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Date: Wednesday – September 8, 2021
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Daily Verse / Meditation Moments
Psalm 143:10 (TPT) The Passion Translation
10 I just want to
obey all you ask of me. So teach
me, Lord, for you are my God.
Your gracious
Spirit is all I need, so lead me on good paths that are pleasing to you,
my one and only God!
Meditation Opportunities Daily
Devotion
Romans 3:23 (TPT) The Passion Translation
23 for we all have sinned and are in need of the
glory of God
Psalm 130:3 (TPT) The Passion
Translation
3 Lord, if you
measured us and marked us with our sins, who would ever
have their prayers answered?
Ecclesiastes 7:20 (MSG) The Message
20 There’s not one
totally good person on earth, Not one who is truly pure and sinless.
“We can’t change
what we have experienced, but we can choose how the experiences change us.”
#Lysa Terkeurst #Forgiving What You Can’t Forget
God’s Truth
Isaiah 38:17 (TPT) The Passion
Translation
17 Truly, it was for
my own good that I had this bitter experience.
For you loved my
soul out of the pit of oblivion. You
cast all my sins behind your back.
Isaiah 43:25 (TPT) The Passion
Translation
25 I, yes I, am the
One and Only,[a]
who completely erases your sins, never to be seen again.
I will not
remember them again.
Freely I do this because of
who I am![b
Colossians 2:13-15 (TPT) The Passion Translation
13 This “realm of death” describes our former state, for
we were held in sin’s grasp.[a] But now, we’ve been resurrected
out of that “realm of death” never to return, for we are forever alive and
forgiven of all our sins!
14 He canceled out every legal violation we had on our record and the
old arrest warrant that stood to indict us. He erased it all—our sins, our
stained[b] soul—he deleted it all and
they cannot be retrieved! Everything we once were in Adam[c] has been placed onto his cross
and nailed permanently there as a public display of cancellation.
15 Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and
principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their
spiritual authority and power[d] to accuse us. And by the power
of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of
triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his![e]
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Daily Journal/Thoughts/
Prayers (Thinking out
loud)
Thank you, Lord, for another new day.
Although yesterday was a blur.
Exhausted by mid-day barely able to keep my head up. Thinking I would go in after work and just
take a power nap and not getting back up
until this morning. Our bodies tell
us when we need to shut down. If we are
lucky and paying attention, we listen to the signs.
When the noise of the world be it good or bad intentions just becomes
that constant static; it is time to step back and nourish the very beings you
gave us to be good stewards of.
Some days, any days, or many days our physical conditions could feel out
of balance. With what we have been
doing, what we forgot to do or just doing too much of one thing or not enough
of something else. The demands on our
day-to-day can seem far greater than what we have inside of us to talk about,
write about, or want to care about.
Leaning in on you and your strength, courage, and wisdom that you infuse
into our very beings when we believe and
take time. Is a matter of life
to the world, or life in you?
Today leaning in on so much of your word Lord, reveals a great deal of
hope, energy, and even greater peace within.
Allowing you to use the confusion we all at times carry within.
It does not matter how we got here.
It does not matter why it is happening.
God is in control even when we feel we are not. Even more so when we think we are. He is and always has been and will be still
in control.
Be it we walk and talk with you daily or we don’t believe and go about
our days beating our way through and allowing each day to take bits and pieces
it chips off.
Truth is even when we walk every day with Jesus at the forefront. The world can still pieces that we never
thought or knew existed. Standing firm,
in faith believing no matter what in the cows that jump over the moon, in Jesus
Christ, in Roger Rabbit. What you
believe is your own choice. But the
fact is we were all created in the image of God, who sent his son down in man
form to show us. We all are worth more
than the 900$ Rolex and I know I am far off when it comes to real pricing, but
you get the idea. Those 400$ kicks we
are wearing on our feet that a sudden storm comes, and they are ruined if we
are stuck in the floods or worse yet that warehouse full of collectibles
because we could was carried away in a cyclone, or tornado.
I am reminded of an old funeral joke where the husband who is very
wealthy makes his wife promise when he dies, he takes all his wealth with
him. The wife promises to make sure it
happens. When the man dies the wife
writes a check for everything he has in the bank and puts it in the coffin with
him. She lived up to her promise, I
guess. Even if she kept the bank
account and lived however many days after.
He got his check even if it no longer mattered and the truth was, he
like any of us cannot take any of it with us.
Yet our child like selfish ambitions and greedy actions want it all
right up until we are gone and if we are looking up or down to see what is
going on now that we are no longer here.
We see perfect strangers picking through what we thought was so
important. Or worse yet those beloved
family members fighting over what they never worked for.
Crazy
But truth!
Getting caught up in the here and now and letting circumstance rip us
apart while fighting to have that fix of Prada, Gucci Hilfiger, or Rolex
watching on the news back in the day kids being jumped and beat down on the way
to school while other kids rob them of their Air Jordan's.
It is not surprise to God or biblical times. Matthew 6:19 (MSG) A Life of God-Worship
19-21 “Don’t hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and
corroded by rust or—worse!—stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven,
where it’s safe from moth and rust and burglars. It’s obvious, isn’t it? The
place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up
being.
Yet we all miss it even when it is all over the news or in our
neighborhoods. Watching what should be
important helping one another in life with even the basics. We hide away like no one can see all the
while someone is always waiting and watching to see what they can get.
But I am neither an expert or God to direct anyone’s steps or
thoughts for that matter. I myself still
get excited of beautiful things and admire far too many people and places for
what they do or have.
When all the while I too instead of working so hard a times I
cannot stand up straight doing things to maintain and improve the things given
to me. I forget to live life and rest
in Him as we all are called to do.
I am beyond thankful for the moments that God allows me to shut
everything down and go take that 10-hour power nap.
When you find yourself hearing the static of the world getting
louder and louder, when you have no more energy left because of constant
running or even the choices you thought were going to be something greater on
the other side; only to realize your vision and the end results are far from
connected.
When you find yourself discouraged and depleted and just wanting
to quit everything because you have allowed your visions and beliefs to get
mucked up but everything and everyone around you. Remember to just rest in Christ. Remember to know to whom you were created
and to whom you belong. And to rest in
all that He is and always will be.
Take that power nap, be it ten minutes or ten hours. Stop chasing the what if I do it this way,
what if I do it that way. Stop giving in
to doubt what if it turns out some other way.
Start asking what do you want me to do with what you have given me
today, Lord?
Seek direction for the here and now and let go of what was. Nothing is ever wasted. Those people who hurt you, those you have
hurt. Get up, grow forward and if you
feel you cannot grow fight with Gods army of angels in person or spirit until
you reach the destination you can breathe again. Rest always in the one who created you.
Don’t listen to me or anyone else that has not truly walked the
walk and lives up to the talk they make so much noise with. Including me.
WE ALL get to choose.
Rest well and know everything has a time and purpose and not just for
the world to have one more soul to kick around or steal from. Your beauty shines bright your colors are
brilliant. Make your dreams bold, and
real through the one that gives you the very life and sight to imagine.
