Month: February 2020

Dear God,

Thank You for my life and another day of life in which I can learn to love and serve You more.  Thank You that this prayer is heard and You will answer according to the many scriptural promises to do so.  Jeremiah 33: 3 “Call to me, and I will answer you; and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” I seem mentally jaded, as well as my usual joy as Your child, is somewhat restrained.  Psalm 146: 8 “The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; the Lord raises those who are bound down; the Lord loves the righteous.”  It is by experience I have learned that in response to sincere, believing prayer, Your promises can only be answered as written, because Your word never returns to You void. I give thanks, for I know You will strengthen me and raise me up to give joyful praise and service to others in Your wisdom and blessing.  Romans 15: 13 “Now may the God of hope, fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit”.  So many times I have claimed this text, and have been received all the text asks from You.  This is such a blessing

To be able to have Your love and joy poured into a mere mortal, by You our Mighty, Merciful God seems amazing, but true nevertheless.  I delight to be Your child, with the righteousness of Jesus bestowed upon me.  I give thanks for the joint gift given to this world, when Jesus offered and You allowed Him to come to earth, in the form of man, and to live a sinless, harmless, giving life. He was harshly tortured and put to death as the sacrifice for the sins of every person who has ever drawn breath, on this earth; for we all have and will sin.  This is inevitable after Satan enticed Eve, then Adam to doubt Your word, and then reject Your instruction and give Satan allegiance.  As Satan wanted we all then are programmed to sin.

Jesus arose from death and now is in heaven and ever offers His spilt blood to blot out each confessed sin.  We just have to accept Him into our lives, to be filled with the hope of salvation from sin, eternal death and this sinful dreary earth.  Right now I again invite You Jesus to come and live in my heart as You have invited me to do.  I am so grateful for the changes that You make toward my becoming more and more Your reflection instead of my sin tainted self.  Philippians 2: 5”Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.”

Amen

 

February, 2020 – Jesus Christ the Son of God, died for you and me.  Let’s not waste His sacrifice!

Dear Righteous Father God,

You and Your Son were and are as one about the affairs and salvation of the peoples of earth.  It was Jesus, the one and only Son of God, 1 Peter 2: 24 “Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.”  Jesus, as the Son of God could have called on legions of very strong angels to save Himself from the angry mob, thus preventing His death.  He could have ascended to His Father, as He did after His resurrection.

However He had already committed to His Father in heaven and agonizingly again in the Garden of Gethsemane to proceed, so He allowed Himself to be forcibly led to the unlawful trial and later to the cross.  All people who have ever lived on earth have and are affected by sins, which are so heinous to our Righteous God, that our sin price needed to be paid, and cleansed from our record in heaven, so we could be redeemed from earth to heaven, and Satan and his fallen angels, receive their just reward for contaminating earth with sin and if unchecked leading sinners to their eternal death.

The sacrifice for sin had to be totally untainted, and divine.  Jesus our Saviour, from the glories and purity of heaven, made this totally undeserved sacrifice, because He loves us all totally, no matter what state of sinful living we find ourselves.  Undeserved as it is for all of us, by accepting Jesus and His sacrifice and walking in obedience to Him, His Righteous is available to be imputed to we the undeserving ones of earth.  I am seen by God, the Father, as being righteous; for my sinful self is covered, by the spotlessness of Jesus.  Though seemingly unbelievable, I do believe and accept Jesus and all He offers me and bestows upon me because of my belief in Him and acceptance of His words and gift.

Thank You Jesus for Your ultimate sacrifice, and I never want it to be in vain for me.

I praise Your Holy name,

Amen

January 2020, Talks with God in my Kitchen –

Trust God, that He does have our best interests in mind; no matter the situation

Dear God,

It is another year, and a month is gone.  Thank You for the blessings of the past year, and the expectations and then the experiences in the new months.

Job learned much through his time of affliction, and I am glad You lead me gently along, and gradually I am learning to trust and claim You as my All loving and Powerful God, during adversity, sickness and all situations.  However it would seem to me, that as yet, my faith is not equal to that of Job.  I ask that by Your power I could always say, Job 23: 12 “I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.”

As we are in the beginning portion of 2020, I ask dear Lord, to be strengthened in my faith and commitment to You, no matter the circumstances or event.  I sincerely desire to put You first in every aspect of my life; keeping nothing back.

I am so glad that when I pray according to Your will, I am assured of Your answer To believe this is opening up my heart and mind, as all through the day I pray in many different ways, with need, request, thanks, knowing You can only answer You own words in the affirmative, and I will only receive Your blessings, by believing Your words and claiming the answer for myself.  I find this a glorious truth that has been fulfilling me in my deep inner soul, more and more each day.

Also I have been asking for and receiving Your peace and rest within my mind and heart, just as the prophet wrote, Isaiah 26: 3, 4 “Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee.  Trust ye in the Lord forever; for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.”

I came this morning putting my trust in You anew.  To walk in the light of Your presence is my desire and then remain in the circle of Your love, as You await You.   I am lifted up by Your sweet presence in the early morning, as I feel You close, when I commune with You, in a special way.

Oh, how beautiful heaven will be to Your faithful redeemed children from all parts of the earth, for we will be with You in the glory and beauty of heaven; of which Jesus and His throne will be unsurpassed.

Amen