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Prayers and Promises

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Because of His grace and truth, to HIS great name, we give glory.

There’s more than meets the eye in this verse. Here’s what I found in my research:

Because God promised to deliver them, not for their sakes, but for his Name, (Isaiah 48:11 – I do this for myself, for my own sake. I will not let people speak evil against me, and I will not let some god take my glory.), therefore they connect their prayer on this promise.

Let no opinion of our own merits have any place in our prayers or in our praises. All the good we do, is done by the power of his grace; and all the good we have, is the gift of his mere mercy, and he must have all the praise. Are we in pursuit of any mercy, and wrestling with God for it, we must take encouragement in prayer from God only.
Matthew Henry

How is His grace and mercy blessing you right now? Comment and let me know. Let’s bless others as we’re blessed in where we are right now.

Me? I personally have to really work at focusing on Adonai. Because life is the way it is around the world right now and being pressed from all sides, it’s easy to get distracted and forget Yahweh’s grace and mercy. I find myself withdrawing from the world and drawing closer to HIM. He is my comfort, my protector, my all!

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Purposeful Life

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With all the social issues going on around us we need to bring out focus back to our Creator, Yahweh. So, this message is strong.

Man was created to live and breathe in an atmosphere of praise-filled worship to The Creator.

Without Yahweh, we are nothing less than self-centered, self-pitying, and complaining (see Gen.3:9–12). But upon receiving salvation and life through Jesus Christ, our daily living calls us to prayer and the Word for fellowship and wisdom in living.

Our daily drawing near to God in that union is to be showered with praise: “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving And into His courts with praise.” Such a walk of praise-filled acceptance to Him will nurture deep devotion, faithful obedience, and constant joy.

We can move into each day that we live knowing that a praise walk is not wild and offhand, nor decreased to insignificant ritual but, a walk of life-saving power is available to those of us who believe in Jesus.

The Holy Spirit is a renewing spirit. The Bible says: He saved us because of His mercy. It was not because of good deeds we did to be right with him. He saved us through the washing that made us new people through the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5).

In order to be renewed by the Spirit, the author, Sherwood Wirt, in his book, Afterglow says,

“We must go to the cross, not only to kneel in reverence, not only to bow in commitment, not only to pick up our cross and carry it but, to be crucified.”

Self-crucifixion means that Christ will send His power into us as individuals by the same Spirit. But, first, as another author/evangelist, Richard Bennet says,

“The Christian has to attend his own funeral–willingly.”

I know, that sounds creepy. But, it’s the truth, isn’t it? We must attend our own carnal spiritual funeral, first, willingly.

I know that is a tough thing to do. However, it’s required to live a Christ-centered life.

I struggle too! You’re not alone.

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God Almighty

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Luke_1_37 imageWhere do you find yourself in life?

Last night my husband and I attended the 2nd, in a series, Bible study at our home church. It’s titled: Growing in God.

I noticed a trend in the responses of the attendees. The trend was that we all wanted to focus on our relationship with God and have a better prayer life, as well as, being in His Word more.

The other thing? We get in our own way on our path to maturity in our faith and believing in an all-powerful God who can do anything.

We tend to think that we have to do everything ourselves to make things happen when and where and how we want. We do not trust Yahweh to allow Him to take the pilot’s seat in our lives.

We need to step back, take a deep look at our faith walk, and take notice of what’s going on.

Ask yourself these questions:

  • What am I doing?
  • Am I in my own way?
  • What do I need to do to step aside and let Yahweh have control?
  • Do I trust Yahweh? If not, why?

Once you work out the answers to these questions apply them to your life.

Remember, Yahweh can do anything!

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What’s In A Leader?

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Real leadership is humility. Jesus said: Whoever wants to become first among you must serve the rest of you like a slave. In the same way, the Son of Man did not come to be served. He came to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many people.” (Matthew 20:27-28). Therefore, as we assume the role of leadership, we should do so with the attitude of Christ.

True leaders are servants first.

What are you doing to be a leader/servant? What style of leader/servant do you have?

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Money, Do You Love It?

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Some do! It has gotten many people into trouble. It can and will and has destroyed people.

Let’s clear up the misuse of this scripture of loving money. Shall we? Yes, we shall.

Many interpret this scripture to mean: having money is what causes evil and all that entails.

Let’s look at that scripture verse again. V. 10: The love of money causes all kinds of evil. Some people have left the faith because they wanted to get more money, but they have caused themselves much sorrow.

It says, the love of money causes all kinds of evil. It’s the love of money. To love money and crave it like it is a drug addiction. Scripture is talking about the desires involved with money. That addiction creates zombies who wreak havoc on life.

