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06/23/2024

Great time celebrating my nephew’s graduation!

04/25/2023

Be Conscious Of Your Position In Christ

John 15:5
5“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

In this verse, Jesus says, “I am the vine, you are the branches.” He did not say, “I am the vine, try to be the branches.” In other words, He wants us to realize that we are already the branches. We do not have to struggle to become the branches.

As His branches, we only have to abide or remain in Christ our vine. How do we do that? We do that by simply being conscious every day of our position in Christ. Because we have received Christ, we are in Christ and are accepted in the Beloved. (2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 1:6) God accepts us because we are in the Beloved and He is in us. And that is how God sees us today when we come into His presence.

What the devil wants to do then is to get you to focus on your condition instead of your position in Christ. The condition you are facing could be financial lack or deteriorating health. The devil wants you to focus on your condition and forget your position — that you are the righteousness of God in Christ and that you are seated with Him in heavenly places at the Father’s right hand. (2 Corinthians 5:21, Ephesians 2:6) He wants you to forget that you are an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ. (Romans 8:17)

The devil knows that once you focus on your position in Christ, it will give you the power to change your condition and circumstances. John 15:5 says that you will bear “much fruit”. This means that when you pray against any lack, abundant supply will flow. When you pray for healing, sickness will leave.

My friend, none of these things can happen by your own doing, but by His life that flows through you. Just as sap flowing through the branches of a vine will cause them to bring forth fruit, His life flowing through you will bring forth a bountiful harvest of provision, healing and miracles. You only need to remain conscious of who you are in Christ!

Thought For The Day
Remain conscious of who you are in Christ and you will bear much fruit.

12/26/2022

Merry Christmas!🎄🎁 Such a blessing to have all my girls and all my grandkids this Christmas💕

09/27/2022

A little late but National Daughters Day to my 3 lovelies!!! 💕💕💕. Love you so much!!!

09/17/2022

09/16/2022

Will God Come Through for Me?

I want to trust God until I don’t.

When I struggle with doubting that God is trustworthy, it isn’t in the global sense. I know He’s trustworthy in general—I just wonder if He’s going to come through for me personally. When this happens, it makes me want to rally more of my own strength rather than rely on God’s strength. Before I even know it, I say I trust God with my mouth, but in reality I get overwhelmed trying to fix and control things myself. I get stressed out, overly emotional, and more and more distant from God. My trust in God becomes a statement I feel I should say but not what I’m actually living out.

Distrust has settled in.

Self-reliance has become my go-to.

And I wonder why the world feels scarier than ever, I feel more and more exhausted, and circumstances seem absolutely impossible. Hope slips away. Redemption seems like a pipe dream. Trust becomes something better Christians with holy lives can do, but not me. Can you relate?

I don’t run to worship false gods on the high places like we see with the Israelites in 1&2 Kings. But I don’t have to. I have my own high place. I rely on myself and solutions of my own making above trusting God. And when you get right down to it, isn’t that very much the same as what we see the Israelites doing when they worship the false gods of their own making as well?

Yikes. They wanted their solutions more than trusting the provision of God. And I think I do the same thing. This is hard to admit, right? But honest admission is the first step to climbing down from the high places and into the compassionate arms of God.

So, how do we trust God will come through for us? Over the next few days, I want to look at how we can examine our own hearts while also looking at the stories of a few ancient kings of Israel.

The first step is to list out any evidence where you’ve experienced the faithfulness of God. Then take a moment and pray that God will show you the idols in your own life. Ask that you will be able to clearly hear God’s message of hope and start to build a heart of trusting Him even more.

09/11/2022

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08/31/2022

Matthew 6:6