Thank God I'm Forgiven ! Well TGIF everyday! PTL! Worship and keep using and filling those gratitude lists as you populate them with many praises but especially ! Focus on all the ways that your salvation leads to praise and worship and about who Christ is and what He means to you. (Abide in Him, worship, and reload for the day)
Good Morning Special Possession of God! You are His masterpiece! He is the Potter and we the clay and all that happens has been filtered through His hands which have our names engraved on them. Ponder that some. He is shaping you into the person He created you to be--PTL! He has enabled and gifted and empowered you to grow to your fuller potential in Christ and to do all He created you to do. PTL! Nothing can separate us from His love! PTL! Do as Sarah Young says, say it out loud! I am God's special possession and nothing can separate me from His love--nothing! PTL! And like the Upper Room reminds us, He walks with us. PTL! He is with us, guiding us, molding us and making a way for us to succeed and to glorify Him! PTL!
So...what are you thankful for and who will you share that joyful good news with ? I'm rejoicing for you and praying for you as we all work at going to live and love more and more like Jesus each day. He is for us! Who can be against us? Nothing can separate us from His love, protection, grace and leading, unless we choose to walk away. Please don't! He really loves you and has great plans for you. Abide. Be still. Know He is God and is with you always and then partner up and help each other to grow in His love and go in His love to love many others. Amen! What an easy yoke Jesus offers us as we still ourselves, stop striving in our own strength and trust God has it all covered and will be with us always just as we are. And He's not finished with us yet! PTL! Again I say rejoice! And choose to live this day out of and as an act of worship! He is worthy! Amen!
Sarah Young
UR: God Walks with Us
I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. - Isaiah 41:13 (KJV)
While driving home one day, I stopped at a pedestrian crosswalk to let a young girl and her father cross the road. They held hands as she happily skipped along. She was carefree, eagerly looking up at her dad and talking to him. She never looked where she was stepping or paid any attention to the cars on either side of the crosswalk.
At home, I considered how my walk with the Lord is meant to reflect what I had witnessed. Did I trust my heavenly Father to hold my hand and get me safely through life’s challenges? I could think of several times in my life where I had taken matters into my own hands, impatient and refusing to trust the process to God.
When we try to work things out on our own, the “what ifs” and “maybes” keep us in a place of anxiety and stress. But as we read in scripture, “I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.” Just as the little girl trusted her father, we can trust our heavenly Father to walk beside us and keep us safe.
's Prayer
Faithful Lord, help us to trust your promise never to leave us, nor forsake us. Lead us beside still and quiet waters as we keep our focus on you. Amen.
