Tag Archive | life

Born of God

Oct22

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him.
1 John 5:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.5.1.NASB1995

All things have come into being through Christ and apart from him, nothing came into being. By believing in Jesus, we are born of God. In Jesus is life. He is the Light of Mankind. Those who follow Him will not walk in darkness, but will have the Light of life.
John 1:3/John 1:4/John 8:12 NASB1995

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.
John 8:42 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.8.42.NASB1995

🌹but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.
1 John 2:5-6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.2.5-6.NASB1995

Are you born of and walking in Christ?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Prioritizing God

Oct7

I have set the Lord continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Psalms 16:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.16.8.NASB1995

Where have you set God in your life? Is He a continuous thought on your mind? Is King Jesus sitting on the throne of your heart? Are you surrendering to His rule? Are you assured, not shaken, as David was?

Jesus is calling.

When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, O Lord, I shall seek.”
Psalms 27:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.27.8.NASB1995

Can you truthfully say,

. . . I am continually with You; You have taken hold of my right hand.
Psalms 73:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.73.23.NASB1995

I hope you know Jesus and can trustingly say,

Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will dwell securely.
Psalms 16:9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.16.9.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

🌹Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

A Disciple of Jesus

Oct1

“Enter through the narrow gate; . . .
Matthew 7:13a NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.7.13.NASB1995

Who is able to enter and what does that look like?

• Those who avoid temptation. Matthew 6:13
• To be delivered from evil (or the evil one). Matthew 6:13*
*Jesus prayed to the Father that He keep His disciples from the evil one. John 17:15
• Forgiving others as God has forgiven you. Matthew 6:15
• Being a devoted servant of God. Matthew 6:24
• Trusting God with your needs so you can serve Him. Matthew 6:25
• Seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Matthew 6:33

A difficult, or should I say, an impossible list to uphold without a relationship with Jesus Christ.

🌹For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Matthew 7:14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.7.14.NASB1995

🙏 Lord, I pray today for the one who is struggling in their walk. God, open their eyes to their need of a personal, intimate, daily walk on the narrow path so that one day they will see the narrow gate that leads to eternity with You. Help them in their struggles and bring along side others who will help strengthen and navigate the straight and narrow way to You. In the name of Jesus and for His glory, amen.

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

Praise God For Life

Aug8

I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
Psalms 139:14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.139.14.NASB1995

What a wonder the human body is.
Is your life a life of praise for the gift you are?

🌹Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done, And Your thoughts toward us; There is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, They would be too numerous to count.
Psalms 40:5 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.40.5.NASB1995

How blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust, And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
Psalms 40:4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.40.4.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Fiery Tongue Defiles

Jul16

See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!
And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.
James 3:5b-6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.3.5-6.NASB1995

But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment.
Matthew 12:36 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.12.36.NASB1995

🌹For lack of wood the fire goes out, And where there is no whisperer, contention quiets down.¹
Proverbs 26:20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.26.20.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

¹Recommended reading: Proverbs 26:21-28

Consider It ALL Joy?!

Jun4

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

How can God expect joy when you get a phone call at work stating your house is on fire five days before Christmas? How can your heart be joyous when a week later you lose your job? How can He expect it? Because He is God. This unexpected trial brought a closer walk with God. It grew my dependence upon Him. I learned to trust God with my life. With endurance, steadfastness, I know I lack nothing in my God.

And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
James 1:4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.1.4.NASB1995

🌹By your endurance you will gain your lives.
Luke 21:19 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.21.19.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Remember: Your Choice

May28

Free will:
I either choose to do my will or God’s will.
I choose to obey or disobey commandments.
I choose to follow God’s way or my way.
I choose to believe God’s truth or the world’s (my own self made) truth.
I choose to live for Jesus or for myself.
I choose God’s will or my will.

In the Garden, Jesus chose the Father’s will,

saying, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.”
Luke 22:42 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.22.42.NASB1995

Walking with Jesus is letting Him lead. It’s letting God show us the way so we may fulfill His purpose in us and through us. Submission to His will is allowing us to partake in His grand plan for mankind . . . life, peace, eternal blessings, love and joy. It’s to live eternally with no sin, no pain, no anguish, no fighting, no war, etc.

Your choice.
A lifetime of anguish and pain now – doing God’s will and a peaceful, perfect eternity with no anguish;
OR
Your will now that continues the anguish of sin for eternity.

Will you let God have His way in you?

for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
Philippians 2:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/php.2.13.NASB1995

Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
John 4:34 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.4.34.NASB1995

🌹Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 13:20-21 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.13.20-21.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Walking in The Light of Life

May2

In God, whose word I praise,
In the Lord, whose word I praise,
In God I have put my trust (trust without fear),
I shall not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

For You have delivered my soul from death,
Indeed my feet from stumbling,
So that I may walk before God
In the light of the living (life).
Psalms 56:10-11, 13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.56.10-13.NASB1995

🌹Return to your rest, O my soul, For the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. For You have rescued my soul from death, My eyes from tears, My feet from stumbling. I shall walk before the Lord In the land of the living.
Psalms 116:7-9 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.116.7-9.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

To Live = Christ

Apr28

As I share some of my takeaways from the Priority Conference I attended this past weekend, I hope they will resonate with you also.

First Speaker:

Unity of the Church demonstrates the unity of Christ and the Father and us.

From my pride to pride in Christ.

– Who’s glory do I seek?
– Who’s “well done” am I looking for?
– Am I more concerned about being right or about representing truth, being Christ-like?
– Will the last argument I have matter when I stand before God? Does it make a difference in eternity?

🌹For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:21 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/php.1.21.NASB1995

To live is Christ, to die is gain.
To live = Christ!

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org