Daily Huddle - Fri Feb 1, 2019 Critical Spirit or Kindness

Love you all, praying for you. 
 
Tax documentation to the post office by 4:30 today.  Plus snow shoveling.  Praise God.  January was every box checked in PiVAT Progress.  It’s what God has for me.  Faithful with little. 
 
God put this on my heart this morning - Kindness.  It’s one of the things God gives.   

A critical spirit is the opposite of kindness.  It’s why God does not want us to get trapped by the habit of criticism, a critical spirit. 
 
It’s hard to be disposed to show kindness when our first inclination is a critical spirit. 
 
What are you disposed to? What is the inclination of your heart?
The habit of your mind, the habit of your thought life? The habit of your words?
Your words control your thought life.
 
It is God’s kindness that leads us to repentance.  So for my inclination to be kindness, I must reject that critical spirit. 
 
You reject something by being fully occupied with something else. 

Pattern your words to speak blessing always.  Forbearance always, to overlook offense always. 
You do this with your words.  Then it becomes second nature, your first reaction, to bless, not criticize.
 
And when your first response with your words is to bless.  It starts your whole body in motion towards kindness.  So God can lead them to repentance through you.
 
Praying that God would order your words today.  So can can demonstrate His kindness through you.  

Love you all,
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