Good day sisters!
"Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."
2 Peter 1:2-4
I'm coming to you with my piece of edification and encouragement for today. A sister and I were sharing about how we need to often be reminded of things in this life in Christ. There's much to ponder and consider in this life and we know we are to examine our own faith. And we can share scriptures that another may not have read in awhile and things like that and in doing that it helps to focus our minds on eternal things and off of this world. We know we have to live in this world but we are not of it. And there is so much to be left behind of this world and you don't realise just how much it was a part of your life until you start examining everything and emptying your life of all of that stuff. We don't want it in our lives do we sisters! Our true home is is heaven with the Father but He has us here for now.
I was pondering this scripture earlier...
"Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment."
1 Corinthians 1:10
And how we are to all have the same judgement, for one thing mentioned there. There's so much about unity and if we have the Spirit He will guide us in the Word to have that. And we can judge each other to the standards of the Word of God. How high a standard we are called to indeed sisters! How holy and pure and righteous is our great God!
A sister and I appreciate sharing scriptures across the world. That's one thing we can do while we have today and this technology!
And I share this...
"Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart."
Psalm 36:5-10
(Thank you sister for those scripture pictures.)
I'm grateful for any way to be able to edify a sister here. There's so much about doing that in scripture, edifying each other...so may we not take it lightly.
"Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying."
2 Corinthians 12:19
Amen sisters! Let us stand in the Lord and His strength.
Lord willing I will be bringing something again tomorrow to edify you or just sharing my simple days in the work I do and maybe that will encourage you in your work in some way. May it all be unto the Lord sisters!
So I leave with one more bit of edification from the Word. That is way better than any words I can write! His Word will endure forever!
"Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.'
1 Peter 1:22-23
Love, peace, and joy in Christ,
...from one of God's servants
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