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Great devo! Actually helped me immediately because of a recent loop back to an old habit. I’m pressing forward into linear living and watching for those built in humblers. I will no longer be devastated, insecure or offended. Isn’t revelation from Abba Father wonderful?!?! Praise HIM!
Love, love, love this devotional this a.m. Beth. So on point and really needed to hear it and put myself back in check.
Have a wonderful and blessed weekend:)
Your Sister in Christ,
Dawn
OOPSS!! accidently posted this to your post, so sorry:( but I tend to cycle too! We will pray for each other:))
God always know what I need to hear. Thank you for sharing.
Beth, Thank you so much for sharing, it was a great morning devotion. It gives me food for thought. What am I doing that makes me stay in the slinky? Thank you again for sharing, I am always amazed at how much you care for us, and take the time to minister to us! Prayers for you and your staff.
Cindy
I am so thankful for your wisdom today! I have been in the same cycles, going around the same mountains, with 3 forward and 2 back, for most of my life. My default reaction seems to be devastation with regard to the actions, or words, of others. Relationships have suffered. I need a new perspective. Their words/actions are not an attack on me, so I should not take them personally. Unfortunately, I have allowed them to hurt me to the core of my being. Instead, I should break the cycle by continuing my walk in love and acceptance of them…without being hurt by them. I have given them power over me, when it should be Christ alone with that power over me. You provided an awesome analogy in a most timely word–as always! It was so relevant to a situation which occurred yesterday! Love You, Mama Beth!
Dearest Beth,
What a blessing you are to me! I’ve been struggling with a spiral of mediocre living. I use to get up each morning for a quiet time with my Lord. Now, I get up and scan Facebook. I use to be involved in Bible Study, now in cant find time.
Seeing and knowing isn’t the same as doing. I use to tell others about I living intentionally; not just wandering along and hoping things will just happen my way. Yet, that old cycle of life is exactly where I have found myself. Thank you for the visual of living in a slinky rather than moving forward.
I look forward to the on-line group study of Gideon. I just bought my copy! Lord may this be the beginning of intentional and and continued growth.
Thanks Beth!
You Beth are likely one of the most humble people I think I ‘know’ 🙂
Thanks for this word. I cycle a lot. I think I make some progress but I wonder if it wouldn’t be far greater if I trusted Jesus a bit more and just walked on instead of putting whatever wound above Him and nursing it in whatever unhealthy even ungodly way. Seeking relationships I know He said no to before they even actually formed but I formed them anyway.
But because of Jesus I have hope. It sometimes seems a dim hope but thats me. I once had no hope. so I guess I’d know.
Love ya Beth. I really hope I can meet you someday. But life is as it is.
God’s timing is amazing and so perfect. Last night I had the house to myself and planned to work on “A Woman’s Heart, God’s Dwelling Place.” But instead, I was fatigued, mentally distracted and distraught, and as a result, ended up wandering around my house aimlessly and got nothing accomplished per se. I ended up surfing on my iPhone when I saw a new blog had been posted.
How typically refreshing of God to speak directly to the very subject that was at the very root of my mental fatigue, distraction, and dispair. Cyclical living sums up what I’ve done the last TWO (PLUS) YEARS over the almost total loss of long-time, close friendship that is barely hanging on by a thread.
The frustration has been overwhelming but I have been doing exactly what you spoke of Beth – experiencing restoration time after time only to look down from my “high” place and start the judgemental cycle all over again. I am so thankful He opened my eyes to that today.
Thank you for sharing this devotional with us here at Siestaville. Praying His richest blessings for your team and all who attend LPL Atlanta this weekend. Sure wish I could be there but I was so blessed by LPL Greensboro!
Much love to you all at LPM,
Amber
I do that far too often. Have a plan and nix it for some sadness that trys to overwhelm me. It never defeats me now but its stops progress for sure. That aimlessness you say. Will pray for you today.
Thank you Tanya. Prayers for you as well Sister.
