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JPPT1974's Daily Devotions

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JPPT1974's Mon Thoughts 10/6/2025:
But that God does indeed
Make sense and even if we don't
Understand or even may not by
God's will and way understand
However it is how we need to
Go by God's understanding will and
Just remember He is the way, the truth, and the
Life no matter how our lives work.
 
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JPPT1974's Tues Thoughts 10/7/2025:
It may be a want but it
Could possibly go into a
Need like with Wifi or a TV
Just to name a few examples
Along with the need to
Pay the bills and put food on the table
May need to get rid of the
Wants to live with in making ends meet.
 
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JPPT1974's Wed Thoughts 10/8/2025:
We may want it but
Really we may not want it
In the very long run and
God provides over for us in the
Needs in what He thinks we need
But in what we want as it may
You see not want we need as think we want.
Difference you see my friends.
 
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JPPT1974's Thurs Thoughts 10/9/2025:
How what we may want
Is not what we need but
What we may NOT want
Is something we NEED as
It is about the long term vs
Short term and how we may need to
Matter of fact Christ in the giving
Us what He feels in would last in the long run.
 
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JPPT1974's Weekend Thoughts 10/10-10/12/2025:
You know there is a saying
That if you marry a spouse
You then also marry over in
That person's family and that
Horror stories over on having the
Family look at the daughter/son spouse
In such a very condescending way
Unless it is the person whom is the
In law that has done something wrong.
 
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Sad part is that the in laws
Whom look at the people who married into their
Family and not giving that person a
Chance as they may be going out
Of their way and that even if
As hard as they try it seems
Nothing that person does is
Ever good for them sadly.
 
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But remember it says something
About the in laws instead of
Something about the person who
Does their best even if it is
Not up to the in laws point of
View and how that it shows over in
Disgust how that the person
Had married not just their spouse
But a family who is toxic.
 
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JPPT1974's Mon Thoughts 10/13/2025:
How in such a toxic and
Hostile place that the in laws
Are in the providing on that
Making the life of the person that
Had married into their family such
One that over in chaos and really
In such never good for their daughter/son.
 
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JPPT1974's Tues Thoughts 10/14/2025
Really people who have very high
Expectations are only fooling themselves
And in thinking that they
Can ruin a person's life and
Putting them down does say a lot
Really about them and not in a
Very good light as God has to really
Frown on those who put others down
Making them look better and hyping up themselves.
 
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JPPT1974's Wed Thoughts 10/15/2025:
Jesus made marriage and that
He made the husband and wife to
Leave their families to become in
Unity in one but it doesn't mean that
They don't have to have abuse and
Live in such a hostile and toxic
Environment where you are not being
Respected much less being understood.
 
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JPPT1974's Thurs Thoughts 10/16/2025:
You are entitled to boundaries as
God only wants what is best for
Over on those who suffered and
Don't deserve to be treated in
Less than a human kind of way
Remember Jesus walked away from toxic people
Even if they despised Him but even if
Christ calls for us to bring His peace and
Understanding but don't except abuse as there is no
Excuse for abuse and enabling toxic hostile behavior.
 
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JPPT1974's Weekend Thoughts 10/17-10/19/2025:
Boundaries are where people have
Rules and knowing when to say when
How to say no without being embarrassed
But that it is how boundaries we live and
Learn albeit in a sense over in the
Very hard way and how we need to set those boundaries
For all of us to abide by and respect.
 
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God wants us to have boundaries
Like He did in the Ten Commandments
How that they were His laws
And that He used those for
Us to obey and to realize that God
Placed them there for our benefit
Not to hurt us but to help us
Sadly a lot if not more than naught
Thinking that it is "OK!"
 
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How when push comes to shove
It is about trying to only just help
Us when things are about to
Get out of control and how we
Need to show when to stop and
To really not cross on such a
Very huge line over on it
When we cross lines, it is crossing boundaries.
 
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JPPT1974's Mon Thoughts 10/20/2025:
Boundaries are all about respect
And all about trying to not
Cross a line or break the rules
God put boundaries like in the
Ten Commandments so that we
Don't have to disobey these orders
Following a clean and Godly life.
 
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JPPT1974's Tues Thoughts 10/21/2025:
Rules and boundaries may seem harsh
Especially to little kids who are
Starting out in life but that they are there
Protecting us and isn't a means to hurt us
Or worse as God placed those Ten
Commandments so that we won't have
To really do something we should never have
Done over in the first place.
 
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JPPT1974's Wed Thoughts 10/22/2025:
Life is all about having boundaries and
Rules to not let others hurt
Us and that they are in
Place so that we can be protected and taken
Care of and how God placed the rule of all rules.
The Ten Commandments are a huge start
Wanting us to live a Godly and mainly clean live
Even though nobody is perfect for only God is and has been
Always will be perfect!
 
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JPPT1974's Wed Thoughts 10/22/2025:
Boundaries are meant to really
Prevent us from crossing lines
As long as we don't get in trouble.
God didn't want us to get in trouble
Or do something we may later regret that
We can't take back and only God
Sent Jesus to come and paved the way for eternity
Knowing our sins are forgiven but also that
Needing to live Godly and Christ like lives if we
Are to remember we are only in this world temporary.
 
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