Tag Archive | throne

Son of The Most High

Dec3

In yesterday’s devotion Mary was told by an angel that God had chosen her for a special assignment (blessing). She would be the mother of Jesus.

He (Jesus) will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.”

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?”
Luke 1:32-34 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.1.32-34.NASB1995

I found this a little amusing but so typical of the lives we live. Here is Mary being told that she will bear the King of kings; the Lord of Lords; the Son of the Most High and she says,  “How can this be, since I am a virgin?” Self focused. Self concerned.
Have you been there? I have. God calls us to something and we cannot fathom the calling so we look inward at ourselves instead of what an amazing God we have who can do anything through us. Just look at what he did through Mary.

This Christmas season let us turn our focus to the One who came to save. The One who is worthy of our utmost reverence and adoration. Jesus.

🌹Glory to His name.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Where Do We Seek Answers?

Oct23

“Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it, the Lord is His name, ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
Jeremiah 33:2-3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.33.2-3.NASB1995

Where is your first stop when you are seeking answers?

Is it the throne of grace where ‘THE GOD’ who has all the answers we could ever seek?

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:15-16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.4.15-16.NASB1995

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.29.13.NASB1995

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

🌹Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
Psalms 45:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.45.6.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

God Reigns

Aug22

O clap your hands, all peoples; Shout to God with the voice of joy.
Sing praises to God, sing praises; Sing praises to our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with a skillful psalm.
Psalms 47:1, 6-7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.47.1-7.NASB1995

🌹God reigns over the nations, God sits on His holy throne. 🙌
Psalms 47:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.47.8.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Judgment – Part 2

Jul16

But the Lord abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment, And He will judge the world in righteousness; He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity.
Psalms 9:7-8 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.9.7-8.NASB1995

Are you among the sheep or the goats?

“But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.
Matthew 25:31-33 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.25.31-33.NASB1995

When Jesus comes will you hear Him say, “Come” or “Depart”?

“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Matthew 25:34 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.25.34.NASB1995

“Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Matthew 25:41, 46 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.25.41-46.NASB1995

Recommended reading Matthew 25

🌹And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, 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 9:27-28 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.9.27-28.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Judgment – Part 1

Jul15

But the Lord abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment,
Psalms 9:7 NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.9.7.NASB1995

which He will bring about at the proper time—He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
1 Timothy 6:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ti.6.15.NASB1995

This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
John 3:19 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.3.19.NASB1995

Jesus is the only way through which someone is saved from judgment.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
John 5:24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.5.24.NASB1995

🌹He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.”
Revelation 17:14b NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rev.17.14.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

God is Calling

Feb19

You turn things around! Shall the potter be considered as equal with the clay, That what is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”; Or what is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?
Isaiah‬ ‭29:16‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.29.16.NASB1995‭‭

The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, And His sovereignty rules over all.
Psalms‬ ‭103:19‬ ‭NASB1995‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.103.19.NASB1995

Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster And does not retract His words, But will arise against the house of evildoers And against the help of the workers of iniquity.
Isaiah‬ ‭31:2‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.31.2.NASB1995

God, the Creator of all mankind, who has established His throne in the heavens, and whose sovereignty rules over all, is calling you to repent, turn to Jesus and follow in His obedient truth. The time has come to turn away from evil and follow God.

‭‭🌹Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,
Acts‬ ‭17:30‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/act.17.30.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

The Lord God Reigns

Sep7

He subdues peoples under us And nations under our feet.
Psalm 47:3 NASB
God reigns over the nations, God sits (has taken His seat) on His holy throne.
Psalm 47:8 NASB

For the kingdom is the Lord’s And He rules over the nations.
Psalms 22:28 NASB

The God who executes vengeance for me, And subdues peoples under me.
Psalms 18:47 NASB

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Lovingkindness and truth go before You.
Psalms 89:14 NASB

The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty; The Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.
Psalms 93:1 NASB

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.”
Psalms 96:10 NASB

My lovingkindness and my fortress,
My stronghold and my deliverer,
My shield and He in whom I take refuge,
Who subdues my people (peoples) under me. To You, my God, I bow in reverence and praise Your name. Amen.
Psalms 144:2 NASB

🌹Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; And let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.”
1 Chronicles 16:31 NASB

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Before Creation

Jul16

Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
John 17:5 NASB

Jesus knew His mission before He ever left His heavenly throne, yet He came anyway. He came for the Father, in obedience. He came for you and me out of His abundant love. Jesus came to reconcile the Father to His creation. He came that we may know His glory and share in it.

The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
John 17:22‭, ‬24 NASB

Remembering the glory with the Father that was before creation began. Before Jesus would leave heaven and come to earth. That is our hope, that we may know and share in the glory that Jesus knew before He left His place with the Father.

🌹What a sacrifice. What abundant love. What a hope we have in Jesus. Are you living/walking in His glory now?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Joy

Aug27

You, O Lord, rule forever; Your throne is from generation to generation. Lamentations 5:19 NASB

Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of joy above Your fellows.
Psalms 45:6‭-‬7 NASB

Are you anointed with the oil of joy?

There is much joy to be found in knowing God is eternally seated on His throne. Our God who rules in righteousness and justice and love.

On awakening this morning and checking on the hurricane hitting the Louisiana and Texas coast, I read “this could have been so much worse”. Were you praying for the people in the path of this storm? God answered prayer. It may not have been the way we wanted but it was better than expected. Did you thank Him for His mercy in this situation?

As numbers seem to be rising in Covid cases, are you turning to, relying on the One who sits upon the eternal throne? God has this. Are you abiding in His strong tower? Is He your refuge?

But You, O Lord, abide forever, And Your name to all generations.
Psalms 102:12 NASB

God is your only hope in a world seeking their own way, truth and life. Jesus is the only way, truth and life and no one comes to the throne of the Father but by Him. Can you rejoice in that? Can you enter into the Holy of holies and bow before the throne? If not it is time to bow down in surrender to God and His will. That is where real joy is found even when everything around you is falling down.

“But You are the same, And Your years will not come to an end.
Psalms 102:27 NASB

Hallelujah!

🌹The joy of the Lord is our strength.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon

Holy, Holy, Holy

Jul7

The Lord reigns, let the peoples tremble; He is enthroned above the cherubim, let the earth shake! The Lord is great in Zion, And He is exalted above all the peoples. Let them praise Your great and awesome name; Holy is He. Exalt the Lord our God And worship at His footstool; Holy is He. Exalt the Lord our God And worship at His holy hill, For holy is the Lord our God. Psalms 99:1‭-‬3‭, ‬5‭, ‬9 NASB

God reigns. He is on His throne. He is exalted above all the peoples whether we believe or acknowledge it as so.

Reality check. God is holy, whether we believe it or not.

What should be our response to these facts?

Let us praise His great and awesome name.
Exalt the Lord our God and worship Him.

FOR HE IS HOLY!!

🌹How will you respond to God’s holiness today?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon