Thursday, 31 March 2022
Saturday, 26 March 2022
My Message For Today...."LOVE & ACCEPTANCE ".
I just loved this morning meditation from the abide app.
it so funny yesterday I asked Sophie to open my new book at a page and it was about accepting people as they are. And forgiving them WOW!!!!!!!
I always put lady gaga songs on to get Emilia to sleep. The playlist I put on was the one with the sound tracks from her film "Star is Born". One came on and I was like,.. Ive never heard that song in the film. But when I went to Google it, it was.
The video I got was clips of the film but the main part was about her getting married to Jack (Bradley Cooper).
I also found this picture with the lyrics from the song when I was doing my search. And these lyrics stood out to me...I WOULD BE HONOURED IF YOU WOULD TAKE ME AS I AM..I WANT YOU TO LOOK RIGHT IN MY EYES TO TELL ME YOU LOVE ME
So the message I got from this morning is .... God loves us exactly the way we are and he forgives us our sins. So we must be like God and forgive other people, even sandpaper ones just like it says in my book
“For this is how God loved the world: He gave[a] his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
GOD IS LOVE
Thursday, 24 March 2022
Sandpaper People Book
Chapter 1
Be Loving: Recognize Their Worth
The words of Psalm 139 beautifully express the heart of God toward each and every one of us.
You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be (verses 13-16).
Page 15 : A healthy self-image is not one of pride or arrogance, but one that coincides with God's viewpoint. It is choosing to accept God's evaluation, learning to see ourselves as God sees us, agreeing with who we are in His eyes, and giving Him permission to make us what He designed us to be. In His eyes, every person is valuable sandpaper and all. Sinful and broken, wounded and sick, sand paper people are why He came. With tenacity and stubborn love, He pursues those whom others only shun--like the woman at the well.
Page 36 v STEP 5: SERVE OTHERS
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves (Romans 12:20).
Because I am basically a self-centered person, the last thing I usually want to do is to serve someone who is hard to get along with and rubs me the wrong way. In fact, the way I figure it, they should be serving me in order to make up for all of the grief they have caused. Sandpaper people are hard to serve and hard to help because they rarely, if ever, think of themselves as someone in need. The needs of others are not high on their priority list, but control and power definitely are. To manipulate is to succeed. Sandpaper people honestly believe the world does or should revolve around them. It doesn't seem to matter if the audience is applauding or jeering. Either way, they win.
Thursday, 17 March 2022
Encounter Meditation March 2022.
Bible Devotional "Real Friends"
Wounds that heal
“Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
profuse are the kisses of an enemy.”
An enemy may tell us what we want to hear. A real friend will tell us what we need to hear.
All of us have blind spots. All of us have flaws, weaknesses, and sins. We need people in our lives who will challenge us gently and lovingly. People who know us. People we trust.
All of us need people like this in our lives. In fact, if we do not have people like this, we are in trouble. We might be headed for a disaster. Certainly, we will never become the man or woman that God intends us to become.
If you are married, surely your spouse challenges you—hopefully, in a gentle and loving way. But you need more than your spouse. You need friends, real friends, who love you enough to confront you. You need a small group, a group where there is genuine community and not pseudo-community. We all need people like this in our lives. It is simply God’s way of transforming people.
To challenge someone is an act of love. It’s never fun, but you don’t do it because it’s fun, you do it because you care about the person. That’s why parents have no problem confronting their kids. They care. Parents are more concerned with loving their kids than pleasing their kids. They are lovers, not pleasers, when it comes to their children. If you are a lover, you confront. If you are a pleaser, you shrink back in cowardice.
I offer two cautions:
- If someone is not open to challenge or not teachable, don’t go to them. “Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you”
- Go directly to the person. If you go to someone who is not part of the problem or part of the solution, that’s gossip, not love. “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone.”
Don’t get carried away with challenging people. God has not given you the spiritual gift of criticism. But if you love someone, there will be times when you need to challenge them. Perhaps it’s a problem with pride, a problem with honesty, a problem with drinking, or a problem with the way they treat their spouse.
When these occasions arise, go to the person. Lovingly, gently, and humbly go for their sake because you care.
“Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the
wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.”
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
After Jen Catch-up ❤️
https://abide.co/prayer/ngauwk
John 10:11 This meditation from John 10 is about coming to know the nature and character of God who knows you. You are never alone because He is always checking in. https://app.encounteringpeace.com/library/god-knows-you
Sunday, 13 March 2022
Engage With God
Engage with God’s Word:
(1) Ask God to help you understand, believe, and be transformed as you read his Word.
