Power for Regeneration

Man and his ways or God and His truth?

Was just hearing a lead story on the new technology they are putting in cars or least on the list to implement in the next months and years. Yet when I heard what this entailed I was shocked indeed! They are wanting these new cars of the future to know you and your emotions. They want the A.I. to determine if you are sorrowful, or happy. They gave a scenario where you get in this car from a long day at work and the A. I. will know ahead what to suggest to you for your evening of relaxation. It will even tell you what is showing that "is your favorite type of movie" and even tell you that it will purchase the tickets for you! I thought it was a reaching and rather far-fetched when grocery stores were telling you to send in your list to them of your needed items and they will shop for you. Then you can drive up to the sign in the parking lot of store and someone will bring your groceries out to you. Remember the days when shopping for groceries was a family thing. I do and always looked forward to that time with my mother and later with my husband and daughter.

I began to think how far we had come in such a short time. My husband and I had watched during the holiday season a story of American history on refrigeration, marketing meat and vegetables from the mid to late 19 century. And I was in awe that people survived without fresh meat on hand, but actually were purchasing tainted meat because of no refrigeration. Of course, this was graphic detail in that the people dress in that period of history type clothing from that century and also gave a look of the spoiled food. And men in suits were buying this produce on their way home from a days work. And men dressed that resembled clothes of the dock workers who brought off the loads of fish from the fishing boats, as well as some working women who left the manufacturing company for the day to make that special purchase. Oh, but the food was still questionable to me in that they had no refrigeration and were selling it on the streets in like the city of New York and Manhattan. 

The next thing to be invented was a hot sauce and it was invented to be strong enough to pour on the tainted meat when it was served on the table for the family. Again, I know not how people survived all that poisoning going on.  But many people wanted to get in on this business "thing" of creating that great hot sauce and they were just mean enough to add things like wood shavings into the product and yes it caused problems. Ingesting this man-made thing killed people, the young and old alike.

The twentieth century appeared and within that time many new products were discovered and many new things came on the market like Post Grape Nut Cereal that was a stolen idea from the Kellogg's brothers. Still more cereals were invented, more money was made and some people's lives became simpler and more stream-lined in being effective in their work, in the home in regards to meal preparation and especially to creating refrigeration for foods within the home and refrigeration for those stores being set up as markets! Cars were being invented, and even catsup was on the list!

With that in mind, do we regard a simpler life with God? Our lives were certainly made the better through salvation in the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. By the Holy Spirit we have regeneration to live righteously being daily renewed by the Holy Spirit of God that works on our hearts and teaches us to avoid religion and legalism. It is in that power that we live, move and have our being.

But it is not for us to be lazy with no regard for our families, and it is not about us being catered to as in our emotions. Remember they make really bad masters! In studying God's word, we find Jesus came to serve. And He did that while He walked the earth and while He hung on a Cross. Are we serving those who we claim to love? For certainly, food has to be put together for a special dish for the family to enjoy or are we leaving a note where he, she or they can find some food in the refrigerator or the pantry to eat?

We should be able to prepare food for eating, and preparing a home for cleanliness and to work where finances are coming into our hands. But what do we do with the extra time we gain from someone else loving our family who diligently goes from aisle to aisle to find the items we require when we really need the exercise ourselves and to plan our meals to fit the days ahead for those we love and all that entails the busy lifestyles?

Certainly if you are disabled in body and not in your mind, this service might be a good thing. But in regard to that, how will that play out in our life and those we are an example in living for Christ and being readily available to help one in distress?

For you certainly will not be in the place to meet up with him or her who might need prayer or you might not be there in line at Costco when someone has lost a loved one or their wayward teen took off for the wilds of New York. The anointing on you will not be used to bring comfort to those who would be on your pathway, because you have someone else doing your job for you.

