Prepare your hearts to worship and to enter His courts with praise and thanksgiving as we gather to worship in person and virtually tomorrow at 10. We will be discussing Philippians 1. What does it mean to choose joy in suffer as we choose to live as a slave to Christ? What does it mean to you when Paul said, "To live is Christ and to die gain?" How is that showing up in your life and choices? Some deep stuff to ponder! Father, prepare us to learn to live and love more like Jesus as His slave. Come! Amen!
Don't forget we will collect for Everlasting Life Ministries tomorrow as well.
Good Morning Wonderfully Made, Sold-Out, Slaves of Christ! Please Lord! May that be me as I learn to live and love more like Jesus and make disciples like Him and Paul. Cleanse me. Prepare me to Serve. Move me with You. Use me well for Your glory. Come! Thank You for creating me for such a time as this and for preparing me to serve with You and others. Bring revival and may it begin in me! I worship You and long to be Your vessel as I am and as I have been created to be. Help me to live and love and make disciples like Jesus. Inform my prayers and direct my steps. Lead me to my co-laborers and unite us on Your mission as we grow more like You. Thanks You! Your Kingdom come and will be done in, through and around me! yes Come! Amen! Earnestly seek Him, pray like Him and follow Him today. He does have great plans just for you and for us together! PTL!
Jesus is inhabiting your praise right now. He is looking deep into your heart reminding you that He has chosen you, redeemed you, and is calling you by name to come sit at His feet as you put on His easy yoke prepared just for you. How awesome is that! You are so loved and blessed. Dwell in that love as you prepare for the day and year ahead. Turn off the noise and walk away from the chaos as you still yourself and learn to know what it means that he is your God! meditate on these devotionals attached below as you sit at His feet, seek His face and prepare to follow Him. he does have an awesome plan just for you, His masterpiece. You are being made new and enabled to go fulfill your purposes. You matter. Step into your anointing and find some friends to travel with through this life as you work on living and loving like Jesus and becoming His sold out servant. Amen!
Chuck Swindoll reminds us that God is totally trustworthy. Start there and remind Him and yourself of that fact in prayer and praise:
Charles Stanley reminds us from the Eph. 2:10 passage that has become part of our true identity and reminder of His plans for us. You are His handiwork:
Sarah Young reminds us how God uses our weakness to make us strong and exhibit His power and strength to a watching world. When we are weak, He is strong! Stop leaning on your own understanding and ask for His wisdom and strength
One more today from the Upper Room's truth that God is all we need. He is enough and all we need. Seek and thirst after Him. Be still and cry out for His presence to overwhelm you right now and to be ready to walk in it throughout this day. he loves those kinda prayers and heart of surrender!
O God, you are my God; I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. - Psalm 63:1 (NRSVUE)
My vision blurred, and everything looked yellow and green. I felt like I would be sick and might fall down on the basketball court. I could hardly recognize anyone and struggled to walk in a straight line. Training under the hot sun had gotten to me.
The coach told me to sit down, and I drank some water. After I had a drink, I began to feel better. This experience reminded me just how essential water is.
Water brings us relief, nourishment, and replenishment. God does the same for believers. Without water, we would have no vitality, restoration, or even life, especially during an arduous undertaking.
In Psalm 63, David was in a state of great difficulty and turmoil and wrote about how his soul thirsted for God.
A life without fellowship with God is like a life without water: it is impossible. Like David, let us learn to thirst for and seek God like our lives depend on it.
Today's Prayer
O God, guide us so that our hearts will always seek you above all else. Amen.May God bless you with His presence, peace and love overflowing today as you surrender to Him and invite Him to have all of you and to direct your steps today. he is able, even when you can't fathom how or why! He loves you and custom made you for His special projects for today. rejoice and dwell in his love today! Amen!
