“So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It’s your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.”
Colossians 3:12-14 MSG
What an awesome morning already!!!!! God is always good and amazing, always leading us, guiding us, and protecting us. I was debating whether or not to go to the gym this morning but still decided to go. I turned the corner on the last block to the gym and heard a pop and a leaking sound along with something beating against the back of my fender! I pulled into a parking space got out and realized I had a huge pointed hose sticking out of my tire! the Jack I have on my vehicle isn’t tall enough to change out this tire so I quickly weighed my options on what to do. I could either stay there and go buy a Jack to change the tire with or I could go to the tire shop that is literally right around the corner from my house. I believe that God told me to go to the tire shop. On my way over I could hear the tire getting lower and lower and feel it in my vehicle. I just kept praying all the way to the tire shop even after I parked and locked my vehicle to walk home. I walked to my house which was about a quarter mile from the shop and continued walking circles in a 7 acre property multiple times. I was able to talk to God and to witness this to someone else on the phone. God is good he’s always there always with us always in us and always around us. Not only did I get my vehicle to safety but got my workout in at the same time. HALLELUJAH!!!!
www.bible.com/111/mat.6.14.niv
““In prayer there is a connection between what God does and what you do. You can’t get forgiveness from God, for instance, without also forgiving others. If you refuse to do your part, you cut yourself off from God’s part.”
Matthew 6:14-15 MSG
“Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.”
Galatians 5:25-26 MSG
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Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for your Holy Spirit! Please fill me from the sole of my feet to the top of my head and every nook and cranny between with your Holy Spirit. Expel anything that is not of you Lord. I want to walk in step with you everyday. I saw a mother duck with ten little ducklings. She led them around the pond at the park. They all were in a straight line behind her. The mother never had to look back to see if they were all there, or if they were fighting to be first. They all understood mother is the leader. Where ever she goes I will follow. It doesn’t matter if your first or last we will all get there. If only we would follow Jesus the way the ducklings obeyed and followed their mother. Please help me Father to follow in obedience and not wander off or take my eyes off Jesus that is leading us home. Father, I ask this in according to your will, in Jesus name amen.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 blessed be God even the father of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of mercies, and the God of all comfort who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble. By the comfort with we ourselves are comforted of God. Have you ever gone through something terrible in your life and felt as though God wasn’t there? No matter how hard you pray you feel like He’s not listening or caring. THIS COULD NOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH! God is always with us no matter what is going on in our lives. Sorry I meant to save that for the end, but I felt like I needed to get that out first and foremost. I remember back in the day when I was hopelessly addicted to drugs, sex and alcohol. I never prayed to God when things were going good. But when the bad things arose that’s when I started yelling at God never talking and never feeling like I had received an answer. After being a Christian for a number of years I started looking back at all the times in my life where I should have been dead either from alcohol or drugs, the people that I was hanging out with, or the places I was in. I realized many many years later that God has been protecting me ALL of my life. We get so wrapped up in our pain that we lose sight of God, not vice versa. If we were and are to keep our focus and prayers on Him through the good, bad, sad, ugly and victorious times then we would see all that He has done and is doing. We all need to work on this, we can never be to close to God. We can distance ourselves however by neglecting our Bible studies, prayer and being too active and not listening to Him. Isaiah 41:10 fear thou not: for I am with thee: be not dismayed: for I am thy God I will strengthen thee yea, I will help thee yea I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Psalms 46:1-3 NIV https://bible.com/bible/111/psa.46.1-3.NIV
I don’t know about you but I cannot wait to share God with others. I love to tell stories of how Jesus has impacted my life on so many levels. When I tell it, it’s like the Holy Spirit comes spilling out with all different types of raw emotions. When you get a chance today to change someone’s life then tell them all about God’s work in you.
Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for your love….. The best thing is knowing that you love me. Even before I was born you had a wonderful plan for my life. I am so unworthy but, through the power of Jesus’s blood, I can hold my head up, not in pride but in knowing that I am saved. Yes, Lord, I was broken, damaged, and lost. But you gave your only son to take my penalty of death so I can have eternal life. Jesus was bruised for my iniquities never to be remembered. When we give our life to you, Lord, you clothed us with your righteousness. That’s why I want to tell everyone about Jesus. It wasn’t just for me but everyone in the world. Father, I lift up believers and nonbelievers all over the planet Earth. Please make them aware of the gift of life you have given us twice. Our temporary physical life on earth and the eternal life that you paid the price for us on Calvary. I cannot thank you enough, I cannot love you enough, I cannot share you enough. I want everyone to experience your unconditional love. Nothing can ever separate us from God’s love.
“And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38-39 NLT
https://www.bible.com/116/rom.8.38-39.nlt
Father, help us always to remember this promise. I ask for your will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. In Jesus’ name, Amen.🙏
www.bible.com/97/1pe.3.8-12.msg
“Summing up: Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble. That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless—that’s your job, to bless. You’ll be a blessing and also get a blessing. Whoever wants to embrace life and see the day fill up with good, Here’s what you do: Say nothing evil or hurtful; Snub evil and cultivate good; run after peace for all you’re worth. God looks on all this with approval, listening and responding well to what he’s asked; But he turns his back on those who do evil things.”
1 Peter 3:8-12 MSG
www.bible.com/97/col.3.12.msg
www.bible.com/97/gal.5.25.msg
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