Tag Archive | salvation

Confident Assurance

Oct18

“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.
Matthew‬ ‭7:21‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.7.21.NASB1995

And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’ Matthew‬ ‭7:23‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.7.23.NASB1995

How content are you that if you died tonight you would be ushered into the presence of God and live with Him eternally?

Are you hanging your assurance on that walk down the aisle? Or on a prayer recited? Or are you clinging to Jesus, your Savior; following in His footsteps, being obedient to the Word of God and doing His will?

Only you and God can answer that question. I pray you are confident of your salvation. Seek God. Read His word. Pray.

🌹Make sure you know that you know that you know that you know!

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Turn & Be Saved

Oct16

The Lord has made known His salvation; He has revealed His righteousness in the sight of the nations.
Psalms‬ ‭98:2‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.98.2.NASB1995

The Lord has bared His holy arm In the sight of all the nations, That all the ends of the earth may see The salvation of our God.
Isaiah‬ ‭52:10‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.52.10.NASB1995

whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;
Romans‬ ‭3:25‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.3.25.NASB1995
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🌹Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.
Isaiah‬ ‭45:22‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.45.22.NASB1995

‭‭Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Fearless Trust

Oct4

The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense (refuge) of my life; Whom shall I dread?
Psalms 27:1 NASB

For You light my lamp; The Lord my God illumines my darkness.
Psalms 18:28 NASB

On God my salvation and my glory rest; The rock of my strength, my refuge is in God.
Psalms 62:7 NASB

The Lord is their strength, And He is a saving defense to His anointed.
Psalms 28:8 NASB

If God has brought us to His glorious light illuminating our darkness and given us salvation then whom shall we fear?
He is our rock and our refuge. Whom then shall we dread?

🌹I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving. That which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation is from the Lord.”
Jonah 2:9 NASB

🌹The Lord is for me; I will not fear; What can man do to me?
Psalms 118:6 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Just the Beginning

Sep27

“Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted? When you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?
Zechariah 7:5‭-‬6 NASB

🌹Are we about God in our Christian walk or ourselves? Salvation isn’t the end game but just the beginning.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Righteous Garment

Sep26

Naked before the Lord God I stand. Hide my nakedness in Your robe of righteousness I ask. Clothe me and shine through me as Your vessel of righteousness to the world.

🌹I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 61:10 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

The Potter-Day 1

Sep18

A lump of clay. Just a blob until it is placed in the hands of a potter.

A new born baby is similar to a lump of clay. They are helpless without the care of a parent. This helpless baby, under the care of loving parents will learn to walk, talk, dress themselves, etc.

Aren’t parents a type of potter, transforming this baby, lump of clay, into someone beautiful and special?

🌹Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6 NASB

like newborn babies, long for the (unadulterated) pure (spritual) milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in (up to salvation) respect to salvation,
1 Peter 2:2 NASB

We all were a lump of clay in the physical realm. But what about the spiritual realm?
Have you placed your life in the Potter’s hands? Are you still a lump of clay in need of salvation? Are you in the word, being transformed by the Potter into a useful vessel?

Be sure to stop by tomorrow for the transformation of clay in the Potter’s hands.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Are You Sealed?

Sep13

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 NASB

“The Lord knows those who are His.“
Aren’t those some beautiful words? As I was reading this yesterday those words just jumped off the page. I am known by the the good Shepherd! I am known by the Savior of the world! I am known by the King of kings. I am known by the Lord of lords. I am known by the Creator of all peoples and things. I am so blessed to know the God who knows me. He has revealed His great love for me and I shall love Him forever!

but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.
1 Corinthians 8:3 NASB

Do you know the One who loves you like no other and knows you? I hope so. There is no better relationship you can have than knowing the one and only true, living God! Seek and you will find.

In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Ephesians 1:13 NASB

🌹I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,
John 10:14 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

The Lord Most High

Sep8

He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.
Psalm 47:4 NASB
The princes (nobles) of the people have assembled themselves as the people of the God of Abraham, For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.
Psalms 47:9 NASB

Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One, To the despised One, To the One abhorred by the nation, To the Servant of rulers, “Kings will see and arise, Princes will also bow down, Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”
Isaiah 49:7 NASB

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:3‭-‬5 NASB

Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.
Isaiah 49:23d NASB

Indeed, none of those who wait for You will be ashamed; Those who deal treacherously without cause will be ashamed.
Psalms 25:3 NASB

🌹For You are the Lord Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.
Psalms 97:9 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Grow Up in The Word

Jul31

New to salvation? Don’t stop there.

like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
1 Peter 2:2 NASB

God has a plan to grow you called sanctification. Are you longing for the pure milk of the word? As babies progress from milk to solids, the newborn Christian grows from salvation to righteous living.

For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
Hebrews 5:13‭-‬14 NASB

Are you practicing what you are reading in God’s word?

With faithful reading and application of God’s word comes blessing and a thankful heart to God.

How blessed are those who observe His testimonies, Who seek Him with all their heart.
I shall give thanks to You with uprightness of heart, When I learn Your righteous judgments.
Psalms 119:2‭, ‬7 NASB

Will you make the word of God a habit until it becomes your treasure?

🌹Your word I have treasured in my heart, That I may not sin against You.
I will meditate on Your precepts And regard Your ways. I shall delight in Your statutes; I shall not forget Your word.
Psalms 119:11‭, ‬15‭-‬16 NASB

AMEN.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Proclaim His Salvation

Jul28

The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God of my salvation,
Psalms 18:46 NASB

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;
Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness. /And my tongue shall declare Your righteousness And Your praise all day long./
My mouth shall tell of Your  righteousness And of Your salvation all day long;
Psalm 51:14/Psalm 35:28/Psalm 71:15a NASB

When you experience the real cost of your salvation, it is hard to NOT to sing, declare, tell of the righteousness of Jesus and of His salvation.

🌹As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.
Job 19:25 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon