Dear Friends,
Jesus is The Light calling all Swimmers with a measure of faith, who have the gift of faith to Believe! God has blessed everyone Today with a Brand New Today to Come to Jesus & Believe!
Believing is like swimming. You first have to get your feet wet! Then, you have to bob a little as you gain your confidence to float.
Like, as you begin to T R U S T IN God, …
F I R S T with your life; and then Trust God with “The every issue(s)” in your life; to Let Go & Let God Lift you up out of the ways of this world … to experience Life that is with God through your faith in His Son. I am here to encourage you at whatever level of faith you are at! My faith may encourage you, but it’s your faith that will move you to believe; and it is your faith that will move you to grow in your Most Holy Faith; praying in the Holy Spirit. That’s God’s work & our faith is a personal relationship with God. Jesus is the Way …
Believing is like swimming; You stay on the shallow end, until you gain the skills to swim in the deeper waters. So, don’t beat yourself up for learning to swim; believe until you can swim!
WHY?
1) To Have LIFE & Experience LIFE!
& 2) In this world, we can fall into deeper waters, so it is important to know how to survive in this world After the Miracle, through Jesus.
The Miracle is Believing Jesus is for us!
We survive through Practicing the Word of God in Jesus Name.
Faith is like; at first, learning to swim, you may bob up and down, but once you believe to relax and trust that the water will hold you to float, you will float. God is that power in LIFE whom Holds you through your Faith in Christ Jesus; and He is your ability to Life & Blessings!
Then, if you keep on believing to practice swimming (practicing the Word of God in your life), you will learn to glide through the water as you gain experience, strength, endurance; and perhaps most of all confidence in what you believe by faith when you first get your feet wet: That you can swim; if only you will believe to get in the water. That Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God who will help you & … The Holy Spirit!
You don’t have to know all about swimming to get in the water, to learn to swim; you first just get in the water; and start practicing!
Jesus didn’t call experts; He calls us to believe by faith; and to get to know Him!
I hope this is a light to you, in the darkness of the doubts & fears … feelings of guilt that will lie to anyone who will believe the lie from the enemy, instead of the Truth from the Savior.
*Credit to this Picture is to Marsha Harwood.
Jesus loves you and you are invited to come into the Water of God’s Love for you to be set free from fear, confusion, frustration, anxiety, sin & … all consequences of avoiding what is The Truth; to come to know what is truly True & Lovely. Jesus is the Way, The Truth and the Life; and no one comes to the Father, but by HIM, but everyone is invited to Come!
No one learns to swim, unless they come to the water; and get in the water by faith!
I hope this is a Light of God’s Love for you, that no matter what stage you are at in your spiritual growth in Christ, to be encouraged to know and believe in the love God has for you!
And, remember, God gives us each a measure of Faith to believe, even if just the size of “A Mustard Seed” , if you will confess to God that you believe in Jesus The Christ for your life, you will have LIFE! Then, as you seek to learn more & more about Jesus, God will grow your faith; and your faith is just right for you & meant to grow! That’s how we fit faith(s) together; they are different measures, yet meant to grow; and yours is meant for you to help you believe in how much God loves you! And, you have purpose in your life!
Faith is meant to grow; in the same way that there is LIFE within the
SEED (The Word of God).
A corn seed has everything already in it (the Stalk, the Roots, The Ears of Corn, the Tassel); it is meant to be planted in good soil, watered, get GOOD LIGHT, burst out of the shell & grow … to later produce!
The Word of GOD is Active and Living! The Word of God is the Seed!
Are you believing in the Word of God’s Love Jesus has for you Today?
Jesus is The Light calling all Believers to COME to the Water & Believe!
And, now …
HOPE IN TODAY MINISTRIES, INC. DAILY DEVOTION TO GOD’S HOLY WORD
You Are Not Overcome … Believe! … & Keep Believing in the Light of God’s Love for you! By Karen Rowe
Sometimes, as the day comes to a end, I get to struggling with thoughts that come to my mind.