(2) Summarize the passage into one phrase or sentence.
(3) Copy the key verses into your journal or notebook.
(4) Write down any thoughts, impressions, or questions you may have.
(5) Ask God to show you how this passage applies to your life today.
(6) Pray for faith to act on anything God might be asking you to do.
Saturday, 12 March 2022
Abide Meditation Daniel 4:37
0:53… in the book of Daniel king Nebuchadnezzar was disciplined by the Lord because he believed that everything he accomplished was due to his great power and majesty. Because of his pride God caused him to become like one of the beast eating grass in the field like an ox. That's certainly work because in Daniel 4:37 The king said "Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and exalt and glorify the king of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
1:47...Take a moment and reflect on the verse do you recognise the power of God's help in healing in your life. Do you let pride cloud your faith. Humble yourself before God and let him lift you up. The proverbs are full of warnings against pride but Nebuchanezzar wouldn't have paid any attention to Solomon ancient writtings. Yet we have them ready available to us especially this one
"Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall"
2:37...Father God rescue me from my pride. I might not think I have an issue with it but anytime I give myself credit for something and forget about you I'm falling short of your glory. In you I live and move and have my being as acts 17:28 says. So I know I know that you gave me all my gifts and abilities. Only in you are they made complete and only for your glory should I be using them not my own. May it be so lord Amen.
3:14... As we talked about pride today take a position of humility if you are able perhaps lying face down on the ground or just kneeling before God's but even if you can't, humble your heart as you breathe deeply.
4:00.. Where God has revealed pride in your heart confess that to him now. Ask him to teach you to recognise when pride is getting in the way of your faith and to trust him and his sovereign control.
4:44...Having a right view of yourself is an important characteristic for your spiritual growth as both Peter and James quote from proverbs 34 "God resists the proud but gives Grace to the humble.
Listen again to Daniel 4:37 in the NIV version
"Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble".
5:24...As I read that again ask God to highlight a word or a phrase for you "Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble". what can you focus on in this time of meditation
6:19...Daniel a lowly captive from Judah counseled the king "Therefore your majesty be pleased to accept my advice, renounce your sins by doing what is right and you're wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be then that your prosperity will continue" How would you take such councel?
7:14...Listen now to Daniel 4:37 in the AMP version in the Bible. Listen for something new that stands out to you.
"Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and faithful and His ways are just, and He is able to humiliate and humble those who walk in [self-centered, self-righteous] pride.”
what stood out to you from this translation.
8:15...Think about the words of Daniel's warning to Nebuchanezzar mentioned earlier. "Renounce your sins by doing what is right and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. Jesus taught his disciples that to be great in God's Kingdom you must become a servant of all. And Jesus certainly was that. How does the words affect you and how do you feel about being a servant?
9:11...Listen one last time to Daniel 4:37 from the (MSG).
“ That’s why I’m singing—I, Nebuchadnezzar—singing and praising the King of Heaven: “Everything he does is right, and he does it the right way. He knows how to turn a proud person into a humble man or woman.
I'm going to walk you through Daniel 4 :30-34 pausing for you to ponder the words.
He Nebuchadnezzar said " is not this the great Babylon! I have built as the royal resident by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty.
10:25...Even when the words were on his lips, a voice came from heaven, This is what is decreed for you King Nebuchadnezzar, your royal authority has been taken from you. You will be driven from people and will live with the wild animals. You will eat grass like the ox. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge the Most High is sovereign over all the kingdoms of earth and gives them to anyone he wishes.
11:25... Immediately what had been said about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven from people and ate grass like a ox, his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like he feathers of an eagles and his nails like claws of a bird.
12:13... At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes towards heaven and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High. I honored and glorified him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion. His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
13:10... Lord You are worthy of all our praise. I don't want to just brush off other people's compliments like they don't matter, but I don't want to take full credit for myself either. Help me to see how thinking I'm all that, can hinder my faith in you to accomplish through me and all you want to do. I don't want to get in the way of your purpose and your plan for my life. When everything is stripped away you remain. I am grateful in jesus' name I pray amen.
Doing frequent heart checks will help you keep a reing on your pride. Ask yourself am I doing this on my own acclaim or God's. In whom do I trust...Until next time may you abide in Christ.
