It’s still May, let’s celebrate our mom’s all month long!!!
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May 16, 2022 Deuteronomy 5:16
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Letting God’s Love Shine Though Our Brokenness
God can use your brokenness to heal others. Your story can become the hope for others. God can use anything for His glory, even our pain and suffering. God does and will heal us. Sometimes we have the scars to remind us of what we have been through, be it physical or emotional, we all have scars. And that’s ok. Jesus understands scars. He has a few. And it’s by His stripes we are healed Isaiah 53:5. NLT says, “But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.” He was whipped. Through those wounds He poured out His blood to save us from hell so that we could spend eternity with Him in heaven. Jesus is our Hope, His wounds heal.
What does letting God’s love shine through our brokenness look like? What does that look like for us? Is it like getting a cut and letting the blood cleanse the wound? What are we doing when we let God’s love shine through our wounds, our scars?
Is it sharing our story, our hurts or our current pain? Does it mean sometimes we have to open a wound to and start that healing process over again? Being brave and courageous enough to share our story can be hard, scary. We are afraid of judgement, rejection, or perhaps someone unfriending us. It’s a risk yes. And even though we may have to reopen that wound again to share our story, we can know we are still healed from it when we respond with love, grace, mercy and forgiveness to reopening that wound. When we no longer feel the resentment and hatred from it but feel God’s love we know we have been healed. It is possible and healing for everyone is different.
When we share our story we are bleeding hope into someone’s life. Jesus offers healing through that, there is healing in His wounds and in His wings.
Happy Mother’s Day
May 7, 2022 – Proverbs 31:29
Happy Mother’s Day! Memorize Monday is posting a little early in honor of Mother’s Day! Give your mom the day to relax, pour her favorite tea, get her some colored pencils or markers and print out this coloring page or another one from Memorize Monday. Coloring is relaxing and can be meditative. Maybe print out a page for yourself and color with her.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s and soon to be mom’s. God bless!
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Persistent Prayer
We can be left feeling bewildered by our unanswered prayers. God at times seems unwilling to answer our prayer according to our expectations and timing.
Jesus’s disciples asked him to teach them how to pray (Luke 11:1). He also told a story about a man who pestered his neighbor for some bread (Luke 11:5-8). In the end it wasn’t the fact that the neighbor gave his bread to this man because the man knocking was his neighbor, it was the man’s persistent knocking and request.
However this doesn’t mean that God is more inclined or motivated to grant us our request because we have pestered Him or because of our persistence rather than his love for us. The story illustrates that we have the freedom to ask God but it does not dictate God’s response to us. God is not a servant waiting for a list of things we want or tasks we want done, neither does He need us or define our needs or offer solutions, or tell him when and how He should act.
But God is eager for us as His children to form a habit of asking for His help (Luke 11: 9-10). That still doesn’t mean He will be guided by our limited knowledge and understanding of our circumstances (Luke 11:11-13). God will answer our prayers. He does answer our prayers, in His time according to His plan in His own way.
He wants and asks us to trust Him to supply our needs and when to supply them. God knows our needs before we (Matthew 6:8). Our calling is to ask persistently and if we surrender our hearts and wants, we can grow in the process.
Our persistent request of needs or wants causes us to turn to God often without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) and in turn God will use that to grow us in the process (Romans 8:28) for “… we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” (NIV)
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May 2, 2022 – Proverbs 6:20
April 25, 2022 – John 11:25
Jesus made it easy for us. All we need to do is believe!! If you are reading this for the first time, if you want to know more about knowing Jesus click here, Knowing Jesus.
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HE IS RISEN!!!!
John 24:6 -“He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee”
Jesus has risen, He is alive today and here with us. His word tell us He will never leave us or forsake us. The Bible tells us in the Old and New Testaments that He will never leave us or forsake us, Deuteronomy 31:8, Hebrews 13:5. God said it to His people in the OT and He says it in the NT. When Jesus came to this earth, the law and the requirements for sacrifice were no longer needed. The Ten Commandments were summed up in two, Mark 12:28-31-
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
But God carried over the promise to never leave us or forsake us from the OT to the NT. That must mean something.
