Hope and Humility

 

Greetings in Christ to my sisters. 

How's things in your life? 

And yes sisters...our hope is in the Lord! He is faithful and true and keeps His promises! 

hope

That word is so encouraging in this dark world where we see so much going wrong and so many in despair and depression because of sin and the suffering it produces. 

I read some scriptures on hope... 

My hope is that they also will encourage and edify you, my sisters. 

How blessed we are now to have such hope in Christ... 

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

Ephesians 2:12-14 

Praise God! How grateful we are for that. And we don't take it lightly...but live for the One who made it possible for us to have such hope! 

 And I share some scriptures from sisters... 

What a great and holy God who deals with the lowly ones and despises the pride. 

Goes along with this one... 

Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

Psalm 138:6

And this... 

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 16:5

We women certainly want to be clothed with humility.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

1 Peter 5:5-6 

That actually reminds me of how we women of God are to adorn ourselves with good works...surely humility would be one. We know the Lord has made us and we have nothing that we have not received from Him. All our good works are what we are supposed to do and were created for. Our obedience to the Lord is only our reasonable service. All the glory goes to God our Creator. 

And it's true that the world would look at us Titus 2 women, who are content to conform our lives to the role God made us for, as having very 'small' and lowly jobs to do. And whether that is a helper to a husband or a keeper at home and serving others and whatever good and godly things we can do we know it doesn't matter what man thinks of us but what the Lord does. It's right where the Lord made us for and so it's the best place to be! Anyway we should only care about what our Creator and Saviour see us as...obedient or disobedient. 

Amen let us sisters continue to be zealous for good works and hate evil. 

(And thank you for both of these scripture pictures sister:-) 

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

2 Peter 3:11 

Amen...so let us sisters be living holy lives obedient to the Word. 

Amen we can indeed overcome in and through Him! Strive on in patient endurance sisters running the race with joy. 

That's what I have for today! Hope it blessed you and what a blessed hope we have to come if we endure faithfully! Let us all provoke one another to love and good works daily! 

Love in Christ, 

Sister Michaela 

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Life and Hope

 

Hello sisters! 

How are you in the Lord? I'm sure you're all keeping busy in good works and in your life you have to live out in the Lord. It's amazing isn't it sisters how God fills our time with things to do for Him after we come from and repent of all the time wasting empty worldly ways of our past. We are living for the next life and we have eternity in mind. 

I have a few scriptures on life and hope to share today! Just a few as of course there's so many in His Word! What a great God we have who has offered us hope and life in His Son because we know we do not deserve it! We all go from being dead in our sins to being alive in Christ don't we! Although we all came from different backgrounds we all lived in our flesh and served sin before we were made new by the Spirit. But today praise God we have been made alive so we have the hope of eternal life to come if we hold fast to the faith! What a blessing we have to be able to encourage one another on in that. 

Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. 

Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 

And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

John 11:23-26

Death to life in Christ sisters! Salvation from eternal death. 

But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

2 Timothy 1:10

(And some awesome flower creations of the Father's!) 

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Romans 15:13

Right sisters we have a God of hope, who gives us joy and peace if we trust in Him and it's all by the power of the Spirit in us. He gives us strength to obey Him and be filled with hope of life. Some of us sisters share amongst ourselves the things we have seen in our lives that show us our Father's care and how we can trust Him. If we know He is a good Father to His children how bad is it if we don't trust in Him! We know all things work for good for those who love Him. It can be hard of course in the hardest of situations but He is in control amen sisters! 

He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Revelation 3:5

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Hebrews 3:6

 

Let's all strive to be overcomers and holding fast in the faith until our very last breath. We don't know when that will be so we want to be walking faithful in Christ and watching at all times! 

Hope those few scriptures on life and hope in Christ uplifted you sister saints! I hope to be back tomorrow here and even better hope to all be gathered home with the Saviour one day! Press on sisters! Our hope is to come at the end if we endure! 

Love in Christ, 

Sister Michaela 

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Hope Maketh Not Ashamed

 

Greetings sisters! 

I hope you are well in the Lord today. 

Today I wanted to share some scriptures to encourage us all in the great hope we can have in God and in Christ and of deliverance from the wrath to come. And indeed eternal life! We can trust all His promises! Praise Him! 

I was reading this scripture this morning and it got me started on this subject. 

"Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually."

Psalm 119:116-117

And that verse reminded me of this kind of similar one. 

 

"And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us."

