What Station are you tuned into?

Every Christian goes through times of “spiritual radio fuzz”.  Over the past couple months I have felt like that. Nothing really inspiring, nothing heart moving happening, no spiritual highs, no miraculous encounters have happened. And we are just dealing with a lot of negative conversations, discouraging news , time dragging projects, and discontent. I would talk to God and say “hey I need a hand, what is going on? I have become so negative and discouraged. Why are you allowing all these events and things to take place? When is it going to turn a corner? This missions stuff is so much more difficult than I thought it would be!”

 

I am going to change trails but I will tie them together at the end…don’t worry…J

 

Well recently Stephen and my Dad installed bunny ear antennas on our 1983 32” Tube Screen TV…Totally retro! Awesome lol. Well I watch the news, weather, and even  sometimes NCIS. Really like that show but also just found out its over lol. Anyway, one day I was so put off by the TV news that I just shut it off and went over to my good ole radio  and turned on Word FM, this is what I have used for my news, weather, sermons, programs, not so much the music lol, for the past 7yrs. While I was listening to “In the Market with Janise Parchells” it dawned on me that this news was so much different than what I was hearing on TV. The TV News was barley news, full of half truths and speculation, and from only one point of view, the worlds! I realized that a lot of my negative attitude come from what I let into my ears. It sounds so silly but it’s the truth. Listening to negative news, God denying fools, and political tools, was creeping into my attitude and I did not even notice.  I do know that when I have Word FM on my radio it was encouraging, real news, uplifting, and spiritually edifying. My over all attitude was much better and much more equipped to handle the crazy encounters and shenanigans we have to deal with as missionaries.

So I realized I had to make a choice,  I can either keep on wearing the Worldly TV antenna on my life or put on the Godly Radio antenna. The messages you receive will be from one or the other. Whoever you want to reflect your attitude after is who you intently listen to. We can do all things with Christ who gives us strength, IF we allow him to tunnel his strength into our hearts through our ears. Make sure your antenna (signal to most every other person in the world besides us lol) is giving you a clear signal from God and not the world.

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