Looking for a "Nevertheless"

I hope you've have a wonderful week. Our church had a church called prayer meeting on Wednesday. One at 12:00 noon and one at 6:30 p.m. I so enjoyed that prayer meeting. There's nothing like hearing someone else pray to give you a peek into heaven and into their heart. I'm excited to see what God is going to do with a people who want to pursue Him. 

Nevertheless ...

Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; 

The last few days have been kind of rough for me and I wondered if they have been for you as well. Temptation to do and say things that I don't want to do or say, voices in my head telling me how UN-worthy I am and feeling like someone was holding a mirror in front of my face and saying, "See you're too old to ________ ... You're too ugly for ________ ... you will never be able to ________ ... you might as well. quit."

But God...

but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, 

because the Lord thy God loved thee. 

Deuteronomy 23:5

When [notice I didn’t say “If…”] when the enemy begins speaking negativity and defeat to you like he did to me, I encourage you to start looking for a “nevertheless” and a “but God” in your situation.I won't tell you all the ways that I responded that weren't right but I will share with you some right responses and perhaps they will encourage you as well. 

• I prayed and called out to God and asked Him what in the world was going on. I spoke out my feelings honestly to Him and He heard my cry. 
• I forced myself to sing songs of praise and truth until praise flowed freely from my mouth.
• I read His word until He spoke to my heart. And when I found something that moved me with conviction [not accusation] in a specific area, I repented. And when I found something that encouraged me I just read it over and over again and thanked God for loving me.
• I call a good friend and shared my struggle.

I'm so looking forward to meeting you my sisters in brothers in heaven some day. And we'll be laughing and sharing about how "in the end ... we won!" but oh how scary it was at the time. I'm so grateful to those of you who've held me up in prayer and I feel so privileged to have been able to pray for you as well. And as my brother Kerry would say, "Be strong and courageous and go forth in the name of the Lord."  Amen!