Good afternoon, morning, evening or night when the Lord brings you here to read this.
It’s been a while, but I just can’t get it off my mind that the Lord is saying to me to write for you today at For God’s Glory Alone Ministries and I thank Dewey for being obedient to the Lord to encourage me.
Here goes, and I hope this is a blessing to you, because every soul needs the Son of God, Jesus. More than a Savior, Jesus is Lord! And, when we do as the Father says, Jesus calls us Friend.
But who is Christ? Christ is the Mind of God who lives in us! Jesus goes to the Father on our behalf and tells us what the Father says, even today! I am learning so much that Jesus even tells us how to pray! As the Lord reveled to me, years ago I prayed, “Father, I couldn’t handle knowing tomorrow; could I?” I am just realizing this month that Jesus guided my thoughts to pray the question … As Jesus already had the answer from God for me! Jesus replied to my faithful question, “No, you could not, but be the time tomorrow comes, you will be strong to.” See?
Jesus guided my thoughts to pray the question …
As Jesus already had the answer from God for me!
John 16 explains, and it is written for us to know, and believe, and get our understanding in about all things; of course, The Wisdom from God, the Father is the principal thing!
John Chapter 16 verses 12 – 13; read also John Chapter 17.
12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 13Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
As we enter into this place, let us enter seeking our knowledge of the glory of the Lord and with a purpose to grow in our knowledge of God and of His Son … For the Kingdom to grow & increase in the knowledge of the glory of the LORD.
What is Life Eternal? And how’s your Soul? Do you have Peace in difficult situations?
Let’s 1st turn to Jesus, who spoke this truth that every soul needs to come to know and understand. It is written in John 17:3
John 17:3
And this is life eternal,
that they might know thee the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
I always start fresh here at FGGAM! So it is today too, and that’s how it gets to be long. God is so good! I pray to the Father to open the spiritual eyes to see, open the spiritual hears to hear, open the walled hearts to understand and for the Father to draw unbelievers and believers alike to open our heart to want more of God not less.
Read on in John 17, because Jesus prayed for the followers who are doing the work of the Father in His Name, and prayed for those who might be saved through our words to them.
This is why we are here, so that unbelievers can see God’s love for them through us and to hear the message of Jesus the Christ by us attentive to Christ in us – 1st being delivered from all we think we know about what is right or wrong or good or evil.
Absolutely be aware of the fruit of good and the fruit of evil, but don’t let that knowledge of good and evil take control of your mind that is to be set free from the knowledge of good and evil to have your mind set on the purposes of Christ Jesus.
For God so loved _____ the world; and came to save the lost; and give sight and heal and all these things that we have when we have an encounter with Christ through our faithful prayers to Jesus and Jesus tells us how to think, and Christ is the Mind to choose.
Not my mind Lord, but the Father’s will be done!
Every soul needs Jesus, but do we understand why?
Let’s look to the teaching of Jesus and begin.
3Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
What is born again? By His Spirit, Christ dwells in us and tells us how to behave.
Watch your thoughts, they become your words – Fill your thoughts with Christ’s guidance in to revealing God’s Truth to you. God’s word is written in our heart and when we read it, well… you will know the Voice of Jesus and choose to follow a love that wraps you so immensely that you want more of the love God showers on you.
But endure the test of faith! you know that is real; don’t you? There is a reward of Joy unspeakable but everlastingly real! Get the understanding from God! Christ Jesus is the way and our method is doing what Jesus tells us to do!
So, I am getting my reward now, … His presence! ….and the test will come to me later to see if I really believe.
You probably have learned this, but it is good to remind ourselves daily that our soul is made up of 3 parts. And the part that needs to be renewed is our mind!
1. Our Soul is our mind, the way we think, but God’s thoughts are higher! Have we come to know and believe and grow in our faith to understand that Jesus is teaching us how to be saved and from what we are saved from yet?
I have learned to pray,
Lord Jesus,
protect me from myself!
you know, what we think,
feel, and want to do in our flesh?
