Today’s Scripture: All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. 2 Corinthians 4:15 NIV WOW! Have you ever thought about CAUSING thanksgiving? Can we get lost in our own thanksgivings so that we forget what we are to reflect and display to others? Why ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I am vigilant with thanksgiving.
Today’s Scripture: Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving; Colossians 4:2 NKJ This scripture is directing us to be vigilant in our prayers and to be alert and watchful with thanksgiving. For three days this affirmation has stopped me in my tracks yet I could not find scripturally where I had harvested it. As I ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I have thankfulness in my heart to God.
Today’s Scripture: Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Colossians 3:16 ESV Paul reminds us in his letter to the Colossians that when we live in Christ we find thankfulness in our hearts to God. When we ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I give thanks.
Today’s Scripture: Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. I Chronicles 16:34 NIV Thanks “GIVING” feels different than being thank “FULL” doesn’t it? Giving our thanks to the LORD shares and gives His love and His deeds to others. 1 Chronicles shares with us what to do. Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all his ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: God is really here.
Today’s Scripture: As they listen, their secret thoughts will be exposed, and they will fall to their knees and worship God, declaring, “God is really here among you.” 1 Corinthians 14:25 NLT Tyndale 1996 If unbelievers come and see us will they have this same experience? As they come to our meetings will they be convicted such as these in 1 ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I feel my way towards God.
Today’s Scripture: that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, Acts 17:27 ESV What is really important; our feelings or feeling our way towards God? Although we can not trust our feelings we can trust that if we feel towards God we will find ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I am ready.
Today’s Scripture: Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Matthew 24:44 ESV What will we do today, this hour to ready ourselves for the end? Death makes us reflective yet it should also give us a sense of urgency to prepare our readiness. As Jesus warned the disciples in Matthew 24 we must make ... Continue Reading »