Today’s Scripture: Like livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. So you led your people, to make for yourself a glorious name. Isaiah 63:14 ESV I am so thankful for the rest I have found in the Spirit of the LORD. Like Isaiah in 63:17 I often wonder why God made us so we could wander away from Him. Yet, ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I am God’s pleasure.
Today’s Scripture: You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for you have created all things, and for your pleasure they are and were created. Revelation 4:11 NKJ How wonderful, how marvelous it is to know that the LORD loves me and created me for His pleasure. O how I want to live as God’s pleasure. The Spirit of God is ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I am equipped by Christ to do my part.
Today’s Scripture: from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. Ephesians 4:16 ESV We already have what it takes. We are equipped to do our part for the one body. Although this world and our flesh tries to ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I am filled with the fullness of God.
Today’s Scripture: and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:19 ESV Paul was attempting to explain this mystery to the Ephesians over two thousand years ago and this is mostly still a mystery today. Do we really grasp what being filled with the fullness of God is all ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: God is with me now.
Today’s Scripture: "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel" (which means, God with us). Matthew 1:23 ESV And they shall call His name Immanuel, which means, GOD WITH US. Jesus came to teach us that God is with us and He came to live among us. Joseph was being assured that Jesus was conceived in ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: God works in me.
Today’s Scripture: for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Philippians 2:13 ESV Do we really grasp how God is working in us now? In Philippians 2:6 in the ESV it states “who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,” and in the KJV it stated “thought it not ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I give what is inside of me.
Today’s Scripture: So give what is inside to the poor, and then everything will be clean for you. Luke 11:41 ISV To give what is inside calls us to live from what is inside of us doesn’t it? I have found that even inside of me I must dig deeper. Just as my outside can send mixed signals so can my inside. The Spirit that dwells within me can be ... Continue Reading »