Are doubts and fears in your heart?

THE DARK PLACES

Are doubts and fears in your heart?
Then think of Me.
Speak to Me.
Instead of those doubts and fears there will flow into your hearts and beings such sweet Joy
as is beyond any Joy on earth.
This is unfailing.
Never doubt it.
Courage. Courage. Courage.
Fear nothing!
Rejoice even in the darkest places.
Rejoice. -God Calling

Faith disperses the clouds of doubt and fear.
He gives us 'songs in the night'.
We are able to say I know Him in whom I have believed.

MARRIAGE

Guard what is committed to your trust. 1 Tim. 6:20

Lord defend our marriage and help me to be a guardian of the love we share.

"She seduced him with her pretty speech. With her flattery she enticed him.  Proverbs 7:21.
Wounded people can be vulnerable to praise,
they can also be easily manipulated and sell themselves to anyone or anything just to get some praise.
'Like selling their birthright for a pot of stew.'  Genesis 25:31-34
Esau sold his birthright to his brother because he was hungry and too impatient to cook his own dinner.
We need to look at our own needs for praise.
What lengths do we go to for a little bit of praise?