God's affirmation

When you look to others for your affirmation, you have to find ways to get a fresh supply, which eventually will run you ragged. But God's affirmation will fill your emotional tank even more than any human's flattering words will. When you sense the God of the universe saying to you, "I see everything you are doing and your hard work brings me great joy; you are so beautiful to me even when you are sleeping; I see your heart and you are so very special to me," His sentiments will send you reeling further than any man ever could. ~ Every Woman's Battle, page 171

Also found it interesting reading in Walking with God by John Eldredge last night with all that has been happening and I have been thinking about:

It's really important, when you've come under an attack, to assess what the open door might be.... Conduits. Open doors. The enemy will use anything he can find to assault us or bring trouble into our homes. ~page 173 and 174

And you may discover that you can have a conduit in your possession for some time and it doesn't seem to be a channel for evil, but then the enemy comes looking for an open door and finds this object useful to his purposes and it suddenly becomes a problem. The same principle holds true for unconfessed sins in our past or old agreements we have never broken. They may lie dormant for years, but then the enemy finds them or returns to use them for his present schemes. In the same way that we use spiritual attacks to do a personal inventory (Have I opened the door to this, Lord? Is there something I need to confess, repent of, or break covenant with?), we find that our households need to be sanctified and kept holy as well. ~pg.176

Just finding the words thought provoking, not really sure what to make of it all.... but it does affirm thoughts that God has given me.