Good Morning Custom Made, Masterpieces, Transformed, Child of our Creator and Sustainer! Oh how awesome is our Abba! Just get alone and still your soul in His presence this morning as you prepare your hearts to worship and be fully His! He chose you and created you for His special purposes just for you. Don't allow Satan, the world, the tyranny of the urgent and all the chaos distract you from His plans for you. Be still and know that He is God and that He loves you so much that He wants you to be made new and more like Him and then He helps you to be His image in a world that needs to know Him. You matter! You have purposes created just for you. The Holy Spirit fills you and guides you each step of each day if you allow that and invite Him in. Keep your focus on our King and allow Him to prepare, mold, and use you for His glory. You will find such soul peace and joy as you become more like Him and allow Him to live and love through you more. Remember our saying that we share often: I am who I am because I am allowing I AM to be who He is in and through me! Is that true for you? It can be as you soften your heart and focus on Him and His perfect plans for you. Remember also, sometimes those perfect plans lead you through some dark valleys and hard reshaping. BUT GOD! He is with you and knows what needs to happen to shape you for his perfect plans for you and for those He is drawing. Be still. Thank Him! Allow Him to have all of you each day no matter the journey He has allowed. You are becoming more like Him and He is using you more and more as you surrender and follow. Help us Lord! Come! We need you! Forgive our resistance. Cleanse us of ourselves and may we allow You full access. Your Kingdom come and will be done in, through and around me today. I trust You! Help my unbelief! May You be glorified today! Come! Live and love through me just as You created me to do. Thanks! I love You and long to be fully Yours! Jesus, come and shepherd me today. Thanks! Amen
This is the day the Lord has made and we get to celebrate, trust and follow Him to His perfect plans for the day! Yes rejoice! Choose to allow Him in and to have His good plans come to and through you. Amen! Check out how He threaded through my devos today. He is speaking right to the hearts of some of you as you engage Him through them and in stillness. Then pray through Harvest Prayer blogs. Come Lord! Speak to my heart now. Prepare me for this day Use me well. Inform my prayers and action steps Amen! Can you hear His still small voice? He is speaking to your heart right now! He really loves you and will be with you always! Amen. May you know His shalom today! Shalom shalom! Perfect peace to you.
Sarah Young
Upper Room: SEARCHING FOR MY SAVIOR
Jesus said, “Look, I myself will be with you every day until the end of this present age.” - Matthew 28:20 (CEB)
At times in my life I have been hurting from the troubles and pain surrounding me — an argument in the family, mental problems, sickness, anger, blame, or doubt. At those times, I have searched frantically for God, worrying that I have lost my connection to my Savior. The more I focus on my issues, the more distant God’s love for me seems. Sometimes I even feel like God is simply apathetic to my distress.
But then I recall finding a lost pair of glasses on top of my head or my lost item in my lap and feeling so silly. I didn’t need to become frantic because what I thought was lost was right there with me. It is the same with my Savior; I have not lost him. I take a breath and once again focus on God.
In his last words to his followers, Jesus told them that he would be with them, and he remains with us today. Through the Holy Spirit, our Savior will be with us until the end. Though I may not feel a physical presence with me, the Holy Spirit comforts my aching heart, letting me know I have nothing to fear. So now, when I find myself tempted to doubt Jesus’ presence with me, I remember that he resides in my heart.
Today's Prayer
Thank you, Abba Father, for being with us at all times. We pray in the name of Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Chuck Swindoll
The Word for You Today
Our Daily Bread
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When Heather’s job took her to Tim’s house to deliver his take-out meal, he asked her to help him untie the knot in the food bag. Tim had suffered a stroke a few years prior and no longer had the ability to untie the knot himself. Heather cheerfully obliged. Throughout the rest of her day, Heather’s thoughts returned to Tim frequently and she was inspired to assemble a care package for him. When Tim later found the hot cocoa and red blanket she’d left at his door with an encouraging note, he was moved to tears.
Heather’s delivery became much more significant than she originally anticipated. The same was true when Jesse sent his young son David to supply his brothers with food when the Israelites “drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines” (1 Samuel 17:2). When David arrived with the bread and cheese, he learned Goliath had been instilling fear in God’s people with his daily taunting (vv. 8-10, 16, 24). David was incensed by Goliath’s defiance of “the armies of the living God” (v. 26) and was moved to respond, saying to King Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him” (v. 32).
God sometimes uses the circumstances of our daily lives to put us in places where He wants to use us. Let’s keep our eyes (and hearts!) open to see where and how He might want us to serve someone.
By Kirsten Holmberg
REFLECT & PRAY
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When has God supplied your needs through another person? How might He want to use you today in the life of another?
Father, please open my eyes to see where You might use me today.
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SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
The Israelites and the Philistines agreed that their battle was to be decided by two representative warriors (1 Samuel 17:8-11). Goliath was a fearsome Philistine champion, nine feet nine inches tall and heavily armored (vv. 4-7). He dwarfed Saul, who “was a head taller than anyone else” in Israel (9:2), possibly six feet tall. For forty days, no Israelites answered Goliath’s challenge (17:16) until David was providentially sent to the battlefront on a food run for his three brothers (vv. 17-19). With no military experience or armor, David slayed Goliath with a sling and a stone in the name of the God of Israel (vv. 45-50).
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Joyce Meyer
Charles Stanley
Harvest Blogs (pray through these earnestly and with an open and repentant heart.
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November 16 - Jesus Prepares His Followers
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Jesus prepares His followers for His harsh and brutal capture and crucifixion.
Luke 18:31-33 Then Jesus took the twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. For he will be handed over to the Gentiles; he will be mocked, mistreated, and spat on. They will flog him severely and kill him. Yet on the third day he will rise again.”
Lord, I repent for any time I’ve ignored You when You wanted to communicate a truth. I repent for when You tried to prepare my heart to bear an upcoming event and I disregarded Your grace-packed nudges. I repent for any time I’ve overlooked You trying to directly communicate to me using the Word.
Regardless of my past, I declare I will be sensitive to Your voice and nudges. I will be sensitive to Your preparations. I will be sensitive to Your Spirit and Word.
Thank You for wanting to help my heart face certain circumstances. Thank You for desiring to pour Your life into me so I can be joyful, no matter what the circumstance. Thank You for sharing with me.
I praise You for Your genuine care. I praise You for the outpouring of Your grace and mercy in a way that invigorates and sustains me. I praise You for Your perfect love.
--Adapted from Praying What Jesus Says by Natasha Miller. This book is available at prayershop.org. Use the code CONPSP3 at checkout to receive an additional 10% discount.
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- Praise Jesus, who is the gate of salvation (Jn. 10:7-10).
- Thank him for bringing you through that gate and for the security you find inside.
- Confess those times when you seek security in something other than Jesus.
- Commit yourself to being a doorkeeper in the house of God rather than dwelling in the tents of wickedness (Ps. 84:10).
- Ask God to use you to attract those outside of Christ to enter into a saving relationship with him.
- Pray that your church will march triumphantly against the hosts of Satan, with the assurance that the gates of hell cannot prevail against God’s church (Mt. 16:18).
Prayer Pointer
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” —Philippians 4:6-7
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