Good morning and good day to my dear friends in Christ!
I am so excited to shout out some praise to God! The Good News is that Jesus Christ has taken His seat at the right hand of God; and the Holy Spirit (Kingdom of God) is COME to dwell in us; to help us and comfort us & guide us to God’s emotions of Peace and Joy with power and authority over all things that come up against us!
The Good News is that, by and through our personal faith in Christ Jesus, we have access to begin our ever-growing relationship with God!
The Spirit of the Living God woke me up this morning saying:
God is love! God is Patient! God is Kind! God does not envy, but God is a Jealous God, because God has so loved us; and He loves us too much to let us stay the way we are!
God is For us! God is With us! God wants (us to want HIM) to abide IN us! God will dwell in us through our faith in Jesus Christ; and if we get this, we will never be the same! This is the Good News, that Jesus Christ is Come; and Yes, my Friend, there is HOPE in Today!
where is your faith Today?
Oh, you may have heard that some do not believe? Perhaps you don’t believe; or once you did believe, but where is your faith Today?
There is Good News for you my friend; and Jesus is the Truth and Reality [of the Way] to [The Life and Spiritual Blessings] that are found and to be discovered in our ever-growing knowledge of the True and Living God in a personal relationship with Him; as God our Father.
Who is God to you?
Jesus is the Life; who is this God that gives us life and restores us to Life, but God the Son!
Life with God is worth finding! Discover God FOR us! God is With us. God is LOVE!
Now, to the growing believer: Have you discovered God in you?
God for us
God with us
God IN us!
Thanks to Jesus, we have all we need to begin growing in what is True and Living knowledge from God! Thanks to Jesus, we can begin growing in the Presence of our Living God, The Father! God the Son! God the Holy Spirit!
Like a seed has a shell/hull that must fall off to begin to let the life come up and out of the shell; the Word of God is the Seed of Faith! Why not let your faith in Christ grow? Why hold on to what is failing? Why not let it go to follow the Christ and begin to really live free in life with God IN you!
Going beyond believing to growing in your personal relationship with God! To know and believe in our Father who art in Heaven, …oh yes; and if we get this, we will never be the same! God in us! This is Good News; my friend in Christ!
The Kingdom Come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven! This my friends, is the beginning of growing in our relationship with God! As we learn, not to RUSH, but wait upon the Lord and follow PEACE; God’s Powerful Presence! As we learn to set Boundaries. As we learn to be patient and kind as the Holy Spirit leads, because our trust is in the Good News of Christ Jesus, Savior & Lord of our life!
How can we fail!!! When God is for us, with us & IN us; what shall we fear, but fear itself! This is the Good News, but do we know how to activate this kind of faith in God?
You may feel in a situation a certain way, but remember who you are to God:
“persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body (2 Corinthians 4:9-11, NIV).”
do we know how to activate this kind of faith in God?
God is love… and life in a relationship with God circulates around 1 John 4:16, “For we have known and believed in the love God has for us. God is love. Abide (Dwell) in God and God abides (Dwells) in you!
This is the Good News! The Ever-Present & Living God is For you & With you … IF only you will believe! God For us. God With us! But there is more! GOD IN US! The Indwelling Presence of God!
If we get this, we will never be the same! God is love!
God is writing a love letter to you!
Oh, I could make this a short Power Point for you, but, how can I? When God is writing a love letter to you!
Now, as the Spirit guides my writing to you: How does a grape vine produce the fruit?
Let’s look at John 15:5-7 King James Version!
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
How does this involve you?
Okay, I get it, what does all this mean? How does this involve you? Friend, do you know how valuable you are to God? God loves you! God is for you! God is even near to you! But have you known and believed in the love God has for you?
If you get this, you will never be the same!
Now, God is Love! You may believe in the love God has for you? Great, if not, hang there a little while longer! You are on your way to Heaven. But, what about right now? How do you activate Love in our life right now? Friend, we have a purpose on this earth: To love God, build our relationship with God; yes, and to enjoy this life with God; yet also to serve God by Dwelling in Love; and God will dwell in you.
God wants us to have the BEST emotions life has to offer!!!
HUMMM? If you have been reading these Hope in Today Ministries posts, The Benefit # 2 of Thanks Giving Every Day is Peace and Joy! Peace and Joy are God’s Emotions (Spiritual Blessings in a believer’s life with God)! Love is Benefit #1 (A Relationship with God), but what does all this mean to you?
Lord have mercy, if we get this, we will never be the same! God wants us to have the BEST emotions life has to offer!!!
what does all this mean to you?
Love is the Answer, because God is Love!
But what is Love; and how is God Love? Love is who God Is; and who we are to God is love. In a Relationship with God, like in a relationship in a God-Ordained marriage -Unconditional help, support and companionship with the one who fills our heart completely.
Never Give up! Never Give up on God!
Think on this: How would you like it if you knew God was working all things out for the good; and for you!? That, no matter what a situation looks like: to know that God is FOR you; with you; & Lord, have mercy, if we get this, we will never be the same! God, through Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, God does desire to dwell IN you, & according to your faith; He will!
what does all this mean to you?
