Invitation to The Lord’s Salvation

Validation from Man… No👎

You were Validated the moment God created you in your mother’s womb. 💖👑💖

How about Adoration for The Lord instead…

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One Mission ✝️ One Heart 💖 One Mind 🕊

Invitation to The Lord’s Salvation

“Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink— even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk—

it’s all free!

Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for food that does you no good? Listen to me, and you will eat what is good.

You will enjoy the finest food. “Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life. I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.

See how I used him to display my power among the peoples. I made him a leader among the nations.

You also will command nations you do not know, and peoples unknown to you will come running to obey, because I, the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, have made you glorious.”

Seek the Lord while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near. Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong.

Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.

Isaiah 55:1‭-‬7 NLT

Making The Most Of The Moment

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

Abraham Lincoln

Simplify your life by making the best use of your time. You can accomplish this by becoming more organized, procrastinating less, or planning ahead. But there’s another way to make the most of your time that has nothing to do with becoming more efficient. It has to do with slowing down the pace of your life.

Imagine two people who have each won a yearlong true around the world. One of them decides to cram in as many cities as possible. He spends the night in 365 different locations, flying out each morning to a new locale. The second chooses the top twelve countries she’s always wanted to visit. She spends a month exploring each country by car, train, and ferry, choosing to spend more or less time at each location according to her interests. Which person do you feel has made the most of his or her time?

The answer is not black-and-white. However, chances are that the woman with the slower itinerary will remember more about individual destinations, will have started relationships along the way, and will return more physically and mentally refreshed that the fellow on the whirlwind tour.

When Jesus promised you and abundant life, he meant that each day of your life would be filled more completely with what mattered – love, joy, and peace. When life speeds up, and every moment is filled with tasks demanding to be accomplished before bedtime, it is easy to miss what God has set aside for you to enjoy along the way.

Each new day is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Slowing down to savor the little things – a blazing sunset, a chance meeting with a friend, a kiss on the check from someone you love – will help you make every moment count toward a more abundant life.

One Final Thought

The abundant life and the simple life are synonymous when each moment is filled with only God’s best.

The Value of Life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them.

Michel de Montaigne

Credits:
The Holy Bible, The New King James Version
Renewing Minds Press – Living Simply – Enjoying the Peace of God

God Promises – Day 12

And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God Is Love, and he who abides in love
abides in God, and God in him. We love Him because He first loved us.

1 John 4:16, 19 NKJV

God Is Love

I WANT YOU TO EXPERIENCE the riches of your salvation: the Joy of being loved constantly and perfectly. You make a practice of judging yourself, based on how you look or behave or feel. If you like what you see in the mirror, you feel a bit more worthy of My Love.

When things are going smoothly and your performance seems adequate, you find it easier to believe you are My beloved child. When you feel discouraged, you tend to look inward so you can correct whatever is wrong.

Instead of trying to “fix” yourself, fix your gaze on Me, the Lover of your soul. Rather that using your energy to judge yourself, redirect it to praising Me. Remember that I see you clothed in My Righteousness, radiant in My Perfect Love.

Ephesians 2:7-8 NLT

So God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the incredible wealth of his grace and kindness toward us, as shown in all he has done for us who are united with Christ Jesus. God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God.

Hebrews 3:1 NLT

And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and are partners with those called to heaven, think carefully about this Jesus whom we declare to be God’s messenger and High Priest.

Psalms 34:5 NLT

Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces.

Credits:
Sara Young – Jesus Calling – Enjoying Peace in His Presence

Being A Living Stone, I Presume

Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church.

1 Corinthians 14:12 NIV

“This is the church and this is the steeple. Open the door and see all the people.” This children’s finger play, where you get to wiggle your intertwined fingers in such a way as to make the people inside the church sway with delight, is only half right. The church is not only the building that holds the people, but the church is also the people within the building. The church building may protect the people from the elements outside, but the church community protects the people inside by offering spiritual, emotional, and physical support, as well as providing special services such as weddings, baptisms, and funerals. Members of the church community use their gifts to serve one another.

The book of Acts give a picture of how the very first church community helped simplify people’s lives. Those who were familiar with Jesus teachings shared what they knew with others, helping them grow spiritually. As the first Christians where being persecuted, the church community prayed and provided emotional support. Member of the church also pooled their resources, so they were able to offer necessities like food, and shelter to those in need. This church hand no building. Instead, it was built from living stones, people who built into each other’s lives by sharing of themselves.

Choosing to get involved in a church community helps simplify your life by enabling you to do more that you could do on your own. Involvement requires participation in the church’s ministries – contributing to the benefiting from the church’s fellowship, knowledge, and resources.

Being part of a church is more than being served by others. It is an opportunity for you to use your unique, God-given gifts to simplify the lives of others as well as your own. Examples of these opportunities are choir, food pantry, visitation, greeters, altar guild, and many more. Sunday morning is just the beginning. Even when the church building is closed. God’s Church is Open.

ONE FINAL THOUGHT

The church community is made up of unique individuals who help simplify each other’s lives by using the gifts to serve one another.

