Therefore, prepare your minds for actions, be self-controlled, set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 1 Peter 1:13 We just got done celebrating the birth of Jesus. His whole purpose for his birth was to be the sacrifice for our sins. He is our hope as we wait for His return. As we wait for His return, we need to keep our minds prepared. We need to be mentally alert. One stays mentally alert when we stay in God’s word, memorizing God’s word. We have to be obedient to God’s Word. We need to discipline in the ways of God’s…
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Rejoice With Suffering
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that sufferings produce endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5 Who wants to rejoice in our sufferings? Most people complain and whine about their sufferings. Have you ever rejoiced in your suffering? Have you found joy in our sufferings? I don’t pray for sufferings, trials, etc. However, I do stop and realize through that time; God is teaching me something. Our attitude can help with the suffering. If you remember…
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Put Your Hope In God
Why you downcast, O My Soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my savior, and my God. Psalms 43:5 Life can be hard. It can be depressing. People can zap all your joy out of you. Life experiences can weigh heavy on you. This can make a person’s soul feel down. We can get stuck there. However, we have to keep our hope in our Triune God. We have to trust in His plan for our life. He is not out to get us, to harm us, to hurt us. He is there to mold us, form us, to grow…
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Hope For The Future
“For I know the plans I have for you.” declares the Lord. “plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 God’s will is on most Christians’ minds. We want to be obedient to his will. This thought seems to come to Seniors of high schoolers and college students. What should we do with our life? Where does God want us to be? I have a journey quite far in this life, and this verse has been a guiding post. I have gone through twists and turns to this life’s journey. I keep coming back to this verse…
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Hope
Therefore, since we have such hope, we are very bold. 2 Corinthians 3:12 Hope means a feeling, expectation, and desire for a certain thing to happen. What is your hope founded on? Bold means lack of hesitation or fear in the face of risk or danger. Paul-based his hope on the new covenant. His hope was in Christ Jesus. He refers to the gospel of the law in the earlier verses (You may want to read 1 Corinthians 3:1-10). Paul had confidence in the gospel of Christ. This was the ministry of the Spirit. He had confidence in eternal life through Christ. This was the ministry that showed…
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Prayer Time
Our Father in heaven, Your name is honored as holy. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.] Let’s take some time and focus on prayer. Look up these verses and glean from them. Prayer! It’s a conversation with God. Do you struggle with praying? Is it intimidating to you to pray to God? Is there a right way to…
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Reflection Day
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalm 46:10 Today is Reflection Day! I love reflection day. It’s a time for me to go back and reflect on what God has spoken to me about. It gives me time to pray and seek God about what he wants to change in my life. It gives me time to make a game plan of putting action to what God is telling me and asking of me. Reflection Day gives me a slower pace to grasp what God is telling me. It gives me more time to…
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God’s Mindset
In your relationship with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus. Philippians 2:5 NIV Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus. Philippians 2:5 HCSB This here is a life verse. A verse we should meditate on all day long. This verse here had become my most favorite verse even before I truly understood it. When I came across this verse, I didn’t understand the Mindset of Jesus or the same attitude of Jesus. Those were the words that Got my attention. I wrote two versions of this verse. I recommend you search for a different version. Find the version that resonates with your soul. Jesus’s attitude was of complete…
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Grace Shown
And now for a little moment grace hath been showed from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. Ezra 9:8 Have you been shown grace from God? I have been, and so have you. God has been showing and offering his grace since the beginning. Here in Ezra 9:8, Ezra is telling us how the Israelites have been shown the grace of our Jehovah God. God gave the Israelites the grace he didn’t desert them; he allowed…
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His Grace is Enough
But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Corinthians 12:9 God’s grace is his favoring us with what we don’t deserve. God’s favor is His presence, love, help, and power. When we depend on him or call out to him for help, he gives us a heavenly strength. His grace is all we need. We will let our dependence on him show his magnificent power; God is honored. God’s grace is given to us…