Those Whom The Lord Favors

Apr30

O fear the Lord, you His saints; For to those who fear Him there is no want. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; But they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing.
Psalms 34:9-10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.34.9-10.NASB1995

Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Psalms 34:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.34.11.NASB1995

The Lord favors those who fear Him, Those who wait for His lovingkindness.
Psalms 147:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.147.11.NASB1995

Seek the Lord while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.
Isaiah 55:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.55.6.NASB1995

🌹For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
Psalms 84:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.84.11.NASB1995

Praise the Lord!

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Zeal For God Or Me?

Apr29

As I was thinking about being “zealous” for God, the Apostle Paul came to mind. Am I devoted to God and His ways? Am I zealous according to God’s word or my own ideas and ways?
*recommended reading: Acts 9:1-31

Now Saul (later called Paul), still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Acts 9:1-2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/act.9.1-2.NASB1995

Paul (Saul) was on mission. Zealous for God. He believed he was serving God until he had an actual encounter with God. Then his mission changed.

As he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him;
Acts 9:3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/act.9.3.NASB1995

Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing; and leading him by the hand, they brought him into Damascus.
Acts 9:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/act.9.8.NASB1995

Paul (Saul) was zealous for God without truly knowing God, without walking in His way, His truth.

Have you had an encounter with God? Is His word a part of your day so as to walk in His truth?

The day of Paul’s encounter with God changed everything. God’s word became real. Paul understood. Paul was a changed man. He began walking according to God’s design for his life instead of his own idea for his life. Paul surrendered his life to Christ for God’s way.

Saul was filled with the Holy Spirit.

And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized;
Acts 9:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/act.9.18.NASB1995

Paul returns to Jerusalem.

🌹And he was with them, moving about freely in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.
Acts 9:28 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/act.9.28.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

O Taste And See

Apr28

The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble, And He knows those who take refuge in Him.
Nahum 1:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/nam.1.7.NASB1995

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord And whose trust is the Lord.
Jeremiah 17:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.17.7.NASB1995

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Matthew 5:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.5.6.NASB1995How

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.
John 6:35 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.6.35.NASB1995

“Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost.
Isaiah 55:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.55.1.NASB1995Isaiah

O taste and see that the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
Psalms 34:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.34.8.NASB1995

How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Psalms 119:103 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.103.NASB1995

For the Lord is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting And His faithfulness to all generations.
Psalms 100:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.100.5.NASB1995

Seek the Lord while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.
Isaiah 55:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.55.6.NASB1995

🌹The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him.
Lamentations 3:25 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/lam.3.25.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Endure To The Death?

Apr27

Looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.12.2.NASB1995

Being found in appearance as a man, He (Jesus) humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Philippians 2:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/php.2.8.NASB1995

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1co.1.18.NASB1995

What are we willing to endure for the promise of eternity with God?

🌹So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
Hebrews 13:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.13.13.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Proclaim The Name of The Lord!

Apr24

For I proclaim the name of the Lord; Ascribe greatness to our God. . . A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He.
Deuteronomy 32:3-4b NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/deu.32.3-4.NASB1995

🙌 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.
1 Chronicles 29:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ch.29.11.NASB1995

Oh what a glorious day it will be when . . .

. . . every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, (hear) . . ., “To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.”
Revelation 5:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rev.5.13.NASB1995

AMEN!! Glory to God!!!

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon 🌹
https://indasharonjesus.org

Note From God

Apr23

    Be Still

        ♥️

     Know

        ♥️

      I AM

        ♥️

      GOD 

        ♥️

 I LOVE YOU!

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

https://indasharonjesus.org

Born of God?

Apr22

Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.
1 John 3:7-10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.3.7-10.NASB1995

Are you practicing righteousness? Is it evident in you?

🌹If you know that He (Jesus) is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.
1 John 2:29 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.2.29.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Alive in Righteousness

Apr21

If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Romans 8:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.8.10.NASB1995

Whose righteousness? Not my own, for I have no righteousness of my own. The righteousness of Christ in me is my righteousness.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.8.11.NASB1995

🌹Hallelujah

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Considered Sinless

Apr20

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
You know that He (Jesus) appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.
1 John 3:4-5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.3.4-5.NASB1995

He (The Father) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 Corinthians 5:21 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.5.21.NASB1995

🙏 Father, thank you for Jesus, who came on my behalf and made a way for me to become righteous through His sacrifice. By His sacrifice I am clean, pure, righteous as You look upon me through Your Son who lives in me. The price was paid. By Your grace I am righteous. Glory to Your name!! In Jesus I pray, amen.

🌹No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows (or has known) Him.
1 John 3:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.3.6.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Sacrificial Praise From a Thankful Heart

Apr17

You are my God, I give you thanks; my God, I offer you praise.
Psalms 118:28 NABRE
https://bible.com/bible/463/psa.118.28.NABRE

What have you to be thankful for? Have you thanked God?
Have you given God a sacrifice of praise?

🌹Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.
Hebrews 13:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.13.15.NASB1995

Have a blessed weekend giving praise to God with a thankful heart.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org