Power for Regeneration: Titus 3:3-7 NKJV for we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts & pleasures, living in malice & envy, hateful & hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration & renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

It is Holy Spirit Who regenerates life into our mortal being! He renews our hearts & life to look eternally with Him all the while He teaches us to avoid religion & legalism. It is in His power that we live, move and have our being that is by the peace, truth and humility found in Jesus Christ!

You and I must know what He spoke in the Gospels! That water of His word continually flowing in our lives will always increase to where it is without measure. It will appear as that river increasing to the ankles, to the knees and the loins to the point of where the river could not be crossed.

Found in Ezekiel 47 we find the healing waters and relates to us the that those flowing waters of blessing are to be anticipated by us in the Holy Spirit's work in believers, yes you and me!

The Holy Spirit reveals tomorrow John 16:13-15 However when He, the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth; for he will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears he will speak, and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for he will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.

Are we captured by "next big thing"? Are we set to be the first on our block to have that new car that will analyze our body movements, those sighs, the tired breath, the slump posture of our body as we seat ourselves in the driver's seat, to escape the workday to only be talked to by something that sounds like a woman but really has no heart and no life! Seated to hear, the car that is given voice to speak in the thoughts of a non-human entity that will caress the flesh creature? And even more so, is that how many are swayed into its thinking so they begin to relax in what a machine is giving as solace to a human being.

Will creature comforts be better chased after than chasing life in God?

Back to John 16, it is the Holy Spirit's ministry to guide us His followers into all the truth. In this you and I have divine guidance and many have opportunity for the Spirit of God to ministry truth to them since He was given on the day of Pentecost! 

Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, 'seek  Me in vain', I, the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. It is in this relationship that God makes Himself known. This shows those who are pretenders, for only God speaks and Who reveals future!

So as Jesus taught by the Holy Spirit, He revealed the kingdom of God and in His speaking He was referring to the spiritual. So when He spoke of drinking His blood and eating His flesh, He referred to whether they would have a desire or even have a delight in Him! Would they continue with Him, but alas, His audience began to take an offense toward Him and this thing He spoke of. (John 6: 41-71)

Jesus spoke this: John 6:55  “For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 58 This is the bread which came down from heaven -----not as your fathers ate the manna and are dead, He who eats this bread will live forever.”

The Matthew Henry Commentary wrote this: If the soul does not hunger and thirst, certainly it does not live. It is certain that you can have no spiritual life, unless you derive it from Christ by faith. Separated from Him, we can do nothing. Our bodies may as well live without meat as our souls without Christ.

 It is God Who draws men to Jesus! It is He who gives us grace and strength to come to Him. But He also draws our heart. Many turned away from Him and left His teachings.

John 6:60-69 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?” 61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you?” 62 “What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?” 63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life. 64 “But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him. 65 And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.” 66 For that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. 67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” 68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” 69 Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Peter had recognized the eternal in Jesus when we read of it in John 6:68-69. Jesus told them that they would partake of the covenant blood of Christ in the means of being joined to God and receiving the benefits of His life. In this would we see the Christ as the covenant sacrifice and God’s provision for our sustenance?

What a declaration? What a stand for truth when others were walking away from Jesus. Pretenders were revealed!

Simon Peter called Jesus Lord. He was calling Him the authority. In this respect it is given to the one who is master, the teacher and is a title of respect.

So many walked away from the very “mystery” of Christ and His ultimate return for those who are His! We share Him in this life, and we partake of those promises that came to us through His work on the Cross!

The disciples agreed that He who had the words of eternal life, was also He would give eternal to all who would come to Him! What is the degree of our faith in belief towards Jesus? Where do we stand when things get 'hot' and everyone is trying to change what Jesus spoke in the kingdom of God? We really need to stay with Him who holds the word of eternal life!

Jesus had asked, " will you also go way?" Christ will never stop us if we choose to leave Him. The Holy Spirit is gentle and will not harass as some people harass. The Holy Spirit is there to give comfort, and to give us truth. And like Jesus, His ministry was comprised of those who followed Him and one who followed his own agenda. But the Lord knows those who are His and He will keep us in His truth. 

John 6:44-45 NKJV "No man can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I  will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall be taught by God'. Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me. "

 Father thank You for this day You made for us! We give thanks for Jesus Who is Lord who has the words of eternal life. Father You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. (John 17:2) And this is the eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. (John 17:3) Jesus glorified YOU Father on the earth. He finished the work which You had given Him to do. (John 17:4)

The testimony: God has given eternal life and this life is in His Son. He who has the  Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12)

We give thanks today that eternal life is ours! As believers, assurance of eternal life began the moment we surrendered our lives to Jesus. We believe in our hearts that Jesus is the Son of God who lived a perfect life, & then, obediently died the death we deserved, so we could be reconciled with God Who is our Father in heaven! We are thankful that Jesus defeated death when he rose from the dead on the third day just as He said He would. As Christ followers, we have the promise of eternal life. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” according to John 3:16!

By faith we enter abundant life through Jesus, who is the Door. We pray that we fight the good fight of faith, that we lay hold on eternal life to which we were also called and that we have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. ( 1 Timothy 6:12) May we not miss one person we are to minister life to in this time we exist here in the community of which we reside. Help us Holy Spirit not to be selfish and self-centered but aware that much is going on and many people are losing their lives to be in hell forever!

Father, may our lives be maintained in You. We build ourselves up on our most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit keeping ourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Now to Him who is able to keep us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

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SATISFIED!

Psalm 63:4-5............4 Thus I will bless You while I live;
I will lift up my hands in Your name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness,
And my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips. ..NKJV

My soul, my mind, will and emotions shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness.
David saw that being satisfied was found within a worship toward God in seeing a healthful body, fullness of all that he needed to live, and having comforts for his life. In his worship he was delighting in what God has for him and was ready to receive them all!

No desire left unfilled.........all would be met by God! All that David aspired to, and had a passion for in God, determined that his desires, those righteous ones would be met in God!

Proverbs 10:24..........24 The fear of the wicked will come upon him,
And the desire of the righteous will be granted.
NKJV

So what is the fear of the wicked...........they are far from God, but the righteous, those who will be satisfied are those close to God. Those who lift holy hands to God in worship are satisfied in their spirit, soul and body! Being satisfied, is being up close and personal with God!

Proverbs 30:15-16................15 The leech has two daughters--

Give and Give!

There are three things that are never satisfied,

Four never say, "Enough!": 

16 The grave,

The barren womb,

The earth that is not satisfied with water--

And the fire never says, "Enough!" ..NKJV

Proverbs 19:23............23 The fear of the LORD leads to life,  And he who has it will abide in satisfaction;  He will not be visited with evil. 

NKJV

Being satisfied is more than just being fed and clothed. If it were enough, then people would stop quarreling among each other. But being satisfied means a lot more than having the need of man met. One neighbor can see another's new car, and that craving for more, of not being satisfied with all that they already have now puts them into jeopardy (danger) for more, more, more!

Ever looked at a fire on the slopes of a great hill or over a land filled with dry vegetation, and it sweeps through like a train keeping its schedule to be on time. The grave receives the body, but demands more. It makes a demand that those who have lost a loved one will pay more. That open grave speaks loudly of its intent to keep the grieving person captive to its desires for more. 
I remember this elder man dying in a community of about 1,000 people. He had been a drinking person and had no friends. When he died, one family member stepped up to see he got the proper burial. We had been invited to attend with them. There were just 5 people attending this man's funeral. There was no celebration of his afterlife in God. And I remember thinking on that poor man in all that, no man came, no person sang, no one cared, but the five who came. It seemed to me even then that the grave demands more on those who place the body, that tent, now empty into the ground. I thought many years after how the grave was demanding more of people, especially of those who attended this one funeral.

People in one part of the country are inundated by floods while another part of the country is in a great famine! The earth is not satisfied with water.....

Psalm  34:11-14 .......11 Come, you children, listen to me;

I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 

12 Who is the man who desires life,

And loves many days, that he may see good? 

13 Keep your tongue from evil,

And your lips from speaking deceit. 

14 Depart from evil and do good;

Seek peace and pursue it.  NKJV

Being satisfied is having everything we need to accomplish what God has for us to do in this lifetime. People can experience the never being satisfied like the grave or the barren womb. Nothing is more sad than a couple who cannot have a child together. Today we see that the earth requires more water for we see it in our yards and the spans of dry pastures and fields.

And those fires.......always speaking more........with an unique energy, will take on every car and truck on a major interstate highway like we just saw on I-15 near San Bernardino, California. Two weekends ago,  we saw a fire move like a snake up a hillside and over a major highway to engulf vehicles in flames and keep on moving up the hillside. And the most amazing thing was this: the people like the department of transportation could have stopped them long before they got to the place the fire raged, but let the traffic continue so........that a traffic jam stopped the traffic in the middle of nowhere and to be overtaken by a fire with bad attitude! In determining to stop people from driving through a firestorm, who makes the decision and are they qualified to make it?

So if we are not satisfied, then where lays the problem? Is it on God or on us? Well, it certainly has to be with us.

Psalm 37:18-24.........18 The LORD knows the days of the upright,
And their inheritance shall be forever. 
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time,
And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. 
20 But the wicked shall perish;
And the enemies of the LORD,
Like the splendor of the meadows, shall vanish.
Into smoke they shall vanish away. 
21 The wicked borrows and does not repay,
But the righteous shows mercy and gives. 
22 For those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth,
But those cursed by Him shall be cut off. 

23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD,
And He delights in his way. 
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;
For the LORD upholds him with His hand. 
NKJV

The Lord knows the days of the upright. He knows those who follow Him, mention His name daily, and ask something in prayer. He keeps those who are His, and in the evil time they shall not be ashamed, they are satisfied in the days of famine. Yes, from Psalm 37, we find those who are blessed by God and those who are cut off from Him forever. The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, and He delights in His Way. Though a righteous man may start to fall, but GOD CATCHES HIM, BREAKS THAT FALL FROM HAPPENING AND UPHOLDS THAT RIGHTEOUS MAN WITH HIS OWN HAND. PRAISE GOD!


The Greek for "satisfaction" is to the full, suffice, have plenty of, and satiate. I like that word satiate!
Satiate: one who is completely satisfied....for oneself or in a need......to the point of being overdone, so that one could not have room for any more......!
I think of a dry sponge plunged into a sink filled with water........and when I raise the sponge it is dripping with much water. It is satiated, overfilled in the water department.



Psalm 36:7-9....7 How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. 
8 They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house,
And You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures. 
9 For with You is the fountain of life;
In Your light we see light. NKJV

Satisfied, abundantly with the fullness of God's house are we to look like to the world. As we draw our life from the fountain of life in God, we see light! Our lives are to be depicted....in detail...to be the same as His in that of righteousness (Psalm 33:5) of love (1 John 4:8), and of wisdom and truth ( Colossians 2:3)
Yes, Shelley, I know that. 

In God's rivers of delight are our pleasures. Those of God are those that are spiritual, they are clear as crystal (Revelation 22:1) It is by His Holy Spirit that we become, not only acquainted, but ready to reveal this to others. But to be able to tell others, we must first make a habit of visiting with the Lord daily through the Word, through Worship and through Prayer. Our hearts must be satiated in the things of God. Our hearts should be plunged into the Rivers of delight that is of God as in Revelation 22:1.

