Greetings sisters!
I hope you're pressing on in the faith today! There's nothing worth losing our soul over is there. So we give up what we need to here. And keep fighting to overcome as we know it is a spiritual battle and there are many adversaries.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Matthew 16:24-27
He is worthy! Let us follow hard after Him! While He's not here to literally follow, we obey His Word. That justifies our faith in Him and is essential. We know that without holiness no one will see God.
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.James 2:26
We know this faith life involves a lot of endurance and patience. And that includes in the everyday works we need to do and if we have a quiet life with not much change in it too. We keep going in well doing...not growing weary or being discontent. Just think about the slaves that came to Christ in the New Testament. We know they must have because of the often instructions to them. None of us are exactly slaves in the way they were back then but think about what their calling would have looked like...a lot of physical work to please their master. So too we all will have different callings so we don't want to ever think they should be the same. Sitting in prison for the faith, not doing much physical work at all, will also be pleasing to God of course! We just all do the best we can right sisters?! Faithful in what we have and know. For if we know to do good and do it not, it is sin.
We know repentance from disobeying the Lord is what all are called to do. Praise God that His goodness leads to repentance! And there is joy in heaven over even one sinner that repents! Souls are precious. God wants none to perish. I rejoice in any sisters (and brothers) who have repented and continue to repent when needed as I strive to do as well. We know the Spirit gives us a heart for truth and all holiness. So we treasure that and want to keep sensitive to all His convictions. There's always minor corrections to be making in our days whether that's in our thoughts, to how we spend our time in the day, to how we work or whatever is involved with the life we have. I know all my sisters are making constant corrections to be the most pleasing to the Lord. Our brother Paul talked about bringing his flesh into submission also.
I know we can't make the gospel a checklist or formula as it is not like that at all. Christ the good news to the world is alive and so too our response to Him is active and never something we're done with but a new and living way to walk in! We know true belief leads to everything else He has told us to do. We live by every word of God.
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 1:13-14
We know He gives the Spirit to those who truly believe. Those who truly believe obey Him because they love Him! It's amazing how interrelated all the aspects of the gospel are one to another. We have His Word to read today so we can find the full path to eternal life in there to live out daily! You don't need my words on it. Go to the source of truth sisters! And let's keep obeying the gospel lest we be destroyed with flaming fire of God's vengeance on that day of His wrath.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.2 Peter 3:14
Even in bad things God can use them for good for us. One example I was thinking of is how when we see those around us doing things including those thing we used to do too, and if it can be tiring sometimes but it can make us sooo thankful to have been set free! I'm sure you know what I mean sisters! Then we think why don't they see things but then we remember we were there once. And yeah you can't make people see things or want the truth. But keep pressing on standing for truth sisters. You never know when someone will come to repentance at the 'eleventh hour' so to speak. I love that parable that talks about that. You can go read it to be refreshed if you like but the people the lord hired from the beginning to the end of the day all got the same pay!
And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
Matthew 20:6-7
There are many things in this troubled world that we can't fathom or have answers for. God sees it all and I'm so thankful He will deal with it all. And we should never dare to question what He does and how. He is God and we are nothing. It's hard to fathom how people can believe this beautiful orderly creation made itself. It's hard to fathom how people will trade eternal life for some temporary pleasures here. It's hard to fathom how people who claim His name and all truth and yet can be so cruel and unloving. It's hard to fathom how people fight and kill one another in war. It's hard to fathom the depths of depravity and deception this world is in.
It's hard to fathom God's long suffering on this world. And it's also hard to fathom His mercy, and love and forgiveness, and an eternal home for His own and so much more. Just so much our finite minds can't grasp or have any power over. God is in control. He reigns. There's so much to ponder on but so much we also can't know so we can't even really try to. I'm sure a child thinks that their parents know so very much and it could look like they know 'everything' to them and they ask so very many questions to learn about life. Let us trust the Lord truly knows all and has revealed all He wants us to know in the Word.
Just peaceful creations. Good, pure, and true things in this world.
Here I read some scriptures on some things that the Lord is...
I hope that edified and encourages you in our great God!After making that audio I got a bit excited cuz of being able to get the right settings on my phone to actually take pictures of the stars! Cuz on normal settings you usually can't see basically any.
Glory to God!
A picture can only show so much of the sky and a whole sky full of stars we can see with our eyes is so awesome!
And I think of God using stars as a promise to Abraham of his many descendents (and through which our Messiah came!). We know there is a spiritual aspect to that as well as we are children of Abraham by promise.
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Galatians 3:6-9
Praise God that we heathen could come to Christ by faith! He broke down the middle wall of partition between us! (And that's interesting...God preaching the gospel unto Abraham:-)
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!Psalm 8:3-9
Maybe you'll be seeing more star pictures now but I'm sure you won't mind:-) (Well I hope you can see them but that depends on your screen brightness too but anyway there's hundreds there!)
That's all for today sisters. Let's keep loving the Lord and each other...in deed and in truth.
Hold fast! Keep being partakers of the afflictions of the gospel too, sisters. Whatever that is and in whatever degree.
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.1 Peter 4:13
Press on as strangers and pilgrims! I'm here trying to do my best to encourage you on and I'm here for you in godly love for my sisters who love and cherish truth like I do. And I'm here to help and encourage any woman who's seeking to repent and follow Him. His family is precious and consists of those who do the Lord's will...whatever applies to us and to our calling.
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Ephesians 3:14-21
Love in Christ,
Sister Chayil
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