Devotional

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Hello,

How can we live to please God?

The first thing we need to do to please God is to have faith.

Without faith it is impossible to please Him. Hebrews 11:6

We need to believe that God is and that He rewards (answers) them that seek Him. Hebrews 11:6

First, we have to believe that there is a God. We have to believe that He will hear and answer our prayers.

It pleases God when we talk to Him in our mind. We don’t have to close our eyes or fold our hands, we can talk to God anytime in our minds.

God is like a father. Fathers like for their children to talk to them. Fathers like it when their children say "I love you." Fathers like it when their children sit beside them and just like to be near them.

God likes us to do all of those things, too. It pleases Him.

In the morning, talk to God in your mind. Through the Holy Spirit God guides us about how to do things, how to walk in a way that brings glory to God. God helps us do things in a wise way. He warns us in our spirit "heart" when we do things that are wrong. He can help us have good ideas that will make us successful.

Sometimes we get discouraged and say to ourselves "God does not answer my prayers", so we say we will not talk to God any more. That is not faith.

Sometimes we get mad at God and will not talk to Him. That is not faith.

Sometimes God says "No" to our prayers. This is hard for us and we get discouraged or mad.

People who believe in God and want to please Him and walk in His ways are very dear to God. He knows your heart and He wants to best for you. He wants you to learn lessons in life that will make you strong.

He wants you to have good thoughts, be honest and kind. Sometimes God lets us go through things that are hard.

That way we learn to depend (lean) on God to help us. Don’t get mad at God and turn away from Him. Trust Him. In the future you will see why you had to go through that hard thing.

Keeping the faith sometimes means that we just have to decide that we will have faith instead of not believing.

We say to ourselves--we will choose to trust and believe. God loves me and will take care of me. God will do what is best for me. I will let God choose for me. I will keep the faith.

If someone you loved said to you-- "I don’t think you love me."

How would you feel? If your child said to you, "I don’t think you will choose good things for me." How would you feel? You would feel hurt because you love them and want the best for them.

You would not give your child something that would harm (hurt) them.

Sometimes you would make your child obey first, or learn a lesson first, then you would give them what they asked for.

God is like that with us. God sees that sometimes we need to obey Him first. God sees that sometimes we need to learn a lesson first. Then He will answer a prayer.

Have faith in God. Trust Him to know what is best for you. He loves you more than anyone on earth.

If you would like a Bible that is easy to read, the New Life Version has only 850 different words. You can order it from a bookstore, or maybe a Bible bookstore would have it on the shelf. It’s about $15.00 in paperback. The publisher is Barbour.

Good-bye for now. I'll write again.

                                                                                                                                                              Sincerely.

                                                                                                                                                              Joyce Webb