy to serve Me?
So, check yourself.
If you are doing a task, any task, and are not Joyful, what are you doing the task for?
More importantly, who are you doing the task for?
If you are doing it to please another, or look good in someone’s eyes, you are not doing it to serve Me, but to serve your pride, your need for approval.
And of course pride does not make you Joyful.
It just forces you to continually seek approval and love.
Whereas, you do not have to continually seek My Love and Approval.
I am with you always, Loving you always, not comparing you to another, just Loving you.
What more do you want?
So, when you feel the need of approval, know that you are not walking with Me because you did not ask Me ‘what do I do next Lord’.
If you had, and listened to My Guiding Words you would not be stumbling down the joyless path of needing the approval of others.
Seek Me first ALWAYS!