Pride Hinders...Humility Exalts
Love this video❤️ Humility has came up a lot just now. I was looking for a photo for the blog and I found this one but what I also found was this blog that it was in. I could relate to a lot of what was written...
Friday, 11 March 2022
Devotional Isaiah 55:6-9.
https://youtu.be/V2asZ15Xkdk
God calls us to seek him, to call on him, and invites even the wicked to return to the Lord. What will happen when we do this? God will “have compassion on” us. The parallelism of Hebrew poetry then gives us another way of saying that God will exercise compassion toward us: “He will abundantly pardon.” This is profound consolation for us as we find ourselves time and again wandering away from the Father, looking for soul calm anywhere but in his embrace and instruction.
Returning to God in fresh contrition, however ashamed and disgusted with ourselves, he will not tepidly pardon. He will abundantly pardon. He does not merely accept us. He sweeps us up in his arms again.
But notice what the text then does. Verses 8 and 9 take us deeper into this compassion and abundant pardon. Verse 7 with its language of abundant pardon and compassion. That’s telling us what God does. But verses 8 and 9—when it speaks of God’s ways not being our ways, and his thoughts not being our thoughts—that’s not just telling us what God does, that’s actually drilling more deeply into who he is.
When Isaiah 55 follows up God’s promises of compassion and abundant pardon by saying that his thoughts and ways are not our thoughts and ways, that’s God telling us that we cannot view his expressions of mercy with our old eyes. Our very view of God must change.
What would we say to a seven-year-old who, upon being given a birthday gift by his loving father, immediately scrambled to reach for his piggy bank to try to pay his dad back? How painful to a father’s heart. That child needs to change his very view of who his father is and what his father delights to do.
God’s heart of compassion confounds our intuitive predilections about how he loves to respond to his people if they would but dump in his lap the ruin and wreckage of their lives.
He isn’t like you. Even the most intense of human love is but the faintest echo of heaven’s cascading abundance. His heartful thoughts for you outstrip what you can conceive. He intends to restore you into the radiant resplendence for which you were created.
And that is dependent not on you keeping yourself clean but on you taking your mess to him. He doesn’t limit himself to working with the unspoiled parts of us that remain after a lifetime of sinning.
His power runs so deep that he is able to redeem the very worst parts of our past into the most radiant parts of our future. But we need to take those dark miseries to him.
When Jesus showed up seven hundred years after Isaiah prophesied and revealed his deepest heart as “gentle and lowly,” he was proving once and for all that gentle lowliness is indeed where God loves to dwell. It is what he does. It is who he is. His ways are not our ways.
Isaiah 55:6-9 NLT...Seek the Lord while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near. Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously. “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Message For Today 10th March 2022
This morning Abide meditation
was about light and darkness.(John 12:35). Then I went on to Facebook and seen this post
The Bible says through Paul a Apostle of Christ, "For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ... Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal" Amen.
2 Corinthians 4:6-7,18 NIV
Keyword to the scriptures is:
'LIGHT'.
For, GOD IS LIGHT and we who believe in Jesus have His Light in us. 1John 1:5 (Do read)
"This is the life-giving message we heard him share and it’s still ringing in our ears. We now repeat his words to you: God is pure light. You will never find even a trace of darkness in him." 1 John 1:5 TPT.
That is why Matthew 5:16 says, "In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven" amen.
So we carry God's Light in us. One day our bodies will perish, but inwardly our spirit is renewed daily as we walk by faith and SHINE CHRIST LIGHT to others.
For even though we cannot see God and heaven, but we focus on Jesus, being THE TRUE LIGHT. Here on earth is temporal, for we are here and then gone oneday, but we focus on heavenly things that are eternal.
For, let our life of Christ shines here, knowing that oneday we will fully SHINE being in God's presence which is eternal, forever, amen
💥JESUS💥
the Light of the world.
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Message For 9th March 2022 "Proverb 31:20".
Template For The Today's Scripture
1. RECEIVE.
Prepare your heart to hear from God. Try a simple prayer like this…
Heavenly Father, please help me understand this Bible verse.
…and then read the Verse For Today : Proverb 31:20
"She extends a helping hand to the poor and opens her arms to the needy."
2. REFLECT
Ask yourself what this verse might be trying to say, and think deeply on your answers.
3. RESPOND.
Use this verse as the basis for a prayer.
Romans 8:28-29
Template For The Today's Scripture
1. RECEIVE.
Prepare your heart to hear from God. Try a simple prayer like this…
Heavenly Father, please help me understand this Bible verse.
