- Lord, I don't want to judge others. Please help me get rid of all the critical thoughts that roil around in my brain. I want to search for the best...to see the good...to look for the treasure. Please open my eyes. Overshadow me with Your merciful, unconditional Love.

+This prayer is all I need to set you in a place of freedom and love. Thoughts are always whirling, many of which have been designed by the enemy of your soul to keep you locked in a prison of unforgiveness. What you must learn is to take advantage of the Gift of the Holy Spirit, Who resides in you, to untangle all the thoughts that set you up for defeat (and separation from the Father's perfect Love). I came that you might have LIFE and the ability to truly love the way your Father loves. This is totally impossible without the empowerment that is yours at all times. You must learn to hand your feelings, which are unstable and often misleading, hand them over to Me! Speak to your soul like David did. Say, 'Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me.' You have the power...all the power you need...to choose what you think. When critical thoughts rise up in your heart, remind yourself that this is a chance to step back and make a choice. Choose this day...this one tiny moment...Who you will serve: Death (judgment and criticalness) or Life (mercy, pardon and forgiveness). The Holy Spirit is more than able to overshadow your responses and to set you on the road to life every time! What is necessary is your willingness to put the judgment down, to release it and to choose to exchange it for mercy. There is a tastiness (brief but real) to these judgmental thoughts. They are remnants of the very first battle for supremacy. The enemy wanted to be chosen over Me. The choice (death) was made. The residual inclination to want to be 'better than' still lives in the old self. This is why the renewed mind and seeking to operate out of it is so critical to your freedom. The enemy wins when you choose to think you are better than someone. Basically, this is what you are saying (even to yourself, when you don't even give voice to the judgment but say it in your head). You think this is a relatively small battle, but, my love, this is the heart of the war for your spirit! You have been born again. The new you understands that all that was sin about you was buried in the tomb with Me! When you criticize and judge, you are trying to revive that old wineskin, the old, dead you! If you try always to remind yourself that judgment is a tool of the enemy of your freedom, you can learn to put down any critical thought of anyone. Remember, He is the accuser! When you accuse, you align yourself with his agenda...with him! So, my little redeemed lamb, you need to repent - have a different thought. This is not impossible, because with God All things are possible...especially things close to His enormous heart! Learning to love like He does is in your power because you live and breathe and move in Me. Choose this day...every minute...who you are going to serve and rest easy, knowing you will be given strength and power to do so. Your weakness is overshadowed and absolved by My Strength. That right there is a good example of how you let go of judgment...just give me your weakness and live in my strength. Your spirit already knows that, ultimately, this battle has already been won. "It is finished."