“COMPLAINTS!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 770

January 13, 2026//

I pray your year has started off amazing! But I know that for some of you these first days of 2026 have been far from amazing! I pray that God is your refuge and strength in all that is going on in your lives!

The word that has been churning in my spirit the last couple of days is “complaints.”

Everyone has certain ideas and things they want to happen in their life and the situations and circumstances they are involved in! And we all sometimes find ourselves venting or complaining about something or someone!

But each of us has encountered some who are always in mode of complaint! Nothing is right. Everybody else has it good but everything in their lives is wrong and not working out.

I have known and know people whose food at a restaurant is never right, the server has an attitude, the church services are too long, or the kids are not being taught right!

They did not get the announcement of a meeting! Their hair is awful and all their clothes are junk! The kids are sassy and disobedient, and they don’t feel loved by their spouse or anyone else!

Good is happening in the life of everyone they know, but not themselves. Whatever they cook is not right and their life is one of constant complaining.

Do you see yourself in these examples? Do you find yourself in part of this? May I tell you what the Lord God Almighty wants you to know!

First, He Loves you and wants the best for you and is standing ready to pour out blessings you cannot contain. However, you have closed your heart to blessings and believed the lie that nothing good has or will ever happen to you.

You must stop, drop to your knees, and spend time in His presence and let the power of the creator change your view of life, of Him, and of His plan for you!

It is in His presence we get a glimpse of His power and His glory! It is in His presence we find the peace to release all things to His Lordship and know that the Lord God, creator of the universe, gives us good and perfect gifts and will never leave us nor forsake us!

But: you may say, things are not always smooth! Problems arise and sickness, hurts, confusion, and failures happen!

You have a weapon that will give you strength and power in the midst of the storm.

It is Praise! Praise is a weapon of warfare against evil in the world and the things the enemy may bring into your life!

I am reminded of the singers praising God as they marched toward three enemies who had joined to defeat them. Jehoshaphat followed God’s instructions, and the singers went forth before the army singing, “Praise the Lord; for his mercy endureth forever.”

This is found in 2 Chronicles 20 and as they were marching toward the enemy and praising, the enemies turned against each other and all the Israelites found were dead bodies of those who had joined to defeat God’s children!

2 Chronicles 20:22 (KJV) And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

Maybe you feel like enemies of all that is good have joined forces against you and your life. May I tell you praise will turn the enemies against each other!

Praise is a powerful weapon and praise; true praise comes from time in His presence!

Psalm 16:11 (KJV) Thou wilt shew me the path of life:

In thy presence is fulness of joy;

At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Do you find yourself in the middle of complaining. Come aside and spend time with your creator and allow Him to replace lies, with truth. The truth will set you free! Free from complaining and free to be all you were created to be!

Hebrews 13:5 (KJV) Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

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Father, thank you! You are real and your presence is real and it gives us confidence of who we are in you and who you have called us to be! Father, mold us into useable vessels to be used to bring your kingdom to earth! Let us walk in Praise and victory every day of our lives and through all circumstances and situations. You are real and we are Blessed in every way! Thank you for peace that the world cannot give! In Jesus’ name I Pray! Amen!

Love, MeMaw!