Prayer

This week, during your prayer time, ask God to give you divine appointments. 

Ask God to “set you up” with people who need a friend or need practical help. 

Ask God to give you creative ideas on exactly how to love those around you, especially those situations that are most difficult to show love in. 

And then watch what happens! 

Diligence

Our commitment to embrace joy at the very worst moments of life takes extreme diligence. 

Do it with the best attitude :)

Replica

The Bible teaches us that God’s promises promise that we can share in God’s very own nature. 

We can savor all He is and then marinate in it to the extent that we become it! 

We have the potential and are positioned to ingest His very personality and exhibit His very character. Our lives become a place of demonstration of His fruit and His power. We are no longer like what we know.... because of the promises ... We are now like Him. 

He became what we are to make us what He is.

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Pray for the babies

Cultivate

The Lord spoke to Moses simply because they were friends. 

This ought to resonate within all of us as abundant life at its finest. Having God consider you as His very own friend, as someone He loves, and as an intimate companion is truly the most magnificent aspect of life this side of Heaven. 

All other friendships pale in comparison, all other experiences fade on the horizon, and all other pursuits seem trivial in comparison. 

You, as the object of His undying love, have been selected to cultivate a friendship with God. 

Children

But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

http://bible.com/1/luk.18.16.kjv

Blessing

God has blessed you and then He has named you “blessing”! 

You have been chosen to be a source of God to your world; you are a gift to history at this moment. Your life is a present, wrapped in God’s love, delivered with God’s blessing as a rare and valuable treasure that reveals His heart. 

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

http://bible.com/1/gen.12.1.kjv

Resurrection

Jesus is all you ever need. He is your hope, your direction, your strong tower and loves you forever. 

Happy Easter!!!

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

http://bible.com/1/jhn.11.25.kjv

Wait

When it’s hard to see God's hand in our lives -- know that the great, sovereign God is still very much at work! 

Our part is to be faithful in the waiting, though it be hard and unclear. Praise Him now for the victory....

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

http://bible.com/1/exo.1.22.kjv

Think on Jesus

Think on these things: 

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

http://bible.com/1/isa.53.5.kjv

Wait on God

As women, sometimes we like to take matters into our own hands. 

We all can picture times in your own life when this has been an absolute fact! We get anxious, our toes start tapping and the clock gets ticking as we wait for someone, anyone, to do something about something. We want action, on our own terms, and we want it now. 

Such striving can sometimes cause unintended consequences. It can also wear us out and keep us from all the richness of God’s blessings ..... because we’re not resting fully in His power and His timing.

Ladies, we have to learn to wait AND truly wait ;)

Yes, Lord

Sarai. 

Unspeakable beauty. 

Wife of Abraham. 

Obedient servant. 

Restless waiter and muddler of His plans. Living proof of God’s redemption, His sovereignty and His working of miracles. 

Genesis 11&12 - When Abraham told her they were going to move, and she was going to have a child in her old age (both, by God's prophetic word); Sarai didn’t have questions. She didn’t furrow her brow. She didn’t come unglued.

She simply obeyed.

She simply said, “Yes.”

Lord, help us put our doubts aside, to answer your call no matter the questions we may have.  May we make obedience our first priority and submit to Your plan and rest in Your faithfulness.  Out of the greatest and deepest of loves, let us say “yes” today.

Enough said....

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

http://bible.com/1/2co.6.14.kjv

The three and one

Many people have received Jesus as their Savior and Lord. They will go to heaven, but will never draw on the full capacity of the Holy Spirit that is available to them or experience the true success God wants them to enjoy while here on Earth. 

Simply put, many will be on their way to heaven, but they won't enjoy the trip. 

Learn to depend completely on God the Father, Jesus the son, and the comforting power of the Holy Spirit. 

Bitterness

If you get hurt, don't ever blame God. He is the best friend you have. 

Bitterness Hinders Hearing 

Bitterness toward God is a sure hindrance to hearing His voice. Any-time bitterness tries to take hold of you, rebuke and refuse it. 

Many times, the devil tries to make us think we are the only ones having a hard time but remember, no matter how bad our problems are, someone else always has a worse problem.  If someone makes a choice that hurts us, we shouldn't blame it on God and become bitter toward Him. 

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

http://bible.com/1/eph.4.31.kjv

A friend

Teach the young ones to develop a friend relationship with God.

God wants to be a friend, where He wants to speak to them and to listen to what they have to say to Him.