Days of Thanks – D5

Nov5

Thank God for the freedom to worship God publicly without restrictions!!
My hope is that if you are where you have the freedom to worship the God of all, that you do not neglect this freedom and attend a worship service today.

‭‭🌹Who is like You among the gods, O Lord? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, Awesome in praises, working wonders?
You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, The place, O Lord, which You have made for Your dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.
The Lord shall reign forever and ever.” (Amen)
Exodus‬ ‭15:11‬, 17-18 ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/exo.15.11.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

30 Days of Thanks – D4

Nov4

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” And call understanding your intimate friend;
Proverbs‬ ‭7:4‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.7.4.NASB1995

I know this is out of context, but this verse brought to mind some wonderful women in my life who share their godly wisdom with me and have listening, understanding 💕 hearts. Sisters who pray for and with me.

I thank God for these sisters who have blessed my life.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

30 Days of Thanks – D3

Nov3

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Colossians‬ ‭3:16‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.3.16.NASB1995

‭‭God’s word. God’s word filled with the richness of wisdom, direction, salvation. God’s word showing us the Way, the Truth and the Life. The richness of knowing, experiencing Jesus Christ.

Thank You God for Your Word!!

🌹So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
Romans‬ ‭10:17‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.10.17.NASB1995Romans 10:17

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

30 Days of Thanks – D2

Nov2

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.
Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all, and in Your hand is power and might; and it lies in Your hand to make great and to strengthen everyone.
Now therefore, our God, we thank You, and praise Your glorious name.
1 Chronicles‬ ‭29:11‬-13 ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ch.29.11.NASB1995

‭‭‭‭Thankful for God – the Holy, glorious, powerful, victorious King of all!

🌹And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, “To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.”
Revelation‬ ‭5:13‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/rev.5.13.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

30 Days of Thanks – D1

Nov1

in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians‬ ‭5:18‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/1th.5.18.NASB1995

In EVERYTHING!!?!! Good days and BAD days? In trials and tribulations?
Yes, because we who are in Christ Jesus are being perfected each day. Our lives in tribulation; our hearts in the joy of the Lord! And yes because this is God’s will!

When things go awry – off the normal course, amiss – what is the typical response? Whatever the response I can guarantee that most responses will lack thankfulness.

What an awesome testimony to the confidence we have in God by being thankful. Giving thanks to our Lord God through it all. The good and the bad days of our lives.

This month of November I challenge you to make thankfulness your focus. Think of at least one thing each day of this month that you are thankful for. On November 30th look over your list and turn those thankful blessings into thankful praise to God!

🌹always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
Ephesians‬ ‭5:20‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.5.20.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

P.S. Feel free to share something you are thankful for so I may praise God with you.

Attitude of Thanksgiving

Oct31

Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving;
Colossians‬ ‭4:2‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.4.2.NASB1995

“Pray with an attitude of thanksgiving”. . .

I’d never really thought about an attitude of prayer, except maybe as solemn, with reverence and sometimes with awe. I personally, many times, approached God with an attitude of pleading, crying, selfishness, whining, complaining, self focused prayer. Like children approach their parents in conversation.

BUT. . . Wow!!!
First of all, in prayer, we approach the throne of grace. The throne where Almighty God sits. The God who created the entire universe, and we as well. There is nothing He can’t accomplish. God will answer our prayers. If God will answer our prayers, our prays should be prayed with an attitude of thanksgiving as if we had already received.

🌹“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?
Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!
Matthew‬ ‭7:7‭-‬11‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.7.7.NASB1995

🙏Pray with an attitude of thanksgiving.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Highway of Holiness

Oct30

A highway will be there, a roadway, And it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, But it will be for him who walks that way, And fools will not wander on it.
No lion will be there, Nor will any vicious beast go up on it; These will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk there,
And the ransomed of the Lord will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away. Isaiah 35:8-‬10‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.35.8.NASB1995

‭‭Are you walking the road of holiness?
It begins with acknowledgement and confession that you are a sinner. It continues by seeking God and walking the rest of your life in faith, trusting in the leadership and guidance of Jesus. Listening . . . for the voice of God.

Your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left.
Isaiah‬ ‭30:21‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.30.21.NASB1995

The Word of God, the Bible, and the Holy Spirit together are the voice of direction and understanding.

