[Praise today] Lord we bring praises to Your Name

Psalm 9: 1

O LORD, I will praise you with all my heart and tell everyone about the marvelous things you do.

As we start our day let me encourage you by reminding you to say thank you for what you have, a job, a house, a car, clothes to wear, food to eat, and beautiful furniture.  Take a minute and stop and think about 5 things you want to say thank you for.

Good health, a steady income something you can be grateful for, there are so many sick people and so many people without a job.

Don’t forget to say thank you, keep on saying thank, say grateful and never forget what the Lord is doing for you each and every day.

Prayer

Lord God, how awesome and wonderful are YOU.  We are so grateful for our jobs, we are so grateful for the clothes on our backs.  Lord God we are so grateful for our good health and steady income each month.  Lord we praise You for helping us each and every day.  Bless Your Holy Name and we worship You for the great future You have given each and every one of us, in Jesus Name,  Amen.

Your social position is unimportant [Christ is]

Romans 12: 2

Colossians 3: 11 (TLB)

¹¹ In this new life one’s nationality or race or education or social position is unimportant; such things mean nothing. Whether a person has Christ is what matters, and he is equally available to all.

As ambassadors of the Living God through Christ, we are representatives our Lords kingdom.  We have accepted Christ into our lives and now we are being transformed by the renewing of our minds.

Life changes and people change all the time, we realize that God sees us through Jesus Christ, looking not our social position, our nationality or race, not even our education impresses God.  Reminding us that we are moral and nothing we do equals Gods love and grace and mercy.

As we stand before God today, He views us through the Lord Jesus Christ our advocate, making us acceptable to God.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You Lord God for another day, thank You that You view us through Your Son Jesus Christ and that the Holy Spirit is helping us with the renewing of our minds as we read the Bible and pray each day.  In Jesus Name, Amen

[I want to win this race.] How can we win the race here on earth right now?

1 Corinthians 9: 24

²⁴ Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize?  Run in such a way as to take the prize.

I remind myself each day that ‘First is first, and second is nothing.’  Something my Dad reminded us of all the time.  

How can you win the race while one earth?  I believe you need to put something into perspective; you need to realize the race will be tough.  You need to be obedient when the Holy Spirit instructs you to do something.  You need to pray and mediate as often as possible.  Your relationship with the Lord Jesus is imperative and you need to stay connected to the vine.

You will need help, a coach always guides and helps his runners for the race.  Our coach and mentor is the Holy Spirit.  Without the Holy Spirit I doubt if any of us will make it to the finish line.

We need to stay connected and the only way to stay connected is by attending church and learning all we can each week.

Prayer

Lord God, the Apostle Paul reminds each one of us that we are in a race and that if we intended to win we need to preserve.  Lord please send Your Holy Spirit so that we may preserve and that we can make it to the finish line.  We cannot do this on our own and we pray guide each one of us, teach us and help us as we take on this race today.  In the name of Jesus Christ Amen

[Faithful in perpetuity] God is faithful!!

Psalm 119:90 (AMPC)

⁹⁰ Your faithfulness is from generation to generation; You have established the earth, and it stands fast.

Being in a relationship with the Lord is so important to my spiritual growth.  I am learning God’s characteristic and it is awesome to see this scripture.  God is faithful in perpetuity!  That means nothing can move Him from me, He stays faithful.

The knowledge of these words creates an expectation in my heart and soul that because my God is faithful I know He is there for me.  Do you also need to have a real living relationship with the Lord God?  I believe we all do and with the assistance of the Holy Spirit we are connected to God.  The Holy Spirit agrees with God’s Spirit in your own life.

The word will never return to the Lord God void and null, each word that is written in the Bible is meant to help us find our way.  We have these words to instruct and teach us the truth of the matter, God is faithful into perpetuity, we can hold onto this fact.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, thank You for Your words of encouragement today, we thank You Lord for being faithful even when we fail You Lord.  Thank You Lord for second and third and so many chances in our own lives.  In the Holy Name of Jesus Christ Amen

Friday # [This old thing]

Imagine this:  you are not allowed to spend money on clothes because you actually have more than enough.  So now you need to devise a plan.  I came up with a brilliant plan, I buy something I really like drop it off at my mom’s place.  When I go visiting her with my husband and kids, she normally says ‘O, by the way I saw these shoes and thought of you, so I bought it.’  My husband isn’t any the wiser and I got my new shoes.

But you know my mom moved away too far to visit on a regular basis so I needed a new plan.  Well, I still bought the things I wanted, placed it in the cupboard and waited a couple of weeks and then I would take it out in front of my husband.  Get dressed in my new clothes and if he noticed, and he does I would refer to it ‘as this old thing’.

One morning I took out an old outfit that has been sitting in my cupboard forever.  As I got dressed my husband said ‘hmm, seems like you been shopping, new outfit?’  To which I replied ‘this old thing.’  

He couldn’t believe that I have so many ‘old things’ in my cupboard.  Anyway he still isn’t sure of the outfit.

So there you go, ‘this old thing’ works great for me.  Hope this made your day, ladies, sometimes we need to make good plans.  Teehee