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devotion Oct 31, 2017

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I dwell within you. I am in the center of your being. This is the place where we are united, I call  it the secret place. I want you to begin to live out of this place. I want you to look around your heart because sometimes your feelings feel through past hurts and mislead you. I don’t want you to dismiss your feelings because I have given them to you to alert you to things, but don’t make judgements based only on your feelings. I want you to look beyond your mind, because My thoughts are higher and many things can not be understood especially when you wear glasses of expectation. Expectations you place on others tend to lead you to disappointment and cause you to sin. I am calling you to look through faith at My glory and begin to do the things you see Me doing. I will meet your needs through this glory and you will no longer need to look at people for what they can do for you. Instead, you will abound in good works, and serve Me by loving others as they are. ~Jesus

Philippians 4:19 And my God will meet all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:22 And in Him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit.

Devotion Oct 30, 2016

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I have chosen you to know and believe that I am God; to witness that I am able; to taste and see that I am good. As you are made aware of My love for you, the things you have sought after will have little value to you. Lean into Me instead of your insecurities and fears. Your insecurities and fears cause you to strive. In your striving you experience envy, jealousy and selfish ambition. These things breed pretentiousness and hurt those around you. I want you to trust Me instead. I have plans for you. You were chosen especially for good works. Good works that have already been prepared for you to do. You are secure in Me. The doors I open no-one can close the doors I close no-one can open. I have told you these things that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but take heart I have overcome the world. ~Jesus.

Philippians 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.

Philippians 3:8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes through the law, but that which is through faith in Christ- the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

devotion May 19, 2016

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I have been upon the chambers of your being. I have watched you consider and make conclusions. I have watched you as you have come to understand the many changes you have made, provide no escape. I have watched you use your abilities, and even though you are strong and able, you have come to know ability will never deliver you. I have prepared this place for faith. This place where you see no option, no way through and no way out. It is as if you are facing the sea with a pursuing army behind you. I have prepared this place for My Glory. Be still, lift your eyes to Me, and know that I Am God.  Stand and see the deliverance I will bring you. Be encouraged in this place, for you are about to behold My power.~ God

The children of God walked through the sea on dry ground.

Hebrews 11:29 By faith the Israelites crossed the Red Sea as though they were on dry land.

Psalm 33:16 A king is not saved by a large army; a warrior will not be delivered by great strength. The horse is a false hope for safety; it provides no escape by its great power. 

Father, I stand and wait.  I stand in Your secret place. And I know You are here. I know that you have seen my doubts and fears, my many struggles through the years.   But I stand here. Nothing in my hands. I have no plans.  I feel Your Power here. I don’t know how but I feel Your strength. And I can stand. O I can stand and believe. I know that You ARE. I know that YOU ARE.  And You ARE ABLE. I know that I cannot be shaken because You surround me both now and forever.

 

 

devotion May 16,2016

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I set before you life today. I have given you the right and ability to choose. You have chosen many things thinking they are life. Your choices have been characters you have worn as if you were in a play. The first character, the one where you recognized that you are a sinner in need of My mercy, was your true face. But you admired other characters that seemed to have it together. So you put on the clothes of becoming Christ-like and began a search for new studies and new ways to praise Me. I saw you lifting your hands and waving them to get My attention. I was beside you wanting you to come into My embrace. You determined that you must serve Me to please Me.  You wearied yourself and became angry because serving Me didn’t satisfy you the way you thought it would. You thought ‘if only they would acknowledge what I am doing then it would be good.’ I do not need you to please Me. I want you to believe Me. This is your choice today: to try to please Me or to trust Me. Take the faith you have in your service and place it on My Son. His service was sufficient for you. Sit at His feet awhile today and thank Him for His gift. ~God

Romans 4:5 (AMPC)But to one who, not working, trusts (believes fully) in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited to him as righteousness (the standing acceptable to God.)

Romans 4:5 (CEV) But you cannot make God accept you because of something you do. God accepts sinners only because they have faith in Him.

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him. for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.