Focus on God

Mar22

Through prayer our focus turns to God.

Focused
Observant
Centered
Unified
Strengthened
     
Guided
Obedient
Delivered

“Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name. He will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.
Psalms 91:14‭-‬15 NASB

🌹God of grace who hears me when I call, my desire is to focus on You, my Deliverer. I long to be centered in Your will and be obedient to that will. As I  seek Your will open my eyes to see Your work and guide me in that work that I may bring You glory. Strengthen me for your work and unify me to other believers through prayer to seek Your kingdom first.
In Jesus name and for Your glory. amen.

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

A Steadfast Worker

Mar21

My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises!
Psalms 57:7

My heart is steadfast, God; I will sing, I will sing praises also with my soul.
Psalms 108:1 NASB

🌹God I want to be steadfast. Lord, give me a sureness and a continuousness in my faith that can be depended upon. As my Potter, Creator, make my vessel watertight, strong and firm that I may stay loyal when enduring strain. Help me to be persistent in working for Your kingdom purpose, Lord God.
I thank You, God, and will sing praises with my very soul to You!

All to Your glory in Jesus name, Amen 

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

Friday’s Praise 3-18-22

Mar18

O Lord, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name; For You have worked wonders, Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
Isaiah 25:1 NASB

🌹 O Lord, you are my God and I am so grateful. I will glorify your name for You are worthy of praise. I will give thanks to your name for you have worked wonders in the lives of Your people who love and follow You. Plans that you have formed long ago, Lord God, will be fulfilled because of your perfect faithfulness. Help me be faithful Lord God to your plans and your will I pray in Jesus name.

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

Prophesy

Mar17

So a young man ran and told Moses and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
Then Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his youth, said, “Moses, my Lord, restrain them.” But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!”
Numbers 11:27‭-‬29 NASB

What a blessing to be living the New Testament side of Jesus. We have the privilege of the Lord’s “Spirit upon us”. Upon confession of Jesus Christ:

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
1 Corinthians 15:3‭-‬4 NASB

With the Holy Spirit in us we can proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ under His guidance through our belief and surrender to His will.

🌹Can you just imagine what a difference we can make in the world by succumbing to the Spirit that resides in us? Proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Prophesy:
to speak as a mediator between God and humankind or in God’s stead.

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

Friendship

Mar16

For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established (or strengthened); that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
Romans 1:11‭-‬12 NASB

Do you have some friends like this? Experiencing a longing to see and spend time with friends who are of the same Spirit? The Holy Spirit in each of us.

For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.”
Matthew 18:20 NASB

The gathering together to encourage one another, use our spiritual gifts to strengthen one another, encourages and strengthens each saint in the faith and is drawing Jesus into the midst of the gathering.

I hope you have some close saints in your life that you can count on for encouragement, prayer, uninhibited fellowship where the Holy Spirit is able to move in you and others for edification, encouragement, counsel all to the glory of God and His manifestation in each of us. Isn’t that what the world needs? The obvious understanding that God is real and living in us?

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
2 Corinthians 3:2‭-‬3 NASB

🌹Friend, let us be Christ to one another so we can shine Jesus to the world.

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

Steadfast & Immovable

Mar15

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:58 NASB

All things done for the kingdom of God is worth the toil we extend. What is this life on earth compared to eternity?Should our time be used for our gain, joy, and not care for others on the road to eternal death?

Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God
1 Corinthians 15:50 NASB

Perishable must put on imperishable and mortal must put on immortality then death will be swallowed up in victory!
1 Corinthians 15:54-55 NASB

Are we sreadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord so those around us can be thankful, as we are, for the victory given to us through our Lord Jesus Christ?

🌹The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:56‭-‬57 NASB

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

Faithful to be Helpful

Mar14

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves. Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification.
Romans 15:1‭-‬2 NASB

We all have strong characteristics and we all have weak characteristics. That is the marvelous blessing of the church. Together, where we are weak, we are strong. None of us are perfect but together we can uphold, edify one another, bringing glory to God in His church.

🌹Taking our eyes off of ourselves and looking to what is good for others will change the dynamics of a church and bring glory to God.

Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions.
Romans 14:1 NASB

Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Galatians 6:2‭-‬3 NASB

Let no one seek his own good, but that of his neighbor.
1 Corinthians 10:24 NASB

for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;
Ephesians 4:12 NASB

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

Magnify

Mar11

I will praise the name of God with song And magnify Him with thanksgiving.
Psalm 69:30‭ NASB

🌹O magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.
Psalms 34:3 NASB

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

Clothed & Walking

Mar10

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.
Romans 13:14 NASB

“Put on the Lord Jesus Christ”:
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; My justice was like a robe and a turban.
Job 29:14 NASB
For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Galatians 3:27 NASB
and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
Ephesians 4:24 NASB
and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him— So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience;
Colossians 3:10‭, ‬12 NASB
We are clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, His righteousness! We are clothed in the holiness of truth according to the image of God. Let us put on the new self that is being sanctified, renewed to a true knowledge of God. We are chosen of God, holy and beloved, so let’s put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience and . . .
“Make no provision for the flesh in regard to it’s lust.”
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.
1 Peter 2:11 NASB

🌹But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.
Galatians 5:16 NASB

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

Find Us Faithful

Mar9

We’re pilgrims on the journey
Of the narrow road,
And those who’ve gone before us
Line the way.
Cheering on the faithful,
Encouraging the weary,
Their lives a stirring testament
To god’s sustaining grace.

O may all who come behind us
Find us faithful,
May the fire of our devotion
Light their way.
May the footprints that we leave,
Lead them to believe,
And the lives we live
Inspire them to obey.
O may all who come behind us
Find us faithful.

Surrounded by so great
A cloud of witnesses,
Let us run the race
Not only for the prize,
But as those who’ve gone before us.
Let us leave to those behind us,
The heritage of faithfulness
Passed on thru godly lives.

O may all who come behind us
Find us faithful,
May the fire of our devotion
Light their way.
May the footprints that we leave,
Lead them to believe,
And the lives we live
Inspire them to obey.
O may all who come behind us
Find us faithful.

After all our hopes and dreams
Have come and gone,
And our children sift thru all
We’ve left behind,
May the clues that they discover,
And the mem’ries they uncover,
Become the light that leads them,
To the road we each must find.

O may all who come behind us
Find us faithful,
May the fire of our devotion
Light their way.
May the footprints that we leave,
Lead them to believe,
And the lives we live
Inspire them to obey.
O may all who come behind us
Find us faithful.

Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Jon Mohr
Find Us Faithful lyrics © Birdwing Music, Jonathan Mark Music

Check out the YouTube video by Steve Green: Find Us Faithful – Steve Green [With Lyrics]

🌹May those who wait for You not be ashamed through me, O Lord God of hosts; May those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel,
Psalms 69:6 NASB

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon