Then He (Jesus) *said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
Matthew 9:37 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.9.37.NASB1995
This just breaks my heart. 💔
Does it yours?
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Archive | January 2024
The Planted Seed
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. John 12:24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.12.24.NASB1995
Just as the grain of wheat must die to bear more fruit, so we as believers must die to bear eternal fruit. Die to MY way, MY will, MY life.
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 5:24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.5.24.NASB1995
The Christian has been crucified with Christ and now lives in Christ. It is HIS way, HIS will, HIS life, His passion.
He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. John 12:25 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.12.25.NASB1995
Staying connected to God is necessary for Him to increase, and for us to decrease.
John 3:30 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.3.30.NASB1995
Prayer and the Word of God are essential to a life in Christ!!
And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.”
Matthew 13:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100 /mat.13.23.NASB1995
🌹For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:21 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/php.1.21.NASB1995
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Change My Heart, O God
The steps of a man are established by the Lord, And He delights in his way.
Psalms 37:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.37.23.NASB1995
When. . .
The law of his God is in his heart; His steps do not slip.
Psalms 37:31 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.37.31.NASB1995
God’s covenant with His children. The surrendered heart will be established by God and the steps of the righteous will not slip.
“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Jeremiah 31:33 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.31.33.NASB1995
Your word I have treasured in my heart, That I may not sin against You.
Psalms 119:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.11.NASB1995
🌹I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart.”
Psalms 40:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.40.8.NASB1995Psalm 40:8
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Silent Presence
Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great. Job 2:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/job.2.13.NASB1995
Sometimes all a friend needs is your presence. No small talk, just your presence.
As you sit, hold a hand, are silent, there is time to reach out to God on their behalf. Quiet prayer that God hears from your heart.
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🌹Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org
Goal 2024
He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 3:30 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.3.30.NASB1995
This verse was my 2023 verse of the year. It is a very difficult verse to live, so difficult that it is also my 2024 verse of the year.
What I have come to know is that to accomplish this,
#1 I had/have to:
humble myself before Almighty God:
But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.4.6.NASB1995James 4:6
#2 I had/have to lay down my will:
Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.6.10.NASB1995
#3 Surrender my plans:
For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.29.11.NASB1995
#4 Surrender my way:
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
Isaiah 55:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.55.8.NASB1995
Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
John 14:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.14.6.NASB1995
#5 AND My life:
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Galatians 2:20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.2.20.NASB1995
And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
Luke 9:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.9.23.NASB1995
Fully surrendered. Enslaved to God.
🌹But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
Romans 6:22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.6.22.NASB1995
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One God
Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.
Deuteronomy 4:39 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/deu.4.39.NASB1995
For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.
Colossians 1:16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.1.16.NASB1995
one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.
Ephesians 4:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.4.6.NASB1995
🌹There is none like You, O Lord; You are great, and great is Your name in might. Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? Indeed it is Your due! For among all the wise men of the nations And in all their kingdoms, There is none like You.
Jeremiah 10:6-7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.10.6.NASB1995
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Invitation To A Feast
Recommended reading: Luke 14:16-24; Matthew 22:2-10, 14
Parable of the Dinner
But He said to him, “A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many; and at the dinner hour he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come; for everything is ready now.’ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused.’ Another one said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused.’ Another one said, ‘I have married a wife, and for that reason I cannot come.’ And the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the head of the household became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’ And the slave said, ‘Master, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’
Luke 14:16-22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.14.16.NASB1995
The invitation has been sent out.
The gospel is the invitation of God to eternal life. To partake of the heavenly feast that God has prepared, salvation.
Did you notice the similarities in the responses to decline the invitation? “I”, “I”, “I”. When it becomes all about me, me, me, the boat will sail, the dinner will go on, eternal life will happen but without you.
All humanity is crippled, blind, lame, hurting, lost, poor in need of a Savior. Will you accept the invitation and partake of the feast? Or will you enjoy the me, me, me now and miss out on the great eternal supper with God?
🌹Come. There is still room.
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Obedient Amazement
When He (Jesus) had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” Simon answered and said, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets.” Luke 5:4-5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.5.4.NASB1995
We can sure get stuck in our ways and think we know best, especially at things we do all the time. But when God steps in we need to listen and obey. Obedience to God’s direction and walking in His will and way brings blessings for ourself that overflows to others.
When they had done this, they enclosed a great quantity of fish, and their nets began to break; so they signaled to their partners in the other boat for them to come and help them. And they came and filled both of the boats so that they began to sink. Luke 5:6-7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.5.6.NASB1995
God will also reveal His glory to us if we watch in anticipation.
For amazement had seized him and all his companions because of the catch of fish which they had taken; Luke 5:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.5.9.NASB1995
🌹And God’s glory is seen with amazement!!! 🙌
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Do You Remember?
The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He.
Deuteronomy 32:4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/deu.32.4.NASB1995
Praise God, the Rock!
Do you know the Rock?
For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God,
Psalms 18:31 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.18.31.NASB1995
The Rock is our salvation, our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God of my salvation,
Psalms 18:46 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.18.46.NASB1995
On God my salvation and my glory rest; The rock of my strength, my refuge is in God.
Psalms 62:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.62.7.NASB1995
🌹And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.
Psalms 78:35 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.78.35.NASB1995
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Come, Lord Jesus
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
Philippians 3:20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/php.3.20.NASB1995
Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Colossians 3:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.3.1.NASB1995
As the day of Christ’s return draws closer and closer and as I long for that glorious day, my heart still yearns for more time as I look around me at all the lost souls in need of a Savior.
Will you pray along with me for opportunities to share the living gospel with the world? Time is running out.
🌹He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.”
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
Revelation 22:20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rev.22.20.NASB1995
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