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This time of year is a reminder of a fresh start and new beginnings. Part of this new beginning is understanding God's grace. Even when we had fallen short, God chose to cherish us rather than reject us.
In the Bible the words cherish, and understanding are often linked together and something God has taught me is that we must understand that he cherishes us as the apple of his eye. Recently I came across something that said the words "reject," and "cherish," are antonyms or opposites. To reject something is the opposite of cherishing. God chose to cherish us rather than reject us. It's this grace that changes our hearts and empowers us to do the same for other people.
Today's communion is a time of gratitude that God has chosen to continually cherish us rather than reject us and we are asking Him to help us understand this and let it flow through us to others.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
Ephesians 5:29 says for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nouri...
This time of year is a reminder of a fresh start and new beginnings. This is a time when God often starts to move us to new levels. This time of year is a reminder to grow in the fruit of the Spirit.
Galatians 5:22-23 says But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
I once heard someone say that these are 9 not different types of fruit, but one fruit with many flavors. I think all of these should come together as a package when we are truly in step with the Spirit. During this time of year, important decisions often need to be made and we can use the fruit of the spirit as a filter to guide our decision making.
Today's communion is a time of gratitude that God planted a seed in our hearts that contains everything we need, including the fruit of the Spirit. And we are asking him to help us cultivate the fruit of the Spirit he put within us to a ...
This time of year is a reminder of a fresh start and new beginnings. This is a time when God often starts to move us to new levels and new levels usually means we need to grow. But we can rest assured that God will be gentle with us to help us grow. It is his gentleness that makes us great.
In 1 Thessalonians 2:3-8 Paul says...
For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, 4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. 5 For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. 6 Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ. 7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. 8 So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of...
This time of year is a reminder of a fresh start and new beginnings. This is a time when God often starts to move us to new levels and an important part of moving to new levels is growing in confidence before God.
1 John 3:19-23 tells us how we can be confident before God. It says...
This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
Today's communion is a time of gratitude that God is greater than our hearts. And we are asking God to help us set our hearts at rest in his presence and get rid of any condemnation so that we h...
This time of year is a reminder of a fresh start and new beginnings. This is a time when God often starts to move us to new levels. Part of moving to new levels is an increase in numbers.
In Leviticus 26:9-10 God promised the people who were in right standing with him ( which we have in Christ) the following...
“‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. 10 You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.
In today's communion we are asking God to make us fruitful and increase any numbers in our life that need increasing.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
One of the areas where it's important to see an increase in our numbers is in our workouts. Paying attention to and tracking the numbers in our workouts is an important part of progress.
I am praying for you.
Daniel
This time of year is a reminder of a fresh start and new beginnings. This is a time when God often starts to move us to new levels. But sometimes starting new levels can feel overwhelming. New things usually mean there is learning to do and lots of new things coming at us that we are not as efficient at handling yet.
But, we can handle the overwhelm by God grace. He has grace available today for whatever is coming at us.
In today's communion we are asking God to help us handle overwhelm in a beautiful, graceful way by relying on him.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
For many people, when they get overwhelmed their health and fitness takes a backseat because they are focused on other things. Health and fitness must be prioritized in these times, because it can be very easy to get off track when overwhelmed with other things.
I am praying for you.
Daniel
Here is this week's Yearly Cycle Update.
Last week we finished up the yearly cycle and started again. This time of year is a reminder of a fresh start and a new beginning. I have also found that during this time of year God initiates miracle transfers. He often opens big doors of opportunity and breakthrough during this time of the year.
When God opens doors it will take faith and courage to go through, and work on the other side, but his grace will carry us through.
Here is this week's filter(reminder) to write at the top of our journals each day... Miracle Transfer.
I am praying for you.
Daniel
P.S. The Yearly Cycle Calendar for 2022 is down below.
Lately I have been thinking about the concept of unbelief and doubt vs belief and confidence.
I think of unbelief or belief as the conclusion we have come to in our heart. Sometimes we are indecisive about what we believe, and as long as we are indecisive nothing happens. But when we make a decision to either believe or disbelieve, things start happening really fast. God gives us the choice as to whether we will believe his promises or not. And we could be undecided, which is also not good.
One of our first steps is to examine God's promises and decide whether they are really true or not. This is something I learned from Billy Graham. There is a story told at the Billy Graham Museum about a time when Billy was undecided about whether some of the promises in the Bible are really true, because people were trying to talk him out of believing that they were true. But he took his Bible out in the backyard, put in on a tree stump, and decided that everything in the...
One of the names of God is El Shaddai, which means all sufficient one, or the God who is more than enough.
Recently we had some boards on our deck that needed to be replaced. When I went to Home Depot to buy replacement boards there were composite decking boards right above the wood, that matched the color of our deck exactly. As I was looking at the composite decking I felt like God was nudging me to redo our whole deck with composite, even though it would be more money.
So I called a friend who does decking and asked him for a quote to redo our whole deck with composite decking and the quote was just under $4,000. I wasn't sure if I wanted to spend that much money at the time, but it seemed like the best thing to do for our house.
Over the last several months I have been helping manage properties for other people and whenever work is needed, I usually don't do the work or pay for it. But I function in a type of trustee/manager role to see what needs to be...
A scripture that is in both the Old and Testaments is that if we would see with our eyes, hear with our ears, understand with our hearts, and turn then we would see healing. The word for turn can also be translated as convert.
To convert is to transform or turn into. This month our message is understanding the times so that we know what to do. First comes understanding but, then we must convert that understanding into knowing what to do.
Conversion is an important part of our walk with God, but also really important in many other areas of life as well. For example, good ideas must be converted into action, money that comes in must be converted into things that put money to work, and in business leads must be converted into clients and customers.
In today's communion we are asking God to be great converters of the understanding that he gives us into knowing what to do, and great converters in every area of life.
Today's Health and Fitness Tip
In our physic...
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