2. Our Soul is our emotions, how we feel about what we think! Right here is where the great deception begins! When our heart agrees with our emotions to walk away from getting our understanding from God.
You may not want to hear this, but …
Jeremiah 17: 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
3. Our Soul is also our free will to choose! We make a conscience decision to consider the thoughts we have and weigh them to two things in, all going on within our soul! Do our thoughts agree with with what it written in the Word of God, which also agrees with Christ in us, who does guide us into all truth (Jesus is Truth) and will show us things to come! Christ is the Mind of God and when we are surrendered to the faith that believes God’s testimony about His Son …
We are saved when we believe, by Grace through faith ….
Ephesians 2: 8
For by grace are ye s a v e d t h r o u g h faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God:
9 not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his w o r k m a n s h i p, c r e a t e d in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we s h o u l d walk in them.
God wants us to go Deeper in our Soul’s understanding
Romans 10:10
For with the heart
man believeth unto righteousness;
and with the mouth
c o n f e s s i o n is m a d e unto salvation
Salvation works by our confession – to God and one to another (IN the Spirit of Christ)!
Not to condemnation, but to deliverance of our own soul.
Most recently, I have another testimony I can share!
Delivered from … and God still saw in me something I thought was already made pure as gold! NOPE, I still had imperfections in my heart in an area of “my knowledge of good and evil”
Check that out and pause right there until that melts into your soul!
IT is our knowledge of what we think is good or evil that causes us to fall; and the test to see it in our own heart is ugly, but we are set free in Christ Jesus by God’s Grace! We just need to see it and make the choice to honor God! Example, we know something is wrong and we want and attempt to justify how the wrong the wrong is with the one (or to others) that we know did wrong that day … and another clue: to us! or someone we love!
Call a friend in Christ and tell them your story with an open heart to hear their response! Let go and let God! How long do you want the aggiatation to last? Be set free and free indeed! To be loved by God (experience His love for you); and to love God with all your heart, soul, and with all thy mind! In other words, how long do you want to wrestle with God? Be set free and freed indeed … In the Mind of God (Christ, Jesus).
“JESUS SAID” is all I need to hear! My friend, take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ! Every soul needs Jesus, including (especially all of me)! Just being transparent that Jesus helps me overcome me to some form of Victory in Christ Jesus every day!!
Matthew 22: 37
Jesus said
unto him, T h o u shalt l o v e the Lord thy God
w i t h
a l l thy h e a r t, and
w i t h
a l l thy soul, and
w i t h
a l l thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love
thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments h
ang all the law and the prophets.
You might hear, as I did, we who are strong ought to bear with the infirmities of the weak. Like a grinding wheel grinds to a stop, we must take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and this, my friends is where deliverance is found!
this, my friends is where deliverance is found!
Every Soul Needs Jesus!
Lord Jesus, may we see the salvation of the Lord working in our own soul, setting our own soul free from being captive to the things we know that steals our peace and confuses to stop our prayers!
But thank God, Jesus didn’t leave us that way!
Jesus asked the Father to send us the Holy Spirit; and He will guide you into all truth.
God’s Wisdom will cause you to have the peace that surpasses all understanding!
To me that means, that I sometimes try to think that peace is about Jesus, not me.
Peace is Jesus and peace is about me trading in my right for His Righteousness; and I believe that begins with God and His guiding care He has for us!
God is not mad at us, but He will allow us to feel the brunt of being right in our own thoughts.
I will leave you to the rest of the devotion when you are ready with this thought.
How long do you want it to last?
Welcome to Hope in Today Ministries
Daily Devotion to God’s Holy Word.
I hope this is a two by two for you too. Sometimes all we need to hear is the truth.
I do!
Do we need to be right? Do we want it, or do we just want it if we can get it at our price?
Think about that.
And, this, who do you really need in this life? God X3 and a friend in Christ indeed!
Devotion Reel with Revelation, Song by John Rich
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1153485015920955
What is the power of a friend in Christ?
