There is a beautiful melodic voice that stirs my spirit. May you be inspired to let go and flow! As we gladly surrender to His gentle direction, we cast all our cares away. What we once thought impossible, our God, shows up with an ability beyond our own. As His instruments we yield, and are amazed by His grace. We confessed our sins, and He faithfully forgave and resurrected us. Renewed with hope in Him, we submit to He who dwells within. His love, joy, peace, patience, and self-control flourishes through us. Our delight in Jesus becomes His joy to harmonize the desires of our heart with His. Super charged by His grace, we get busy using our gifts for His glory. Believing in Jesus, we are gifted eternal life. His living Word lights up our path. By His example, we kindly offer mercy and grace. Quicker to listen and slower to speak, with thanksgiving, we ask the Holy Spirit to give us words that will uplift, encourage, and draw others to God.
The mercy we gladly extend is out of our own awareness of our desperate need for the same. It is natural for us to hoard wrongs and bitter regrets. It is natural for our feelings to overwhelm our call to trust and obey God. It is natural for us to be blind to our errors, as we are quick to judge others. BUT GOD — chose us to be His instrument of peace. Our Father issues ongoing mercy and forgiveness. His Word challenges us to do the same. We can sing in church but at home punish our loved ones with silence when we are offended. His constant supply of mercy convicts the hardest heart to see itself accurately. With humility, we confess our need for more mercy. When we forget the lavish mercy our Father daily issues, we become hard and merciless. But God does not leave us alone. He rescues us from ourselves. God protects us from seeking hope where He is not. Life surrendered is extremely heart satisfying and destiny changing. God gave us a seeking heart for His purpose.
Our lives demonstrate that we all live as slaves to someone, or something. We choose to follow the rules of society or of God. Our Father did not intend for us to be independent and self sufficient. God created us to be connected to Him, and to depend on His faithfulness. His grace does not set us free to enslave ourselves to a replacement messiah. Our Father knows our short attention span, and our tendency to pull away in rebellion of His guidance. Letting go of our agenda, we take up His Way and will for us to abide with Him forever in His glory. AMEN
1 Peter 5:7 “Cast your cares.”
1 John 1:9 “Confess sin.”
1 Cor 10:31 “For His glory.”
Galatians “Display fruit.”
John 11:25 “Resurrected”
Psalm 119:105 “His Word.”
John 14:6 “His Way.”
Phil 4:6 “Request known.”
Psalm 37 “Delight in Him.”
As God lifts the veil, we see what was, and we see the clear deception. Thank God for revelation and for what is yet to come. Help me Lord, heal me to say no to my flesh and yes to Holy Spirit. All the distractions that pull me away from reading God’s Word and praying. To fast is to discipline the flesh. It is painful to crucify my desires. Try fasting from all social media and food for 7 days. Did you encounter Christ? Did you read the Bible and ask for the Holy Spirit to guide and lead you? In Jesus name, I cast down my vain imaginations that I am where God wants me to be in my relationship with Him. I will not give the devil one more minute to deceive me. God invented pleasure and in 2025, I choose to gain great pleasure in Him. The Holy Spirit is the most important Person in this world. He makes Himself available 24/7 to us and He longs to recognized. His first name is Holy, and He is a Spirit who dwells in us, waiting for us. Forgive me for ignoring You. AMEN
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Isaiah 29 “Be stunned and amazed,
blind yourselves and be sightless;
be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer. For you this whole VISION is NOTHING but WORDS sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can’t; it is SEALED.” The Lord says: These people come near to ME with their mouth and honor ME with their lips, but their hearts are far from ME. Their worship of ME is based on merely human rules they have been taught. Therefore once more I will ASTOUND these people with WONDER upon WONDER; the WISDOM of the WISE will PERISH, the INTELLIGENCE of the intelligent WILL VANISH.” Woe to those who go to great depths to HIDE THEIR PLANS from the Lord,
who do their work in DARKNESS and THINK, “Who sees us? Who will know?” You turn things upside down, as if the POTTER were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the ONE who FORMED it, “YOU did not make me”? Can the pot say to the POTTER, “You know nothing”?”
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