Archive | August 2024

Best Life

Aug16

You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
Psalms 16:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.16.11.NASB1995

. . . see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.
Psalms 139:24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.139.24.NASB1995

Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.
Psalms 43:4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.43.4.NASB1995

To walk with God is to know God. Thank You, God.

🌹How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights. For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.
Psalms 36:7-9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.36.7-9.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Have a great weekend!!

Storms

Aug15

I’m sitting on my porch this morning in the darkness of a storm brewing. Here is where I spend my mornings with Jesus. Most days I hear the birds chirping and hear squirrels squealing away and see them as they jump from tree to tree. But this morning is quiet except for the russel of the leaves on the tree as the wind blows. No sun, just grey skies and a cool wind.

It brought to mind the beginning of storms in our lives. How do we handle them?

We can look at the storm and fret over what might happen or we can look to and trust God to walk with us through the storm and await the outcome of His purpose for the storm.

Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
For I am the Lord your God, who upholds your right hand, Who says to you, ‘Do not fear, I will help you.’
Isaiah 41:10, 13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.41.10-13.NASB1995

Walk in peace with Jesus.

🌹Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.3.5.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Ambassadors

Aug14

And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain— for He says, “At the acceptable time I listened to you, And on the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is “the acceptable time,” behold, now is “the day of salvation”—
2 Corinthians 6:1-2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.6.1-2.NASB1995

“And working together with Him,” in God’s power, by His living in us, in acknowledgement of His great grace, we proclaim the salvation we received, passing it on. God has a purpose for His saved children.

We are a cultivated field yielding the good word of the gospel.
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field (cultivated land), God’s building.
1 Corinthians 3:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1co.3.9.NASB1995

🌹Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us;
Our appeal:
we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:20b NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.5.20.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

The Temple

Aug13

For the disobedience of King David, God sent a plague upon the land.

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw and was sorry over the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough; now relax your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan (Araunah) the Jebusite.
Chronicles 21:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ch.21.15.NASB1995

Ornan the Jebusite’s threshing floor played an important site in history. An angel of the Lord was standing on this site ready to pour out destruction on Jerusalem. But God . . . in His mercy relented of the destruction to Jerusalem.

Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking down the people, and said, “Behold, it is I who have sinned, and it is I who have done wrong; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let Your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”
2 Samuel 24:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2sa.24.17.NASB1995

Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Chronicles 21:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ch.21.18.NASB1995

David went up according to the word of Gad, just as the Lord had commanded.

Araunah (Ornan) looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and Araunah (Ornan) went out and bowed his face to the ground before the king. Then Araunah (Ornan) said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be held back from the people.” Araunah (Ornan) said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. Everything, O king, Araunah (Ornan) gives to the king.” And Araunah (Ornan) said to the king, “May the Lord your God accept you.”
However, the king said to Araunah (Ornan), “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing.”
2 Samuel 24:19-24a NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2sa.24.19-24.NASB1995

There is a price to be paid for sin, no matter your stature in life. Jesus paid for our sin.

So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Thus the Lord was moved by prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.
2 Samuel 24:24b-25 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2sa.24.24-25.NASB1995

This took place on the same site where

. . . Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan (Araunah) the Jebusite.
Chronicles 3:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ch.3.1.NASB1995

God has a plan. We may not know it but need to trust in His leading.

🌹At the site of God’s mercy and Solomon’s repentance, the temple of the Lord God was built.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

The Gospel is Peace

Aug12

And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,
Colossians 1:21 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.1.21.NASB1995

Alienated, hostile in mind, evil — enemy of God. That is who Jesus came to sacrifice His life for. Jesus came to save His enemy. Jesus came to save you.
yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—
Colossians 1:22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.1.22.NASB1995

Blameless and beyond reproach! The Prince of Peace came to reconcile you to Himself, to bring peace into your life.

if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.
Colossians 1:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.1.23.NASB1995

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.
Colossians 3:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.3.15.NASB1995

And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/php.4.7.NASB1995

🌹Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
John 14:27 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.14.27.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Good, Good, God!

Aug9

Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart, In the company of the upright and in the assembly.
Great are the works of the Lord; They are studied by all who delight in them. Splendid and majestic is His work, And His righteousness endures forever.
Psalms 111:1-3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.111.1-3.NASB1995

🌹He has made His wonders to be remembered; The Lord is gracious and compassionate.
Psalms 111:4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.111.4.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Are You One of His?

Aug8

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.
Psalms 19:14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.19.14.NASB1995

Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have ransomed me, O Lord, God of truth.
Psalms 31:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.31.5.NASB1995

🌹Praise the Lord

Our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 47:4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.47.4.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

The Life Change

Aug7

The unfolding of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.
Psalms 119:130 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.130.NASB1995

The power of God’s word to bring light -understanding, direction, sense to life- will change the soul life of a seeking heart.

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light; And reproofs for discipline are the way of life
Proverbs 6:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.6.23.NASB1995

The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul; The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalms 19:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.19.7.NASB1995

🌹Consider seeking God through His word. It is life changing.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Boast in The Lord!

Aug6

For the kingdom of God does not consist in words but in power.
1 Corinthians 4:20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1co.4.20.NASB1995

It is not by my words but by God’s power in me that the gospel and His kingdom grows and flourishes.

For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed, in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
Romans 15:18-19 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.15.18-19.NASB1995

🌹But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 1:30-31 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1co.1.30-31.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Search Me

Aug5

but the one who examines me is the Lord.
1 Corinthians 4:4c NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1co.4.4.NASB1995

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
Psalms 139:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.139.23.NASB1995

For . . .

The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But He loves one who pursues righteousness.
Proverbs 15:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.15.9.NASB1995

Teach me to do Your will, For You are my God; Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
Psalms 143:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.143.10.NASB1995

🌹A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, But a fool is arrogant and careless.
Proverbs 14:16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.14.16.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org