Think on These Things
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” – Philippians 4:8 (NIV)
The Bible clearly tells us that we need to have healthy thoughts. So often we can find ourselves in a downward spiral of just bad thoughts. We as humans tend to think the worst. We have a tendency to catastrophize the worst in situations and in others. It’s not fair to our loved ones, our co-workers, our neighbors when we start to think the worst, especially when we don’t have all the information. We see something, we don’t like it, we’re offended, we judge and think the worst. We can easily start believing lies, convincing ourselves it’s the truth. It can be subtle. And we know that our enemy, the father of lies, is subtle (Genesis 3:1-24). Satan can devour us with our own bad thoughts and he is subtle about it. Eve in the Garden is a good example.
“Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”
1 Peter 5:8 (NIV)
We need to be watchful, aware of being suspicions when we start assuming the worst in others. We can easily overlook the plank in our own eye (Matthew 7:3). We tend to be offended by the actions of someone else and see it as a sin against us, we don’t see our own sin against God. We are so quick to speak and slow to listen (James 1:19) when the suspicion becomes our focal point. It’s easy to suspect and can be so hard to forgive.
Matthew 7:1-2 – “Do not judge, or you will be judged. 2. For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.… Think about that. I don’t want to be treated unfairly. Who does? Matthew 7:12 comes to mind, “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you … ” God KNOWS all, He is omniscient. He really does know more about the situation then we do. It’s not our job to judge or condemn. Even Jesus didn’t come to condemn, “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world…” John 3:17 (NIV).
God gave us instruction to love out neighbor as ourselves (Mark 12:31). As Christians we do not belong to this world. Our lives need to reflect God’s love and forgiveness. But being the humans we are we can’t do this on our own. We need the help of Jesus. We need Him to be the focal point our our lives even when we start to suspect. Stop and recognize what is happening, repent of what you are doing and rejoice that God sees all and knows all. Leave the situation in His hands, let Him work out justice.
You know I wonder when we start to think we know what the other person is thinking or doing, are we trying to know all, like God, especially when we don’t have any evidence and none of the information, when we are believing lies fed to us by the enemy? Even in a court of law we are innocent until proven guilty. God who is the only one who can judge sees us as guilty until proven innocent by the blood of His Son Jesus Christ.
As we celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus this weekend, thank Him that He is omniscient, thank God for sacrificing His only Son, thank Jesus for sacrificing His life and His blood for us and rising again on the third day, thank the Holy Spirit for living inside us. We are all sinners and have fallen short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23).
When thoughts start to spiral out of control, when lies begin to infiltrate and take over your thoughts, when you become suspicious remember Philippians 4:8 – “… whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
April 11, 2022 – John 19:30
“When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.” – John 19:30
Tetelestai is what Jesus spoke before He commanded HIs spirit into His Father’s hands. It means so much more than it’s translated to in modern English. This is something you would say after an accomplishment, after working for something for so long, like finishing a dissertation, finishing a marathon or making the last mortgage payment. It means you accomplished exactly what set out to do.
But wait, there’s more. In Greek Tetelestai is in the perfect tense. That’s huge because it indicates that an action has been completed at the present time, in the past, or will be completed in the future. Think about it, how many years ago was the Bible written? And Jesus spoke that word in that tense. It was finished then, it is finished now and will be tomorrow and the next day and the day after that. That word is like in an “eternal tense”, like the One who spoke it.
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April 4, 2022 -John 12:23
Happy Monday! Easter is almost here. Jesus is alive in Heaven!!! If you haven’t yet read the gospel of John over the next few weeks. I can only imagine how Jesus was preparing for His time. I do know that He prayed. How are you preparing for Easter?
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