Do you want to know God? Do you want to know & grow in your knowledge of how much God loves you? Do you want to believe? Friend, you have the answers right before you! God already made His choice to love you! Will you decide to go beyond your thoughts to understand God’s Will for you? God is FOR you! God loves you!
you have the answers right before you!
Will you seek to know who God is -Beyond what you have always believed? To Discover for yourself that God is love!
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres (1 Corinthians 13:4-7, NIV).”
Oh, but there is more to shout out in Praise to God!
Oh, but there is more to shout out in Praise to God! The Good News is that by the Indwelling Presence of God, whom is near to us, and whom is with us; has also become a personal presence living and dwelling in our Holy Spirit sealed heart; God is For, With & In us, & we have access to an Ever-Increasing Knowledge from God! If we get this, we will never be the same!
This is more Good News!!!
Spiritual Blessings we can have through Jesus Christ
There are Spiritual Blessings we can have through Jesus Christ! We can have Spiritual Blessings if we are born-again by our faith in Jesus Christ! But, do we know how to “activate” what we believe to get those blessings?
do we know how to “activate” what we believe to get those blessings?
Oh, in a world that sometimes only wonders; and even wants to report Jesus as “fake news,” But, thank God for a heart of a believer that we can believe!!! This is no praise to us that believe, but a Praise to God who loved us this much that He gave us His Son that we may have access to this eternal & ever-lasting life in a relationship with God!
God is not far off!!!
thank God for a heart of a believer that we can believe!!!
Therefore, I write to you. God loves you as much as God loves me! I am grateful, and this is my praise and honor to God; to write this love letter from my heart filled with God to you!
In a world filled with “Nothing Noise,” as Dewey Moede often speaks of, I thank God for this place at For God’s Glory Alone Ministries, (FGGAM) that we can report the Truth!
There is Good News and Hope in this world; and His Name is Jesus Christ! “Just” saying the name won’t activate the Spiritual Blessings however. It is the Name in the growing and maturing Relationship with God that enables all things through Christ who strengthens us!
When we honor God’s blood that flows through our veins, there are spiritual blessings that God has for us; and if we are faithful we will see the manifest presence of the Good News in the Name of Jesus, flow out from our life that is blessed to be a blessing!
blessed to be a blessing
The Spiritual Blessings, that we have been talking about in Hope in Today Ministries, are the Fruit of the Spirit. And, this Fruit of the Spirit are The Benefits to Thanks Giving Every Day!
There is so much to learn about this Topic!
How? By Being Grateful; not regretful & remembering to be grateful, resisting the temptation to sin … that temptation comes to us that agrees with our human nature emotions to act out based on our emotions alone. But, it is effective to Seek Peace & Abide in Joy! The Fruit of the Spirit!
Seek Peace & Abide in Joy!
The Fruit of the Spirit!
… Oh, thank you Jesus, because if we get this, we will never be the same!
It would be easier to give my testimony, but God wants to give you your testimony!!!
God wants to give you your testimony!!!
By Being Grateful; not regretful
Resist … what? What do we resist? Resist anything that steals your peace and joy; and refuse to give God’s emotions away for selfish-ambition that forgets God is for you, with you and in you! Resist the devil and he will flee! He will play on your emotions and show you reasonable doubt! BUT GOD! But God is not surprised at what you see when He made you that promise; God already knew what temptations were ahead; and what they would look like. Resist the temptation to throw in the towel; and never forget who your God is; when 1st you did believe!
Seek God; and spend time in your relationship with God; trusting God, by getting to know God In you!
Love God! How do you love God?
God wants to give you your testimony!!!
As I taught our son last night, God first teaches a parent how to love their child with teaching the Word & Discipline. And God also teaches a child to obey a parent in Christ, so that all will be WELL WITH THEM; and that THEIR DAYS MAY BE LONG!
So, it is in how we active the Spiritual Blessings of God; God for us, with us & in us. But to experience Heavenly things, we must put off our earthly shell of self; (OUCH); and come into agreement with the God who loves us for our own benefit!
YES! FOR OUR BENEFIT FAR GREATER THAN THE PAIN OF THE TRIAL!
It’s been taught! It’s been told! But, is Life With God like this growing forgotten?
Remember, God is writing a love letter to you; and we are talking about that God is love and how to activate the Spiritual Blessings of God in you for your Benefit.
This is what God showed to me last night:
Obedience and Respect go hand in hand with LOVE. If you are obedient TO THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU, you respect them, by being obedient to what they say. If you respect THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU, you show them your love & respect, by the obedience to their word to you.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God!
With God, we need to gain & increase in our knowledge and grow in faith, by Growing in HIS Word, by life application. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God!
This is the only question
Do you want to grow in your faith? This is the only question. Because there are tests, trials & challenges to our faith to overcome as we strive grow in our faith; just as a flower must strive to emerge from the seed to burst through the challenges in the ground to bloom in the sun, by the rain that God provides! It is God who makes all things Grow; we just plant and water what God provides. And this means uncomfortable situations arise to test our faithfulness to God’s Word. Where we are weak, and God is strong!
I will testify that I wouldn’t want to go through what I have gone through again, but I can say that I wouldn’t trade the spiritual blessings for anything!
