Standing Strong in His Grace

Good morning good folks blessed of GOD. I pray you have a grand and joyous day! Today is day 8 of the A-Z Writing Challenge and the Word for the day is idols. The term idol is defined as worship of anything created that gets more glory than GOD in heaven. Anything that substitutes for God in your body and soul. You see we are creations of GOD. We should serve and worship Him above all else. but in human frailty we turn to tangible things other than GOD. Just like when Moses went up on Mt Sinai to receive the ten commandments, Jesus went up to heaven. Weak humans as we all are, turn to idols to meet our needs with something we can see.  See, one day when we least expect Jesus will return to take His bride and what will we be doing? More than likely we will be worship earthly idols. The scriptures gives us many warnings. Here is just a few:   Little Children guard yourself from Idols. 1 John 5:21 Flee from idolatry 1 Corinthians 10:14 Turn from idols to serve a living and true God, and T

Hello friends, and I pray you all have a great day in Jesus.  Today is day 7 of my writing challenge.   The Word for this day is grace. Grace is defined as the nonrevocable gifts of God's presence.  We find many characters in the Bible even Jesus who was full of grace and walking in it daily...this is for us today as well as the saints of God... So how do we grow in the grace of Jesus? I believe it has to do with the knowledge of getting to know Him. How do we get to know Him? By talking to Him like we talk to a best friend is the main thing and learning to really listen to His voice. That can be rather difficult at times but it is possible. We have to die to self and what self wants and focus on Jesus.   Allow Jesus to become your best friend and confidant.  His voice will never lead us astray.  As we come to Jesus each day and get to know him I believe that we grow from grace to grace. Let us tap into that never ending source...that vast supply of the riches of Your grace.  We lo

Good morning folks!! May you be blessed by todays posting on Day 6 of my A-Z Writing Challenge.  The Word for the day is "foundation."  This word is defined as a underlying base or solid support for a firm structure, such as what most habitations are build upon... Everyone who comes to Me, and hears my words, and acts upon them, I will show you whom he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation upon the rock; and when a flood rose, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been built well. But the one who had heard, and has not acted accordingly, is like a  man who built a house upon the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately collapsed, and the ruin of that house is great.  Luke 6:48-49 What strikes me about the above scriptures is the fact that we can hear the Word of God and act upon it. We must as a believer apply the word of God to our lives. This is not a light

  Good morning. Today is Day 5 of the A-Z Challenge. The word for the day is "endurance."  The term endure is defined as to remain firm through hardship or persecution, to undergo difficult situations without giving in. The scripture for today is James 5:11.  Behold, we count those blessed who endured.  You have heard of the endurance of Job, and have seen the outcome of the Lord's dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy. The story of Job comes to the forefront of my mind when I see the word endurance. For he endured extreme disaster. He did not cave into a life of self pity indulging in any sin that would ease his suffering. He bore it brave and was refined in his faith...His faith was greatly tested and shone forth as gold. HIs endurance was blessed by God and in the end His life was restored double-fold... These days we cave in, but Job lost everything and he remained firm until the very end. Would we endure to the end.  We could learn a valuable lesson

Good morning to everyone reading this. On this forth day of the challenge the word for the day is delight.  The definition for delight is to be soft and tender but also to gain great pleasure, satifaction or happiness or rejoice over. So how do we as believers bring delight unto God?  How do we bring him happiness and know that we bring him satisfaction? That should be our number one purpose as a born again believer.   I know the scriptures say that when a soul is born again the angels rejoice, but I really wonder how the Lord reacts? The scriptures also talk of the prodigal son when he returns home. That gives us a glimpse on what delights our Father in heaven... But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick!

Greetings and welcome to Day 3 of my writing challenge!  The word for the day is courage. Courage is defined as as mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and face danger without fear. Courage is the opposite of fear. Overwhelming f ear creeps into the mind, it take mental strength to conquer it. That is where courage comes into play.  When we face something out of our comfort zone we procrastinate which is a indication we are operating in fear. even something out of our control can trigger the fear factor. We get scared and our rational mind kicks in. How do we conquer fear with courage? We must stand firm and have our spiritual armor in place.  We must tackle fear with supernatural strength in place. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but we will have to daily face this giant.  Satan targets our mind and magnifies and pulls our all fear tactics to stop you in your tracks. We must forge ahead in the name of our Lord much like in the story of David and Goliath. It is not ou

This is day 2 of the A-Z writing challenge and the word for today is beatitude, which means supreme blessedness.   Jesus teaches the beatitudes in the Gospels. In Matthew 5:3-11 its gives a list of those who are supremely graced by God's blessings: The poor in spirit  Those who mourn The gentle Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness The merciful The pure in heart The Peacemakers Those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness Do you fit into any of these categories? If so you are extremely blessed by God. He sets us apart as he sends us showers of blessings: Giving us the kingdom of heaven We shall be comforted We shall inherit the earth We shall be satisfied We shall receive mercy We shall see God We shall be called the sons of God I believe the Holy Bible is inspired by God! What He says He will give us what He promised great blessings of the Father's grace!!   Dear Jesus, we thank you for your words of blessings and grace. We hunger and thirst for your ri

  This is day 1 of the A-Z writing challenge.  My word is "abide." I want to start by giving a definition. Here it is:  to remain fixed,  staying in that place of blessing from Almighty God. If we abide in Jesus what does that mean?  whoever stays in God's grace will remain fixed in Christ.  We actually must fix our lives depending and trusting in Jesus at all times, not just when we "feel like it." He is there waiting for us to come to Him to pour out his richest blessings upon our lives Jesus desires for us to grow and flourish and produce fruit.  This will not happen if we do not stay in that place of communion and fellowship with Him.  The presence of the Lord is not a euphoric feeling but a state of abiding in His grace. In other words your life as a believer you should commit to Jesus no matter what the cost. He will also do the same for you. Dear Jesus we submit to you this day. Abide in us and help us to abide in You.  Teach us to remain in c onstant fel

  Hey Folks, I am embarking on a A-Z Christian writing challenge.  Starting tomorrow I will come up with one word that starts with A and blog about it. I will attempt to post every day taking Sunday off from Writing. I will go through the whole alphabet until i make it to the letter Z.  This should get very interesting. I am putting a Christian spin on it by the first word that comes into my heart prompted by the Holy Spirit through me so get ready for a word from the day from God t. Not only will I do that but a prayer as well as a song. This should help my writing immensely and my spiritual ear to hear from God as well! I am excited!!! ===========  A whole lot of  good things have transpired over the last few months of my life. When my stepdad passed away in January I moved in with my mom to help her get over this time of grieving and settling into this new phase of her life.  In the process of me helping her she helped me by helping me get on a healthy diet. So far I have lost 24 po