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Wrapped in Righteousness

Sep16

if indeed you have heard Him (Christ) and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
Ephesians 4:21-22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.4.21-22.NASB1995

Laying aside the old self:

¹But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. ²Put aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.
Colossians 3:8/James 1:21 NASB1995
¹ https://bible.com/bible/100/col.3.8.NASB1995
² https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.1.21.NASB1995

Are we laying aside the old self and putting on the righteousness of Christ daily?

I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 61:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.61.10.NASB1995

🌹¹having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude ²and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
Colossians 2:7/Ephesians 4:21-24 NASB1995
¹ https://bible.com/bible/100/col.2.7.NASB1995
² https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.4.21-24.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Servant’s Heart

Sep15

but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.
1 John 2:5-6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.2.5-6.NASB1995

Jesus speaking to His disciples:
For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.
John 13:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.13.15.NASB1995

So when He (Jesus) had washed their feet, and taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
John 13:12-17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.13.12-17.NASB1995

🌹just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
Matthew 20:28 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.20.28.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Loving Jesus

Sep14

Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.
John 14:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.14.23.NASB1995

Do we love Jesus?
How do we keep God’s word if we don’t know God’s Word?
When does the Father and Jesus abide in us?

Continually Seeking Him,

🌹Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Jesus is The Word

Sep11

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gen.1.1.NASB1995

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
John 1:1-4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.1.1-4.NASB1995

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.1.17.NASB1995

🌹And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.1.14.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Lord God, Promise Keeper

Sep10

You are the Lord God, Who chose Abram And brought him out from Ur of the Chaldees, And gave him the name Abraham. You found his heart faithful before You, And made a covenant with him To give him the land of the Canaanite, Of the Hittite and the Amorite, Of the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite — To give it to his descendants. And You have fulfilled Your promise, For You are righteous.
Nehemiah 9:7-8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/neh.9.7-8.NASB1995

Then he (Abram) believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.
Genesis 15:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gen.15.6.NASB1995

🌹Not one of the good promises which the Lord had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass.
Joshua 21:45 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jos.21.45.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

God Alone Is The Lord

Sep9

Then the Levites, . . ., said, “Arise, bless the Lord your God forever and ever!
O may Your glorious name be blessed
And exalted above all blessing and praise!
You alone are the Lord.
You have made the heavens,
The heaven of heavens with all their host,
The earth and all that is on it,
The seas and all that is in them.
You give life to all of them
And the heavenly host bows down before You.
Nehemiah 9:5-6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/neh.9.5-6.NASB1995

Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
2 Kings 19:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ki.19.15.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.
He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
Colossians 1:16-18NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.1.16-18.NASB1995

🌹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

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Willingness

Sep8

While they stood in their place, they read from the book of the law of the Lord their God for a fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God.
Nehemiah 9:3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/neh.9.3.NASB1995

🌹How changed would we be if we practiced this? Even if for fifteen minutes, or twenty, thirty, sixty minutes a day? Are we willing?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Labor Day Blessings

Sep7

Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.
Psalms 127:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.127.1.NASB1995

Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles, But the one who gathers by labor increases it.
Proverbs 13:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.13.11.NASB1995

In all labor there is profit, But mere talk leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 14:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.14.23.NASB1995

There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 2:24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/ecc.2.24.NASB1995

moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor—it is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/ecc.3.13.NASB1995

🌹Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward. Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:18-19 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/ecc.5.18-19.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Shout For Joy

Sep4

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; Let the sea roar, and all it contains;
Let the field exult, and all that is in it.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy Before the Lord, for He is coming,
For He is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
And the peoples in His faithfulness.
Psalms 96:11-13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.96.11-13.NASB1995

Let heaven and earth praise Him, The seas and everything that moves in them.
Psalms 69:34 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.69.34.NASB1995

Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth! Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains! . . .
Isaiah 49:13a, b NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.49.13.NASB1995

The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice; Let the many islands (coastlands) be glad.
Psalms 97:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.97.1.NASB1995

The meadows are clothed with flocks And the valleys are covered with grain; They shout for joy, yes, they sing.
Psalms 65:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.65.13.NASB1995

The wilderness and the desert will be glad, And the Arabah will rejoice and blossom; Like the crocus
Isaiah 35:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.35.1.NASB1995

🌹Shout for joy, O heavens, for the Lord has done it! Shout joyfully, you lower parts of the earth; Break forth into a shout of joy, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it; For the Lord has redeemed Jacob And in Israel He shows forth His glory.
Isaiah 44:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.44.23.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

The Lord is Near

Sep3

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

The righteous cry, and the Lord hears And delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted And saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Psalms 34:17-18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible100psa.34.17-18.NASB1995

🌹For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as is the Lord our God whenever we call on Him?
Deuteronomy 4:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/deu.4.7.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org