Don’t believe me
unless I carry out my Father’s work.
But if I do his work,
believe in the evidence
of the miraculous works I have done,
even if you don’t believe me.
Then you will know and understand…
John 10:37-38
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Blessings of Security
My sheep listen to my voice;
I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life,
and they will never perish.
No one can snatch them away from me,
for my Father has given them to me,
and he is more powerful than anyone else.
No one can snatch them from the Father’s hand.
John 10:27-29
Blessings of a Satisfying Life
…I am the gate.
Those who come in through me
will be saved.
They will come and go freely
and will find good pastures.
The thief’s purpose
is to steal and kill and destroy.
My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.
John 10:9-10
What a Good Day to Pray
What a good day to pray for our country…
and those who want to be our leaders…
what a good day to ask for God’s wise leadership…
and what an amazingly good day
to ask for God’s mercy instead of justice…
Blessings of Jesus’ Teaching
I tell you the truth,
anyone who obeys my teaching
will never die!”
John 8:51
Blessings of Listening Gladly
Anyone who belongs to God
listens gladly to the words of God…
John 8:47
From Penalty-of-Death to Paid-in-Full
What an amazing God we serve. I recently told a good friend that there’s a big difference between being religious (multiplicity of rules impossible to follow) and knowing Jesus personally (relationship).
On the day Moses set up the Tabernacle,
he anointed it and set it apart as holy…
Numbers 7:1
I’m slowly absorbing how God’s meticulously defined boundaries protected his people from his holiness; and then marveling at how he himself shattered those under-the-penalty-of-death formalities with penalty-paid-in-full intimacy….
You know that you are God’s sanctuary
and that God’s Spirit lives in you,
don’t you?
1 Corinthians 3:16
and reward…
For we know
that when this earthly tent we live in
is taken down
(that is, when we die and leave this earthly body),
we will have a house in heaven,
an eternal body made for us by God himself
and not by human hands.
2 Corinthians 5:1
I get too eager to share my love for the Lord sometimes and jump the gun with words; but I never want to beat my friends over the head with my faith—and so I pray…
Father God,
please help me to never disturb
the caterpillar-to-butterfly transformations
that you are engineering.
In Jesus name I pray,
Amen.
Blessings of Fair Warning
Jesus continued,
“You are from below.
I am from above.
You belong to this world.
I do not.
That is why I said that you will die in your sins;
for unless you believe that I AM who I claim to be,
you will die in your sins.”
John 8:23-24
Lord, Please Keep Me Focused On What I Cannot See
Lord Jesus, please keep me focused on what’s truly important in this dash of time we call life. Please remind me daily of this undeniable truth: one nanosecond after I leave this life, it won’t matter a hill of beans to me who was elected president of the United States in November 2016. Thank you, my Abba Father.
For our present troubles are small
and won’t last very long.
Yet they produce for us a glory
that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!
So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now;
rather, we fix our gaze on things
that cannot be seen.
For the things we see now will soon be gone,
but the things we cannot see will last forever.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
Blessings of The Light
Jesus spoke to the people once more and said,
“I am the light of the world.
If you follow me,
you won’t have to walk in darkness,
because you will have the light
that leads to life.”
John 8:12
