When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul.
Psalms 94:19 NASB
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.94.19.NASB
Category: Conflict
Are you bearing fruit or are you not? Are you a Christian, or are you just giving lip service that will not be acceptable?
If there is no fruit, you will be taken away. That is not a place you want to be. Pray that the Lord would help you fully see that you might produce fruit. If you are bearing fruit (true believers), the sin in your life will be pruned away, that you may produce more fruit! How great for those who believe, to have God help us, throw off the sins that hold us back. This is a process, that does not happen over night. May we hand over to God, those sins, so that we might not have to go through the painful process of pruning as much. Let us hope for and wait, for that day when we are called home, to be fully complete, lacking in nothing!
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.
John 15:2 NASB
What Good News! Do you believe it? There is no sin you can hide from God. Why not humble yourself before him, and be washed white as snow. Don’t beat yourself up. There is no sin God cannot forgive? Do you believe it? If you are hiding from him, then you are missing it. Humble yourself before him, and let him change your heart, through his grace and mercy. The alternative is, he will humble you anyway, but it will not be a good ending for you. Not now, and not forever, possibly. May the Lord grant you his eyes to see today.
Seek the Lord while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the Lord , And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 55:6-7 NASB
Our days are numbered, help us to use them wisely, LORD. How will we live differently today, because of this?
By the way, how’s your sharing going? Please share whether good or bad. I shared online with someone and was accused of believing in Santa among other things. I count it a privilege, to be attacked for the sake of the Gospel, for it is the power of God unto salvation.
So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.
Psalms 90:12 NASB
Christian = suffering, but with great joy(JAS 1:2). The race is on. We are in a life long race of endurance, embracing the trials, enduring the sufferings, rejoicing in the victories. All the while holding tight to the finish line where we will receive the crown. The reward of a faithful servant, the perfect life where everything will be changed, including ourselves. Thank you Jesus. Bring on what comes my way today. Whether in good or bad times, May I say, blessed be the Name of the Lord. Amen!!
And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.
Mark 8:34-35 NASB
Want to know the secret, of Living in this crazy world we live in?
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
Romans 8:37 NASB
The very thing that Israel could not fulfill (To be a light to the nations), Jesus was able to do and more. He was not only a light to the nation’s, but a light unto the whole world. Jesus was the fulfillment of God’s promise to restore all of creation and build his Kingdom, one soul at a time. This was a foreshadowing of the final event of a completed New creation for all of eternity.
Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”
John 8:12 NASB
Are you being afflicted in your life right now, that is beyond your control? Take courage, since the Apostle Paul understood this well. Listen to his words that are from God, and meditate on them.
And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
2 Corinthians 12:9 NASB
Don’t run or hide, from your problems!
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
James 1:2-3 NASB
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.1.2-3.NASB
Look at it this way. God gives us these trials (not temptations), to affirm our faith. He wants to be able to say to himself, good job you are faithful in this area. Then he will test us in another area of our lives. He doesn’t want us to remain as a baby in our faith. It is through this process, that we are able to help others in THEIR Faith. That is why we count it joy. Not because it may be fun, going through the testing, but because we are becoming mature and complete. One day we can enter heavens gates with the sound of, “Well done, good and faithfull servant”!
Thank You Lord.
You won’t believe what is included in loving your neighbor. It’s something we easily like to forget.
“But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
Luke 6:27-28 NASB
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.6.27-28.NASB
Just remember…….WE were enemies of God before we understood the Gospel. He poured tremendous grace on us, even though we didn’t deserve it. As followers of Christ, should we not do the same?
Think about someone you may be at odds with in your life right now. Maybe your brother, sister, father, mother, daughter, son, best friend, etc. I want you to take a moment, and pray for them and your own heart right now. Continue to do this until God changes your heart. Maybe he will change theirs, but you have to worry about your own heart first.
May God’s grace be with you and may it flow to all those around you.
Blessings
Alan
Living Waters 