Living Your Holiest Hot Mess Life

Matthew 5:7 reminds us of the importance of showing mercy to others. There's no amount of mercy we can show that compares to the mercy God shows to us in the midst of living our holiest hot mess lives.

Matthew 5:6 helps us to focus on living our holiest hot mess lives in alignment with God's requests. And if God's requesting it, then we need to view it as a requirement.

Matthew 5:5 is Jesus's message to us on humility - a theme that He reminds us repeatedly. As we live our holiest hot mess lives let's be mindful that God's promises come when we live in accordance to His Holy Word.

Matthew 5:4 is an easier beatitude to understand because it refers to mourning. As we live our holiest hot mess lives, we've all experienced some sort of mourning. Take heart! God desires to comfort us!

Matthew 5:3 is the beginning of the Beatitudes that teach us about God's expectations on how to live our holiest hot mess lives.

Matthew 4:11 helps us to see that we need help - even Jesus had help - as we live our holiest hot mess lives.

Matthew 4:8-10 helps root us and ground us in the reality that God is the only one we worship and serve. Keeping that in the forefront of all we say, think, or do helps us to live our holiest hot mess lives withstanding temptation.

Matthew 4:5-7 when we're able to identify areas of temptation for us, then we can be prayerful to seek God's help in living our holiest hot mess lives either away from those areas or with a new perspective on how to operate within those areas.

Matthew 4:2-4 helps us to turn away from temptation by giving us a tip and strategy from Jesus. When we know what tempts us, we're more likely to avoid those things as we live our holiest hot mess lives.

Matthew 4:1 reveals to us that it's God's Holy Spirit who leads Jesus into the desert to be tempted by Satan. As we live our holiest hot mess lives, let's remember that if we're being led by God then no matter where we go or who we run into, God's got us covered!

Matthew 2:22-23 closes out our week with Joseph operating out of a spirit of obedience to God even before he gets the clarification he needs. As we live our holiest hot mess lives, let's continue to seek God's clarification.

Matthew 2:13-15; 19-21 reveals to us the pattern of Joseph's consistent obedience to God. As we live our holiest hot mess lives, let's strive to be consistent with God.

Matthew 2:1-12 helps us to see how sometimes God is requiring multi-step obedience in order for us to grow as we live our holiest hot mess lives.

Luke 2:8-20 is another very familiar Christmas passage, but today we're examining the joyful benefits found in obedience to God as we live our holiest hot mess lives.

Matthew 1:18-25 is a familiar passage most often studied around Christmas. We can learn so much from Joseph's compete obedience to God as we live our holiest hot mess lives that it's worth looking into any time of year.

Psalm 79:9 sums up the week's podcasts with a quick plea to God to help us despite our sinful disobedience because in helping us, God glorifies Himself. As we live our holiest hot mess lives, let's humbly call on God for help.

Psalm 82:2-4 points us yet again to the expectation that God has for us to be a blessing to others. As we live our holiest hot mess lives, let's look for ways to help others.

2 Chronicles 36:15-16 is just the tip of the iceberg of the wild disobedience found in this chapter. Reading the whole chapter helps us to see how blessed we are in our holiest hot mess lives through God's restoration of us and His love for us.

2 Chronicles 36:1-14 picks up where yesterday left off and shows us the dangers of turning away from God that can continue through multiple generations. As we live our holiest hot mess lives, let's be good examples to draw others to God and not away.

2 Chronicles 35:22 helps us to see that we're not the only ones who ignore God. BUT as we live our holiest hot mess lives, let's be mindful to be obedient to God.

2 Chronicles 33:12 shows us how no matter what we do or how far we turn away from God, when we become humble, He's ready to restore us in the midst of our holiest hot mess lives.

2 Chronicles 32:20-23 helps us to see the importance of praying and leaving things in God's hands and the hands of Godly leaders as we live our holiest hot mess lives.

2 Chronicles 32:11-19 is a fantastic reminder of the blessing of Godly leadership that we can look to to help us to live our holiest hot mess lives.

2 Chronicles 32:6-8 reminds us and encourages us that greater is the power that we have from God than anything that rises against us in our holiest hot mess lives.

2 Chronicles 26:5 is a cautionary account of how one of Judah's greatest kings grew arrogant and refused to listen to sound correction. As we live our holiest hot mess lives, let's be sure to surround ourselves with good advisors who can help us to stay humble and on track with God.