Like yesterday, About 6 PM, I had to pray those thoughts & give them to Jesus. Father, these thoughts hurt me. If anyone is thinking something that I didn’t feel, please reveal to their heart that I was saying that I am not perfect, but show them why I write; Reveal yourself to them as whom You are.
I can’t make this stuff up! So, it is 3:30 AM & I planned on sleeping in, but the Lord woke me up with this revelation! And, you can BELIEVE the Scripture of Today was Handpicked by God yesterday, when I prayed also, Father, I am feeling like I should have said more to clarify…But nevertheless, I believe it pleased You. Father, please REVEAL the Why to the readers tomorrow.
And then the Morning comes & Jesus said, teach them like this. A believer in Jesus has the LIGHT living within. We are like the battery that goes in the flashlight! GOD IS THE SOURCE OF POWER & JESUS IS THE ONE TRUE LIGHT. In this world, our soul is called to God (LIFE), be a light of the Good News in Christ Jesus!
Friends, There are 3 Things to teach today:
1) We need Jesus.
2) We need each other.
3) We need to Renew.
God blesses everyone with a new day to believe!
IN this world, A battery (soul) is like a human being waiting to HAVE life!
1) A dead battery won’t work in a flashlight (it needs a Source of Power); nor IF placed incorrectly; there is ONLY ONE WAY a battery will work; The Right way! (1) We need Jesus! Our human Negative to God’s Supernatural Positive! Jesus is the LIFE! God gives LIFE! And God’s Word keeps us positioned Correctly in the Word of God.
2) We need unity with each other! In the same way, batteries serve well when we add our positives to the negatives. The Light shines in the darkness ..
3) We are weak, but HE is strong & Greater is He in a believer, than darkness is in the world. Friends, if you feel defeated, like you left your flashlight on too long, Renew! Pray to Jesus, tell God how you feel… LET GO & LET God …
If you need LIFE, Come to Jesus & tell God what He already knows! Believe Jesus loves you!
All humans are flawed, BUT Christ died once for All! The WORD (CHRIST JESUS) of GOD IS the POWER & LIGHT!
JESUS IS A POWERFUL NAME! & …HE LOVES YOU!
I wrestle with sharing this song, “We are not overcome,” in the version of an Album Title for this Song … “He will not cry Out”, because I believe it is more powerful to say the positive, HE WILL CRY OUT. Yet, I don’t question how the Holy Spirit directs me, & if you really think about it, God is the Positive to our Negative! So how fitting for Today? Human Pride sometimes struggles to Cry Out to God for help? I believe God wants you to know all you have to do is Cry out to Jesus. Will you? In Christ, we are NOT Overcome! And, I do like this song by the way :)
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.
John 1:5 NLT
As a confidence in prayers:
Prayers release God’s Power & Holy Spirit Direction & Energy … Like an archer will aim a Bow & Arrow at a target, in Christ, we can put the prayer (like an arrow) in the bow of (God’s Hand); and as we draw the string of the bow back (Acting in faith in Jesus Name) and aim (intercede in prayer for another), we can know that the arrow (the prayer of …) will touch the heart of the prayer need; as an archer is confident his / her arrow will hit the bulls-eye, & … so it is with praying in the Holy Spirit, that is in Jesus Name, because God is the Wind that carries the power in the Holy Spirit Prayer!
Please know that we are praying for you; and in Christ, we will appreciate your prayers as well! Will you join us & pray also for each person reading this that may wish they had someone just whispering a prayer for them?
Love in Christ,
Karen Rowe
Hope in Today Ministries, Inc.
#TheTrainWhistleKarenRowe
TILL NEXT TIME!
“GRACE AND PEACE TO YOU FROM GOD OUR FATHER AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”
The address for this Promise in the Bible is found in 2 Corinthians 1:2.
…& This is the NIV Today.
LOVE IN CHRIST,
KAREN ROWE
Hope in Today Ministries, Inc.
The Train Whistle, Sounding the call of God’s Love, by Karen Rowe [2012 Published for you]
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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
