Search me O GOD!

 Dearest Christ followers, we can learn from King David how we need to pray.  This is such a powerful prayer.

Let us resolve to ask GOD to search us, and to know our hearts, to test us and our anxious thoughts.  And if there is anything that is offensive to GOD, let us ask HIM to lead us in the way everlasting.

We often forget to do an introspection.  We are far more inclined to look at others and to see their shortcomings.

However, it is important that we look inward first and ask GOD to test us and to show us where we need to improve.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU for all that YOU are to me.  I thank YOU that I am free to ask YOU ABBA FATHER to search me and to know my heart.  FATHER show me where I can be more like Jesus each and every day and in each and every way.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

The future of Christ followers

 Dearest Christ followers, Daniel, the prophet reveals to us that the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars for ever and ever. 

As Christ followers, with full faith, we can trust in the promises of our FATHER in Heaven.

Our FATHER has given us HIS grace.  We need to give our FATHER the glory and honour on earth that HE deserves for saving us from our sinful lives.

Therefore, we need to be spreading the gospel to all the people we know.  Even in the smallest of ways.  Today let us resolve to try and tell more people how truly amazing our FATHER in Heaven is.  Let us tell others about the saving Grace of Jesus Christ.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that YOU are so gracious, loving and merciful.  FATHER help me to tell someone about the saving grace of Jesus Christ today.  Let me shine YOUR light on earth.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

Keep yourselves in the love of GOD!

 Dearest Christ followers, we are to keep ourselves in the love of GOD waiting for the mercy of Jesus Christ which leads to eternal life.

It is very hard today to keep ourselves in the love of GOD in this ever-darkening world.

As we watch the world going seemingly mad, it is really hard to remember that we are children of GOD.  It is easy to get caught up in the madness.

But as children of GOD, we need to wait upon the LORD, whom I believe will shortly fetch us home to be with HIM.

I do not claim to know the hour or the day that this will happen, but the signs of the times seem to indicate that we are in the end of times.

Let us be ready and let us be about our FATHER's business.  But most of all let us keep ourselves in the love of our ABBA FATHER.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I love YOU, I honour YOU and I worship YOU.  Keep me in YOUR loving arms, ABBA FATHER.  This I humbly pray in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay lovingly Jesus Blessed today!

Trust in GOD!

Dearest Christ followers, let us follow the example of King David and praise GOD and HIS word.  Let us put all our faith in Jesus and trust GOD alone.

Let us not lean on our own understanding.  Rather let us learn to depend entirely on GOD.

Our FATHER loves us and our FATHER knows the best way for us to live our lives.  What we have to do is to take everything to our FATHER in prayer.  Then we need to wait on our FATHER to guide us.  

When we depend entirely upon GOD, we have nothing to fear.  No one is stronger, mightier or more dependable than our FATHER in Heaven.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today I thank YOU that YOU are mighty, gracious, Holy, and I thank YOU that YOU love me.  FATHER, I humbly pray that YOU show me the way YOU want me to lead my life, and the paths that YOU want me to choose.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay faithfully Jesus Blessed today!

The mighty GOD we serve!

Dearest Christ followers, we truly serve a mighty and a magnificent CREATOR GOD. Our GOD is more than we can ever imagine. Our GOD can hold the universe between HIS thumb and his forefinger. Our FATHER can do anything HE wants to.

And yet, our FATHER loves you and me!

Our FATHER has numbered the hairs on our heads. Our FATHER has determined the day we would be born and the day we will die. Our FATHER loves each one of us so much that HE wants to spend eternity with us.

Today, let us right size the FATHER we serve and give HIM all praise and worship and honour and glory.  HE deserves it!

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, thank YOU for being my FATHER.  Thank YOU for all that you have given to me.  Thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

Children of GOD!

 Dearest Christ followers, our FATHER in Heaven truly loves us.  We are so  privileged to be able to call ourselves children of GOD.

We are GOD's children.  We are the children of a CREATOR FATHER, a KING, a gracious, royal, holy, merciful, just, loving FATHER.

No longer can we continue in our lives as we want.  We are now honour bound to our FATHER in Heaven to shine  HIS light on this dark world.

And more than this, we are honour bound to glorify our FATHER.  Everything we think, everything we say and everything we do must give glory to our FATHER or we are not truly children of this Mighty FATHER.

Today, let us resolve to live our lives in such a way that we are the light of this world, lighting up the way to our FATHER in Heaven.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, how privileged we are to call YOU by this Holy Name.  FATHER, today we humbly pray that YOU show us how to live in a way that brings glory and honour to YOU.  We humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

Jesus added humanity to HIS deity!

