The World Is Fickle. God Is Faithful. “Was I fickle when I intended to do this? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say both “Yes, yes” and “No, no”? But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.” For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ.“
2 Corinthians 1:17-18, 20a
God is faithful. He will surely do it. Every promise He has made He is faithful to bring to completion.
How easily I forget this. I recently went through an experience where God’s faithfulness was put to the test. The darkness was in the mind. Confusion caused the line between who I am and who I was to be blurred and the identities were swirling together in a massive internal storm. In my suffering I wanted my problem solved immediately. I didn’t trust in God’s truth about who I really am in Him. A new creation. Redeemed. Delivered and free. No sin of my past bothering God at all. He had already taken care of it for me and loves me immensely. But I wasn’t experiencing that love. I was doubting God’s goodness and believing the lie that my old identity is who I am now and will follow me around forever, haunting me. The truth is I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. As soon as I believed the truth and ordered confusion off of my mind, blurring my identity, everything changed.
God’s timing is perfect and fully trustworthy. He is faithful. He will bring it to completion. Don’t be afraid. Jesus will always satisfy you heart. You need only believe Him, trust Him, hope in Him, persevere in Him. He will never fail you.
Doubting God is what’s deadly. Doubting His goodness and faithfulness brings destruction. Believing the lie is what makes your experience painful and suffering prolonged and amplified. Believing the truth is what sets you free. Trusting God, knowing His ways are not our ways, hoping against hope, clinging to Jesus in the darkness is what gets you through the storm.
Jesus. Is. Faithful.
Do you trust Him? With all your heart?
Jesus I pray You would give me an unshakable and unbreakable hope in You. May my heart doubt You less and love You More.
My Love Is The Answer
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Trying to solve a problem and seeking God for answers, I cried out in frustration. I felt like God was saying, “I love you,” and in my heart I responded with, “enough of this love stuff, I need answers!” His response?
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“You want answers, not My love. My love is the answer. The answer that will undo every knot in your heart and block in your mind. My love breaks every chain that binds. Receive My love. Rest in it.”
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How often do we spurn God’s love and seek Him only for what He can give us? I never thought of myself as one who sought the gifts instead of the Giver, but now I see clearly. Seeking God for answers, apart from Him, is still seeking Him for what He can give me. If I seek God for who He is I will also have what He gives me. But if I seek Him only for the gifts, I’ll have nothing at all.
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Jesus Himself is the reward. The Lord is my inheritance. His love is the answer my heart so desperately longs for.
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“The Lord himself is my inheritance, my prize. He is my food and drink, my highest joy! He guards all that is mine.” —Psalm 16:5 TLB
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If I seek HIM, He will tell me the way to go.
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Jesus is enough. Forever and always.
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A gift I made for a friend that blessed me while I made it.
God is all about our heart and transforming us from the inside out, not our minds. Our minds are a tool to transform our hearts, but what God is really after is our hearts. Because when our hearts are changed, the very fabric of our being is. When just our minds are changed, it’s like changing the color of a garment, not the garment itself. What we believe matters and belief is in the heart. When we believe in Jesus we put on His robe of righteousness and garment of praise. Totally new. Totally different. Totally transformed and changed.
A mind that knows the facts is different than an adoring heart in love with Jesus Christ. He is after your heart. When you have the heart you have devotion, love, and relationship. Jesus desires you. Not what you do for Him or know about Him. He wants your heart. He wants your ALL. “All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.”
Isaiah 64:6 “I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness.”
Isaiah 61:10a
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Do All Things With Love “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Just a friendly reminder today, and one I often forget.
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Adore
I feel that something is lost in the adoration of Jesus Christ. How often do we become “Marthas” in this season instead of “Marys”? Or in any season for that matter.
adore: (v).
-to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
-to pay divine honor to; worship.
-to like or admire very much.
I looked up the definition, but that didn’t seem satisfactory for the connotation of the word. So I used the thesaurus... verb: love intensely
admire, cherish, delight in, fall for, idolize, revere, worship, esteem, exalt, glorify, honor, prize, reverence, treasure, venerate, be crazy about, be gone on, be mad for, be nuts about, be serious about, be smitten with, be stuck on, be sweet on, be wild about, dote on, flip over, go for
Do you intensely love Jesus? Do you delight in Him? Treasure Him? Honor, venerate, or prize Him? Are you crazy about Jesus? Gone on, smitten with, or totally wild about Him? When was the last time you sat at His feet, not to gain something from Him, but just to adore Him? To gaze on His beauty. To soak Him in and love Him for all that He is.
You do it with your spouse, your children, others that you love. So why not dote on Jesus this Christmas? Let His glory and beauty captivate and overwhelm you. Sit with some worship music and just adore Him. Marvel at who He is and all He has done. What love and grace is lavished on us through Jesus Christ. He is worthy, and He won’t disappoint.
Joy-full, joy-full we ADORE Thee,
God of glory, Lord of love;
Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee
Opening to the Son above “‘Martha, Martha,’ the Lord answered, ‘you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.’” —Luke 10:41-42
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