Seriously, can there be a better way to live? you ask your self. God is saying keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly’ (Matthew 11:28-30 TM). I know I’m not perfect but everyday, I get to understand Him better and allow Him to worry in my place.
Remember, weather we like it or not, we’re in a battle, a spiritual one, not physical, one of faith.The bible says the devil just wouldn’t quit, roaming around, looking for whom to devour(1 Peter 5:8). In fact he is your only enemy, no one else. I urge you to “be self-controlled and alert”. However, one thing is certain about this battle, God has done everything necessary for your victory.
Do you know that loving your neighbour as yourself fulfils the entire law in the bible (gal 5;14)? However, we can’t fulfil this law without the Holy Spirit. So we are been urged to keep in step with the Spirit (gal 5; 25). As walking with the Spirit don’t just help us keep the single love law in verse 14 but enables us to do the acts of the sprit listed in 22-23. And finally, walking in the spirit enables us to inherit Gods kingdom 21. How amazing.
Have a wonderful Sunday
I was reading a blog on Tumblr. The writer wrote and I quote, “when fear gets a hold of my heart, I just know that I’m not trusting Him and I’m allowing myself to forget who He is”.
That’s the problem. We easily forget His mightiness. That He sits on the throne of heaven and as big as the earth is, it’s His foot stool. Isaiah 40:12 said He fits the waters of the earth into his palm. How awesome is that?
This same God that is so awesome is saying today, Trust me. Trust me with your whole heart. Don’t think about it “Lean not on your understand”. You don’t have to understand it, trust me. You don’t have to see it, trust me (Proverbs 3:5). The odds are against trusting in your feelings anyways. Do you want to trust in your feelings that is so unstable that in one minute, you can feel more than 3 things; sad, happy, in love, heartbroken … or a God that never change ( Malachi 3:6; Revelations 4:8). You decide. You bother too much. It’s not your problem. It’s his. He says cast your burden on me. Don’t get bothered about it. I can imagine God saying “Give it to me for God sake”. It’s not your problem. Its mine, this is one of the reasons I died in the first place.
I know I have mentioned this example before. There has never been a better time to repeat this. Remember when you were little and you are going to cross the road, mom says bring your hand. You don’t ask questions. There is no need to doubt. She would take you to the other side. If she doesn’t you know she’ll not leave your hand in the middle of the road to save herself. You know she would rather be hit by a car than a car touches you.
God is saying today again. Give me your hand. The same way you gave mom. I’ll guide you through. He is saying I would put myself on the line. I’ll get the car hits. Nothing shall be any means harm you (Luke 10:19). I wouldn’t leave you (Hebrew 13:5) just trust me. I wouldn’t. “The cars are coming too fast Lord”, don’t be anxious (Phil 4:6), don’t be afraid child (Heb 13:6) let’s keep on, I’ll see you through.
I know it’ll take some time, and however it is, there is nothing as powerful as a made up mind (Joyce Meyer). So, make up your mind not to quit, until you totally trust him and I can assure you, you wouldn’t regret it a bit. 1 Corinthians 1:8, I’ll keep you firm to the end.
Trust me, trust me, trust me, He is calling
Trust in The Lord with all your heart(proverbs 3:5). Sometimes, it feels, and looks unreasonable to do so. I agree. But, look at what the other part of the verse says. Lean not on your understand, on your feelings, on your thoughts, your intelligence. Because His ways are not our ways, nor his thoughts ours (Isaiah 55:9). Do we want to trust in our feelings that is so unstable that in two seconds, we can have serval feelings or a God that never change (Malachi 3:6) ? You decide!
Hold on, hold on, trust God. He certainly knows what He is doing.
He’ll give you the desires of your heart(Psalm 37:4) when, you trust in him and do good(Ps 37:3), when you are relentless in doing good (Galatians 6:9). Also when you take delight in Him (Ps 37:4). Let me talk a bit about delighting in Him. See what Ps 37:23 has to say. God says, He’ll make your steps firm. That is, you’ll not fall. God isn’t saying that you wouldn’t face challenges, No! He is saying as long as you trust, have your foundation in Him, delight in Him, you wouldn’t fall. This reminds me of Peter. He choose to step out from the boat. At a point, he lost faith and started stumbling, started to sink. But, he did not drown. See what happened later, he became Jesus’s most ardent, passionate disciple.
