Jesus Calling Morning and Evening, with Scripture References: Yearlong Guide to Inner Peace and Spiritual Growth (A 365-Day Devotional) (Jesus Calling®)

by Sarah Young

Recognize that as feeling; do not confuse it with reality.

Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.

No matter what you may lose in this life, you can never lose your relationship with Me.

RECEIVE MY PEACE. It is My continual gift to you.

The best way to receive this gift is to sit quietly in My Presence, trusting Me in every area of your life.

When you trust Me in a given area, you release that problem or person into My care.

Spending time alone with Me can be a difficult discipline because it goes against the activity addiction of this age.

You may appear to be doing nothing, but actually you are participating in battles going o...

You are waging war—not with the weapons of the world, but with heavenly weapons, which have divine p...

Living close to Me is a sure defense ...

Joy and Peace.

They can relieve the thirst of your soul.

You don’t have to perform in order to receive My Love.

How it grieves Me to see My children working for Love: trying harder and harder, yet never feeling good enough to be loved.

Be careful that your devotion to Me does not become anot...

Gaze into My eyes, and you will see no condemnation, only Love and delight in the one I see.

I DESIGNED YOU to live in union with Me.

it actually makes you more fully yourself.

Though I may lead you along paths that feel alien to you, trust that I know what I am doing.

In closeness to Me, you are transformed more and more into the one I designed you to be.

As you ponder the miraculous truth that I live in you, let your heart overflow with Joy.

I am not a short-term tenant, indwelling you only as long as your behavior pleases Me.

I have come to stay—pe...

I created you with the capacity to experience foretastes of heaven.

Refuse to worry, because this form of worldliness will weigh you down and block awareness of My Presence.

I whet your appetite to know Me ever more intimately; I gradually change the desires of your heart so they line up more and more with the contents of My heart;

your constant Companion.

Thank Me for your neediness, which is building

trust-bonds

b...

betwe...

So many of My children limp through their lives starved for Love because they haven’t learned

the art of receiving.

This is essentially an act of faith: believing that I love you with bound...

One of his favorite deceptions is to undermine your confidence in My unconditional Love.

The present view helps Me work with you on things you need to change; the heavenly vision enables Me to love you with perfect, everlasting Love.

As you submit to these bonds of Love, I fill you with Life and Joy in overflowing abundance.

soak

drive out

l...

I LOVE YOU WITH an everlasting Love.

constancy.

you tend to project your fickle feel...

Your need for Me is as constant as the outflow of My Love to you.

THOUGH I NEVER LEAVE YOU, you can leave Me by forgetting I am with you.

Whenever you are tempted to grumble, come to Me and talk it out.

TRUST ME ENOUGH to let things happen without striving to predict or control them.

The alternative is to live fully in the present, depending on Me each moment.

Don’t divide your life into things you can do by yourself and things that require My help.

Before you knew Me, you expressed your longing for Me in hurtful ways.