Archive | September 2024

Plentiful Harvest

Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.
John 4:34-35 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.4.34-35.NASB1995

I was recently visiting a farmstead and noticed cornstocks used on posts of a porch as fall decor. The leaves had turned brown and the corn, not visible, I imagined was not bright yellow any longer. I squeezed one and it seemed hard.
The fresh corn at harvest left in the sun without water would eventually die and be returned to the dirt.

God has called us to a dying world in need of seed and harvest. Left unattended, uncared for, unloved, the heart will turn hard, the soul will no longer thrive, returning to the dirt and eternal death.

And He (Jesus) was saying to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore beseech¹ the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.
Luke 10:2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.10.2.NASB1995

¹ implore, appeal, ask, pray, supplicate

🌹Will you pray asking God to prepare you and others for the harvest? 🙏

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

To Learn Righteousness

I shall give thanks to You with uprightness of heart, When I learn Your righteous judgments.
Psalms 119:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.7.NASB1995

At night my soul longs for You, Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; For when the earth experiences Your judgments The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 26:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.26.9.NASB1995

🙏Righteous are You, O Lord, And upright are Your judgments.¹
Your word is very pure, Therefore Your servant loves it
With Your righteous word in my heart, I long to give thanks to You, my God!

🙏Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 1:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ti.1.17.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

¹Psalms 119:137 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.137.NASB1995
²Psalms 119:140 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.140.NASB1995

Seek God’s Word

How blessed are those who observe His testimonies, Who seek Him with all their heart.
Psalms 119:2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.2.NASB1995

All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and truth To those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.
Psalms 25:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.25.10.NASB1995

Seek God in His word. Be blessed by keeping His word.

🙏With all my heart I have sought You; Do not let me wander from Your commandments.
Psalms 119:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.10.NASB1995

🌹You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.29.13.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Established

How blessed are those whose way is blameless (complete; or having integrity), Who walk in the law of the Lord.
Psalms 119:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.1.NASB1995

Are you blessed?


🙏Oh that my ways may be established To keep Your statutes! Then I shall not be ashamed When I look upon all Your commandments.
Psalms 119:5-6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.5-6.NASB1995

🌹How blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, Who walks in His ways.
Psalms 128:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.128.1.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Brokenhearted

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted And saves those who are crushed (contrite) in spirit.
Psalms 34:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.34.18.NASB1995

The road that Jesus walked was not an easy one but He did it for our sake and the Father’s glory.
He can relate to the brokenhearted and understands the crushed in spirit.
God wants to repair, heal us, but we must come to Him with a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart.
Come to Jesus with sincere remorse and be healed. He is our Deliverer.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Psalms 51:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.51.17.NASB1995

🌹The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.
Psalms 145:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.145.18.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Humble & Contrite

For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being,” declares the Lord.
Isaiah 66:2a NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.66.2.NASB1995

Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing.
Isaiah 40:26 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.40.26.NASB1995

The glory of the Lord can be seen all around us in His glorious creation. There is something calming and peaceful when taking a stroll with God in His creation.

But God’s greatest creation is the one who belongs to Him.

🌹But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.
Isaiah 66:2b NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.66.2.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Good News!

Opening his mouth, Peter said: “I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality, but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him.
Acts 10:34-35 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/act.10.34-35.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Footsteps

Righteousness will go before Him And will make His footsteps into a way.
Psalms 85:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.85.13.NASB1995

Jesus is the way. As a child I would put on my Mom’s shoes, occasionally Dad’s boots and clomp around the house. My desire was to be like Mom and Dad.

Now my desire is to walk in the footsteps of Jesus for He has made a way for me. Are you desiring to walk the way of righteousness Jesus has laid out for you?

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.
Psalms 40:2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.40.2.NASB1995

My prayer:

🙏Establish my footsteps in Your word, And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.
Psalms 119:133 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.133.NASB1995

Amen.

🌹Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Imitator of God – Pt. 3

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;
Ephesians 5:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.5.1.NASB1995

To the family of God.

Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
Ephesians 4:32 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.4.32.NASB1995

Seeing their faith, He said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven you.”
Luke 5:20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.5.20.NASB1995

So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.
Colossians 3:12-13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.3.12-13.NASB1995

Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.
Colossians 3:14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.3.14.NASB1995

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
1 Corinthians 13:4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1co.13.4.NASB1995

🌹To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit;
1 Peter 3:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1pe.3.8.NASB1995

To the glory of God!

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Imitator of God – Pt. 2

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;
Ephesians 5:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.5.1.NASB1995

Becoming wholly undivided as God is.

Be (Become) merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned.
Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.”
Luke 6:36-38 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100 /luk.6.36-38.NASB1995

🌹But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.
Luke 6:35 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.6.35.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org