1 John 4:18

Sep27

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
1 John 4:18 NASB

🌹Magnificent, glorious God worthy of all praise and glory; I enter Your presence with a grateful heart. Your perfect love casts out fear. I did not receive a spirit of slavery leading to fear but a spirit of adoption as Your child by which I cry out, “Abba! Father!” Holy Spirit of God I pray that I may serve, not with a spirit of timidity, which has not been given by You, but with power and love and discipline. Perfect me in Your love, Lord God for Your glory and will be done.  Amen.
Romans 8:15/2 Timothy 1:7 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

1 John 4:16-17

Sep26

We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for (in) us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.
1 John 4:16‭-‬17 NASB

Jesus, Holy One of God, through Your love in me, I have come to know and believe the love You have for me. God, You are love. My desire is to abide in You, so I ask for wisdom in the keeping of Your word, wherein Your love is truly perfected. With Your perfect love abiding in me I pray that I may have confidence in the day of judgment. I pray my actions reflect Your abiding love in me as I strive to walk in the same manner as Jesus walked. Thank You Father God for Your Son Jesus and the glory given Him. Through Jesus Your glory is given to Your people that they may be one, just as You and Your Son are one. May Your abiding love reflect through me to a world in need of the Light of Jesus Christ to Your perfect glory in whose name I pray, amen.
John 6:69/1 John 2:5/John 17:22/1 John 2:6 NASB

🌹Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:15 NASB

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon

1 John 4:13-15

Sep23

By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:13‭-‬15 NASB

How awesome a God You are! Blessing me with Your Holy Spirit! Thank You, God, for the assurance of knowing You abide in me because of Your awesome gift of the Holy Spirit. I am no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit. I belong to You, Lord God!!!
Under the power of the Holy Spirit I will testify and proclaim eternal life through Jesus Christ who was with the Father and was being manifested to us, the Savior of the world. For You, Father, did not send Your Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. “The one who confesses the Son has the Father also”. For this I am eternally grateful, God. Thank You.
I confess with my mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in my heart that You, almighty God raised Him from the dead! Thank You, Father, for my salvation. In the name of my Redeemer I pray, amen.
Romans 8:9/1 John 1:2/John 3:17/1 John 2:23/Romans 10:9 NASB

🌹Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John 5:5 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

1 John 4:11-12

Sep22

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:11‭-‬12 NASB

No one has ever seen You, God, except Your Son, the only begotten God. Jesus has explained You God. And You abide in Your children who love one another. Lord, perfect Your love in me. Let others see Jesus in me and help me to love as You love, God.
My God, You are the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. You alone possess immortality and dwell in unapproachable light. To You be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.
John 1:18/1 Timothy 6:15‭-‬16 NASB

Have you ever looked at someone and just knew there was something different about them? Almost as if they glowed. Then you come to find out they are a child of God? I have experienced and heard of multiple experiences like this from others. Could this be seeing God abiding in others?

🌹By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 13:35 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

1 John 4:9-10

Sep21

By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:9-10 NASB

Father, God of extravagant love that exceeds the bounds of custom. This love manifested in me through Your Son, the only one of His kind, I will practice along with truth so that Your works might be displayed in me. I live, truly live because I am saved by Jesus. I have set my seal to this, that God is true! God, You demonstrated Your love for me, in that while I was a sinner, Jesus Christ died for me. I also exult in You, Father through my Lord Jesus, through whom I have received reconciliation! Jesus Himself is the satisfaction for my sin. Thank You, God, for Your great love for me that now dwells in me through Jesus. Jesus, I pray You will manifest Yourself in me so I may display Your attributes and bring glory to Your name. And . . . speak truth so others may come to salvation in You, Jesus. In Your name I pray, amen.
John 9:3/John 3:21,33/Romans 5:8,10/1 John 2:2 NASB

🌹And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
1 John 5:11‭-‬12 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

1 John 4:7-8

Sep20

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:7‭-‬8 NASB

🌹God, how wonderful it is to know You! You are Creator of all, all things came into being through You, and apart from You nothing came into being that has come into being. You are the King of kings and the Lord of lords. God You are love and all who know You are born of You. Without You we are unable to love because love is from You. With Your love in me I am able to love others just as You have instructed. How wonderful to know that if I or anyone loves You, God, we are known by You. All praise and glory to Your name for You God are love. Thank You for loving me. Amen.
1 John 3:11/John 1:3/1 Corinthians 8:3 NASB

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

1 John 4:4-6

Sep19

You are from God, little children, and have overcome them (spirit of the antichrist); because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:4‭-‬6 NASB

🌹God of all knowledge and wisdom, I come before You seeking knowledge and understanding of Your ways as I walk in this world. Abiding in You, I know that I can discern the spirit of truth from the spirit of error because greater are You who is in me than he who is in the world. I pray, Lord God, that I will always proclaim Your truth to others in a spirit of truth. I pray for those who know You Lord God to listen carefully to You so they can discern the spirit of truth from the spirit of error. Thank You God for loving and instructing Your children. In Jesus name I pray, amen. 

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

1 John 4:2-3

Sep16

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
1 John 4:2‭-‬3 NASB

I confess that Jesus, the Son of God, has come in the flesh from You God my Father. His life was manifested to us by the Father and seen. His disciples and others throughout generations have testified and proclaimed, even today, the eternal life that comes through Jesus Christ. Jesus, You are the Word become flesh, who dwelt among us, and we saw Your glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. Thank You for making it known, through the Word, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed”; and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. The one who does not confess Jesus is not from God. There is no humbleness in the spirit that opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple (church) of God, displaying himself as being God. Protect me, Your people, Your church from those who have the “spirit of the antichrist”. Lord I pray You help us to recognize them by our knowing and remembering Your teachings. In Jesus, the Living Truth, I ask and pray. Amen.
1 John 1:2/John 1:14/1 Corinthians 12:3/
2 Thessalonians 2:4 NASB

🌹Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 2:22 NASB

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

1 John 4:1

Sep15

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1 NASB

🌹The only God of absolute truth I praise You for Your holy, perfect Word. By it I learn to do what is good so as not to imitate what is evil. In this, show me how to recognize spirits of the false prophets and those who practice evil. I pray for discernment when it comes to those who are under the influence of the evil one but calling themselves prophets and prophesying in Your name God. By Your word and Holy Spirit I pray I do not fall for their false visions, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds. And may I never imitate the false prophets and bring dishonor to Your holy name. There is only one I desire to imitate and that is my Savior and LORD, Jesus Christ!! Praise His holy, blessed, perfect name, amen! 3 John 1:11/Jeremiah 14:14 NASB

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon 

1 John 3:23-24

Sep14

This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. 1 John 3:23‭-‬24 NASB

God, Father, You have commanded me to believe in Your Son, Jesus Christ. It is the true work of Yours, Father, that I believe in Jesus whom You sent. It is You who sent the true bread out of heaven. I am gratefully blessed to be called Your child, God, for I believe in the name of Jesus! You, Lord, have commanded to love one another, even as You have loved. By the power of the Holy Spirit abiding in me others will know I am Your disciple by the love I have for others. Holy Spirit teach me as I read the Word. Hide it in my heart so the love of God will truly be perfected in me. I pray I walk in the same manner as Jesus walked with full assurance that I am abiding in Him. Thank You, God, for Your Holy Spirit. John 6:29/John 6:32/John 1:12/John 13:34-35/1 John 2:5-6 NASB

🌹that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. John 14:17 NASB

Continually Seeking Him, 

Sharon