It is in Him that we live, and move and have our being. So each of us will have fruit in our lives. We will have more than enough food, more than enough water, more than enough love and vision for a lifetime. In His light we have a Perfection of Who God is, and we gain it in having His wisdom, His knowledge, His joy and able to give it to others in a vast amount! There is no holding back! As we freely allow His waters to flow into our lives, they will freely flow into another's life. But if we cut off ourselves and drink from the world's supply of putrid waters, all we will have for another is .....a putrid puddle! That puddle is one that is corrupted by the follower going after worldly things.

Taken from "PUDDLE JUMPERS".....A BLOG I wrote from.......February 27...2015.
 Having to get from point A to point B certainly can take some effort and work when dealing with other people.  But anyone knows that some people just create mud puddles, and are known as puddle jumpers. They like making things hard, difficult, and sometimes just hard to understand. But truly having God and His favor causes us to have a shield of favor. That when God our Father favors us, He surrounds with a shield where the mud from those puddle jumpers just rolls off us. When God our Father is for us, then all other things must bow to the name of Jesus.

SATISFIED!
For me, it looks like this! When I was a young child I remember going to a Theater to see a movie. The cartoon came on at the beginning. It was in black and white..........and looked a lot like a mouse whistling down this roadway out in a country area, but as he kept walking and kept whistling and singing, the scene started to change, and the black & white became a screen filled with color. He, the mouse, then had color, and his clothes had color. (yeah, a mouse wearing clothes, can you imagine?) 
But I think about this when I see something new that God is doing, not only in my life, but in those around me. I see that black & white become the bright color of life much like the rainbow that is over the Throne of God!


Revelation 4:2-3...... 2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. 3 And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. NKJV

Those satisfied are the radiant.....they have a glowing face that beams with a glad heart and a voice of faith in the One Who created them! Psalm 34:4-7... 4 I sought the LORD and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5 They looked to HIM and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed. 6 This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. 7 The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them. NKJV

Radiance is that beaming with all that God is.......and it is being given to a world in much hurt and pain!

Father, thank You for Jesus. We are not ashamed of the Gospel. For it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes; first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.  For in it, the righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith." (Rom. 1:16-17)
Father, You say that the steps of a good man are ordered by You. We pray that our steps are ordered by YOU and that we follow every direction You desire for us to walk out for YOUR glory. We desire to be those with a radiant face and a glowing heart that speaks truth in that darkness where some people reside. We desire to speak the LIGHT of YOUR Word and see the darkness dispelled.
We expect that no righteous desire will be left unfilled. We are those who have sought the face of God......to see Him in the sanctuary........Our heart said to YOU, "Your face, LORD, we will seek. (Psalm 27:8) Even though our father and mother make forsake us, then the LORD will take care of us." We believe YOU to strengthen our hearts, and see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
We give praise for YOUR goodness to us........now bless the works of our hands for YOUR kingdom in Jesus' name.(1 Cor 10:31.....31 Therefore, whether you (we) eat or drink, or whatever you (we) do, do all to the glory of God. NKJV)
 Amen.



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Who is Watching YOU?

We are a witness of something, whether to state we like a certain football team, like green hair, wear too much make-up or wear none at all! We make a statement in the clothes we wear, the type of shows or movies we watch or even if we attend church or not!
Whether walking into a mall, a church, a hospital, or even a high school, are we making a statement and witnessing Jesus Christ or something else?

Some years ago, I had asked this young woman who I worked with what her church service was like. I asked her to explain the moving of the Holy Spirit through the service. This woman, about thirty or so had no response about any service. She just looked at me in bewilderment. She was born again and said she had her prayer language. Yet, I never saw her state anything about the Lord or His goodness to her or for her family.
Now if you spend anytime with me, I will tell you of His goodness to me in the land of the living and I will tell you what He has done for my soul! He is my Redeemer! He has brought me into life!

So who is watching us and do we magnify, the Lord? Will people know us as the saved and the redeemed or just the lady who lives down the street with the green hair thing going on?