Okay, I have just got to say this because I have listened to this twice now and each time the same thought pops into my head… When I push the play arrow and the audio begins, does it make you girls think you’re about to hear the song of Abba’s “Dancing Queen?” Grin 🙂
THAT was exactly what I needed to hear! Thank you!
Beth, listening to this devotional reminded me of some great teaching from James Robison and Robert Morris that I think you could say were about the same issues. We have an enemy who loves to trip us up when we have had a victory and we need to be wise to his ways and store God’s Word in our hearts and mind in order to battle effectively and victoriously. Thanks for sharing — blessings to you and your team!
Thank you so much, Beth! needed this!
Sorry you had to tape this three times…but I LOVED having a video devotional and this was good stuff. Great to have the visuals. God revealed quite a bit of pride because of this….OY. So thankful He NEVER gives up on us even if humans do. So very thankful to KNOW that I am loved.
Thank you – just what I needed today with some things I am walking through. I told my husband not too long ago that I needed to see things to really understand them. The slinky and tape measure was perfect for my mind to see what I am doing.
Thank you Sweet Beth for your Spirit led word. Funny thing (not very funny actually)…I pray for humility and then wonder why am I in this repeated cycle of defeat, offense and frustration? I do pray that God would do the work that none can reverse.
I do pray for you, your family and staff. Much love ~ Joyce
Thank you for telling us this out of His love and helping me be a better Christian. Praying God will help me walk in His love and acceptance.
in Christ
Thank you, Beth…that was just what I needed to hear! Bless you for sharing your heart and the Lord’s wisdom with all of us!
We love you back,
Leah
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Thank you Siesta Mamma !!! This is the name to what has been rumbling around in my heart for weeks now. How do I move on from this place. I have been divorced for 2 years and husband left 3 years ago and I have been on mind numb from the beginning. I don’t even remember most of that time…really. i fell to pieces and the pieces went into the black hole. Only last spring, when a friend sponsored me on a “Great Banquet” weekend did I begin to feel love again, from our Father. Now, slowly but surely He is bringing my heart and soul back to life. As He does I find that I “check out” of life when things get tough and wake up after a while. So much lost time. I can’t afford to loose any more and I want Jesus to be the center of everything now. I wish I could join you for the Gideon study but finances will not allow. Thanks for waking me up again and giving a name to this merry go round! Thank you!
Dear Kay,
We are in the middle of the Gideon study at our Women’s bible study at church. We have one extra copy of the workbook. I will send it to you for free if you will send me an e-mail with your address. It’s a great study. I would hate for you to miss it. My e-mail address is: [email protected].
Blessings!
Your “Siesta” sister in Christ,
Janet from St. Louis
Kay, I would like to send you a Gideon workbook. Email me at [email protected] with your address so I can send it straight to your house.
From a slinky sister,
Dawn 🙂
Conference…. not confirm….dumb phone.
Ohhhhh, the precious grace, mercy and amazing love of our Father(Abba). Perfect, perfect timing …..He “delayed” this teaching 3 times( ohhh, the importance of the number 3) at least in part to speak to me personally. I am sooo blown away by this, how God has the perfect timing of this for me, AND also for Countless others. So personal, yet universal……hmmm,, just like His plan of Salvation!!!! Ohhhh, Jesus, You’re indescribable and totally Awesome, above and beyond what we can think. Thank -you for speaking to my sister, Beth and she being a faithful servant in sharing. Wow! Love and blessings multiplied and poured out for His Honor and Glory!
Thank you for this video devotional. The Lord was faithful to point something out to me last night. I understood how often feel hurt because because someone in my family or in my life seems to be too busy for me. Going from receiving lots of affection as a little girl to it not being as available, I turned inward to cope. I have often done the same to my little boy who is 3 asks me something or wants to play. I respond with mommy will later or mommy is busy. Then seeing all the ways that the Lord meets the needs that I crave was a blessing. He is never absent, but ever-present. He always sees me, He hears, He loves me, He cares for me. Now maybe I can get on and find healing through my Heavenly Father.
