Greetings sister saints!
A new day to serve the Lord is here! How's yours going? I hope well! Mine went well. And I'm back to encourage my sisters.
(thank you sister for the flower picture shared awhile back:-)
I love this scripture...
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John 4:23-24
And the place of godly love....
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
1 Corinthians 13:6
There's a great focus on truth in God's Word isn't there. Christ is the truth and His Word is truth! We know where the opposite of truth...lies...come from don't we.
And this one's for my sisters who are pressing on striving for joy despite physical infirmities or other trials.
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
2 Corinthians 12:10
I appreciate my sisters who aren't self-centered, complaining or consumed with trying to fix up everything just right in this life. We know our true life is to come...and we will have trials here. We know the effects of sin in this world as it groans under the curse. And even what satan can do in inflicting people like Job and God allowed it for a purpose. And we see afflictions in saints such as Paul and Timothy. And so we know to expect them...along with the persecutions for the Name of Christ. But we can take pleasure in these things...for then it shows the power of God in our lives amen sisters?! And we know one day such things shall be wiped away and all will be made new! That's our hope sisters. But it's only for if we overcome! We can't give up on our last day on earth! So for now we focus on our race set before us looking unto Jesus! Hold fast sisters and keep pressing on and through all that is set before you and is the Lord's will in your lives!
And I share a few simple pics from my day...
Sewing...
Digging out roots in the garden...
And a funny view out of the kitchen window...lambs relaxing.
My day is over...I don't know how many more I will get. But may we each be faithful in each one striving to be blameless...
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Colossians 1:21-23
Hope my sisters are.....STRONG....in the Lord! He is mighty! He's not a weak God that we just go about our normal life doing our own things. He changes our whole life! Everything is about Him! We don't do what He hates...strive not to...and He sees and knows. We can't fool Him.
OK sisters...you have a great and joyous day in the Lord!
Love in Christ,
Sister Michaela
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