Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord
with all your heart and mind and do not rely on
your own insight or understanding.
In all your ways know, recognize and acknowledge
Him, and He will direct and make straight your paths.
(Proverbs 3.5&6).
HALLELUJAH! WE PRAISE YOU AND THANK YOU
LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
So this I say and solemnly testify in the name of the Lord, that you
must no longer live as the heathen do in their perverseness (in the
folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility) of their
minds.
Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is clouded.
They are alienated from the life of God because of ignorance that is deep-
seated in them, due to their hardness of heart.
In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and
reckless and have abandoned themselves as a prey to unbridled sensuality,
eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity that their depraved
desires may suggest and demand.
But you did not so learn Christ!
Assuming that you have really heard Him and been taught by Him, as all
Truth is in Jesus embodied and personified in Him,
Strip yourselves of your former nature which characterized your previous
manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring
from delusion;
And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind,
And put on the new nature created in God’s image, in true righteousness
and holiness.
(Ephesians 4. 17-24).
AMEN!
MELODY
Speak out to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
offering praise with voices and instruments and making melody with
all your heart to the Lord,
At all times and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ to God the Father.
(Ephesians 5.19 and 20).
POINTS FOR MEDITATION AND PRAISE
1) The importance of music in our hearts both as self-talk, inner
message and in our conversation with each other is tremendous.
As we reflect on His goodness, love, grace, His provision and
constant kindness we are filled with gratitude and melody in our
hearts.
2) We encourage each other as we speak of His mercies that never fail
and are new every day. His loving-kindnesses are everlasting. He has
begun a good work in you and will also perfect it. You are more than a
conqueror through Jesus Christ. Greater is He Who is in you than
he that is in the world. He is faithful to the end. He will never leave
you nor forsake you. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and
forever. He is able to make all grace abound in you. My God shall
supply all your needs according to His abundant riches in glory
in Christ Jesus. He is able to do exceeding abundantly above and
beyond all we can ask or think. Nothing can separate us from His love.
HALLELUJAH! PRAISE, LAUD, POWER, GLORY AND HONOR BE
TO THE LAMB FOREVERMORE! AMEN!
BUILT TOGETHER
So I ask you not to lose heart
(not to faint or become
despondent through fear)
at what I am suffering in
your behalf.
(Rather glory in it) for
it is an honor to you.
For this reason (seeing
the greatness of this plan
by which you are built
together in Christ), I bow
my knees before the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
For Whom every family in
heaven and on earth is named
(that Father from Whom all
fatherhood takes its title and
derives its name.
(Ephesians 3.13-15).
POINTS OF MEDITATION
AND PRAISE
1) We do not become discouraged
by the difficulties and adversities.
Rather we consider those as an
honor and glory in them. We know
that all things work together for good
to those who love God and are called
according to His purpose. (Romans 8.
28b).
2) Seeing the greatness of God’s plan
according to which we are now being
built together in Christ, we worship
our Heavenly Father, the Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
3) Our Heavenly Father is the originator
of fatherhood, motherhood and family.
We are His children in the truest sense.
HALLELUJAH! AMEN!
For if any person thinks himself
to be somebody (too important
to condescend to shoulder another’s
load) when he is nobody
(of superiority except in his own
estimation), he deceives and
deludes himself.
But let every person carefully
scrutinize and analyze his own
behavior, attitude and work.
He can then have the satisfaction
and joy of doing something
commendable and not in
boastful comparison with others.
( Galatians 6.3-5).
And let us not lose heart and
grow weary in acting nobly
and doing right, for in due
time and at the appointed
season we shall reap, if we
do not loosen our resolve.
(Galatians 6.9).
CALLED TO PEACE
Do not fret or have any anxiety
about anything, but in every
circumstance and in everything,
by prayer and petition, with
thanksgiving, continue to make
your wants known to God.
And God’s peace which transcends
all understanding shall garrison
and guard over your hearts and
minds in Christ Jesus.
( Philippians 4. 6 and 7).
MEDITATION POINTS
Meditate on these facts:
1) Make your request known to God
in every circumstance and in everything
by prayer and with thanksgiving.
2) Do not fret or have anxiety, but
when you make your petitions to God
thank Him in advance.
3) God’s peace passes understanding and
guards and watches over your thoughts
and feelings.
4) Jesus Christ gives us His peace through
the Holy Spirit.
WOW
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
Just as He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we
should be holy and without blame before Him in love.
Having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved ( Ephesians 1.3-6).
Wow!
Just think about this and let the full implication of the scriptures above soak into your heart and mind.
Talk or write about what this really means.