When someone is financially endowed it’s what they do with that money that determines whether they’re loving money or using it to bring glory and honor to Yahweh.

If you’re familiar with scripture, you recall, it talks about tithing a 10th of everything we having coming in. That goes for money, food, etc. Consumables.

We should not have a desire to hoard money like it’s the breath of life.

I’ve seen stories where people have found some cash they forgot they had because they hid it in their belongings and later decided to purge and clean up their space to only be surprised to find the cash.

Then there are those who spend money like they have a hole in their pockets. People overspend out of the want of “stuff” that ends up buried in other stuff to be forgotten about because society has this mentality to “keep up with the Joneses”. This mentality has caused so many to be in serious and severe debt. That debt has them under the control of the debt collectors.

At one time, in my past life, I also had this mentality. It’s a slippery slope that one is unable to stop on their own.

The Holy Spirit, Yahweh, Jesus is the only way to have control. Seek HIM, The Great “I AM!” Surrender to HIM and allow Him to help you. HIS Word, the Holy Bible, is a great place to start!

How’s your financial status? What do you do to stay in control?

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Happy Blessings to you all.

Wise Words

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The wise accept when other’s share wisdom because the wise can add to their own wisdom.

Just like it says in verse 7, knowledge begins with respect for the Lord, but fools hate wisdom and discipline.

Only a fool would reject Yahweh’s discipline and wisdom.

We must accept knowledge from others to add to our wisdom. We must live in The Word because it is alive and living itself. It will help build our character and help us be wise, not foolish.

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Let’s be wise. Let’s accept knowledge and apply it to our lives. Share your knowledge to help build other’s up. Bless others and bless yourselves at the same time.

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Faith Risk

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Yahweh needed companionship. He took a risk in creating the world. He took a risk in creating humans. The risk He took was that this would bring great sorrow or great joy. He was taking that chance. Yahweh has faith in us.

There is always a risk in taking a chance in life. Whatever we do in life is taking a chance. We need to have faith. Faith is believing that the chance is worth it and that a loving God will guide us as we live life. Love is acting on that faith.

Yahweh said everything he had made was very good. He had faith that His creation would bring Him great joy. Even though we still bring Him sorrow. He continues to have faith and trusts that His creation will bring Him joy.

All we need to do is trust Him and have faith in Him to meet our needs and to take care of us.

When we feel lonely, He is right there by our side. When we feel sad, He is right there to cheer us up. His word is full of promises to us. Seek His word and trust in faith in Him.

What risk and chance are you taking in life? Comment and let us know. We all need a blessing.

Be A Blessing

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Human nature is to hold a grudge and get revenge. That’s from satan. Yahweh’s character is the opposite. Forgiving and loving and giving blessings.

We’re called to be like Jesus. Is he vengeful and spiteful? By no means.

We know from experience that when we are spiteful and vengeful it never ends well. It full of chaos and evil.

In the scripture, He reminds us that all of us should be in agreement and understanding each other, loving each other as family, being kind and humble.

We’re called to do this so that we’ll receive a blessing. Yahweh sees the good and listens to our prayers. He will not entertain the prayers of the evil.

All one has to do is see the news around the world and notice evil. Yes, there’s good too. The thing is, though, that the evil outweighs the good.

We must be the example to the world to turn that evil around. We must!

What will you do to receive Yahweh’s blessing? We all have a little bit of bad in us that we can change. Even me. Yes, even me! It can be as abstract as our attitudes.

Comment your experience and answer the question. Let’s bless others and also in return be blessed.

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Teamwork

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We’ve all experienced this concept in life. I like this quote:

“United We Stand Divided We Fall” – Aesop

We’ve all been told by our elders when growing up and even as adults to go together wherever we go in public because two are safer than one.

All throughout history some form of this has been stated.

Well, we see in Yahweh’s word that He also says it. Why, because it’s true!

The part about the rope that is woven of three strands is hard to break is very true as well. A good rope made properly is very sturdy. We see ships use a very strong rope to tie off a ship to the dock. Cattle ropers use a good strong rope to rope and tie cattle they’re trying to separate from a herd.

So, the truth of the matter is that two or more is better and stronger than one.

Who’s your team/tribe? Do you have one? If not, why? If so, comment your testimony of your experience with teamwork.

Me? My tribe is the intimate circle of women I experience life with. My larger tribe is the women in this ministry. Even though some or most you have never met me in real life have had some experience with me here online. What has that been like for you? Answer in the comments.