Jesus Is with You, Even at the Thrift Store

How happy You can make others happy.  One thing I do understand is when I go into a thrift store I go into a dream world – trying to put things into my house to make it look better.  I start planning, filling the basket with things I feel I can use to decorate the house which is already full. 
 
It is so much fun planning and buying.  Of course, if a bargain, $1.00-$10.00 not usually over that.  But a lot of $1.00-$10.00 stuff.  I go home, try to find a place for everything.  I have to push stuff together to put what I bought.  So much stuff, Lord, I need Your balance.  You need daily to remind me of what I am doing and give me whatever I need to stop.  Help me to find the truth about myself and what’s going on and give me whatever I need to change these old behaviors that are not of You.  This clutter battle is every day.  I can’t wait until sale day, Tuesday and Wednesday, at the thrift store.  I tell myself I am going for only one reason, and then after I get there, I find so much I feel I need and must buy because it won’t be there tomorrow.  Lord, help me to recognize patterns why I go shopping what set me up.  Lord, my son says, “Mom, no matter how much you give away, you will not stop cluttering till you find out why you bring it all in.  The root reason.”  Well, Lord, you know why.  Share with me why.
 
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21

​Kingdom Principles:

• Take Jesus with you! Imagine an angel around you all the time.
  
• Imagination should be everything that is good and holy.  There should be order in each.  Write it down! Make it clean through the mind first.
  
• Clean the front yard trash, seeing the eyes of faith.
  
• Cast down vain imaginations.  God wants contentment.  When you are shopping, why do you want it?
  
• Clutter in your mind keeps you from thinking properly.  We walk by faith, not by sight.  When we imagine it, it comes to life, with God before me.  

“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”
​2 Corinthians 10:5-6
 
Your Servant Forever, Carol