Where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is freedom!

Paul writes in Corinthians 2, where the Spirit of the LORD is there is freedom.  If we go back to the beginning of time, in Genesis we read that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters."

GOD is not bound by this earth.  GOD can send HIS Spirit anywhere in the universe.  HE is our CREATOR.

Therefore, to get back to Paul, what Paul is saying to us that when we trust in GOD, when we are in a relationship with GOD, when we are GOD centred, there is freedom.  Freedom to live our lives without fear.  Knowing that our GOD is with us.  No matter the circumstances that we find ourselves in.  GOD is with us.  

That is true freedom!

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER GOD, I thank YOU that I have complete freedom when I trust in YOU.  I thank YOU FATHER that YOU are always there for me.  I humbly ask FATHER that YOU guide my life and grant me YOUR peace.  I ask this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen. 

Stay freely GOD blessed today!

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Be strong in the LORD!

We are urged by the disciple Paul in his letter to the Ephesians to be strong in the LORD and HIS mighty power.  

Nothing is too hard for GOD.  No matter what the situation that we find ourselves in, nothing is impossible for GOD. 

Let us today remember how big and how powerful and how mighty our GOD is and let us hand over all our troubles to HIM.  More importantly, let us trust in GOD and have faith that with HIM and through HIM everything is possible.

Prayer:  Heavenly FATHER GOD,  I know how big and how mighty and how powerful YOU are.  Today FATHER I cast all my worries and my cares on YOU.  I am simply not strong enough to deal with them today FATHER.   I humbly ask FATHER that YOU help me and give me strength today.  I pray this in the Holy Name of my Lord and my Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay truly GOD blessed today.  

Look to the Lord!

The Bible tells us to look to the LORD.  This is not merely a vague statement.  It is imperative as Children of the Living GOD that we seek HIM first.  We should seek HIS wor.,  We should seek HIS voice.  We should seek HIS way and HIS purpose for our lives.

In fact we should do nothing without prayer first.  We need to look to GOD for our going in and our coming out.  

Let us today make a concerted effort to put GOD first and let us seek HIS face.

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER, show me YOUR perfect way.  Let me seek YOUR face and YOUR voice and YOUR plan for my life.

I pray this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay wondrously GOD blessed today.  

In the LORD, I will not be shaken!

With GOD at our side, we can never be shaken!  GOD is our CREATOR.  HE can do anything.  What we need to do is have faith in our powerful, Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent GOD.

We need to have a relationship with HIM.  We need to know HIS word and HIS will.  We need to listen for HIS voice and for HIS guidance in our lives.

We need to pray continually and about everything.  We need to trust in GOD because HE is perfect and because HE knows everything.

Let us today, put all our faith in GOD and not be shaken!

Prayer:  Heavenly FATHER, today I humbly ask that YOU guide my life and show me YOUR perfect way.  I ask FATHER that YOU talk to me and tell me what YOU want for my life.  I ask FATHER that with YOU by my side, I will never be shaken.  I humbly ask this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay unshakenly GOD blessed today!

Trust in GOD!

GOD is without sin. HE is pure and HIS word is everlasting.  Therefore let us trust in HIM today.  HE will lead us, but we must want to be led.  HE will show us the way, but we must ask HIM for direction.   HE will love us, but we must want to be loved.

GOD gave us all free will.  We can do anything we please.  We can choose to do good or we can choose to bad or we can choose to do nothing.

Let us exercise our free will and run into our Saviour's arms.  Let us go down on our knees and beg GOD to show us the way.  Let HIM be our refuge and our strength.

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER GOD, I thank YOU that I can give all my free will to YOU to shelter me and to protect me in times of trouble.  LORD GOD, today I humbly ask that YOU direct my life.  Help me to give everything to YOU before I rush into things and make a mess.  I pray all of this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Stay wondrously GOD blessed today!

Let the LORD direct our hearts!

"Let the LORD direct our hearts into GOD's love and Christ's perseverance."   What a powerful thought for today!

If we will just give GOD freewill to act in our hearts and in our lives, HE can direct us into HIS eternal gracious love and into Christ's perseverance.

We need to give up trying to do everything ourselves.  This does not mean we have to just sit down and wait.  No - it means before we do anything, we need to test it against what GOD wants for our lives.  We need to test to see if it is the truth and if it will promote GOD's will on earth.  We need to pray to GOD and ask HIM to direct our lives in every aspect.

Once we have done that and if we have not heard from GOD we know that we are on the wrong path.  GOD will show us the way.  Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. And we need to wait on GOD.  We need to pray and talk to GOD and read HIS word to know HIS will. 

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER GOD, I thank YOU that YOU will always give me freewill.  However, FATHER, I humbly ask that YOU take over my life and show me the way YOU want me to go.  Let me not rush into life.  Let me rather wait for YOU to show me the way.  

I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen. 

Stay wonderfully patiently GOD blessed today.  

GOD talks to us!

GOD talks to us!  We may not hear HIM and we may not know how to hear HIM.  But HE is talking to us constantly.  GOD loves each one of us and HE wants a relationship with us.  

We develop our relationships through contact.  Speaking to one another and spending time with one another.  Listening to each other and sharing thoughts with one another is the way we build relationships.

