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Salutations to my sisters today!
I hope you're still pressing after the Lord with a soft heart!
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
Hebrews 3:13-15
I'm here to encourage you to keep watching out for the deceitfulness of sin. We never want to have our conscience seared but have a heart that is moldable to God's will and ways which we find in His Word.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.Psalm 139:23-24
We have to keep testing all things in our lives and making needed corrections if necessary. And there will be things of course if we're keeping growing!
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.Proverbs 22:24-25
I don't want any of my sisters snared by anything. There's much in His Word about that.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.Proverbs 18:7
The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.Proverbs 29:25
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.Proverbs 14:27
And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.2 Timothy 2:26
Many traps in this world. Let us walk circumspectly and on guard.
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,Ephesians 5:15
I've also been pondering how we need to be careful not to apply things or promises to ourselves that were not given to us. We may mention what God says to Moses about Him being with his mouth and giving him words to say...but we sisters are certainly not Moses and with his high calling of leading the children of Israel. And also we may appreciate what God said to Ezekiel of him being a watchman and warning the people and being guilty of not doing so if he didn't warn them. But neither are we sisters Ezekiel. We just need to be careful lest we but unrealistic expectations on ourselves or others or claim promises that never were ours. There are plenty of other scriptures that do apply to us though and those we sure can claim with all boldness and confidence. Let's just use what is ours sisters while still appreciating what God did in the past and how He used others of course!
I was thinking how people want to use the Word and either twist it, water it down, explain it away, excuse it, try to make it say something they want it to say and such but it says what it says. I told that to a woman I was messaging with and sharing some truth with. I want to humbly accept everything it says no matter how hard it is.
Peaceful garden watering time...
Simple pleasures and I love the sound the water makes on the leaves...like rain.
And looking at water drops on leaves...
The cycles of life go on...
Pear tree going to rest a bit for next season!
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.Genesis 8:22
Such bright blue...
Awesome creations! It still looks dry like a desert here for the most part...but the Lord will send rain in His time. We have more than we need in so many ways don't we sisters.
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.James 5:17-18
Hungry farm creatures...
Nice golden colours in the mornings and evenings...
Still many good things in this world yet. But we know it's end is getting closer and a new heaven and earth is on the way!
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.Isaiah 65:17
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.2 Peter 3:13
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.Revelation 21:1
Keep pressing on and enduring hardness like good soldiers of Christ! Oh that was another subject I was pondering. You know when the world honour's men who have fought in war for their country...they seem to fail to realize that unless those men repented to the Lord they have an eternity under God's wrath. And they don't seem to consider that those of God's kingdom don't fight in satan's kingdom and that Jesus is the prince of peace and that any blessings we have are from God and not what man or a nation has done for us. It's idolatry in a way isn't it. But those of the world speak of the world.
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.1 John 4:5
And they may hate us for not specially honouring men who killed other men. We do honour all people as we are commanded to do.
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.1 Peter 2:17
We are to love our neighbors and that would be to not say everything they're doing is OK with God when it's not. They all need the good news of a Saviour and the way to find eternal life!
Ok, keep pressing on after our Captain, Jesus Christ!
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.Hebrews 2:10
Let us truly honour and love Him above all else and be seeking first His kingdom and righteousness!
Love in Christ,
Sister Chayil
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