…and then read the Verse For Today :Romans 8:28-29 NLT
"And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters".
2. REFLECT
Ask yourself what this verse might be trying to say, and think deeply on your answers.
3. RESPOND.
Use this verse as the basis for a prayer.
Sunday, 6 March 2022
Abide In his Word 6th March 2022
Then I watched this video by Joyce Meyer and something stood out from it xx
https://fb.watch/bAiyGQWsJm/
https://fb.watch/bAiyGQWsJm/
Saturday, 5 March 2022
God's Word For 5th March 2022. "GRACE"
Today's word is "GRACE" through today's meditation I was once again reminded that it is not what I do, but what Christ did that earns me grace. I like this anagram for GRACE.... God's Redemption At Christ's Expense. The first time I heard it it was "God's Riches At Christ Expense" but I like the word redemption instead of riches. Because Christ paid a very expense price for my redemption.
Here is a link which I found that explains it well .....
Thursday, 3 March 2022
God's Word For 4th March 2022 : "WORD"
1) This morning Hebrews 4:12 NLT...For the "WORD" of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.
2) Last night in our recovery zoom meeting, we were talking about cleaning our inner self. One of the scriptures was
Matthew 23:26...Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
This is exactly what God's Word does. It helps to expose the dirt inside to be cleaned .
3) Today's Devotion is from Hebrews 4 as well.
4) DAY 63 : Qualified
Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you’” (Exodus 3:13–14).
The Lord says: “I have brought you to a burning bush moment as I did with Moses. Just as I delivered him of his insecurities regarding what to say and how to say it and sent him with a full mouth, so your insecurities are about to disintegrate by the blistering hot heat of My deliverance fire.”
You may feel unqualified to use your voice for the sake of the Kingdom for a myriad of reasons. Yet the Lord reminds you today: “It is My words in your mouth. All I’m looking for is a surrendered heart and an open mouth so that I can fill you up with My words of power.”
The Lord continues: “When I created you, I put inside you the capacity to speak My words. When I formed you, I created the skill to steward revelation. Don’t allow insecurity and the lie of disqualification to make you feel that you’re not qualified and handpicked to speak My words. “You are qualified to speak! You are qualified to roar! You are qualified to prophesy! You are qualified to decree! You are qualified to release words of power! You are qualified!”
RECEIVE : Receive freedom today from the lies of being unqualified that the enemy wants to use to bind your voice. We break these lies off of you in Jesus’s mighty name! You are free today.
God's Word For Me "Listen"
This morning the word the Lord gave me was "Look"
It's funny when I got the word I thought of the green cross code that I remember being taught when I was young ...Stop...Look ...Listen. because yesterday word was listen!! Maybe my word for tomorrow will be Stop 😂😂
My scripture I got at the end of last year was Psalm 105:4...Look to the Lord and His strength. Seek His face always.
And look at tonight's Abide Meditation
Proverb 4:25-26....Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.
26 Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways.
Scripture For My New House
I was looking for a scripture for my new 🏠 and I used the number of the house 161. And I just love it, very fitting indeed 😇
Keep me safe, O God, for I have come to you for refuge. I said to the Lord, “You are my Master! Every good thing I have comes from you.” The godly people in the land are my true heroes! I take pleasure in them! Troubles multiply for those who chase after other gods. I will not take part in their sacrifices of blood or even speak the names of their gods. Lord, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing. You guard all that is mine. The land you have given me is a pleasant land. What a wonderful inheritance! I will bless the Lord who guides me; even at night my heart instructs me. I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice. My body rests in safety. For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave. You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever.
Psalms 16:1-11 NLT
You Need A Church Family
Three Reasons You Need a Church Family.
CURRENT TEACHING SERIES
How the Church Meets Your Deepest Needs
Three Reasons You Need a Church Family
By Rick Warren — 03/03/2022
“Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.”
Romans 12:4-5 (NLT)
When it comes to going to church, God doesn’t want you just to attend church—he wants you to belong to a church family.
The Bible says, “Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other” (Romans 12:4-5 NLT).
I can always tell the difference between a Saddleback church attender and a church member. An attender will come up to me in the grocery store and say, “Pastor Rick, I love your church.” They say your church. But a member says, “Pastor Rick, I love our church.”
