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WHEN YOU PLEASE GOD Poem Devotional

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February 29________________________________________
When people’s lives please the Lord, even their enemies are at peace with them.
-Proverbs 16:7(NLT)
WHEN YOU PLEASE GOD
A poem and essay by ILMA
When you please God, you get that joy in your heart
When you please God, you get the chance for a brand new start
When you please God, you are able to go through adversity
When you please God, you become a threat to the enemy.
When you please God, your worldly perspective changes
When you please God, you get strength to face all challenges
When you please God, even your enemies are at peace with you
When you please God, your heart and mind are constantly renewed.
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It took many years to find out that I was a people-pleaser. Because I wasn’t showered with affection, attention and love as a child, I learned to get these needs met by people pleasing and performing. By the time I was high school, I was so desperate for love and got into a deep depression and almost ended my life. Thank God, he brought a friend of mine just at the nick of time to save me from suicide. I learned that no matter how much I please people around, I can’t force them to show me love. They probably can’t give it because they too weren’t given love.
The bible encourages us to please the Lord for even our enemies will be at peace with us.
PRAYER
Lord, let there be no other that I would rather please first but you.
REFLECTION
What is the benefit of pleasing God?
For more testimonials about God’s word, please go to YouTube and type ILMA’s poem devotional or go to www.ilmaarts.com posts. To receive emails of my poem devotionals, email me at ILMA.ARTS.STUDIO@gmail.com

DO WHAT PLEASES GOD Poem Devotional

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September 25________________________________________
And the one who sent me is with me-he has not deserted me. For I always do what pleases him. – John 8:29(NLT)
DO WHAT PLEASES GOD
A poem and essay by ILMA
If you do what pleases God, you will have peace
You will be free and will be able to see
When you obey what God has commanded
He will be faithful and never abandon.
Whenever you seek and follow Christ’s ways
You will have authority and never be swayed
Do what pleases the Lord for he never deserts you
He will always protect, correct, guide and renew.
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Have you ever suffered from doing the opposite of what God asks you to do? Many years of my life was spent following my own will. As a result, I became a very proud and confused person. I was lawless. I only followed my own desires and gratified my selfish ambitions. I did a lot of people pleasing but didn’t do much God-pleasing. In my selfishness, I reaped selfishness as well. Because I did things for my own pleasures, I didn’t sow faithfulness in others. Why would they want to have anything to do with someone who only thinks of herself?
The bible tells us that we ought to please only the Lord. We must never live for our own desires, but we must always think about others. Christ came to serve others. Shouldn’t we do the same?
PRAYER
Lord, let me serve others more than myself.
REFLECTION
Whom did you serve in the past that let you down?
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For more testimonials about God’s word, please go to YouTube and type ILMA’s poem devotional or go to www.ilmaarts.com posts. To receive emails of my poem devotionals, email me at ILMA.ARTS.STUDIO@gmail.com