Jesus' Request for Forgiveness...

Dear Jesus - We cannot even glimpse Your amazing love and forgiveness unless You give us the gift of Your Spirit.  Please give us that gift now that You may change our lives...

The other night I was puttering around idly listening as my husband read to my son from The Bible Story book for the night.  The evening's story was about the crucifixion.  The books are old.  Very old.  And very Biblically accurate.  However, something the author noted caught my ear.  I had to check it out for myself.

My Rescuer

Dear Jesus - Please keep my eyes on You.  Cause me never to forget You are my only Rescuer...

Today this really hit home with me.  Sin, at its core, is slavery.  In our world - slavery does exist.  One of the most common forms of slavery today is addiction.  If we could help ourselves, we would - right?  

Can Despising Be Good?

I'm on a 90-day devotional journey using the book Prayer90X - 90 Days to a Spiritually Fit You. 

Day 1 - mostly just freaked out.  Had to just repeat the Memory Text the E.N.T.I.R.E. day.  You can probably guess what that was:  Thou wilt keep her in perfect peace whose mind is stayed upon Thee because she trusteth in Thee.  Thought I trusted God - and I do.  Just apparently not with my actual life.

Can I ___________?

Ask Jesus...

Seriously.

He loves you more than you can possibly understand - and He's done everything that can be done to win you over. 

Go ahead - just ask Him...

Aaron's Rod - What's That About?

This is sort of a continuation of the previous post talking about Eden and the rivers surrounding it.

Dear Jesus - Please open our minds to see ourselves in Your Word today...

Have you ever wondered about the story of Aaron’s rod?  It wasn't until I saw the rod in the context of the bigger picture that I understood the beauty of the story.  Before this - I just saw it as a test of leadership.  And while that was meaningful - to my mind it was more instructional that beautiful.  But - when I saw the rod transformed by the process of dwelling in the sanctuary - well that was beautiful!

Brain Teaser!

A friend posted this on Facebook today and it reminded me of ANOTHER verse!  Check this out:

Eden vs Snooze...

John Lubby Park

Sure - this picture isn't the Biblical Eden - but I love the suggestion it speaks to my mind about God coming in the cool of the day to visit Adam and Eve in their garden home.  Genesis 2 introduces us to Eden. Let’s look at the simplest elements of the story and ask God to open our eyes to see the message He has for each of us.

Manna - What Is It?

Coriander Seeds

Dear Jesus – Help us to see the supernatural quality of the manna we read about in the Exodus experience.  Reveal to each of us the relevancy it has to our very specific lives.

What do we know about manna?  Possibly from childhood stories, we recall it was a rather mysterious food that fell from heaven providing sustenance for the Israelites during their days wandering in the wilderness.  Just that brief synopsis gives us much to think about.  Let’s do some comparisons:

Bible Filter - ACTIVATE!

Bible Filter - ACTIVATE!

Hey now - is this statement biblical?

 

Meme from a Facebook Post

A Consuming Fire. Can That be Good?

Our Sun/Son

Hebrews 12:29 - For our God is a consuming fire.

Now there's a rather intimidating verse at first glance.  Not a picture of a warm & cozy hearth fire is evoked, generally speaking.  Let's use the 'law of first occurence' to dig and see if there is something tasty in this.

A Communion Brain Freeze

Our Communion

Beautiful communion service.  My 5 year old son and I were seated in our customary second or third row from the front.  Husband up front officiating with the Pastor.  In fact, husband was just about to pray over the bread which would be immediately followed by its row-by-row distribution.  Son stands directly in front of me and says with big eyes:

My Job Description=Sinner; His Job Description=Savior

Dear Jesus - We present before You Your promise that if we seek for You, You will be found by us.  We plead that the beauty of Your gift to us will be real supernaturally to us in a way that changes us today.

I will never leave you or forsake you.  For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.  For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.  (Hebrews 4:9, Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, Romans 10:13, 1Peter 3:18 NASB)