Have you made that jump? Have you made the switch from consumer to contributor, from attender to member, from longing to belonging? Here are three reasons why you should belong to a church family:
A church family helps you focus on God. These days it’s easy to get distracted by details, disturbances, dead-ends, delays, and difficulties. But coming together with a church family will help you focus on God. The more you choose to focus on God, the bigger he gets in your mind and the smaller your problems become.
A church family helps you face life’s problems. Right now, you’re in one of three positions. Either you just came out of a problem, you’re in the middle of a problem, or you’re headed into the next problem. Life is a series of problems that God never meant for you to handle on your own. That’s why he built a support group of people around you—the church—who are right there in the fight with you. You’re not alone.
A church family helps you fortify your faith. Fortify means to strengthen, to reinforce, and to develop. When you’re in relationship with other people in God’s family, you get the right support. They encourage you to create the right priorities, helping you decide what’s trivial and what matters most. This clarifies your values and fortifies your faith.
There are a lot of ideas in the world today that just aren’t true and make it easy to lose sight of God’s purpose for your life. Belonging to a church family helps you focus on God, face life’s problems, and fortify your faith. And that will make all the difference in your life.
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Second Word For The 2nd March 2022...RUN THE RACE.
Run the Race
I am giving you strength for the journey ahead. I am throwing off the discouragement and frustration that has attached itself to you from where you have felt like the plans over your life have been delayed.
I call you today to come into and trust my timing. I am not far off or in the business of making you suffer. I do know, however, the time and seasons of your life. I know when to come and when you need to wait. I know when is best.
Choose to trust in my timing. I am giving you the endurance you need to run the race with great strength and perseverance. Do not grow weary or tired in the waiting for I am moving and making all my plans work out for your good. This is who I am.
Hebrews 12:1 (NIV)
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Isaiah 40:31 (NIV)
[T]hose who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Today's Gentle & Lowly Devotional also has Hebrews 12:1-2 NLT as it's scripture....
A compassionate doctor has traveled deep into the jungle to provide medical care to a primitive tribe afflicted with a contagious disease. He has had his medical equipment flown in. He has correctly diagnosed the problem, and the antibiotics are prepared and available.
He is independently wealthy and has no need of any kind of financial compensation. But as he seeks to provide care, the afflicted refuse. They want to take care of themselves. They want to heal on their own terms. Finally, a few brave young men step forward to receive the care being freely provided.
What does the doctor feel? Joy.
His joy increases to the degree that the sick come to him for help and healing. It’s the whole reason he came. How much more if the diseased are not strangers but his own family? So with us, and so with Christ.
Christ does not get flustered and frustrated when we come to him for fresh forgiveness, for renewed pardon, with distress and need and emptiness. That’s the whole point. It’s what he came to heal. He went down into the horror of death and plunged out through the other side in order to provide a limitless supply of mercy and grace to his people.
When you come to Christ for mercy and love and help in your anguish and perplexity and sinfulness, you are going with the flow of his own deepest wishes, not against them.
We tend to think that when we approach Jesus for help in our need and mercy amid our sins, we somehow detract from him, lessen him, impoverish him. As truly God, Christ cannot become any more full; he shares in his Father’s immortal, eternal, unchangeable fullness. Yet as truly man, Christ’s heart is not drained by our coming to him; his heart is filled up all the more by our coming to him.
To put it the other way around: when we hold back, lurking in the shadows, fearful and failing, we miss out not only on our own increased comfort but on Christ’s increased comfort. He lives for this. This is what he loves to do. His joy and ours rise and fall together.
Our unbelieving hearts tread cautiously here. Is it not presumptuous audacity to draw on the mercy of Christ in an unfiltered way? Shouldn’t we be measured and reasonable, careful not to pull too much on him?
Would a father with a suffocating child want his child to draw on the oxygen tank in a measured, reasonable way?
Our trouble is that we do not take the Scripture seriously when it speaks of us as Christ’s body. Christ is the head; we are his own body parts. How does a head feel about his own flesh? The apostle Paul tells us: “He nourishes and cherishes it” (Eph. 5:29). And then Paul makes the explicit connection to Christ: “just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body” (Eph. 5:29–30).
How do we care for a wounded body part? We nurse it, bandage it, protect it, give it time to heal. For that body part isn’t just a close friend; it is part of us. So with Christ and believers. We are part of him. This is why the risen Christ asks a persecutor of his people, “Why are you persecuting me?” (Acts 9:4).
Jesus Christ is comforted when you draw from the riches of his atoning work, because his own body is getting healed.
Hebrew 12:1-2
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.