This devotional was from God himself to me. thank you for sharing and challenging me to live linear! love you, marcia
Dear sweet ones there in Houston. I’ve done a Beth Moore study every year for 10 years (most years 2 studies since we start one in the fall and one in January). Over this time I’ve come to love you all so much and Houston has a special place in my heart as you’ve share stories and experiences. Just wanted you to know that your city and the people there are in my prayers as you’ve had a tragedy with the fire there today. You prayed for Colorado last summer when we were going through wildfire. Now it’s our turn here to pray for you and pray we are. Love from Colorado to Houston. We are one family in Christ.
Thanking God that He put this on your heart to share as this is a big issue with me. Although I don’t wish anyone stuck with the same problem, it is good to know others struggle with it too. I cycle with a double whammy in this of being judgmental and then thinking I’m the only one who is like this.
Much blessed by the dear siesta who gave the encouraging word on how age is one of those things God gives to help & humble us through our problems. At 53 I am finding this to be so! And also thanking the siesta who added 1 Kings 18 “why do you waver?” to my scripture arsenal.
Here’s another that has helped me: John 21:22 “…what is that to you, come follow me.” Tonight the Lord helps me see that not only does that say it’s none of my business to judge others but also that I will only follow best walking right behind Him, not spiraling.
Beth, Great word; much needed today too. Seems I’ve been both the slinky and the tape measure today. Enough to give us all whiplash. I am so grateful for the unchanging love of Jesus. Love you, Beth!
Thank you, Beth – this was a direct answer to prayer. Our God is so good, so personal, so loving!
Good Word, Beth! Thank You!
Beth, thank you so much for this post. I have been wondering just exactly is it that I have been living. I thought I was sinful because of my ups and downs but that’s life. I want to stay away from those slinky cycles. Help me O Lord to learn from my downs and praise you more in my ups! Closer Lord, Closer!
Aloha and Thank You Beth!
Such a profound track of thinking and assessing the patterns that we establish and then get used to living within. I was really pondering God’s linear timeline, and meditating all day– that all Creation is on a cyclic time-line of repeated seasons and signs that is also linear, marching forward in groans and displays as in labor. Perhaps we, His people, also relect our Creator in the same manner—Scripture tells us He will complete His work in us, that we go from glory to glory—if we would just say yes to His process, His Way.
The tornados marched through Oklahoma today, again.
I join you and agree with your Prayer, that we become people changed from our ‘selves’ and be people wondrously anointed and fully equipped to get out there to serve a world deeply in need of The Savior.
Sweet Beth, Thank you for your obedience to the Lord in sharing.
I needed this today.
Wow! Oh yes, this is truth alright! Way too much material here! God has already been dealing with me on this very thing. And not even with respect to others, but just my own stuff over and over keeping me stuck and hindered in His purposes. Thank you for the great illustration and speaking with such amazing clarity. Lots more to be said!! God bless!!
I really appreciate the word about how to walk it out daily… hopefully in a generally linear way. The thought that I perhaps-no certainly-get drunk on the emotions that should bring me to humility and instead careen out of control into shame sounds like drunken emotionally driving.
I am still struggling but am finding daily methods- built around a card- to press Truth into my heart preemptively to cover my heart so that the peace of God can guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus. Phil. 4.
The amount of time it takes to be aware of the peace of God guarding me varies from day to day…and the need to refresh varies day to day. However the progress varies it is sooo encouraging.
Beth, what you are saying makes so much sense to me. The pride that keeps us from looking forward and moving forward instead of in cycles seems to come in different forms…it can be that kind of pride that looks down on others, comparing ourselves with others, or simply living independently of God-I struggle with this-It’s like I get to a place of restoration, and then I don’t hunger and thirst for His Word or Him as much, because everything seems to be going smoothly and life isn’t hard right now. Then, when I’m lured away from the Word, and don’t have His Word to meditate on in my heart, I tend to cycle back to old ways of thinking, or become more vulnerable to temptation, because I’m not living in the fullness of the Spirit, and whatever temptation the enemy sends me now seems more thrilling than following God. NOT GOOD! What is truly thrilling is life in the fullness of the Holy Sprit of God. Pride can be so subtle! True humility is what I need-we all need! Such a timely Word, the Lord has used you to speak to us! I thank Him for that and for you. ((HUGS)) to you Siesta Mama Beth, I have been praying for you for this weekend’s LPL.
praying for you all this morning! God woke me up with you on my mind, so something’s happening! “He will keep in perfect peace, he whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in Him.