Good and upright is the Lord; Therefore He instructs sinners in the way.
He leads the humble in justice, And He teaches the humble His way.
Psalms‬ ‭25:8‭-‬9‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.25.8.NASB1995

‭‭So,
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.
For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Matthew‬ ‭7:13‭-‬14‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.7.13.NASB1995

The road of holiness is a safe road. God is your protector from the ravenous lions, wolves, and beasts of the world.

And in the end, the ransomed of the Lord will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away. FOREVER!!!

‭‭🌹In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.
Proverbs‬ ‭3:6‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.3.6.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Magnify the Lord!

Oct27

I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul will make its boast in the Lord; The humble will hear it and rejoice.
Psalms‬ ‭34:1‭-‬2 ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.34.1.NASB1995

🌹O magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.
Psalm 34:3 NASB 1995
https://bible.com/Bible/100/psa.34.4.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

The Vine Evaluation

Oct26

I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. John‬ ‭15:5‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.15.5.NASB1995

Self evaluation is a tough thing to do, but a very good thing for us to practice.  John 15:5 is a good tester of whether we have a relationship with God or whether we are just participating in religion.

To grow in our Christian walk we must know, and abide in Jesus. We need to be fed by the Word – Jesus – and grow in the power of the Holy Spirit. This is relational. We speak to Jesus through prayer. Jesus feeds us through His word. The Holy Spirit guides us on our walk with strength that we, the branch, received by our feeding through the Vine, Jesus.

Are you being fed? Fed correctly?
Whatever your source of feeding is will depict what you will produce.

‭‭Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”; and it was so.
Genesis‬ ‭1:11‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/gen.1.11.NASB1995

‭‭Being attached to the Vine we will produce Kingdom fruit.

because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth;
so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Colossians‬ ‭1:5‭-‬6‬, 10 ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.1.5.NASB1995

Are you attached to the vine? Are you in a relationship with Jesus or playing religion? Are you alive in Christ or dead? It’s either/or.
Are you producing fruit for the Kingdom of God?

‭‭And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,  teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Matthew‬ ‭28:18‭-‬20‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.28.18.NASB1995

Without God we cannot produce fruit!! This is why it is so important to abide in the Vine, Jesus. Without Jesus we can do nothing. NOTHING!! Our productivity is under the management of Christ.

I pray God will draw you to Himself as you evaluate your relationship to the Vine. God bless you.

Continually Seeking Him,

🌹Sharon

Attitude of Prayer

Oct25

[36]Then Gideon said to God, “If You will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken, [37] behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I will know that You will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken.” [38] And it was so. When he arose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece, he drained the dew from the fleece, a bowl full of water. [39] Then Gideon said to God, “Do not let Your anger burn against me that I may speak once more; please let me make a test once more with the fleece, let it now be dry only on the fleece, and let there be dew on all the ground.” [40] God did so that night; for it was dry only on the fleece, and dew was on all the ground. Judges‬ ‭6:36‭-‬40‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/ jdg.6.40.NASB1995‭‭

God had a plan for Gideon. Gideon knew what the plan was, but he wanted proof that God would do what He said He would. So he layed a fleece before the Lord. God kept His word. Gideon felt the need to test God again. God is faithful to see us through what He calls us to.

🙏 🙏 🙏


[10] She, greatly distressed, prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.
[12] Now it came about, as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli was watching her mouth. [13] As for Hannah, she was speaking in her heart, only her lips were moving, but her voice was not heard. So Eli thought she was drunk. [14] Then Eli said to her, “How long will you make yourself drunk? Put away your wine from you.” [15] But Hannah replied, “No, my lord, I am a woman oppressed in spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the Lord. [16] Do not consider your maidservant as a worthless woman, for I have spoken until now out of my great concern and provocation.” [17] Then Eli answered and said, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of Him.” [18] She said, “Let your maidservant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.
1 Samuel‬ ‭1:10‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/ 100/1sa.1.10.NASB1995

Hannah, a woman desiring the intervention of God in her life, went humbly before her God. She poured out her desire unto the Lord and left it at the throne of grace. She had no answer from God but left with joy in her heart.

🌹What is your attitude of prayer before God? Do you humbly pray the will of God and trust in His Sovereign will or do you continue to question His direction in your life? Do you leave your prayertime prayer FULL or prayer LESS?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon