Good Morning Church! We are the Body of Christ--His Temple! Love the reminder from the Upper Room that we need Temple maintenance! I know I sure do and often pray that I could do that Romans 12 :1 thing--
Help me/ us Lord to be a living sacrifice! Help us to die to self, take up cross, renew our thinking and follow Jesus well. Thanks! Come! Have you way with us and prune and prepare us for the great fruit to come! Thanks! May all we think, say and do be an act of worship and glorify and point to you! Unite us as Your Body on mission and in prayer! Come! Thanks! Amen! (Maybe we should start Zomba or some kind of exercise classes? Chair Yoga?)
God is for us! Who are you depending upon? Are you leaning on your own understanding? Demanding your way? Resisting the temple maintenance. Ask for help to lay it all down, humble self, die to self, take up cross and follow Jesus today in the strength and faith God has given you! He's there, with you! PTL! Reach out. Connect. Abide. Then you will be ready t thrive! PTL and Amen!
Off I go! Have an awesome time with the Lord and processing with some friends! God is for you, with you and has great plans! PTL! Abide! Know shalom!
UR: Temple Maintenance
What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. - 2 Corinthians 6:16 (NIV)
One day during morning devotions, I was thanking God for living in me. I thought about Paul saying that our bodies belong to God, calling the body God’s temple. When I went to do my exercises that morning, I decided that I would call them “temple maintenance.”
Words are powerful. Temple maintenance is a lot more fun when I am thinking about doing it for God than it was when I just called it exercise. Now I have not missed a day, except for Sundays.
It was a natural progression to start calling my morning devotions “inner-temple maintenance.” Doing the outside maintenance is still a hard job, but I am hoping that as I continue, it will get easier. The joy that I receive throughout each day from my glimpses of God and hearing the Holy Spirit speak to me are the blessings of keeping a well-maintained temple.
Today's Prayer
Thank you, Jesus, for the miracle of the Holy Spirit living in us. Give us the courage to tell others the difference the Spirit makes in our lives so that they can experience your love and grace. As you taught us we pray, “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil” (Luke 11:2-4, KJV). Amen.
TWFYT