Psalm 51:10-13.................10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence,
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners shall be converted to You.   NKJV

In the above scripture, I love the part, "do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me." In truth, David was on the other side of the Cross. He had a different covenant than we have today through Jesus. The important truth is that we are to stay as believer's in the Presence of God. He has given us Holy Spirit to abide in us. He is always here, but we can choose to not involve Him in anything concerning us or our lives. The sad truth is some choose to do their thing their way!

So it is possible to move out of the plan of God............to be out of a relationship with Him..........then we move into a place with no direction, no peace, and no life...............and to be anywhere else.......... is not "expecting" to be with the Lord.

 Genesis 4:16 ..............16 Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.   NKJV

What happens when we are out of the Presence of the Lord? If we spend time in chapter 4 of Genesis, we see Cain take his leave from the Lord and live out his life his way!

Genesis 4:25-26..............25 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, "For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed." 26 And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the LORD.  NKJV

 Adam spoke of another seed for him instead of Abel whom Cain killed. Adam had a son now in Seth.........and it goes on to say that men began to call on the name of the LORD!

Psalm 16:9-11..............9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices;

My flesh also will rest in hope. 

10 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol,

Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. 

11 You will show me the path of life;

In Your presence is fullness of joy;

At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. ...NKJV

From this Psalm, we find three things from being in the Presence of the Lord:

1. path of life

2. fullness of joy

3. pleasures forevermore at the right hand of God

Psalm 140:13............13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks to Your name;

The upright shall dwell in Your presence. NKJV

Here we are told that the upright, those in right standing with God shall dwell in His presence. Again, we abide on this side of Jesus' crucifixion and the Cross. Today the Holy Spirit abides in us and direct us................are we listening and obeying?

Today, you and I have the opportunity to lift the name of Jesus. Are we taking those opportunities when they come? 

Today, will I come with a worshipful heart unto the Lord giving thanks for His goodness and magnify Him in some way as to honor Him for what He has done for my soul? Today, will I act as the world, or will today be the day, I act as the saved and the redeemed of the Lord? Do I have a testimony of faith in a God who heals and makes whole again?

Today, I can have green hair and lots of make-up and still confess how good God is for someone is watching you and me, those who are born-again unto life that is new and is to be refreshing to others when we speak of God.

"Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame." Romans 10:11-15...............11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame."  12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13 For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved."  

14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: 

"How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,

Who bring glad tidings of good things!"  NKJV

You and I may be the only Gospel text a person will see and receive. You may be sent to minister life to someone about eternity with God. You may not be a pastor or even a teacher, but you have a voice!  He will not allow you to be put to shame, but give you the strength and courage to go and tell someone who has never heard the Gospel or the truth of Jesus on the Cross.

Go and be "the witness for Jesus" and see what the Lord will do for you!

Father, today we delight ourselves in the Lord. We come into Your presence with thanksgiving and praise for You have saved and delivered us from destruction and certain death. Today we call on You for the righteous desires in our hearts to go and meet those on our pathway with the life giving Word of God. We call to You today and You God answer us and will show us great and mighty things which we do not know concerning this outreach to the lost souls. (Jeremiah 33:3) We thank You today that YOU pour water on us who are thirsty and floods on the dry ground, You pour Your Spirit on our descendants and YOUR blessing God on our offspring. (Isaiah 44:3) May those floods of living water prevail and move ........so that we might be a blessing to others. I pray for all who have a heart to reach the lost today, to be a witness knowing they have the power to prosper in order to establish goodness of YOU God in the lives of people in the earth. You gave us power to be blessed in order for to be a blessing. Father we give thanks today that we are abounding in every good work for we embrace for YOUR kingdom and righteousness.

Father in Jesus' name, I pray that we each who have a heart for the lost will remain faithful and steadfast to YOU and YOUR plan. Yes we seek to stay committed to that which You planned from the foundation of the world and will give YOU all the praise and glory for that done in YOUR name. Amen.

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