Romans 5:3-5

And I know we can have such a bright hope in Christ. Of course we have to do our part and come through the gospel of faith in Him, repenting, being born by His Spirit, obeying Him in a holy life lived and endure all the way to the end. 

We can have confidence in God and not be ashamed! 

 

"For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."

2 Timothy 1:12

And so I share a few of the many verses about hope. You can do your own study on it but it is very uplifting for sure. I hope all these can edify and encourage you sisters! 

 

"And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee."

Psalm 39:7 

There's so much about our hope being in God. So many put hope in many different things; a man in politics, in themselves to win or to look good, in freedom, in a better life here, and much more but ours must be in God Himself. 

"Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord."

Psalm 31:24

"But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more."

Psalm 71:14

"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God."

Psalm 43:5

 

(And thank you sister on the other side of the world for the pic of God's scenery:-)

That's a great thought in that Psalm, the Lord taking pleasure in those that fear Him. And then there is an opposite side to that of course. 

"The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth."

Psalm 34:16

They don't have hope unless they repent...which God wants them to and so do we. 

"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life."

Proverbs 13:12

Sisters, we know we can trust God. Humans fail but not God!

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;"

Romans 12:12

I like that. Rejoice in hope! Let us sisters do so! 

"We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;"

Colossians 1:3-5

"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;"

Titus 2:13

"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:"

1 Peter 3:15

"And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure."

1 John 3:3

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."

Romans 1:16

We are not hopeless; therefore we are not ashamed! 

And like brother Paul, we may end up in chains for this hope we have... 

"For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you : because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."

Acts 28:20

But because we have such a hope we press on in faith of God who promised all these things and He cannot lie! I'm grateful to have such a hope...and it is available to all who will come. 

Alright sisters! I hope those could bless you. I'll leave you to your thoughts on hope...and Lord willing be back again tomorrow.

"That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;"

Hebrews 6:18-19

Amen! 

Love in Christ, our great hope

...from a daughter of God

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A Simple Yet Glorious Life

 

Hello sisters!

And this may be "just another" post from me but I realise that even though it may be a simple life many of us are living in the Lord, it is a blessed and most glorious life. Why? Because it is doing the will of the Lord and if we are born anew by the gospel then we have the best life ever. Our hope is to come but we have that promise of salvation in Christ! 

"Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls."

1 Peter 1:9

And reminds me of this... 

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it."

Matthew 13:45-46

Because what we have is so precious!

Praise God that Christ...  

How can we not rejoice even while going about the wearying days because we have that hope and great riches?! Sometimes I need to remind myself of this. And I hope that you can be blessed in pondering it to. 

"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God."

Romans 8:14-21

Amen! 

And as women we can rejoice in the role the Lord has for us as submissive and quiet in spirit. While to some it may seem "less important" what we have to do in this life what we have been called to do, it is God's design and we shouldn't lust for things that are not for godly women (ie jobs the men have, or to be dressed more to fit in with others etc).

My day was simply mostly looking after the little ones. Yes that may be a large part of what some of us do as women. It may be the same things day in and day out but we must remember what the Lord wants from us women and do it with joy and endurance. 

Here's a healthy meal option from my day; it's a huge bag from Costco. 

Yum! 

And tea tonight. 

It's similar to last night's I shared...another chicken stir fry. 

And includes my favourite nuts... 

And I used a tiny pumpkin from the garden here. I love those little drops of water that come out when it's cut:-)

So that's just a bit of my simple yet busy day. 

And evening peace at my tent... 

And as I type this after dark I can hear a cow grazing on grass nearby...for some reason that's peaceful:-) I'm one who seems to hear every little noise...and I need my quiet to sleep well...but I have to try to ignore all that going on around me if I want to get some sleep out here. It's all what you are used to I guess. There were animals being noisy last night and so I listen to all that at night but I'm blessed to have a place to rest and relax at the end of the day. And I can edify you sisters from it:-)

"But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;"

1 Corinthians 1:27

Remember that too sisters. People might laugh and mock and think we are foolish being biblical women in this faithless and unclothed generation. But God uses things such as that for His purposes. And maybe we can also see that in 1 Peter 3 where it says about a woman's quietness being potentially to the saving of a soul just by her obedient life lived. Goes along with this too. 

"For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him."

Matthew 21:32

Well sisters I'll leave it at that for today. Let us rejoice for the glorious life we can live (though expecting and preparing for persecutions)...and the future and hope we have in Christ.

"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works."

Titus 2:11-14

And a blessing from another sister saint... 

"For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself."

Philippians 3:20-21

Love in Christ,

...from a daughter of God

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