God has been blessing me to share these mini Bible studies on YouTube, and I thought I'd share here, too. As I post these, let me know if they're a blessing, which I pray they are, and if you see something specific to improve on. ⛽️📖🚗GAS Station:🚗📖⛽️ ☝️✝️God's✝️☝️💥Amazing💥 📖Scripture!📖 https://youtube.com/shorts/-gl8Cs_bzM4?feature=share

I really feel the need to get this story out into the world so it can help people through its moral lesson--not only kids, but also their parents and teachers--but I want to make sure it's quality in the process. What can I improve about this opening (comment below), and which version do you like better of the two (poll)? (Oh, and can you guess what the moral will be?) 👩 Cinderella 👩 and the 🪽 Fairy 🪽 🤵 Oddfather: 🤵 An Offer She 🚫 Can't 🚫 ✋️ Refuse 🤚 (Or Can She?) A comedic retelling of the classic fairy tale, adapted by John Andrew Lang and Kris Jim Murdock Version 1 (Narrative): Work, toil, sweat! Work, toil, sweat! Never done, never good enough. Would it never end? Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Ella who had no time to do anything except chores day in and day out for her stepsisters and stepmother, who never did any work themselves and never showed any appreciation for her help. She barely even had time to sleep at night. It had been that way ever since her father’s death. Without him around to stand up for her, the stepmother and stepsisters made her do everything around the house, including cleaning the ashes and cinders from the fireplace. She always got cinders all over her dress, her hands, her feet, and even her face, just like confetti at a birthday party. Except she never got invited to birthday parties. And it didn’t look bright and colorful; it looked dingy and dirty and messy. And nobody picked it up and threw it at her like confetti. They felt plenty mean enough to do that, but they didn’t want to get their own hands dirty. Sometimes one of the stepsisters picked up the whole cinder bucket and dumped it on her, though, which meant not only that poor Ella got even filthier than before, but also that she had to redo all her fireplace cleaning. Then both stepsisters and the stepmother chuckled and chortled and cackled and gackled and hooted and hollered with laughter until their faces turned as red as sunburnt lobsters in the Red Sea (if it were actually red). and tears ran down their faces. And down her face, too, of course.

Without looking to and trusting in God, we are a broken, mediocre people at best. God only is faithful when we need Him and even when we feel like we don't need Him. Let us look to God every day, to sustain, protect, and strengthen us. Our own strength, knowledge, wisdom, and power is going to fail. Let us make a habit of trusting God with our lives, to lead and guide us in the path He desires.

If we look out at the world, there is a lot to be fearful of. Gas prices, groceries prices insecurities, faults, flaws, mental health issues, wars, sickness, disease, and the list goes on. In this verse, Joshua was commanded by God multiple times to be courageous and strong to possess the land which God promised the people of Israel. This verse can apply to us also, that we are to be strong and courageous. In order to reach others with the love of Christ and to serve our neighbors in this world. When we are weak and afraid, let us look to God and His Word for strength.

Work in progress, probably the basis for some short Bible study videos. (Also reminds me of a Scripture @John Jackson shared the other day about not being overcome by evil, but overcoming evil with good. Thank you, John Jackson!) "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing." (1 Peter 3:9 KJV) Love is stronger than hate. If you operate on hate, you put yourself and your victim on a floor so weak that when you make them your doormat and wipe your feet on them, you’ll cave in the floor under both of you. If you operate on love, you put yourself and the other person on a floor strong enough to support you both, and when you lift that person up to the next level, they can reach down and pull you up after them, and many will do so out of gratefulness. But even if they don’t, you will have the satisfaction of knowing not only that you’ve done the right thing for them, but that you’re still on a solid floor that won’t cave in under you. Besides that, if you’re humble in God’s sight, He’ll lift you up at the right time, whether or not the person you helped ever lets Him use them to do His lifting.