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January 5, 2017
Translating God by Shawn Bolz
from Instagram: http://ift.tt/2jeO3IQ #Repost @shawnbolz I’m reading Shawn’s book on the prophetic. Main thought Love before Prophecy, the prophetic ministry is meant to connect people to God’s love for them and help them to see. 1 Corinthians 13, the love chapter precedes 14, the prophecy chapter on purpose and by design.
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January 1, 2017
Backseat Driver
from Instagram: http://ift.tt/2hDOYxd Even tundra swans get told how to drive… #backseatdriver #tundraswans
From my Instagram feed
from Instagram: http://ift.tt/2hDOYxd Even tundra swans get told how to drive… #backseatdriver #tundraswans
Flood the earth with rumors of your kingdom
from Instagram: http://ift.tt/2iwXEtN Let rumors of your kingdom flood the earth
Heaven flood the earth
From my Instagram feed
from Instagram: http://ift.tt/2iwXEtN Let rumors of your kingdom flood the earth
Heaven flood the earth
Courage and Standard for 2017
from Instagram: http://ift.tt/2iwdeWC And so begins the New Year, 2017, who would believe it the numbers sound so surreal. There was a time that I thought I wouldn’t make thirty. I guess God doubled-down on his bet since I’ve seen that twice and unlike during the first 30 I hope to see at least another 30.
My eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed, but that now as ever I may do honour to Christ in my own person by fearless courage. — Philippians 1:20 (MOFFATT)
I’m letting that verse be my standard for the year. #philippians1 #newyear2017 #courage #expectation
December 31, 2016
Yesterday
In this free short story, another New Years Eve alone and a serendipitous encounter sends an overly typical guy and America’s most beautiful young starlet on a life-changing journey in her Ferrari.
My story is fun and provides some fodder for thought, and you can also find it at Barnes and Noble, or iTunes. But if you find yourself this New Years Eve thinking today of Yesterday, the following piece from the December 31st entry from Oswald Chambers classic daily devotional, My Utmost for His Highest is some great soul therapy.The following idea is so well said that I have very few additional comments.
If you are looking for more than a feel-good daily devotional you won’t do any better than this classic. You can buy it in paper, electronic, or even get it online for free. His words will get under your skin and do soul surgery.
Isaiah 52:11-12 You who bear the vessels of the Lord. For you shall not go out with haste, Nor go by flight; For the Lord will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
Security FROM Yesterday.
“God requireth that which is past.” At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise from remembering the yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of God’s grace is apt to be checked by the memory of yesterday’s sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them in order to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual culture for the future. God reminds us of the past lest we get into a shallow security in the present.
Security for To-morrow.
“For the Lord will go before you.” This is a gracious revelation, that God will garrison where we have failed to. He will watch lest things trip us up again into like failure, as they assuredly would do if He were not our rereward. God’s hand reaches back to the past and makes a clearing-house for conscience.
Security for To-day.
“For ye shall not go out with haste.” As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, unremembering delight, nor with the flight of impulsive thoughtlessness, but with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us. Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ.
Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
December 29, 2016
Don’t compare yourself with others or judge them…
from My Instagram: http://ift.tt/2iu7lXb
Don’t compare yourself with others or judge them— that is between God and them. -Oswald Chambers from #myutmostforhishighest today. Interesting the verse he’s commentatating on is John 6:66 do you think God planned this? #comparing #judging
