“Can anything separate us from Christ’s love?”

Romans 8: 35 (NLT)

³⁵ Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?

The apostle Paul answers the question ‘Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?’  No, we have a living God who cares deeply about you and me.  Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.

Remember God gave His only begotten son to die for our sins on the cross, wouldn’t He help you today?  Of course He will, not even my negative thoughts are able to keep God’s love away from me.   I am the righteousness of God in Christ.  

Prayer

O Lord God, thank You for today’s Word, please searches my heart, soul and mind that I may be acceptable to You.  Thank You for the assurance that nothing can keep me away from Christ’s love.  Amen

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Sing YOUR praises with all my heart!

Psalm 108: 1

“My heart is confident in You, O God; no wonder I can sing YOUR praises with all my heart!”

Praising the LORD God is one of the best things in the world to do.  Nothing can lift my spirit so when I sing praises to the LORD my God.

Praise the Lord when you feel down, praise the Lord when you are up there and praise the Lord just anywhere.

Abba Father I praise Your Holy, Name, You are my shelter, I love You Lord with all my heart, with all my soul, and with all my being.  Worshiping You Lord today and saying thank You for the blessings You have given me.  I worship and praise You Lord, I love You with all my being.

How remarkable are you?

Philippians 2: 13 (NLT)

¹³ God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what please Him.

One thing I have realized not you or I have the ability to do great things, if God does not give us the remarkable abilities to do them.  Today as I study and focus on the Lord God, I must be honest in telling You that I want to be remarkable.  I want to be excellent; I want to achieve the highest goal in my life.  I have never been able to do anything outstanding – great – magnificent or even remotely remarkable.

What will make me remarkable?  What will make me excellent?  How can all I do become something great and outstanding?  Do you know how to achieve this?  I want it, I want to be everything God created me to be.  I want to also do everything in Honoring my God.

Prayer

Almighty God, if I am too ambitious and if my motives are wrong, please show me.  Today in boldness I come to YOU LORD God Almighty, I am asking give me the wisdom, insight and understanding I need to achieve being remarkable.  In the Holy Name of Jesus, Amen

I burst out in songs of praise to HIM.

Psalm 28:7 (TLB)

⁷ He is my strength, my shield from every danger. I trusted in him, and he helped me. Joy rises in my heart until I burst out in songs of praise to him. 

Life is too short and I don’t want to make the mistake of not being grateful for my own life, the clothes on my back, the food on my plate, the job I can come to.

What I have seen and come to realize people take small gifts for granted, they aren’t grateful for the unexpected chocolate, packet of chips or a beautiful flower, perhaps a pendant.

It’s ah that’s nice but is that all?  The Lord holds a shied over us and when we trust in Him he helps us, so let joy rises from your hearts until you burst out in songs of praise to HIM.

Prayer

You Lord are a shield about me, I will burst out with songs of joy to bring YOU honor and glory and I will praise YOU Lord God Almighty, You are my Lord and I love and honor and praise YOU Holy Name.  In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen

By MY Spirit!

Zechariah 4:6 Living Bible (TLB)

⁶ Then he said, “This is God’s message to Zerubbabel:^[a] ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord Almighty—you will succeed because of my Spirit, though you are few and weak.’ 

Confirmation from God is always necessary when we do something we feel with affect our lives going forward, a life changing event.  When you need to move to another province or a country of changing a job, that is when you should be speaking to God in prayer.

We sometimes just act and when things turn out negatively; tears of regret flow and we feel badly, we should have gone the route of God’s grace and mercy but no, we thought we are able to deal with this on our own.

Today as you mediate on God’s word, remember it’s not ‘by might, nor by power, but by His Spirit, says the LORD Almighty!’

You are a blessing, Prayer is the way forward.

Prayer

Humbly Lord Almighty, I come asking for Your Spirit to guide me going forward, I believe You are able to work it out for me today.  In the Holy Name of Jesus, Amen

‘What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger’

2 Corinthians 4: 8-9 (NIVUK)

⁸ We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

In real life we all face interesting and difficult times in our lives, your job is coming to an end, you don’t know whether you will find something else in time.  Your children drive you crazy and just don’t listen.  Your finances are in a state and you just don’t see how you are going to cope with the bills.  The list is endless, then you may have heard this song ‘What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger!’

As Christians, life is just as difficult and I believe sometimes even worse than not being a Christian.  It seems we seem to see more ‘flames’ than most people.  Our pressure grows and because we are Christians, it seems more intense.  I remember telling my one friend that I really don’t want to be elastic.  She asked me why, I said ‘I think God pulls me out, out, out and it seems I am going to break.  Just like elastics.’  She turned around say ‘No, God gives you what you can handle that very minute.’  True.