Passion Week

Oh this stomach flu really stinks 😩 It so much harder when your sick as a grown up! After a long nap I got in my comfy chair to study Scripture for a bit. I am comparing the 4 Gospels and documenting what happened each day during the Passion Week. I really want to understand and walk through that week day by day, something I've not looked at before. It's very interesting comparing the Gospels to each other and I am really excited to teach the kids this year since Passion Week is just around the corner. 

This section which occurred on Monday was especially moving:

“Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”” Luke 19:41-44 NKJV

I read this commentary about those verses: He was weeping over the tragedy of a lost opportunity. The Israelites that assembled in Jerusalem for the Passover missed the opportunity to be saved from both earthly and eternal destruction. They were visited by their Saviour, but they did not know it. Instead of receiving Him, they killed Him.

I must say Jesus was so sincere, I don't know how I could love Him more but every bit I learn enlarges my heart for my Savior...

A Place for Prayer

Over the last year I have tried to become more intentional about prayer. I was really inspired by the movie "War Room", it just made me think about how I need to have some planned specific prayers for certain areas and people in my life. Spontaneous prayer is great, just talking with the Lord is wonderful, but some times we have battles that do need to be fought out in prayer. So I made a plan, bible verse based prayers designed for specific things in my life. And so I began on a journey that has drawn me closer to God, drawed me deeper in prayer and given me a glimpse into the importance of having this regular specific appointment with the Lord outside of the normal prayer times we might have. Because these sessions usually end in me weeping on the floor I have to lock myself away in a quiet place. Even before I made my prayer plan I have always migrated to the bathroom floor because it was the only place I could close the door and not be disturbed. Truth is it doesn't matter where you are when your praying it's about the time your spending with God. Recently we cleared out a few closets in our house and my husband, being the wonderful man he is, suggested we make a prayer closet. Today we did it! I am so excited, I just love the way it turned out. I feel truly blessed to be able to dedicate an area in my home that will be used solely for time in prayer, worship and study! 

#prayercloset #prayer #worship #God 

The Greatest Gift!

The Greatest Gift is LOVE! Many things will cease in due time but Love will never end!💗 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 NKJV "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

#love #scripture #Godsolovedtheworld #bible #biblestudy #fortheloveofGod #chosen 

Faith in God

In a sea of human voices telling you everyday the way that you should go or act or believe it's easy to be convinced one way or the other. Paul says here in 2 Corinthians 2:4-5 that he didn't come preaching with fancy and persuasive words but instead with saving power from the Holy Spirit because we are not to put our faith in man or their wisdom but in the power of God! This chapter was my reading for today but what I love is the marked up part next to this verse in my bible where God had actually answered prayer with this verse a year ago. It's just a reminder that Gods wisdom was and is and that is all I need to put my faith in for the rest of eternity! Happy Monday!

Love Love

I have tried throughout my life to default to the law of love that the scriptures speak of so often. When I am walking with the Lord I am much better at this than times of my life when I have not.  Scripture is clear about it not being our job to judge others. This verse in Romans 14:4 specifically talks about Christians judging other Christians. It says "who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand." It's easy to get wrapped up in what your doing for God that is good and it clouds your focus to judge what other believers are doing. The Lord is able to sanctify each of us Himself. He may use us to help a weak believer but we must never judge the Lords servants. After all each of us are accountable to God at the end, we are not accountable to each other. Walk in love and pursue the things which make for peace and the things which edify each other. Happy Thursday! 💗😊🙏✝