Lord help me, & Lord protect me from myself!
Saved from so much, but what is it about the Salvation working in our souls?
It’s Christ!
Every time I sense something wrong, Christ guides me to get the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth!
My knowledge of what is right & good & my knowledge of what is wrong & evil —Pause … don’t pass by this quickly
Every time my knowledge senses something is wrong, it always circles back to me!
What does this mean? Salvation is working all things together for the good to them who love God!
We know what is old-school and right according to the old-fashioned trust in a handshake, but even back then it come down to a moral of the character…
How we respond to anything will circle back to something in our soul that needs deliverance from!
From what?
From anything bringing anxiety that is not from God!
And, we are delivered FROM some selfish ambition that also comes WITH confusion and the temptation to be right (every evil PRACTICE the Bible explains in James Chapter 3 )… pause to open your Bible to begin getting UNDERSTANDING in what you hear the Lord SPEAK to you •James 3:14-18
Then we are also delivered inTO something greater by God’s grace! Freedom from frustration, that comes from our need to be right and control others to do what pleases us according to what we think we know is right!
But, my friends, Jesus teaches us only God is right! And the minute we think we know more than God we need deliverance from the enemy of self to the freedoms in Christ! Freedom?
For what? To continue in sin? The Bible says, “God forbid!” Freedom from the wall in our heart that blocks the love of of God from flowing!
Let it begin with me, as it already has! Allow the Spirit of Truth room in the platform of your mind to hear God’s perspective & ask Jesus for understanding!
This is better than we think!
With every deliverance, the beauty of life shining in our soul is just a glimpse of so much more God has in store for us!
The verse today is true! Jesus tells us a part & sends us another to understand in full! And we are to be ever-increasing in our knowledge of God x3
Backup … Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God! As I believe the Lord Jesus instructed me to share God’s Word in this. I hope this is a blessing to you!
Love in Christ,
Karen PS, one day I need to update my info! Thank you for your patience with me!
It is written
in Matthew 18:20 and reads,
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
‘Let (means we have a choice)
the word of Christ (the power to overcome all things through Christ who strengthens us)
dwell in you (Ref also 1 John 4:16) (GOD IS LOVE undeserved kindness and generosity)
richly
in all wisdom; (See the Book of James)
teaching and admonishing one another
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. ‘
Colossians 3:16
16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing on9Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 10For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. e another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
9 Two are better than one;
because
they have a good reward for their labour.
10 For if they fall,
the one will lift up his fellow:
but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Psalm 139: And some verses to know
13For thou hast possessed my reins:
Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
Marvellous are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from thee,
When I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect;
And in thy book all my members were written,
Which in continuance were fashioned,
When as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:
When I awake, I am still with thee.
Romans 5 WOW!
I was only searching for verses 3 & 4,
but found so much more!
Peace with God
1Therefore being justified by faith,
we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand,
and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so,
but we glory in tribulations also:
knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
4 and patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5 and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
we shall be saved by his life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13(for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
15But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. 17For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
much more
they which receive
abundance of grace a
nd of the gift of righteousness
shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
For as by one man’s disobedience
many were made sinners,
so by the obedience of one
shall many be made righteous.
Thank you Jesus!
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
It was a blessing reading God’s Word with you Today. I have many things to say, because God is so good, but this is my faith that this is written according to how Jesus spoke it to me as I sit here on purpose by faith to honor our Lord, my King Jesus!
Love to you with prayers, that by grace we will not debate right or wrongs, but just grow in our faith and when asked, only be able to defend the faith.
It’s a defense of the faith / not a debate. Jesus has already finished the finished work of God in Christ! Stay strong in the faith my friends and be of good courage, don’t underestimate the power of your silence and the power of your prayer for others as it is God who is working on your behalf. You keep your peace … Yes, it is written!
When you receive this, you will never be the same!
Exodus 14:14
The LORD shall fight for you,
and ye shall hold your peace.