First of God's Word For 2nd March 2022 is "LOVE"
My word for today was "LOVE" and the scripture I received was
PSALM 86
A prayer of David.
1 Bend down, O LORD, and hear my prayer; answer me, for I need your help.
2 Protect me, for I am devoted to you. Save me, for I serve you and trust you. You are my God.
3 Be merciful to me, O Lord,
4 Give me happiness, O Lord, for I give myself to you.
5 O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help.
6 Listen closely to my prayer, O LORD; hear my urgent cry.
7 I will call to you whenever I'm in trouble, and you will answer me.
8 No pagan god is like you, O Lord. None can do what you do!
9 All the nations you made will come and bow before you, Lord; they will praise your holy name.
10 For you are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God.
11"Teach me your ways, O LORD, that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you.
12 With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God. I will give glory to your name forever,
13 for your love for me is very great. You have rescued me from the depths of death.*
14 O God, insolent people rise up against me; a violent gang is trying to kill me. You mean nothing to them.
15 But you, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to get angry
16 Look down and have mercy on me. Give your strength to you servant; save me, the son of your servant.
17 Send me a sign of your favor. Then those who hate me will be put to shame, for you, O LORD, help and comfort me.
Insights from :
86:1-5 Even though we may be trying to serve and trust God, we still may be bound by addic tions and problems from which we need deliverance. Sometimes the answers don't come quickly, and though we pray constantly, nothing seems to happen. We may become impatient and begin to wonder if God will ever act. God will ultimately respond with forgiveness and compassion to all who call on him. Sometimes, though, we may have to wait awhile before we experience changes in our lives.
86:11-17 We only know God's will as we seek to know him through prayer and the study of his Word. The more we know about God, the more we know what he expects of us. As we get to know God better, we will discover that he gives us not only direction but also the strength andencouragement we need to walk the pathway he has chosen for us.
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Tuesday, 1 March 2022
Lion Bite "Listen & Hear" Day 61
DAY 61
Listen and Hear Him
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me (John 10:27).
I have put the gifts of My Spirit inside you, My child. I have given you the gift of knowing and hearing My voice. You dwell in the proximity of My words and voice always. You are close to Me. It is not difficult for you to hear My voice.
You are next to Me, and you hear My whispers of love, My declarations, My commands. I have placed the gift of hearing My voice inside you. You are one with Me, and you know Me just as I know you. You know My tone. You know My heart; hear My affirmation of you in My every breath. It is not hard for you to do this.
Breathe and listen.
Breathe.
Listen.
I am speaking to you now. Hear My voice. See what I am saying to you.
Receive My affirmations of love to you today. Welcome My words of encouragement and edification. Catch My words of strategy for life and work.
Accept My words and embrace them. I long to build you in strength and truth. Hear My heart for you and be edified today.
ACTION Take time each day to quiet yourself and listen for God’s voice. He is speaking to you throughout every day.
Start a new notebook and write down in it what He is saying to you. Practice the “art of listening” each day.
It will become easier and more natural the more you repeat this exercise. You may even want to draw what you see, alongside what you hear. In time you will begin to hear God speaking when you haven’t deliberately silenced yourself.
Repeat the practice daily, asking the questions: “What do You want me to hear from You today, Lord?,” “What do I need to hear?,” and “What are You excited to share with me?”
Lion Bite "Fresh Adventure" Day 60.
DAY 60
Are You Ready for a Fresh Adventure?
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! (2 Corinthians 5:17)
My child, I have made you for a purpose and for such a time as this. You are blood-bought, a new creation, and I have many incredible, heavenly assignments for you to fulfill. I am ready for a fresh adventure with you!
Are you ready to follow Me down some paths that you have never walked before? There are places that I want to take you that you thought you were disqualified from visiting. But that was a lie! Those paths and places are for you. I have qualified you.
You are in Me and therefore the new things are for you. It is time to rip out the old thoughts that you had about yourself and prepare to be amazed at what you will be able to accomplish when you walk in step with all that I say about you.
DECREE Pray the following or use your own words: “Father, I am ready for a new adventure with You. I choose to stop thinking that I am not worthy and instead make the decision today that I will believe what You say about me. Renew my mind, Lord!”
God's Word For Me Today "GENTLE"
Proverbs 15:1...If you find yourself answering with harsh and emotional words when you feel attacked, I pray this meditation from proverbs 15 will help you learn a new and gentle response that turns away anger.
Word For Me Today "Turn"
Word For Me Today "TURN"
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