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February 19, 2018
Why God
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6………………………
I was down on my knees, exhausted from a long day, praying briefly before climbing into bed when the Lord told me to do something. Something I had done before, but never to the best of my recollection in the way He told me He wanted me to do it.
Still on my knees, I said, “Why?”
His answer was immediate and emphatic.
“Do you...
Don’t Leave for This Reason
“For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of...
I Feel Worthless
“All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6……………
I feel worthless. Ever felt that way? Feeling that way somewhat now? Or lots right now? I felt that way FOR DECADES. Like I had no value. No worth. No significance. Like I didn’t matter. Like I was utterly worthless. And, the truth is, I was. Worthless. I didn’t just feel that way. I was that way. Seriously? Yes, seriously. In my eyes, yes. And...
February 17, 2018
But God It’s Easier This Way
“and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.” 2 Cor. 5:15-17………….
“Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Phil. 4:11-13………….
I had begun the...
February 16, 2018
Open Doors, Closed Doors
“The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, And He delights in his way.” Psalm 37:23…………
“Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.” Mt. 6:10………….
When a beloved friend and sister in the Lord shared with me how the Lord had “closed” a door of opportunity in her life, and how a woman had called her to tell her the opportunity was “closed”, confirming my friend’s desire to have the Lord close doors for her and open the ones He wanted open, I encouraged her and prayed for her about so...
“Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God wi...
“Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”” Mt. 22:37-40…………..
Now I don’t know about you, but I always thought love is an emotion and that love is an action. Both. And I thought about love in terms of people loving me, and in terms of my loving...
February 15, 2018
A New Creation
“Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad…and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again…Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new…N...
The Gift in You
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.” 2 Cor. 10:3-6…..
“Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in th...
God’s Word for Today
“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable [pleasing in some versions]in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.” Psalm 19:14………..
“Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever…” Hebrews 13:20-...
February 14, 2018
LOVE OBEYS
“Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.” John 14:23-24…………..
“”Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” Mt. 7:21………….
There’s something in my life I don’t want to do. That’s a...
