Take Up Your Cross

I WILL PRAISE YOU JESUS

Philippians 1:10-11
For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation—the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ for this will bring much glory and praise to God.

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

HIDDEN in PLAIN SIGHT
Sometimes God will choose to Hide a person in plain sight until His work in that person is Complete. 

God's Higher Calling can cause some painful separations and isolation, but do not despair, He, the Almighty will see you through His processing of you.

In your Due Season, when God releases you for what He has Purposed and Ordained for your life, you will come out smelling like the roses and be celebrated. Amen!

Thank You For Being My Friend

My life is in Your hands

Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. Do everything without complaining and arguing, Philippians 2:12-14

Conquer Evil

C. S. Lewis

"Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling."~1 Cor. 5:2

There is an impulse deep in our hearts for the things of heaven. God placed it there. He shaped us for eternity & somewhere deep within us we know that. Our impulse may have been distorted when our first parents ate the forbidden fruit, or when we deliberately sinned against God, but we still have it. That's why we always want more no matter how much we have. Everything we think will satisfy us - never does. Eternal impulses are not content with temporal treasures. Our eternal impulse is like an itch. It is cured with a Divine Balm, not an impatient scratch!! Nothing in this world will ever be able to satisfy our hearts!

Spirit and Light

The gifts Christ gave to the church are: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.

Revival Fire

If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that His word has no place in our hearts. 1 John 1:8-10

After stumbling around in the darkness for a little while, I realized that I had to completely ignore all my feelings, and fully rely on the Word of God alone as my guiding light. Sure enough, once I did, the lamp of God's Word faithfully guided me back to the right path, and I entered into a life of rest, joy, and peace. Rebecca Brogan

Most Holy Place

Jesus... First thought in the morning. Last thought at night. No thing else matters! "Things", (distractions, fiery darts) are purposed to get in the way of constant communication with the one "thing" that really matters. Jesus... Absolute love, peace, joy... completeness! Image: Rebecca Brogan’s Most Holy Place www.jtbarts.com

A New Thing

Bebe Bacchus Ramsuchit photo

God wants to do a new thing in your life. Do not get scared when He begins to move. Learn to know his voice and obey as He directs. For He will open doors for you. Didn't He promise to make a way for you. He will keep His promises to you. Our loving Father is ever Faithful. Do not be like the children of Israel who after seeing His provision complained as they met a new obstacle. For He will make a way. The picture, this verse reminds us God is doing a new thing. More than ever we need to let go and LET GOD!

Good Decisions

JOY

On Christ The Solid Rock I Stand!
Amazing, wonderful joy is ahead for us though we are being purified like gold. Our tests and trials show our faith is genuine and true. Genuine faith is far more precious than gold, or anything else on this earth. When our faith does not waver through these trials, it brings us praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world. We love the Lord, and trust Him, even though we have never seen Him. We rejoice with the glorious, inexpressible joy He put in us.

Holy Spirit Fire

Diane Angel Jones
‎"So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves." Gal. 5:16 What has the most influence in your life? Who guides your steps? What determines the values you live? Who's voice & who's words are the most important for you? Especially when making day-to-day decisions? If the answer is not the Holy Spirit, then you are going to find yourself repeatedly facing your own failures & sins. The Holy Spirit must guide our lives, or we are left to fail by our own weaknesses...

Comfort

So many say easily I feel your pain, but to truly feel and understand what someone is going through, and then take the time to comfort them with the comfort we have received from the Lord is what we are called to do. Blessings to you and yours.
2 Corinthians 1:3-5 God Offers Comfort to All
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ.

Army of the Lord

We believ­ers have the tremen­dous priv­i­lege of being part of the Lord’s army, 2 Tim­o­thy 2:3–4 , those who will not only rejoice in God’s final man­i­fest vic­tory at the return of Christ, but those who are also expe­ri­enc­ing present vic­to­ries in the pro­gres­sive advance­ment of God’s king­dom on earth today. What a glo­ri­ous joy it is to be a ser­vant and a sol­dier in the Lord’s army, espe­cially when we have been assured of cer­tain victory! (Rebecca Brogan; Image: Army of the Lord Advancing)

Absolute Jesus

Jesus... First thought in the morning. Last thought at night. No thing else matters! "Things", (distractions, fiery darts) are purposed to get in the way of constant communication with the one "thing" that really matters. Jesus... Absolute love, peace, joy... completeness!
(Image: Rebecca Brogan’s Most Holy Place)

Only God

To Him That Sit's On The Throne

And then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea. They sang: “Blessing and honor and glory and power belong to the one sitting on the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever.” Revelation 5:13 NLT

I Am Your God!

I have cared for you since you were born.
Yes, I carried you before you were born.
I will be your God throughout your lifetime—
until your hair is white with age.
I made you, and I will care for you.
I will carry you along and save you.
Isaiah 46:3-4