Today's Encouragement (24 July 2023)

Greetings to my sisters! 

I hope on this day you are pressing on in the Lord and holding fast to His doctrines without wavering!

Thank you sister for this picture and reminder... 

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 

And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 

And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 

Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

Luke 12:35-40

Yes let us not ever be caught off guard, unprepared or the door will be shut like it was on the 5 foolish virgins. 

Garden weeding work continues for me... 

Thankful for health to do it. 

While I wasn't weeding thorns we could use the opportunity to make sure there are no 'thorns' in our own lives that could choke us and stifle us from growing in the Lord. 

And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

Mark 4:18-19

We don't want to be overcome by anything including by gaining the whole world because it means we lose our souls. Let us be on guard for even small ways we could be allowing things in that cause us to not be as fruitful as we should be. 

And we can only do what we can and don't want to be looking around with envy wanting lives that other saints have etc. We need to be content in where the Lord has called us as long as it isn't sinful of course and yet it doesn't mean we can't look for other ways to be useful and do good works etc within the limitations of the life we may have. It's important to be faithful in little too! 

I'd serve you a cozy stew on a cold night if I could... 

The Lord provided daily 'bread' again and I'm thankful. 

Next scripture reading to edify you... 

I'm thankful for His Word again too. So many throw aside what it clearly says and make excuses and only cling to parts they like or something. If we can't trust it all why would we trust any of it? But we can so let's live as if we do and strive to obey all God wants from us...because we love Him! 

I think that's all from me for today sisters. I hope you're holding fast and standing strong where the Lord has you. I leave with this scripture... 

Love in Christ, 

Sister Chayil 

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