Month: August 2020

Psalm 86:5, 6 “For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.  Give ear, O Lord, to my supplications.”

God plans for us to grasp His righteousness that will be imputed to all who are forgiven and desire to walk with Him.  Matthew 5: 48 “Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”  I can be perfect in Jesus, only by His gift.  Every day I must confess my sins and have His love and forgiveness flood my soul.  Thank you My Lord for listening to me in mercy.

Ephesians 5: 1, 2 “Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.  And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma.”  With my sins forgiven, I walk confidently in His love, knowing that He wants me to walk uprightly, reflecting His love to all I meet.   Jesus was filled with love and righteousness whilst on earth, giving us the example to follow, being oft in prayer with His heavenly Father, on all subjects, as well as receiving the Holy Spirit.  He studied the scriptures and knew all the promises and prophesies well.

We need to meet with God in prayer and in His Holy Word, to imitate our Saviour, bowing humbly at His feet, receiving light and power, and the blessing and truth of Jesus will reflect to others, and we will become more and more His disciple in all ways.  What a privilege to share the message of salvation!

God makes it all possible, when we ask Him to be able to love and tell others about our experience with Him.  Psalm 86: 11, 12 “Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name.  I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Your name forevermore.”

 

Humbly I have become aware of my practiced unbelief, and lest you fall into the trap of reading and mouthing the words, with passing belief but not earnest, total  persevering application, and then realize a dearth of blessing, peace and real prayer answers; I mention it.

Therefore I will just give a few of the texts, that I am using with application, believing God answers His word as written.  I have not long been so urgently, pressing into God’s presence, more times in short prayer and claiming Bible Text/s often; apart from formal prayers, each day.  God is patient, and impresses me, with thoughts I so much need to now enact.

Psalm 91: 14, 15 “The Lord says, ‘I will rescue those who love Me.  I will rescue those who trust in My name.  When they call on Me, I will answer, I will be with them in trouble.  I will rescue and honour them.”  (All God asks of us is to love, trust, call on Him and He will be with us and do, truly a loving good God toward us always.)

Isaiah 27:5 “Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with Me, and He shall make peace with Me.”

Isaiah 26 3 “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.”  (Having trouble keeping stayed on God, I find pray, believe and keep on, and God changes me over time or quickly, to be able to stay mentally fixed on Him.)

Jesus said, John 14: 27 “Peace I leave with you.  My peace I give to you, not as the world gives do I give to you.  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

There are several texts, in which Jesus refers to the person having faith in Him, being the reason they were made well.  There are many different types of being made well, and God still today responds to someone’s request based on their faith in His words, for them being made well or whole.  Mark 10:51, 52 “So Jesus answered and said to him, ‘What do you want Me to do for you?’  The blind man said to Him, ‘Rabboni, that I may receive my sight.  Then Jesus said to him, ‘Go your way; your faith has made you well.”

I praise God that He impressed me to claim these words, for healing of an issue and associated significant fear.  I struggled to keep applying these words to my need over and over, realizing Jesus says them and they are true, and with my faith in Jesus it would be true for me also, and he would deliver me, and He has.

I thank God, from the bottom of my heart that He is teaching me to stay much closer to Him, even when my feelings preoccupy me.

 

 

Isaiah 46:6 “Even in your old age, I am He, and even to grey hairs I will carry you!  I have made and I will bear; even I will carry and l I will deliver you. 

I love this text, for it is the most comprehensive care statement, out there and it starts at birth.  God not only knows He can fulfil all He stated, and we by experience will find He never lies or does not do as promised.  He also wants to do as He said, because as His creation, we are greatly loved, and now in our time of need we experience His divine love; still.

Isaiah 46: 5”  To whom will you liken Me, and make Me equal and Me, that we should alike.”  The truth is God is not like any of us, for He is God above, Holy and Divine, of all Power and all love and knowledge as well as the Creator of all.  It is such a comfort that in my most needy and dependent time, at any age, especially old age; it is God Who will carry me through, and deliver me safely home.

None of us are denied the blessings of God when we actually believe in Him. And as we become aware of our wrong doings before God, He invites us to ask Him for forgiveness; then we are freely forgiven by God.  No matter what, let nothing in our past stop us, for Jesus died for every sinner, and does not sort us out by colour when it comes to being forgiven and assisted by our Saviour to love Him and His Father with all our heart, mind and soul.  1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

There is a blessing like no other, that comes when we have confessed our sins to Jesus and know that forgiveness has been given; precious promise to learn if possible when young; and then cherish to the end of each life; or return to, if anyone has forgotten or departed from seeking Jesus.  I find that true abiding happiness  comes when living close to God in communication, by reading His Holy Word and praying about all things as well as living His way whole heartedly.

James 1: 17 (NIV) “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights.”