January 27

You can be happy when you are
empty in your spirit.
Matthew 5:3


You know you need to be filled with God's help but this will not work if you are already filled with something else.

You need to let God empty you of these other things. This means it is good when He takes these things away from you.

It is like a cup which you have to use to decide how much of God's Spirit do you want. Is half of the cup enough to help you get past your problems this week?

Think of yourselves as dead to the world.
Rom. 6:11

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Jer. 17:9

Lord, the world says, “Follow your heart” but I see that my heart tries to turn me in the wrong way. I have to say that I really do not know the right way unless You show it to me.
Please help me get rid of the things in my life that I do not need and then fill me with Your things.