Today’s Scripture: James 4:4 NLT Tyndale: You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with this world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again, that if your aim is to enjoy this world, you can’t be a friend of God. James is laying down some tough love here. A wake up call we need to be reminded of constantly. Don’t you find it ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I MUST continue to follow Jesus.
Today’s Scripture: Colossians 2:6 NLT: And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Have you ever had just a taste of something and knew you just had to have more? What I have tasted and experienced in Christ Jesus I know I MUST have more and I MUST continue to follow Him! The mighty power of God is ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I keep alert and pray.
Today’s Scripture: Mark 14:38 NLT: Keep alert and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you. For though the spirit is willing enough, the body is weak. Jesus made this statement to Simon Peter after returning from His passionate prayer in Gethsemane on the eve of His crucifixion. What an awakening statement in versus 37 where he said to ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I stay with the LORD.
Today’s Scripture: Judges 2:12 NIV: They forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They provoked the LORD to anger The purpose of these affirmations is for us to continue to imprint the nature and the character of God into our hearts. We ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: Jesus and God the Father define me.
Today’s Scripture: Galatians 1:1 (ESV): Paul, an apostle--not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— Paul made it clear who defined him as an apostle: Jesus and God the Father. The same should be true for us. In Galatians 1:10, Paul’s truth is our reality, if we are still trying to ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I gaze upon the beauty of the LORD.
Today’s Scripture: Psalm 27:4 NIV: One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple. If you had one thing to ask of the LORD what would it be? I have found like David that if I gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I am thankful God seeks me.
Today’s Scripture: Ezekiel 34:16 ESV; I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice. “So will I seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day.” ... Continue Reading »