Good day sisters of Christ!
Are you strong in the Lord? I hope. And if not I hope this post can help strengthen you some!
But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
Luke 22:32
Strengthen thy brethren...I love that!
And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.
Acts 18:23
Many blessings in that morning picture...
We do have many blessings and riches in Him for sure! Let us remember what we can of them and be thankful!
The blessings of technology and being able to study the Word so much with looking up word usages and definitions and things...I appreciate greatly. But we will held greatly responsible too. Let us keep feeding on His Word! His Word never changes on us! We might see things different or something stand out to us at times but it's still the same eternal Word..."it is written"!
Yeah I found myself studying Titus 2 again. Always good to keep restudying things! I was pondering on being sober.
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
1 Peter 4:7
The end is at hand. Reminds me of another end earlier...
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:13
Let us be sober minded because of this all. God's judgement is again coming on the earth in a large scale soon. But we know He can still judge people today. Consider Acts 5 and 1 Corinthians 11.
Nice sight to behold of blessings from the Lord...
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis 3:17-19
You only need to ponder the effects of one sin on all the earth to see how bad rebelling against God's Word is.
I think of the power in His creation; the storms, fires, volcanoes, earthquakes and even the wild dangerous animals. This all should put a fear of God into people to be able to make all such things. God is merciful to not destroy man through it all and to allow him to see glimpses of His power. People ought to fear Him...but instead they hate Him and don't even think He exists.
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
Psalm 47:2
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
Hebrews 12:21
And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Joel 2:11,31
Don't those scriptures just inspire awe and fear of this great God in you? That is wisdom.
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
Deuteronomy 8:15-16
Are we ever going through our own 'wilderness' to be proved by God? We sure want to pass those tests if we are! Pass the tests sisters! Nothing is in vain in Him!
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
James 1:12
Matthew 15 reading here...
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.2 Timothy 4:3-5
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.Jude 1:3
If you have a heart for truth...be thankful and carefully guard it. Let's feed on the truth of the Word and take it more seriously each day and take man's word more lightly. We test man's words to His pure Word (of course we have the translation itself to test though). I was thinking how much of a different world we live in today than they did back then. Such a complex deceived dark world today yet there's nothing new under the sun.
Saw this scripture and I liked how Paul was looking out for Timothy.
Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do. Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.
1 Corinthians 16:10-11
Reminded me of this one too...
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12
And this what he said to Titus too...
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
Titus 2:15
I wanted to share some scriptures on 'look' today.
Sometimes I feel like I might explode or something as I want to just keep pouring out more and more here in talking to you my sisters who understand the language I write...the language of truth. Lol anyway. Thankful for this cuz if we're in prison for the Lord we can't pour out much anyway...except to the Lord and to whoever was around us who wanted to listen. Reminds me of Paul and Silas singing praises at midnight! And the other apostles who rejoiced to be counted worthy to suffer shame for His name!
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
Acts 16:25
And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
Acts 5:41
I love thinking about that!!!
Sometimes I think of the letters in the Bible that they wrote back then and it wasn't a simple matter of typing away fast on a phone or computer! No it was a slow and tedious job I'm sure.
And sometimes I get excited about something I'm finding in the Word and try to just share it here in godly woman format. Anyway praise God for all He has blessed us with!
Cute little lemon plant that was sprouting in the lemon...
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:11
Trying to use up what the Lord provided!
And lemon chia pudding too...
Using free lemon blessings. Very refreshing on a warm day! Thankful for food and raiment and good works to occupy in.
Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
Ephesians 6:23-24
Press on soldiers! We can all make it to the end! Our Saviour is mighty! Let us lean on Him as our enemy is also crafty and our flesh weak.
Love, peace, and joy in Christ,
Sister Chayil
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