Tag Archive | relationship

To Your Benefit

Feb26

How blessed are those who observe His testimonies, Who seek Him with all their heart.
Psalms 119:2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.2.NASB1995

Where do we seek God? God is found in His Word.
How do we find Him? By seeking Him with our whole heart.
What happens when we search God’s word with our whole heart? Blessing. The blessing comes in following in obedience and growing in a relationship with God.
Do you know your Creator?

Seek the Lord while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.
Isaiah 55:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.55.6.NASB1995

🌹Glory in His holy name; Let the heart of those who seek the Lord be glad. Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face continually.
Psalms 105:3-4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.105.3-4.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Valuable

Jan1

Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Matthew 10:29-30 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.10.29-30.NASB1995

Can you even imagine God, the Creator of all that exists, from the smallest molecule to the unending universe, knows the very number of hairs on your head? An intimate God who knows you, His creation, inside and out, and cares enough to desire your well-being from your past to your future, and your life right now. You are valuable to Him. Will you surrender your life to Jesus and let Him lead you? Will you open the Bible and learn to walk with Him? You are valuable to God.

My hope in this New Year is for you to have a new and refreshing relationship with the One who values you the most.

🌹Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
Luke 12:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.12.7.NASB1995

God Bless and Happy New Year.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

I Never Knew You

Oct14

How does one come to know another? I mean really know someone. Isn’t it spending time with them? Time spent learning what they like, dislike? What brings them joy, what makes them angry? “What makes them tick?” It’s being willing to also be known ourselves?

Do you know Jesus Christ? Do you take time to know His likes, dislikes; what brings Him joy, or disappointment? Do you spend time letting Jesus know what’s happening in your life? Your likes? Your dislikes? Your disappointments? Your joys?

Do you wonder how you can do this? Well, reading the Word of God and praying will help. It will open your eyes to know God. A real and personal relationship with your Creator.

Your life depends on knowing that you know, that you know . . . God.

🌹“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’ “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Matthew 7:21-24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.7.21-24.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

My Own Know Me

Jul2

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. All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and truth To those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.
Psalms 25:8-10 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.25.8-10.NASB1995

Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness.”
2 Timothy 2:19 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/2ti.2.19.NASB1995

The saddest, most devastating words a person who believes they are saved could hear are, “I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.”

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
Matthew 7:21-23 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.7.21-23.NASB1995

For Your name’s sake, O Lord, Pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
Psalms 25:11 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.25.11.NASB1995

Do you know, that you know, that you know Jesus personally?

🌹I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,
John 10:14 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.10.14.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Saved For a Relationship

May21

that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
Romans 10:9 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.10.9.NASB1995

Wedding day. Two excited, anxious hearts awaiting the “I Do’s”. The groom stands at the front of the church. Here comes the bride to join him. They confess their love to one another and at the end of the service they go live their own lives. . . Wait. . . Rewind.

Is this the way we are when it comes to the marriage of Christ and the church? Christ and a professing believer?

“I walked the aisle.” “I confessed that Jesus is Lord and that He was raised from the dead.” Now that I’m saved I’m insured . . . I mean assured a place in heaven, right?

At salvation our life, our walk with Christ, begins. It is an everyday, growing all the way, surrendered relationship with God. It is daily communication – prayer, Bible reading. It is confessing the work of Christ in our lives – testimonies. It is bringing others to the altar of confession for redemption.

It is living ‭
so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:10-11 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/php.2.10-11.NASB1995

‭Are you living a separate life from Jesus? Or are you walking with Him all the way to the promised land?

🌹I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,
John 10:14 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.10.14.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

30 Days of Thanks – D22

Nov22

O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.
You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Lord, You know it all. You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? Psalms‬ ‭139:1‭-‬7‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.139.1.NASB1995

I thank God that He knows me intimately.
He knows I love watching the sky, His creation.
God knows I don’t like driving at night so He gave me a beautiful sunset to guide me on a 5 hour trip home. The magnificence of the sunset lasted about 2 hours, every few minutes the patterns and colors changing. Colors ranging from calming grays to different hues of blues turning into a massive fiery sky to a low light white glow. The patterns in the sky made by the clouds were constantly changing, reshaping the sky into a fabulous wonder. The magnificent slendor displayed before me had me praising God, thanking Him for loving me so much He lit up the sky for me.

I made it home safely with a white light glow still glowing. God is amazing, and I am so blessed that He knows me and loves me enough to give a sunset to guide me safely home.
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🌹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


Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org





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

Speak Boldly

Jun14

And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.
Acts 4:31 NASB

Speaking the word of God with boldness.
Sharing the gospel without fear. How does this happen?
By prayer and the filling of the Holy Spirit. Time in the word of God and in prayer strengthens our knowledge of God’s word and our spiritual relationship with our Lord. We trust the Spirit to speak through us.
Who can you be praying for and sharing the gospel with?

🌹For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
Matthew 10:20 NASB
for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
Luke 12:12 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Love the Lord – Part 5

Feb27

and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ — Mark 12:30

When it comes to love I am weak. Loving is hard work. And when I try to grasp loving the Almighty God I am overwhelmed with my weak inability. But then I am encouraged in God’s word that reminds me it isn’t up to me. All that is required is surrender to God and allow His strength to give me the ability to love Him. The Lord will give us strength as we seek the Lord and His strength. As we seek Him through His word we draw closer to our Lord resulting in a deep, intimate love. (1 Chronicles 16:11; Psalm 29:11)
The strength to love the Lord is my song and I long to glorify Jesus Christ in all I say and in all I do. The strength of His love in me just overflows in all I say and do. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me through that wonderful relationship with Jesus. (Psalm 118:14; 1 Peter 4:11; Philippians 4:13)
So love Him with all your strength and seek Him continuously to ensure you have the strength to love Him.
Continually seeking Him,

Sharon

1 Chronicles 16:11 Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face continually.
Psalm 29:11 The Lord will give strength to His people; The Lord will bless His people with peace.
Psalm 118:14 The Lord is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.
1 Peter 4:11 Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

Thankful For . . . Day 2

Nov22

He leads the humble (afflicted) in justice, And He teaches the humble (afflicted) His way.
Psalms 25:9 NASB

🌹God, who restores my soul and guides me in the paths of righteousness for Your name’s sake; I thank You for You are my rock and my fortress! For Your name’s sake lead me and guide me. Teach me Your way, O Lord, And lead me in a level path. Thank You for the privilege to walk in You, serve You and know You intimately. To Your glory I pray in Jesus name, amen.
Psalms 23:3/Psalms 31:3/Psalms 27:11 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon