Love Speaks Ministries

04/13/2026

Remembering His Good Works

How often do we forget what God has done already in our lives (murmuring and complaining) ?

How easily do we take our eyes (our minds) off of the Lord?

Both of these ways of living are full of self, selfish. It robs us of our joy and causes us to eat old bread and not to partake of the fresh manna God had for us. If you remember, God told the Israelites not to keep the manna He provided for the next day and if they did the bread would be taken over by worms (decay and a fleshly way of living). And even, with all these events taking place God's people forgot His faithfulness to them.

An entire generation disregarded His works and complained about their situation because "life was so hard." This robbed those people of what God had for them, because their eyes were not on the Lord their heads and hearts were full of the very sand they were walking on. Just like you and I, they were not satisfied where they were at and with what God provided for them so... they grumbled and complained. Imagine this! You wake up and step outside of your house and there is enough French toast for your whole house just sitting at your doorstep. Next day, it is there again and the next day after that again. Day after day it is there. I don't know about you but I would be amazed and delighted but I love French toast. Anyways... whatever your morning food of choice is God is providing daily for your whole house, will you be grateful or will you complain it ain't bacon?

That is what God's people did. They wanted meat! So in His goodness He gave them KFC..I mean quail. But yet again, they were not satisfied.

This prolonged their journey, their Exodus if you would.

It is so easy to complain, but is so easy to enter His presence too. Either way we look at it, it is worship but it comes down to what will we worship? Will it be our "hard lives" or will it be the Lord?

Years ago I would wake and start my daily complaint list ... "I am tired, I have to go to work, this apartment is a mess, I don't like Tuesdays, or these bills are annoying..." just take your pick. Eventually I had this epiphany... 'cause I am super smart and all that... what if I just take all the things I am complaining about and I just thank God for them! So my mornings started out like this "God thank you that I had somewhere to sleep last night and that I have a roof over my head... thank you God for this job you gave me which allows me to pay for my car and my apartment, God thank you for this car payment because I don't have to walk or ride the bus any more... and so on."

We can pick who or what we are going to worship.

We can choose to either fill our minds with God or sand (the flesh).

04/05/2026

You have been resurrected too.

“Sharing in his death by our baptism means that we were co-buried with him, so that when the Father’s glory raised Christ from the dead, we were also raised with him. We have been co-resurrected with him so that we could be empowered to walk in the freshness of new life. For since we are permanently grafted into him to experience a death like his, then we are permanently grafted into him to experience a resurrection like his and the new life that it imparts.” - Romans‬ ‭6‬:‭4‬-‭5‬ ‭TPT‬‬

12/23/2025

When was the last time someone actually asked you for your opinion? Or your advice?

Think about it. The person sitting next to me right now has a car I don’t particularly like. But they didn’t ask me. I’m not about to walk over, knock on the window, and say, “Hey, just so you know, your brand-new car also looks like a hearse.” They didn’t ask, they don’t care, and honestly, their life doesn’t need my input.

Yet we do this kind of thing all the time.

I have a condition I jokingly call “foot-in-mouth disease.” I find myself offering my two cents on things no one invited me into. And if I’m being honest, that’s arrogance. It assumes that someone else’s life somehow needs my opinion. The truth is, the opinion of Wes isn’t all that valuable. For me, a mere man, to think I should freely hand out unsolicited advice is pretty ridiculous.

Even Jesus didn’t walk around offering unasked-for opinions. He engaged people when they approached Him, when they questioned Him, when they invited conversation. He didn’t look at a paralyzed man and say, “You know, if you weren’t on that mat, you’d be walking.” That sounds absurd, but that’s essentially what we do to people sometimes.

As a whole, the Church often rushes to add commentary instead of waiting to be invited into the conversation. But there is power that comes with being invited. There is authority, wisdom, and grace that show up when someone asks. In the same way, there is power and grace when we invite the Lord into our questions instead of assuming we already know the answer.

We need to listen twice as much as we talk. It’s the old grade-school saying for a reason: two ears, one mouth. Even Jesus said He did nothing unless He saw the Father do it first, and He said nothing unless He heard the Father say it first.

So much hurt in the Church has come not from the voice of God, but from the opinions of people. And yes, there’s another issue where people confuse their opinions with God’s voice, but that’s a different conversation for another day. Even when situations look similar to ones we see in Scripture, the answer isn’t automatically to repeat what happened before. Scripture isn’t a formula book; it’s an invitation into God’s wisdom. That’s why Jesus performed similar miracles in different ways. We’re meant to inquire, not assume.

When we act out of our own wisdom and strength, it usually leads to unnecessary labor. And I already create enough of that in my own life.

Let me end with a story.

I walked into a coffee meeting knowing it was going to be confrontational. I’m not afraid of confrontation, though I don’t enjoy it. As the meeting started, I realized the wisest thing I could do was sit down and be quiet. By the grace of God, I actually did it.

I listened. Not just hearing words passively, but actually listening. The person talked for about twenty-five minutes and finally looked at me and said, “You haven’t said anything. Are you okay?” I told them I was fine and that listening was the only way we were going to reach any kind of resolution.

Trust me, it took effort. I wanted to interrupt, defend myself, and jump in. I practically had to keep my hands under the table. But if God is with me, what am I really protecting?

They had called the meeting. They needed to speak. They weren’t looking for my opinion; they needed space to share theirs. And giving them that space mattered.

There have been plenty of times in my life where I didn’t do that, where I forced my opinion on someone. And that’s just not okay.

We see this clearly with Moses and the rock. God gave Moses specific instructions, but Moses inserted his own judgment and struck the rock instead. In doing so, he misrepresented God, making Him appear angry when He wasn’t. When we speak carelessly, especially as believers, we represent God whether we realize it or not. How we speak shapes how others perceive Him.

That’s not their problem. That’s our responsibility.

So here’s my encouragement for the week: listen twice as much as you talk. Let it be a challenge in your conversations with people and in your conversations with God.

Hope you have a great Friday and a good weekend. Love you guys.

Podcast Episode · Daily Bread by LoveSpeaks · 12/13/2025 · 13m

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