 Dearest Christ followers, we are so blessed to serve our FATHER who reached out to us in order to save us from our eternity in hell.

Our FATHER sent HIS only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth, to be born of a virgin mother, to live a sinless life so that through His death on that Cross, we might be able to be reunited to our FATHER in Heaven.

Jesus added humanity to HIS deity to save you and I from hell.

In other religions, one has to work their way to get to their gods.

Our GOD loves us so that HE watched HIS beloved SON die on that Cross to pay for our sins.

Our salvation requires no work on our parts.  All we have to do is believe in Jesus as our SAVIOUR, repent and be saved.  This is so that no one can boast that his or her good works got them into Heaven.

We are blessed through the Grace of our FATHER in Heaven indeed!

Prayer: ABBA FATHER, today I thank YOU that YOU sent Jesus to be punished for my sins.  I humbly ask that YOU forgive me for this FATHER.  I am so grateful to YOU for YOUR grace and YOUR mercy.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

Chosen people - a royal priesthood!

 Dearest Christ followers, we are so privileged to have been called out of the darkness and into the light. 

GOD has, in HIS mercy and grace, made a way for us to get to HIM directly.  We do not need a priest or sacrifices to atone for our sins. 

Jesus has done all of that for us on the Cross.

All we have to do is to accept Jesus Christ, repent and believe.

However, when we are children of GOD, this comes with all the responsibility of being a child to a KING, the CREATOR of the heavens, the earth and the universe.

No longer can we behave in the manner of people of the world.  We are called to be more like Jesus.  We need to shine the light of Jesus in this dark world and that means we need to live in this world, but not be of this world.

We are "set aside" by our faith.  And this needs to be reflected in all that we do.

If we, as children of GOD, are not changing day by day and becoming more like Jesus, we need to ask GOD to fill us anew with HIS Holy Spirit.  We need to ask GOD to convict us to sin less.  We need to study the Word of GOD and we need to pray earnestly for our lives to reflect GOD in HIS glory and HIS grace and HIS mercy.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today I humbly pray that YOU fill me anew with YOUR Holy Spirit.  FATHER, show me how to be more like Jesus each and every day.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay graciously Jesus Blessed today!

Behold the day of the LORD is coming!

 Dear Christ followers, I, like many people I know, believe that we are living in the end of times.

The point of my saying this is, are we ready to meet our LORD?

Have we repented? Have we grown spiritually since becoming children of GOD? Are we understanding the nature and character of the FATHER we serve better than we ever did before?

But perhaps the most important question is - will our LORD find us about our FATHER's business or will we be doing whatever we like?

Let us ensure that as children of GOD, daily, we are about our FATHER's business.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today I thank YOU that I have been saved by YOUR grace.  I thank YOU that Jesus Christ is my LORD and my SAVIOUR.  FATHER please help me to be about YOUR business every day of my life.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay faithfully Jesus Blessed today!

Jesus will never leave us nor forsake us!

Dearest Christ followers, the writer of Hebrews gives us some very important points on how we ought to conduct ourselves as children of GOD.

We need to be content with what we have.  All things are given to us by GOD. Whether we know or accept that, it is a fact. 

In the light of this, we are not to be envious of what others have.

And as the writer goes on to say, Jesus has said.  

"Never will I leave you nor forsake you".

This is an empowering thought.  We are never alone.  Jesus is always with us.  No matter where we are or what we are doing.  Jesus is there for us.  

Today, let us ponder on these things.

Are we happy with what we have?

Do we realize that Jesus is with each one of us right now?

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I am so thankful for everything YOU have given me.  I am thankful for my family, my friends and all that I have.  I am also so thankful that YOU will never leave me nor forsake me.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay gratefully Jesus Blessed today!

Jesus is GOD!

 Dear Christ followers, I love the way John opens up the first chapter here.  He outlines exactly who Jesus is.

Jesus is the WORD, Jesus is GOD, Jesus was with GOD in the beginning at the creation.  Jesus is life.  Jesus is the light of the world. Jesus added humanity to HIS deity to come to this earth to give us life eternal.

There is no way that John could have written this without Divine inspiration.  He accurately sums up the nature and character of Jesus in the opening chapter of this Gospel.

Truly, whenever I read this passage, I feel so close to Jesus.  The Bible truly is an amazing book!

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today I thank YOU for YOUR word which I am able to read freely each and every day.  I thank YOU for YOUR grace and for Jesus Christ.  I thank YOU for the Holy Spirit who lives in me.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!