Tag Archive | faith

Walk In The Spirit – Joy (11)

Feb4

But the fruit of the Spirit is joy
Galatians 5:22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.5.22.NASB1995

It is not always easy being joyful during times of discipline and growing in our faith.
When the trials of life come.
The struggles. Hardship. Facing the unknown. God is there . . .

All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
Hebrews 12:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.12.11.NASB1995

🌹Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
James 1:2-3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.1.2-3.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Walk In The Spirit – Joy (8)

Jan30

But the fruit of the Spirit is joy
Galatians 5:22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.5.22.NASB1995

O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
Psalms 95:1-2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.95.1-2.NASB1995

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.12.2.NASB1995

For the joy set before Him . . . For our benefit. His life to save ours. He is the Victor over death! He is the Rock of our salvation!

🌹Sing for joy in the Lord, O you righteous ones; Praise is becoming to the upright.
Psalms 33:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.33.1.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Living By Faith

Jan19

What does it look like if I am crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me?

I live by faith. The one who is righteous by faith shall live.
Galatians 1:17; Romans 3:11

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.11.1.NASB1995

And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
Hebrews 11:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.11.6.NASB1995

🌹For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?
Romans 8:24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.8.24.NASB1995

How am I living differently than the world because of my faith in Jesus Christ who lives in me?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Portrait 4, A Crucified Life

Jan13

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Galatians 2:20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.2.20.NASB1995

Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 5:24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.5.24.NASB1995

knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
for he who has died is freed (acquitted) from sin.
Romans 6:6-7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.6.6-7.NASB1995

If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Romans 8:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.8.10.NASB1995

For the death that He (Jesus) died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:10-11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.6.10-11.NASB1995

Are you alive and living in Christ?

Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.
John 15:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.15.9.NASB1995

Jesus’s prayer for His disciples:
🙏“O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
John 17:25-26 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.17.25-26.NASB1995

🙏I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.
John 17:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.17.23.NASB1995

🌹Am I living a crucified life in Christ?

Portrait #1 Christ in You
Portrait #2 Walk in Him
Portrait #3 Take Up Your Cross-Self Denial
Portrait #4 A Crucified Life

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Christ in You & Me

Oct28

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?
2 Corinthians 13:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.13.5.NASB1995

Christ in you. Christ in me.
Do we take advantage of this treasure living in us? Jesus Christ moving in us to sanctify, strengthen our faith, molding us into His image for His glory and His purpose? Do we walk daily in His way? In His truth? Is our life surrendered, sacrificed for His purpose?

Salvation, believing faith in Jesus Christ, is so much more than saying a prayer. It is a call to sacrifice our life for His purpose.

🌹And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
Mark 8:34 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mrk.8.34.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

A Hopeful Faith

Oct9

Now faith is the assurance (substance) of things hoped for (expected), the conviction (evidence) of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.11.1.NASB1995

As believers in Jesus Christ, through His gift of salvation, we become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end. Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.
In hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? So let us with perseverance wait eagerly as we hope for what we do not see. Let’s look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Hebrews 3:14/Hebrews 3:6/Romans 8:24/Romans 8:25/2 Corinthians 4:18 NASB1995

🌹For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 5:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.5.1.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

¹ https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.3.14.NASB1995

² https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.3.6.NASB1995

³ https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.8.24.NASB1995

⁴ https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.8.25.NASB1995
⁵ https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.4.18.NASB1995

Living For Jesus

Sep29

I love Jesus
Yes, I do.
I love Jesus
Do you too?
I love Him because
He first loved me.
l choose to live for
Jesus who died for me.
Chosen of God for a purpose to fulfill
Called to glorify Him for His will!

Do you know Jesus?

We love, because He first loved us.
1 John 4:19 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.4.19.NASB1995

and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.5.15.NASB1995

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:28 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.8.28.NASB1995

🌹I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Galatians 2:20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.2.20.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Mercy Toward Doubters

Sep24

And have mercy on some, who are doubting;
Jude 1:22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jud.1.22.NASB1995

Everyone deals with doubt at one time or another, even believers who walk with Jesus. Take Peter for example, who was a disciple of Christ at the time Jesus walked on the sea. Peter got out of the boat to walk to Jesus. Peter’s focus was on Jesus until the wind picked up and he became frightened. Jesus, of course, reached out to save him and spoke these words, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?

Peter who stepped out in faith, was a disciple of our Lord, and yet he doubted Jesus.
Matthew 14:28-33

There are people in our churches today who doubt. Can we extend mercy to them and lead them to the assurance we have in our future because of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior?

They are lacking assurance of faith, living in worry for the day, focused on everyday life instead of Jesus and eternity.

🌹Let us show mercy to those who attend church, yet doubt. Let us extend mercy to all who doubt.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Dwell in The Love of God

Sep23

But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Jude 1:20-21 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jud.1.20-21.NASB1995

Contend earnestly for the faith. Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, 
having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith. Just as you were instructed, encourage one another and build up one another, overflowing with gratitude. With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints while anxiously looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus.
Jude 1:3/1 Timothy 6:12/Colossians 2:7/1 Thessalonians 5:11/Ephesians 6:18/Titus 2:13 NASB1995 

🌹so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
Hebrews 9:28 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.9.28.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Prayer Offered in Faith -1

Sep4

Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders (Gr. ekklesia – called out one) of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.
James 5:14-15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.5.14-15.NASB1995

Anointing with oil was common in the Old Testament and a continued custom in Jesus’ day, as we can read in Mark 6. Jesus sends His disciples out by two and they were anointing many sick people and healing them.

The emphasis in this passage of James is the power of prayer offered in faith. The prayer of faith will save. The Lord will lift them up and forget their sin. I can’t help but think the source of sin is the sickness.

By faithful believing prayer the sick are healed, brought to salvation. The salvation that begins with prayer and extends into eternity.

Thank God for the power of prayer that saves lives. Who are you praying for?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon 🌹
https://indasharonjesus.org