So delight in, trust God, take that step, stumble and He’ll defiantly pick you up. You wouldn’t fall
A major part of Romans 2 to 4 discussed our justification via faith and also, obedience and faith as a criteria for righteousness and not our works necessarily. Putting Abraham into perspective. Romans 5 however, highlights that this justification via faith, gives us peace with God, gives us access to his grace and gives us hope to boast in his name.
Have a wonderful day knowing that you have peace, grace and hope via Jesus.
I have come that you may have life and may have it abundantly(John 10:10) . From John 5:40, we have this life by coming to the Father. This coming to the Father also gives us rest(Matthew 11:28). John 6:37 says that He shall by no means cast you out. So come, come, come . Come with your pains, fears and you wouldn’t be the same. He is saying today that you trust Him. That He will do a new thing (Isaiah 43:19).
He loves us with an everlasting and unfailing love. He knows every detail about you and there is nothing you can do to make him love you more and there is nothing you can do to make him love you less
Our thoughts helps to enable our transformation from “ungodly things”. So we ought to think of “Godly things” Philippians 4:8.( You can also refer to Joyce Meyer’s Battlefield of the Mind) .
By thinking in the right manner, we’ll be able to experience God’s will. How wonderful is the will of God; pleasing, good and perfect.
He still does not change. Holy, Holy, Holy is The Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come
Why we should take up the whole amour of God; to be able to stand against the devils schemes (Ephesians 6:11) , to be able to withstand (James 4:7 describes it to be able to resist the devil). But that’s is not what I want to point out today but how we can do this looking at Ephesians 6:14. Through knowledge of the truth. This knowledge of the truth, comes from studying “holding” to God’s word, teaching (John 8:31-32). Through Righteousness. Righteousness is love and faith (1 Thessalonians 5:9). And we can read a lot about love in Corinthians :)
PRAYER: Thank you Lord for another day you have made. Give us the grace to know you more. To study your word to hold on to it. Give us the grace to love You, others and ourselves and have faith in You. Thanks for everything Dad.
I am a research student and this can be difficult at times. This week, you are making lots of progress, the next week you are not. The next week, you find something and its like all you have done previously do not link up.
Most times, you keep asking your self “how on earth did I get here”. But , am encouraging those like me today that He’ll keep you firm to the very end (1 Corinthians 1:8) just like He’ll keep me.
I was going through Ephesians 2:10. Then I broke the verse into three sentences; we’re God’s masterpiece, we’re created in Christ Jesus for good works and God has prepared a journey that He wants us to walk through. I’ll concentrate on the last sentence “God has prepared a journey that He wants us to walk through”. One of those walk is that of light (Ephesians 5:8). Another is that we don’t walk like the “Gentiles”. We should remember we’re a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17) and we are God’s special possession(1 Peter 2:9) . Also, the walk of love. Ephesians 5:2 urges us to walk in love as Christ Jesus did. We can refer to 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 on that. Lastly, the work of faith. He wants us to walk on water just like Peter did (Matthew 14: 22-33). Maybe not literally but by faith. To give it a try. To leave that boat and walk. To leave fear behind and walk. “It’ll not be easy but it’ll be worth it… waving behind at the boat” Joyce Meyer.
Prayer: May God give us the grace to walk according to His will in faith, love, light ’ righteousness , Amen.
How can we know the truth? John 8:31 explains that we should hold on to the teachings of the Bible. What does it mean to hold? It means to believe, to have faith in, to trust… Remember when you were little and you wanted to cross the road and you were with mum and dad, they say “hold me”. You put your trust in them that they would see you safely to the other side of the road. Same here, the bible is saying hold on to my teaching, my word. In John 1: 1 –18, the word was referred to as Jesus. Hence, hold on to Jesus, hold on. He has not failed yet.
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