Let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

Hebrews 10:24-25 NASB

Credits:
Renewing Mind Press – Living Simply – Enjoying the Peace of God

God Promises – Day 11

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing
in the heavenly places in Christ.

Ephesians 1-3 NKJV

Jesus Is Our Everything

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ.

This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son. He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.

Ephesians 1:3-8 NLT

RELAX IN MY PEACEFUL PRESENCE. Do not bring performance pressures into our sacred space of communion. When you are with someone you trust completely, you feel free to be yourself. This is one of the joys of true friendship. Though I am Lord of lords and King of kings, I also desire to be your intimate Friend.

When you are tense or pretentious in our relationship, I feel hurt. I know the worst about you, but I also see the best in you. I long for you to trust Me enough to be fully yourself with Me. When you are real with Me, I am able to bring out the best in you; the very gifts I have planned in your soul. Relax, and enjoy our friendship.

Revelation 17:14 NLT

Together they will go to war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will defeat them because he is Lord of all lords and King of all kings. And his called and chosen and faithful ones will be with him.

John 15:13-15 NLT

There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

Credits:
Sara Young – Jesus Calling – Enjoying Peace in His Presence

WHEN YOU SEEK MY FACE

I have told you these things so that My joy and delight may be in you, and that your joy may be made full and complete and overflowing.

JOHN 15:11 AMP

Put aside thoughts of everything else. I am above all, as well as in all; your communion with Me transcends both time and circumstances.

Be prepared to be blessed bountifully by My Presence, for I am a God of unlimited abundance. Open wide your heart and mind to receive more and more of Me.

When your Joy in Me meets My Joy in you, there are fireworks of heavenly ecstasy. This is eternal life here and now: a tiny foretaste of what awaits you in the life to come. Now you see only a poor reflection as in a mirror, but then you will see face to Face.

John 15:11 NLT

‘I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! ‘

1 Corinthians 13:12 NLT

‘Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.’

Credits:
Sara Young – Jesus Calling – Enjoying Peace in His Presence

God Promises – Day 9

And what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power.

Ephesians 1:19

Jesus Is Sufficient

TRUST ME IN ALL YOUR THOUGHTS. i know that some thoughts are unconscious or semiconscious, and I do not hold you responsible for those. But you can direct conscious thoughts much more that you may realize. Practice thinking in certain ways – trusting Me, thanking Me – and those thoughts become more natural.

Reject negative or sinful thoughts as soon as you become aware of them. Don’t try to hide them from Me; confess them and leave them with Me. Go on your way lightheartedly. This method of controlling your thoughts will keep your mind in My Presence and your feet on the path of Peace.

Psalm 20:7; 1 John 1:9; Luke 1:79

Credits:
Sara Young – Jesus Calling – Enjoying Peace In His Presence

I Am Your Father God

For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:6 NLT

Listen to Me! Learn what it means to be a child of the everlasting King. Your richest duty is devotion to Me. This duty is such a joyous privilege that it feels like a luxury. You tend to feel guilty about pushing back the boundaries of your life to make space for time alone with Me.

The ways of the world have also warped your conscience, which punishes you for doing the very thing that pleases Me most: seeking My Face. Listen to Me above the clamor of voices trying to distract you. Ask My Spirit to control your mind, for He and I work in perfect harmony. Be still and attentive in My Presence. You are on holy ground.

Isaiah 9:6; Zechariah 9:9 (NKJV); Romans 8:15-16; Exodus 3:5

Credits:
Sara Young – Jesus Calling – Enjoying Peace in His Presence

God Promises – Day 8

And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.

Ephesians 3:18 NLT

DRAW NEAR TO ME

with a thankful heart, aware that your cup is overflowing with blessing. Gratitude enables you to perceive Me more clearly and to rejoice in our Love – relationship. Nothing can separate you My loving Presence! That is the basis of your security. Whenever you start to feel anxious, remind yourself that your security rests in Me alone, and I am totally trustworthy.

You will never be in control of your life circumstances, but you can relax and trust in My control. Instead of striving for a predictable, safe lifestyle, seek to know Me in greater depth and breadth. I long to make your life a glorious adventure, but you must stop clinging to old ways. I am always doing something new within My beloved ones. Be on the lookout for all that I have prepared for you.

Romans 8:38-39; Psalm 56:3-4; Isaiah 43:19

Credits:
Sara Young – Jesus Calling – Enjoying Peace in His Presence

Worship In Spirit & In Truth

‘For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.’

John 4:24 NLT

WHEN YOU WORSHIP ME in spirit and truth, you join with choirs of angels who are continually before My throne. Though you cannot hear their voices, your praise and thanksgiving are distinctly audible in heaven.

Your petitions are also heard, but it is your gratitude that clears the way to My Heart.

With the way between us wide open, My blessings fall upon you in rich abundance. The greatest blessing is nearness to Me – abundant Joy and Peace in My Presence.

Practice praising and thanking Me continually throughout this day.

John 4:23-24; Psalm 100:4

Credits:
Sara Young – Jesus Calling – Enjoying Peace in His Presence