TGIF Friday! Thank God I'm Forgiven! Tell God what that means to you as you abide in His Word and Love!

Good Morning Worshipping, Abiding, Loving, Serving, Friends of God! We love because He first loved us! He loves us so much that He died for our sins! What Love! Abide in that love today and remember no matter what this day brings, it is filtered through His hands and will be used or redeemed for His purposes and so he made this day for His Kingdom plans and for us and we get to worship in it! Yes, rejoice! He's given us His Word to guide us and the Holy Spirit to bring it alive for us. We get to abide in His Word and His love! Yes, rejoice! Our God is not dead, stagnant or distant. He is with us and always at work and up to something new. he's custom made and gifted you for such a time as this and is with you always! Yes, rejoice! And He has blessed us to go bless and love on others and often in new and exciting and even easy custom made ways! Yes, rejoice! This is the day the Lord has made and you are the one he has made, saved and is leading to His new and perfect plans to go and love more like Him today! Yes, rejoice! This is a day to still and offer ourselves as we abide in Him and His Word, worship and then trust and follow Him as He loves through us! What joy we can know and abide in! Yes, rejoice! be still and know, trust and go in His love! rejoice, abide and follow well today! Check out the devos below as you abide, load up and prepare to go with Him. Yes, rejoice! Amen!

Sarah Young

 

I to We

 

UR: A New Thing

The Lord says, “I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” - Isaiah 43:19 (NIV)

Recently, I read Isaiah 43:19 again and was surprised that God had to ask the Israelites, “Do you not perceive it?” How can God be doing a new thing and it not be perceived? Having worked as a gardener for several years, images of gardens that were overgrown and left unattended came to mind. If a garden is neglected, the grass grows too high; nettles, thistles, and other weeds take over where flowers once thrived; trees are never pruned, taking up too much space. A new flowering plant would be difficult to see in such a garden!

Similarly, when our lives are overgrown with relationship troubles, money worries, ill health, and other problems, it can be difficult to see the new thing God is doing. Sometimes we need help to see that God is indeed at work in our lives. Jesus describes God as a gardener in John 15:1-2. Sometimes we need God to trim our excessive spending and sort out thorny financial problems, to dig out the roots of our bad habits and prune our tendency to talk unfairly about others. When we focus on Jesus, we can more clearly see the work that God is doing in our lives.

Today's Prayer

Dear heavenly Father, thank you for caring for us. Help us to see the new thing you are doing in our lives. Amen.

TWFYT

 

Prayer Points

Praise God for his love (1 Jn. 4:16). Give thanks that “we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us” (1 Jn. 3:16). Confess those times when you fail to love others. Commit yourself to laying down your life for your brothers and sisters in Christ (3:16). Ask God to drive all fear away with perfect love (1 Jn. 4:18). Ask God to expose the foolishness and treachery of the kingdom of darkness. Pray that the forces of the kingdom of God, in politics, education, science, media, business, entertainment, church, etc., will be united and focused in their efforts.