With GOD it is exactly the same.  We need to spend time talking to GOD, we need to spend time listening to GOD and we need to spend time reading GOD's word.

Today stop and listen to what GOD is saying to us.  Let us read HIS word and let us talk to HIM - in prayer.

Prayer:  Heavenly FATHER GOD, I thank YOU that YOU are in my life.  I thank YOU that I can talk to YOU.  FATHER I want to hear what YOU have to say to me.  I want to hear YOUR voice.  Talk to me FATHER and tell me the right way to go in my life.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay awesomely GOD blessed today!

Shelter in the MOST HIGH!

The Psalmist tells us that whoever dwells in the shelter of the MOST HIGH, will rest in the shadow of the ALMIGHTY.  This is an extremely powerful and profound thought.  

How do we get to dwell in the shelter of the MOST HIGH?  Well what we need to do is accept GOD as our FATHER, our CREATOR.  We need to accept Jesus as our Redeemer; our Saviour.  Then we need to give everything to GOD!

What is meant here, is that we take everything we do, everything we say and everything plan to do to GOD - before we attempt to do these things.  This is particularly hard to do with everything we say.

Sometimes we just speak without actually thinking.  And it hurts.  It hurts others, but most of all it hurts ourselves.

Therefore we need to become Holy and draw close to GOD. We need to read HIS word daily.  We need to pray constantly that HE is with us and that we can "shelter" in the MOST HIGH.  And that will give us rest and calm and peace in the "shadow" of the ALMIGHTY.

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER GOD, today I humbly pray that YOU let me dwell in the shelter of YOUR grace and give me rest in YOUR shadow.  I pray that YOU pour YOUR grace out on my life and make me an obedient servant of YOURS.

I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of my Lord and my Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Stay wonderfully GOD blessed today.  

The LORD is my strength and my shield!

GOD is our strength and our shield!  Our hearts need to trust in HIM fully and HE will help us. 

The faith to trust GOD completely is necessary to achieve HIS help.  If we have any doubts that GOD will help us, then we are not going to get the help.

GOD gave each one of us free will.  HE tells us over and over again in the Bible to trust in HIM.  Jesus tells us that if we have faith as small as a mustard see we can move a mountain from here to there.  And Jesus tells us not to worry about anything as we cannot add a single day to our lives. 

This is true and we need to learn to lean on GOD for everything.  For our daily bread, for our safety, for our guidance in our walk on this earth.  We need to pray about everything before we do it and GOD will help us and show us the way.

When we get on the wrong path, believe me, the obstacles will flow.  But when we get on the right path, we have GOD on our side.  So we need to shift this and put ourselves on GOD's side and not try to get HIM on our side, which is sure to be the wrong way.

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER GOD, I thank YOU that YOU are my strength and my shield.  I thank YOU that YOU are an ever present help in times of trouble.  Today FATHER, I humbly ask that YOU show me YOUR path and I follow YOU rather than trying to fit YOU onto my path.

I pray this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, my Redeemer, Jesus Christ.  Amen.  

Stay assuredly GOD blessed today.  

Conquerors in Jesus Christ!

GOD loves us so much that HE sent HIS only begotten Son, not only to live on this earth as we do, but to die - nailed to a cross, tortured and mocked and derided.  All so that we can be forgiven for our sins and have a chance to live an eternal life with GOD.

We are born in sin and we die in sin.  The only way to be saved is through an unfailing belief in the truth above. Our Christian faith is not an inclusive faith.  We cannot say that we worship the same GOD as others if their GOD did not send HIS Son Jesus Christ to die for us. 

Therefore it is our duty as faithful followers of GOD to spread the truth of our GOD.  Jesus is the only way to get to GOD.  There is no other way.  We are saved by the grace of GOD.  This grace gave us the life of HIS Son.  This grace forgives all our sins and puts them as far as East is from West when we confess them to GOD and beg for forgiveness.  We have to forgive others when they sin against us.

Most of all Jesus asked us to love one another. 

Today let us go out and make GOD our first, our last and our all!.   Let us spread the good news about Jesus and let us beg GOD to forgive us our sins and let us forgive all those who have sinned against us.  

Prayer:  

Our FATHER, who art in Heaven.  
Hallowed be THY Name.  
Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. 
Give us our daily bread and 
forgive us our trespassers as we forgive those who trespass against us. 
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.  
For THINE is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory.  
Forever and ever.  Amen.  

Stay awesomely GOD blessed today.  

Praise the LORD!

Praise the LORD!  Today is the first day of spring in the Southern Hemisphere.  And GOD who created all the seasons is to be praised.

Let us fall down on our knees today and praise this wonderful, merciful GOD whom we are honoured to call our FATHER in Heaven.

Draw closer to GOD and walk outside and take a look at the stars.  Feel the heat coming back after the winter and know that our FATHER is as steadfast as the seasons.

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER GOD, I thank YOU today for the seasons.  I thank YOU that YOU are faithful and true and merciful and gracious.  I thank YOU FATHER that I can serve YOU.  

I humbly ask today that you forgive my sins as I forgive all those who sin against me. 

I ask this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay graciously GOD blessed today.