Seeing this video this morning was confirmation, explanation and direction regarding some recent painful occurrences in my life. And what it all boils down to is pride. Thank you so much for leading the way in going through the process, and then having the humility to share it with others. I thank God for your ministry. Blessings to all the sisters on this blog who are starting on the path of linear living. May we all hang in there and cooperate with God in finishing the work.
Don’t worry about anything, instead pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Philippians 4:6. NLT
La Chiel from Portland, TN
The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation my stronghold. Psalm 18:2 NIV
Thank you for the devotional and prayer. Much Peace & many blessings!
After watching this post, I knew it was time to get out of a domestically violent relationship. Last night, I called the cops and explained what was going on. He was taken to jail and I was given victims assistance. While my heart is absolutely broken, I know that God has something better for me than an abusive relationship. Starting the process to heal now and start living a linear life.
Oh my, I just got to listen to this today – you clarified something I’ve been struggling with. It is time to get on with linear living, to overcome those strongholds that cycle me back to old patterns of behavior. Thanks so much for sharing. The Hebrews verse is one I use to believe for healing for a painful hip joint, now I have a second use for this same verse.
Sherri, Marietta, GA: “Now to Him by the power that is working within us is able to do far beyond all we ask or think, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen”. Ephesians 3:20-21, the Net Bible
Kim, Corning, NY. 2 Thessalonians 3:3 (ESV) “But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.”
Wow, Beth! This is an issue I have been seeking God’s answers over and over on lately. Thanks for being the vessel that He used to give me the answers I was seeking!
I had recently realized that I have been rebelling against this long-running season of brokenness (alternately devastated and offended as well as often feeling defeated), but it is so much more positive to be looking for what I was supposed to be bringing out of it. Also it was very encouraging to hear that God doesn’t want to demolish my personality or relationships, just my selfishness. My heart’s cry really is to be used mightily by Him. Now I just need to accept that brokenness is part of the process. Thanks again so very much!
Terri from Winchester, Virginia
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
1Peter4:8
I’m feeling a little sad for the slinky, but I get the point totally, especially as I found myself revisiting negative thoughts that suddenly entered my mind uninvited and started taking me down that cyclical path that I don’t want to repeat. In my mind, it was like I had to cut the slinky to stop the parade of negative thoughts on a past hurt that I thought was no longer an issue. But I did, I renewed my mind as scripture tells us to, and that is our hope!
Buffi from Mission, TX
Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him. (Psalms 127:3 NLT)
Oh, the visual of Linear Living…just too good! Love this. As a mom, I am in a slinky cycle of over reacting, yelling, shame, devastation, repentance, over-reacting, yelling, shame….
THIS BROUGHT SO MUCH HOPE. Thank you, Beth. Claiming Hebrews 12:12 over my motherhood. Praise the Lord.
Thank you so much for this message, Beth. I always enjoy what you say and it always helps me. I thank God for you and the passion He has given you.
I also want to thank you for posting videos like this. This actually fills one of my requests I had submitted to LPL on my last LPL Living Proof comment sheet. I asked for something like this, a video lesson, so my friends that don’t know Beth can see her in action, even if it is brief. And that it would be something they could see and not have to pay for. Thank you so much for doing this. I think it helps. Blessings to you!
Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. (Philippians 4:6 HCSB)
Jeannie, Nashville, Tn.
“O LORD, You are great, mighty, majestic,magnificent, glorious, and sovereign over all the sky and earth! You have dominion and exalt Yourslef as the ruler of all.” 1 Cor. 29:11.