Encouragement for Christian Sisters

Good day to you sisters, I want to share something with you that might help you learn to discern.  Too often we get swept away with what's in front of us that we don't see what's going on just beyond it, let me explain. We went for a walk the other day, the sun was shining and we came across this pretty pond.  Brother Jim took a picture of it as did I... And I took another picture just beyond it... Our walk was not in the country, it was through a bunch of interconnecting parking lots and at the back of a store is where we found this pond.   Looks can be deceiving depending on what you are focused on.   Think about it, a real estate person could post that picture and talk about the beautiful view and until you go examine it for yourself, you won't see what else is there. Our Lord and Savior told us to be wise as serpents (Matthew 10:16) and how we do that is to examine everything that comes into our lives, not just what's in front of us....

Greetings sisters! I pray you are redeeming the time for the Lord (Ephesians 5:16) for the days are evil.  There is much to be learned and maturity to be had and if we strive every day, enduring through this world, we will be victorious over sin and gain in wisdom. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.  But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.   A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. (James 1:5-8) James tells us that if we lack wisdom that God will give it to us as long as we don't waver, lest we be like a double minded man tossed about. We need wisdom in this world of deception for false teachers are on every corner and in every source of media.  Not only are false teachers out there but false mind...