Are you planting seeds for Spiritual blessings in your life? Are you reading God’s Word (the Seed of Life).
What kind of seeds are they (how are you filling your mind? Are those seeds growing spiritual blessings in your life of overflow? For good? Is God well pleased? These are the questions we can use to evaluate our relationship with God. How are we doing; and what can we do better next time? This is the spiritual heart evaluation: Are the Fruit of the Spirit active or inactive in my life?
This is the Good News: We get to decide to activate the Spiritual Blessings in Christ!
And again, if we get this, we will never be the same!
Have you experienced a miracle from God yet? Do you know? Would you like to?
Seek the Face of God!
Discover the power of love in your relationship with God that is to be Ever-Growing!
Oh, the Ever-Increasing Knowledge of God!
Oh, the Ever-Increasing Knowledge of God! The Holy Spirit will guide us into knowing how to grow in our knowledge of how to best and effectively love our neighbor; as God defines our neighbor as those He places in our path daily! Pray; and God will give you a method; and Peace and Joy will be for your Benefit. Friends, LIFE with God is worth the struggles we face to Grow in our faith!
When temptation comes; and it will if you are growing nearer to God, Resist the enemy; and Praise God! Oh, the Benefits of Thanks Giving every day are Peace and Joy!
Is God’s Word to you Active or Inactive?
Your guide book is found written in Galatians 5:22-23 King James Version
“22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
Are you grateful to Jesus? I mean, like when someone makes a mistake that is directed at your harm, will you love them like God has loved you? Unconditionally, will you honor God by your prayers for them instead of rushing along to make things right on your own??
The Benefits of Thanks Giving Every Day is power to overcome all things in Christ! Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness….Self-Control. Is there anything impossible for God; when you are with God? NO! Nothing is impossible for God!!!! Get to know who God is and you will have your answer; of who you are to God! God loves you my friend! Be encouraged; not down cast! Look up and Praise the Lord! For God is FOR us, WITH us & IN us when we believe and seek His face; God is near to all who call upon His Name!
There are very few times God won’t do as we ask in Christ -and those times are because we asked in our emotions; without considering God’s will be done! But God will always direct our understanding to our answer to our prayers!
if you really love God this much …
Friends, if you get this, you will never be the same! The most powerful prayer you can ever pray, is in that moment of fear & concern, to pray, “Father, give me the strength to accept your will!” And, if you love God this much, God will answer as you pray from that point on, because you are praying the power of the Holy Spirit prayer!!!
“I refused you yesterday!” & “I will refuse you again today!” “Get behind me Satan, I worship the Lord my God only!”
Temptations to our emotions will come to test our loyalty; to trusting God IS all I need & in the answer God gives. Don’t forget the Spiritual Blessings of Trusting in God! God will answer you, & friend in Christ, stand firm on that promise! And, when you see what you see; remember who your God is unconditionally!!! Speak to that devil who pokes at you the temptation to waiver in your faith, and say to him “I refused you yesterday!” & “I will refuse you again today!” “Get behind me Satan, I worship the Lord my God only!”
OH, the Benefits of Thanks Giving Every Day!
know how to use your bank card
Love is like having money in the bank! And, as God is love; the most valuable treasure to God is you; and you to God! But you must know how to use your bank card to use the money in the bank. Otherwise, that money lies in the bank dormant! And, so it is with God! This is the way it is with God; and how to activate your spiritual blessings!
This is the way it is with God; and how to activate your spiritual blessings!
I hope this is a blessing to you; as you are no doubt growing in your faith, because there is life in the seed that God plants in us to believe & to grow in our faith!
The Good News is Jesus Christ!
In Closing
Most people know about John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believes shall not perish, but have everlasting life.” But do we know how to activate the Spiritual Blessings of this Life God has given us to live on earth as it is in Heaven right now?
How do you activate love?
And we are back to the beginning:
And we are back to the beginning: Follow Jesus, as we remember that God is love!
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6 King James Version).”
How do you activate love in your life? 1st of all, we bring it back, you must be born again! Then, you go beyond believing, to activate the Spiritual Blessings in this relationship with God, by abiding in this relationship with God; and God abides in us!
God is love.
I hope this is a blessing to you! This is not what I had originally written, but this is what God has given to me to share with you today! Only you know God! I will follow and obey.
As the Lord leads, In His Closing:
It is time to burst out of the ground and let God see this new thing HE has done in you grow!
“Thanks, giving” is a time to grow more and more, but not in the tradition of a Holiday, but rather to grow in your heart as you grow in your knowledge, understanding, and Wisdom that Jesus is Wisdom, whom has brought Heaven to Earth for you! For a purpose, to grow into your knowledge with understanding of all the spiritual blessings that are available from God to you … that is found in the Mind of Christ, because God has SO LOVED you! God cares for you!
What are 5 things you can thank God for Today?
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I hope this is a blessing to you. Holy Spirit you are Welcome here! Into your Hands I commit this.
You may also read:
“Thanks Giving Abilities” … “Returning to Thanks Giving, by Karen Rowe”
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Love in Christ,
Karen Rowe
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