Hello Dear Readers of FGGAM!
What does by faith mean to you? To me it is acting with a measure of assurance that if God opens the door, then by faith we don’t want to miss it, just because we sit still and did nothing; Faith Trusts God no matter the outcome; that God knows best for us always! And, the other side of faith to me is, if God is not in it, then we want no part of it. So, the words “rush” and “frustration” come to me as Key Alert Words that are also associated with some measure of “fear” that is not from God … so go slow and remember patience.
We can have patience in our mind, but we need to get patience in our heart. A heart that trusts in God’s time and God’s plan …
God loves you my friend and I hope this dbl weekend post encourages you in the love God has for you to trust Him, rely on Him and to abide in Him as you seek to FOLLOW Jesus every breath of the way!
I post by faith, because only God knows the outcome! Perhaps you need encouraged in some good news that God is with you and God loves you? Like a seed or a tender plant just needs a little rain!
Like a chair that you will sit in it because you know it will hold you! That’s faith! But, friends, I feel assured that it is good to always remember there is a God who is invisible, but more capable to hold you than that chair you can see! Trust God by faith and see what God will do …
Saturdays, Hope in Today Ministries, Inc., Devotion.
Can you think of one thing you were so excited to attend. Perhaps a Hockey Game? A Camping trip? The Opera? The GyM ?
How did it come to be that you entered the game? Beside the ticket, Were there some preparations of your heart / attitude which made the difference in your experience?
Jesus is the ticket to access the Kingdom of God.
Yet, what does our attitude have to do with our experience? Everything!
The Lord is ministering to me to say that we need to teach what God is saying to us.
Like the gym, we may not be motivated to exercise before we get there, but the motivation shows up when we arrive!
Reading the Bible & appreciating God is like this! We show up believing / seeking & motivation comes as our heart prepares
We have to profoundly experience who God is to desire to grow TO know!
Like if you have never experienced the spirit of Hockey Game, how could I tell you how much fun we had? The music, the excitement, the drama is all a part of the experince, which is more than just a sport; It is fellowship!
I believe God wants us to challenge each other to get involved in our personal relationship with each other in fellowship, which is thru our personal relationship with God to experience HIS Kindness, Goodness, Indwelling Peace & supernatural Freedom in spirit & LIFE & JOY!
AS WE READ :
“Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked (Psalm 84:10 NIV).”
How do we enter into God’s Courts?
The Bible says :
*SERVE THE LORD WITH GLADNESS:
*COME
…BEFORE HIS PRESENCE WITH SINGING.
*ENTER INTO …
~HIS GATES WITH THANKSGIVING,
~AND INTO HIS COURTS WITH PRAISE:
*BE THANKFUL UNTO HIM,
*AND BLESS HIS NAME.
Psalms 100:2, 4 KJV
Personally, I have never attended an opera. I have only seen through the TV show, “I love Lucy!” The show made me smile, but not appreciate the Opera. I have no desire to go to the Opera, but if my mind was right, I believe I would be impacted by it.
We left a Concert once & we love his music, BUT we left because our heart was just not there.
“FOR A DAY IN THY COURTS IS BETTER.
Love,
Karen
Sunday’s Hope in Today Ministries, Inc., Devotion
Jesus saves souls!
If we get this we will never be the same!
We have a human nature that God has created, and man’s practice of sin contaminated our relationship with God.
The GOOD NEWS is that God ALREADY had a plan of Salvation for us since BEFORE He created the world and SINCE BEFORE God said, Let US make man IN our image…
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air (Gen 1:26-28).”
The practice of sin corrupts our souls, BUT Jesus has come to save our souls! Have you gotton worn out yet? Will you decide to follow Jesus? By grace, Jesus will make you a new creature in Christ with Spiritual blessings & new abilities & desires to walk in your new nature.
Consider what PRACTICING sin will do to CHANGE our nature. God DIDN’T.
Like a dog was created to be outside; The nature of the dog is to grow fur to keep warm in the winter ; and shed fur in the summer to keep cool. It is a dog’s nature to be outside by the disign of the Creator for the Creation.
Yes, we have an inside dog too! But stick with me a min because man has changed the nature of a dog when we bring them inside. When we start putting a coat on a dog, they get used to it & it changes their nature.
Friends, all God is saying to us is to look at what we are practicing in our nature. We all have been born with a sinful nature. But Christ died to give us a new spiritual nature!
By Grace, God provided a way of escape & Jesus is the way to deny ungodless daily.
The acts of the flesh vs the Acts of the Holy Spirit are obvious.
We BECOME what we PRACTICE to become ♡
We are God’s workmanship (KJV); His Masterpiece (NLT); We are God’s handiwork (NIV).
“God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us new people so that we would spend our lives doing the good things he had already planned for us to do (Eph 2:10 ERV).”
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me (Gal 2:20 KJV).”
Love in Christ,
Karen
Till next time! “Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
The address in the Bible is found in 2 Corinthians 1:2, and this is the NIV today.
LOVE IN CHRIST,
KAREN ROWE
The Train Whistle, Sounding the call of God’s Love, by Karen Rowe [2012 Published for you]
Instagram4629 “Writing the Story of my life with every choice Jesus helps me to make and learning how to be blessed and live life large, happy and free. I care.”
Personal Motto: “I don’t have it all figured out, BUT GOD DOES … Follow JESUS!”
Thank you Jesus! Personal Revelation Life Verse: 1 John 4:16
16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
This version Today is (HCSB)
Holy Spirit you are welcome here!
Blessings, Karen