Tag Archive | God

Worth The Wait

Sep26

And it will be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited; Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
Isaiah 25:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.25.9.NASB1995

Are you anticipating, looking forward to, the day when our faith will be made sight? ¹When we will see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God!

🌹O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
Psalms 95:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.95.1.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

¹(Isaiah 35:2)

To Whom Do I Turn?

Sep25

Living life is not always easy. Like when the bottom falls out of your perfectly planned day. The times when your kids are too quiet and you find they have totally redecorated your sofa with markers and glued on flowers. Or maybe the stress of having enough income to cover this month’s bills. The news that there is a layoff coming to your workplace. Where do you go? What do you do?

In my distress I called upon the Lord, And cried to my God for help; He heard my voice out of His temple, And my cry for help before Him came into His ears.
Psalms 18:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.18.6.NASB1995

In my trouble I cried to the Lord, And He answered me.
Psalms 120:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.120.1.NASB1995

🌹Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.”
Psalms 50:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.50.15.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

Why Mercy

Sep22

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
Luke 6:36 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.6.36.NASB1995

Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
Ephesians 4:32 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.4.32.NASB1995

“In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:12 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.7.12.NASB1995

🌹and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
Ephesians 5:2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.5.2.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Salvation Praise

Sep19

Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.3.20-21.NASB1995

God is to us a God of deliverances; And to God the Lord belong escapes from death.
Psalms 68:20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.68.20.NASB1995

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation. Selah.
Psalms 68:19 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.68.19.NASB1995

The Lord is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.
Psalms 118:14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.118.14.NASB1995

🌹I shall give thanks to You, for You have answered me, And You have become my salvation.
Psalms 118:21 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.118.21.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Imitator of God

Sep18

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;
Ephesians 5:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.5.1.NASB1995

You shall be holy, for the Lord God is holy. Leviticus 19:2 NASB1995¹
Be blameless – complete, perfect, or having integrity – before the Lord. Deuteronomy 18:13 NASB1995²
Cleanse yourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 7:1 NASB1995³

Let us strive to be holy before God as Jesus has demonstrated. Wholly committed to His way, His truth, His will.

Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 5:48 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.5.48.NASB1995

As Paul said,
🌹Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:12 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/php.3.12.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

¹ https://bible.com/bible/100/lev.19.2.NASB1995
² https://bible.com/bible/100/deu.18.13.NASB1995
³ https://bible.com/bible/100/2Co.7.1.NASB1995

Wisdom unto Salvation

Sep17

For wisdom is protection just as money is protection, But the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the lives of its possessors.
Ecclesiastes 7:12 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/ecc.7.12.NASB1995

Both wisdom and money can protect  you in life but you can’t buy yourself into eternal life. Wisdom leads you to real life, salvation found in Jesus Christ.

and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ti.3.15.NASB1995

She (wisdom) is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, And happy are all who hold her fast.
Proverbs 3:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.3.18.NASB1995

🌹For he who finds me (wisdom) finds life And obtains favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 8:35 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.8.35.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Favorite Verse

Sep16

Do you have a special verse that speaks to you? A verse that may encourage you, give you relief, peace; strengthens you or guides you?

I treasure all of God’s word but I have a verse that stands out in my life.  Moses is a favorite of mine. He was used by God.  He knew God and God knew him. The verse I want to share today is:

Then Moses said, “I pray You, show me Your glory!”
Exodus 33:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/exo.33.18.NASB1995

I often ask God to show me His glory and He has revealed it to me. My mind and eyes, over the years have been trained, I believe, to see God’s glory as I walk with Him in life. I see His glory in the magnificence of a sunset or sunrise. I hear His glory in the laughter of a giggling child. God reveals His glory in an answered prayer, a new believer, scripture that comes at just the right time, from a friend or reading it somewhere, and so many other ways. I watch closely to see God’s glory.

I would love to be encouraged by your verse or verses if you are willing to share it and how it speaks to you.

🌹Jesus *said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
John 11:40 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.11.40.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

God Alone, No Other

Sep15

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 9:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/neh.9.6.NASB1995

For by Him (Jesus) 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 1:16-18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.1.16-18.NASB1995

Is God first place in your life? In your decisions, your choices, your routines, your everything?

🌹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