Focus on a Better Life

Daily writing prompt

What would you do if you won the lottery?

Everyone on planet earth can live a better life and it doesn’t take winning the lottery to do so. All it takes is humbly turning away from and setting aside our thoughts, words, attitudes, and actions that are harming us and holding us back. A vital key to a better life is true repentance. Real repentance reveals, renounces, and rejects sin from your heart and life so that you can catch God’s heart-warming, joy releasing, life restoring, healing inner fire.

To catch God’s inner fire that glows with the fruit of His Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) and let it soften and purify your heart, (Malachi 3:3) refuse to hide your sins. (James 5:16) Humbly confess and renounce them. (Proverbs 28:13-14)

Catch God’s fire today! (Matthew 3;11) Refuse to hold back (1 Thessalonians 5:19) His leading, (Romans 8:14) His convicting and His working deep inside of you. (Philippians 2:13) Let God’s presence and power (1 Corinthians 4:20) continually flow (John 7:38-39) from within you. (Colossians 1:27)

Pride blocks God’s power from freely flowing and effectively working in your life. (Proverbs 11:2) Humility releases it. (1 Peter 5:5) Are you humbly living in the light of true repentance every time you fall into any sin?

Concealed sin congeals and thickens until in controls your life. It’s essential that we walk in the light. (1 John 1:6-8) If we confess our sins God will forgive us and cleanse us. (1 John 1:9) Confessing sin isn’t a one-time thing. Train yourself to quickly repent (Matthew 4:17) and to ask for and receive God’s forgiveness every time you sin in thought, word, attitude, or action.

In the USA one side likes to call people “haters” and the other side likes to call people “idiots.” I prefer to call people friends.

Lord, help us when people of various perspectives only want to hear and believe their own point of view. That leads to great confusion and deception on all sides. How we in the USA need to lay down our defensiveness and self-righteousness and to listen with humility and compassion to one another.

About Steve Simms

I like to look and think outside the box. In college I encountered Jesus Christ and I have been passionate about trying to get to know Him better ever since. My wife and I long to see the power and passion of the first Christ-followers come to life in our time. I have written a book about our experiences in non-traditional church, called, "Beyond Church: An Invitation To Experience The Lost Word Of The Bible--Ekklesia." If you need encouragement, search for: Elephants Encouraging The Room and/or check out my Amazon author page. Thank you!

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