GOD knows each one of us!

GOD knows each one us!  HE knows our going out and our coming in.   When we read the Scriptures in many places in the Bible it tells us that we are "chosen" by GOD " (1 Peter 2:9)
But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;   (Ephesians 1:4) He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,"  and many many other such verses.

GOD wants us to spend eternity with HIM.  We are temporary residents of this earth.  We have a responsibility to this earth and the people of this earth to take care of the earth and to spread the "good news" that we are all "children of the LIVING GOD".

We need to be obedient to this and we need to spend our time on earth wisely and  we also need to prepare for our eternal life with GOD.

Today let us draw close to OUR FATHER in Heaven who chose each one of us to be HIS children.

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER GOD, I thank YOU that I have been chosen as YOUR child on earth.  Give me opportunities to spread YOUR word and to be obedient to YOUR will.  I humbly pray all of this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay wondrously GOD blessed and chosen today!

Believe!

Without faith we are not children of the Living GOD.  We need to have faith that our GOD loves us and that our GOD sent HIS Son to die for our sins.  We need to pray in faith.

However, even with faith, if we ask in prayer and believe that GOD will give it to us, then so it will be. 

This is an extremely hard thing to put into practise.  To have the belief that whatever we ask for in prayer, GOD will give us, and this is where we often fall down.  We ask GOD to help us but wonder, if in fact, HE will.  This doubt causes our prayers not to be answered as GOD can read our hearts.

Therefore let us practise praying in the belief that GOD will help us and that HE is listening to us all the time.  Faith in GOD is like a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

In order to have faith, we need to be in a strong loving relationship with GOD and we can do this through reading HIS word daily.  Through prayer and through talking to GOD about everything.

Let us do this today!

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER GOD, I believe that YOU are listening to this prayer right now.  I pray for all the people who read this blog to know YOU and to have a personal relationship with YOU.  I pray that YOU will strengthen our faith today.  I pray all of this in the Holy Name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay faithfully GOD blessed today.

Our GOD made Heaven and Earth!

Our awesome GOD made Heaven and Earth.  HE made you and me.  HE created everything we know and everything we don't know.

When we start to realized the magnitude of our GOD then we start to realize that absolutely nothing is impossible for our GOD no matter how impossible the situation appears to us.

Therefore today, let us "right size"our GOD.  Let us fall down on our knees and pray and worship this magnificent, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent GOD.  Our GOD sees everything and hears everything.  Nothing escapes HIM.  

Let us petition GOD with all our needs and with all our worries and with all our stresses.  Let us cast all of this upon HIM and depend on HIM totally.  After all we cannot fathom the heights nor depths of this CREATOR FATHER of ours!

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER, I thank YOU that I am able to worship YOU.  I thank  YOU for YOUR creation, this Earth upon which I am blessed enough to live.  I thank YOU for my life and for the life of all those on this Earth.  

FATHER YOU know what I need.  I humbly pray that YOU guide me and help me through this coming week.  I humbly ask that you forgive my sins as I  forgive all those who sin against me. 

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

Stay wondrously GOD blessed today.

Jesus our Redeemer!

GOD sent HIS Son Jesus Christ, a man completely pure and free of sin, to die for us as our "scapegoat".  This sacrifice is so great that we are unable to comprehend it.  Can any of us imagine allowing one of our children to die for something that they did not do?  Especially if that child was pure and free of any sin?

It does not bear thinking about!

This enormous GOD of ours, this magnificent CREATOR GOD did this for us.  HE watched us crucify HIS blameless child so that we might have life everlasting with HIM!

Let us not crucify Jesus all over by continuing to sin.  Let us think about our actions on earth and contemplate this selfless act of grace and fall down on our knees and beg GOD to forgive us for ever sinning.  And most of all let us resolve to sin no more.

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER GOD, I thank YOU for YOUR enormous sacrifice and YOUR grace.  I thank YOU for the life of Jesus Christ, my Redeemer.  I thank YOU that through Him, I have a chance to have eternal life with YOU.  Forgive my sins, ABBA FATHER.  I forgive all those who have sinned against me and I promise to remember their sins no more.  I pray all of this in the most Holy Name of my Lord and my Saviour, my Redeemer, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay wondrously and graciously GOD blessed today.  

GOD delivers us!

GOD delivers us when we ask.  But we need to ask for deliverance.  Deliverance from our sins, deliverance for those who sin against us.  And most of all deliverance from our trials and tribulations.  Without asking GOD we receive nothing. 

GOD wants us to have a living relationship with us.  Just like a child asks a parent for their everyday needs, so we need to ask our FATHER in Heaven for our needs.

We need to give HIM love and adoration and HE will give us whatever we ask for if it is HIS will.  Just like a child will not get things that are bad for them, so we will not receive things that are bad for our eternal salvation.

Trust in GOD for our deliverance.

Prayer: ABBA FATHER I adore YOU. I thank YOU for YOUR grace and YOUR unending love.   Today I humbly ask that YOU deliver me from the trials and tribulations of this world.  I forgive all those who sin against me and I humbly ask that YOU forgive my sins.  I pray all of this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay graciously GOD blessed today.

Meditate on GOD's word!

In line with asking and receiving, we as children of the LIVING GOD need to know what GOD is saying to each one of us.  GOD talks to us through our prayers, though other people and most of all through HIS word, the Bible.

If we choose not to read the Bible, we are missing out on the most important part of our communion with GOD.

Therefore we need to set aside quiet time each and every day to read the Bible.  Then to pray quietly and listen to what GOD is telling us.

Let us therefore meditate on what message GOD is giving each one us today!

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER GOD, I thank YOU that I am able to read YOUR word today.  I pray that YOU talk to me through YOUR word and through people whom I may meet today.  I long to hear YOUR voice and I long to meditate on YOUR word today.  I pray all of this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay GOD blessed today!

Praise GOD!

In the last few days, I have been writing about asking and receiving from GOD.  Todays writing follows on from that.  When we ask GOD for something, we should not be anxious and stressed about whether or not our prayers and supplications will be heard.  

Rather we need to praise and worship our ALMIGHTY GOD, when we petition HIM.  We need to pray using praise and worship, and then expect to receive the peace which transcends all understanding.

That is why Jesus taught us how to pray in Matthew 6:9-13 when he said:   9  “This, then, is how you should pray"

By praying like this, we start off praising our FATHER in Heaven.  “Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be Your name," 

We ask that HIS NAME be revered throughout the earth and we ask that everything be done according to HIS MIGHTY will. “10 Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."

We then go on to ask for our prayers to be answered by asking for our daily bread.  "11  Give us today our daily bread."

And we then move on to asking for forgiveness of our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. "12 And forgive us our debts,  as we also have forgiven our debtors. "  
We ask not to be led into temptation. "13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. "  

In the more modern Churches we say "For THINE is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever.  (This gives all Glory to GOD forever).  Amen"

This is how we need to pray, using praise and worshipping the HOLY NAME of GOD our FATHER in Heaven.  We can then expect to hear from GOD.  

Listen out for HIM and for HIS voice today!

Prayer : ABBA FATHER, we worship YOUR Holy Name.  I pray that each and every person reading this today is GOD blessed.  We pray that YOU hear our prayers and our supplications today FATHER.  We ask all of this in the Holy Name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay wondrously GOD blessed today. 

Everyone who asks receives!

This verse is often used to preach a "prosperity ministry".  The reason for this is that we often place the wrong emphasis on what we ask for.  Jesus said:  "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."  (Matthew 19:24.

When we pray we need to remember that if what we ask for is in line with GOD's plan for our lives, we can have it.  We also need to thank GOD for what we have and truly appreciate what we have rather than asking GOD to give us more. 

When Jesus spoke about asking and receiving it is not about material wealth.  It is about asking for the life eternal, the infilling of the Holy Spirit and our faith and in these things,  we will receive it.  We need to believe that we will receive it, in order to get it. 

And in order to have life everlasting with Jesus Christ and GOD, we need forgiveness of our sins, we need to forgive those who sin against us and we need to believe in Jesus Christ our Lord as the ONLY way to get to GOD and life eternal.

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER GOD, I thank YOU that I can ask YOU for anything and if I truly believe I can have it.  I thank YOU for the life of Jesus Christ as my Redeemer.  I humbly ask that YOU forgive my sins as I forgive those who sin against me.  I pray all of this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay truly GOD blessed today.  

Ask!

Jesus said to His disciples, " Ask and it will be given to you".  This verse is so often taken out of context.

What Jesus was in effect saying was that for everything in our lives, we need to ask GOD and HE is always listening.  If we ask for the wrong things and they are not in GOD's plan for our lives, we will NOT get them.  However if we are asking for the right things and for the right reasons, we will definitely get them.

The other thing that is most often not talked about in this verse is the FAITH in GOD.  If we have faith as small as a mustard seed, we can achieve anything we want in line with GOD's will for our lives.  Our faith lets us down.  

Jesus said we can move mountains if we have such small faith.  The thing here is to ask GOD for the right things for the right reasons and then to have the faith that GOD will give it to us. 

Prayer: Heavenly FATHER GOD, I thank YOU for YOUR immense grace and kindness.  I thank YOU for YOUR generosity and for YOUR love.  I thank YOU for the life of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour.  Today FATHER I humbly ask that YOU become the centre of my life.  I ask this in Jesus Holy Name.  Amen.

Stay GOD blessed today!

Seek first the Kingdom of GOD!

Let us first seek the Kingdom of GOD.  GOD first, GOD last and GOD forever.  Let us not worry about the earthly things, what we shall wear or what we shall eat or where we shall live.

Let us as children of the Living GOD put our complete trust in HIM today.  Let us bow down and worship HIM and praise HIM.  HIS love and mercy endure forever.  

Thank GOD today for the gift of our lives and the lives of all those on earth.  Let us thank GOD for all that we have no matter how great or how small.  Let us thank GOD for our health, whether it be good or bad.  Let us thank GOD that we are alive and able to experience this time on HIS GOD given earth.

Prayer: Heavenly ABBA FATHER, thank YOU for YOUR grace and mercy.  Today I thank YOU for my life and the life of each and every person on this earth.  I thank YOU that YOU made us all, great and small.  I thank YOU that YOU breathed life into my body and that YOUR Holy Spirit lives in me.  I pray that YOU forgive me for worrying about the things in life that I should bring to YOU.  I humbly ask today that YOU forgive me as I forgive all those who sin against me.  I pray all of this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen!

Stay wondrously GOD blessed today!

Love the LORD your GOD!

Jesus, the Son of the LIVING GOD told his disciples to "love GOD with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their mind."  This is still true today.  We need to show GOD all of our love and we need to put GOD first in everything we do.  Everything we think we should defer to GOD and give our thoughts over to GOD and we need to worship GOD with all of our soul.

This way we put GOD first and we put GOD last and we put GOD in everything we do.

Let us shine the love of GOD on earth today!


Prayer: Heavenly ABBA Father, I thank YOU for my whole life and I give my life to you today.  I thank YOU FATHER, that YOU love me and that I can love YOU with my whole life.  Let me shine YOUR light on this world today.  I pray this in the Holy Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay GOD blessed today!