Archive | October 2024

When To Pray

Oct17

Pray when you’re happy
Pray when you’re sad
Pray when you’re obedient
Pray when you’re bad
Pray when you’re broken
Pray when you’re restored
Pray when you’re seeking
Pray when you’ve found
Pray when you’re healthy
Pray when you’re sick
Pray when you’re rich
Pray when you’re poor
Pray when you’re walking
Pray when you’re sitting
Pray when you’re lying upon your bed
Pray in the daylight
Pray in the darkness

🌹pray without ceasing;
1 Thessalonians 5:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1th.5.17.NASB1995

Jesus is a believer’s constant companion. Talk to Him.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Born Again?!

Oct16

Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.3.3.NASB1995

Are  you seeing the kingdom of God at work in the world today?

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.  That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:5‭-‬6 NASB
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.3.5-6.NASB1995

Have you been born of the Spirit?

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:12-13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.1.12-13.NASB1995

He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Titus 3:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/tit.3.5.NASB1995

🌹Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.
Ezekiel 36:26-27 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/ezk.36.25-27.NASB1995

To God be the glory for His mercy, grace and salvation.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Says The Holy One

Oct15

For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, “I dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 57:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.57.15.NASB1995

He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds (sorrows).
Psalms 147:3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.147.3.NASB1995

“I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; . . .
Ezekiel 34:16a NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/ezk.34.16.NASB1995

I will feed My flock and I will lead them to rest,” declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 34:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/ezk.34.15.NASB1995

Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.
Psalms 126:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.126.5.NASB1995

🌹You have taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book?
Psalms 56:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.56.8.NASB1995

What an awesome, caring, loving God we serve! Go to Him in humble prayer. He wants to revive you, heal your wounds, and so much more.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

I Never Knew You

Oct14

How does one come to know another? I mean really know someone. Isn’t it spending time with them? Time spent learning what they like, dislike? What brings them joy, what makes them angry? “What makes them tick?” It’s being willing to also be known ourselves?

Do you know Jesus Christ? Do you take time to know His likes, dislikes; what brings Him joy, or disappointment? Do you spend time letting Jesus know what’s happening in your life? Your likes? Your dislikes? Your disappointments? Your joys?

Do you wonder how you can do this? Well, reading the Word of God and praying will help. It will open your eyes to know God. A real and personal relationship with your Creator.

Your life depends on knowing that you know, that you know . . . God.

🌹“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’ “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Matthew 7:21-24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.7.21-24.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Come, Lord Jesus, Come

Oct11

This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord. For He looked down from His holy height;
From heaven the Lord gazed upon the earth, To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free those who were doomed to death, That men may tell of the name of the Lord in Zion And His praise in Jerusalem, When the peoples are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
Psalms 102:18-22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.102.18-22.NASB1995

Thus says the Lord, ‘I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.’
Zechariah 8:3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/zec.8.3.NASB1995

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, And all the families of the nations will worship before You. For the kingdom is the Lord’s And He rules over the nations.
Psalms 22:27-28 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.22.27-28.NASB1995

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘It will yet be that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities. The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, “Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts; I will also go.”
Zechariah 8:20-21 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/zec.8.20-21.NASB1995

🌹So many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord.’
Zechariah 8:22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/zec.8.22.NASB1995
Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

God’s Heart

Oct10

Precious in the sight of the Lord Is the death of His godly ones.
Psalms 116:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.116.15.NASB1995

He will rescue (redeem) their life (soul) from oppression and violence, And their blood will be precious in his sight;
Psalms 72:14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.72.14.NASB1995

I wonder . . . does God’s heart break at the death of a lost soul? For the one who rejects His offer of refuge? Of redemption?

As for God, His way is blameless; The word of the Lord is tried; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
Psalms 18:30 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.18.30.NASB1995

My shield is with God, Who saves the upright in heart. God is a righteous judge, And a God who has indignation every day. If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.
Psalms 7:10-12 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.7.10-12.NASB1995


Trust in Him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Psalms 62:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.62.8.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

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Cup of Salvation

Oct9

I shall lift up the cup of salvation And call upon the name of the Lord. I shall pay my vows to the Lord, Oh may it be in the presence of all His people.
Psalms 116:13-14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.116.12-14.NASB1995

This cup of salvation, the cup which is the new covenant in the blood of Jesus, has been poured out for us. The goodness of God fills the cup to overflowing with His abundant grace love and mercy. Call upon the name of the Lord with thanksgiving and pay the vow of this blessed gift of salvation in the presence of His people.

🌹Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples.
Psalms 105:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.105.1.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

What Have I to Give?

Oct8

What shall I render to the Lord For all His benefits toward me?
Psalms 116:12 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.116.12-14.NASB1995

Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget none of His benefits; Who pardons all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases; Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion; Who satisfies your years with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.
Psalms 103:2-5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.103.2-5.NASB1995

What are you willing to give to the Lord?
Your devotion?  
      Your praise?
          Your thanks?
               Your obedience?
                    Your life?

For the benefits He has given you?

🌹“Yield now and be at peace with Him; Thereby good will come to you. Please receive instruction from His mouth And establish His words in your heart.
Then the Almighty will be your gold And choice silver to you. For then you will delight in the Almighty And lift up your face to God. You will pray to Him, and He will hear you; And you will pay your vows. You will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you; And light will shine on your ways.
Job 22:21-22, 25-28 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/job.22.21-28.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Land of The Living

Oct7

For You have rescued my soul from death, My eyes from tears, My feet from stumbling. I shall walk before the Lord In the land of the living.
Psalms 116:8-9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.116.8-9.NASB1995

I cried out to You, O Lord; I said, “You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.
Psalms 142:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.142.5.NASB1995

For You have delivered my soul from death, Indeed my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of the living.
Psalms 56:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.56.13.NASB1995

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay. 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 16:10-11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.16.10-11.NASB1995

For Your lovingkindness toward me is great, And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
Psalms 86:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.86.13.NASB1995

I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living.
Psalms 27:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.27.13.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Rest For Your Soul

Oct4

The Lord preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me.
Psalms 116:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.116.6.NASB1995

Thus says the Lord, “Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, Where the good way is, and walk in it; And you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Jeremiah 6:16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.6.16.NASB1995

🙏Do not remember the iniquities of our forefathers against us; Let Your compassion come quickly to meet us, For we are brought very low. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; And deliver us and forgive our sins for Your name’s sake.
Psalms 79:8-9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.79.8-9.NASB1995

🙏Bring my soul out of prison, So that I may give thanks to Your name; The righteous will surround me, For You will deal bountifully with me.”
Psalms 142:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.142.7.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 

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 11:29 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.11.29.NASB1995

🙏Return to your rest, O my soul, For the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
Psalms 116:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.116.7.NASB1995

🌹I will sing to the Lord, Because He has dealt bountifully with me.
Psalms 13:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.13.6.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org