Susie Larson - our culture is bracing for impact when the Bible teaches we should be anticipating His kingdom in all aspects ts of our lives look for the kingdom, quit scrolling the doom and gloom
If you’ve been blindsided by life, this blessing is for you: God is with you in this place. Your best days are NOT behind you, in fact, they’re right in front of you. Though the enemy knows how to wound us, God knows how to heal us.
May God replace your painful memories with redemptive dreams; may He heal old wounds and pour in timeless wisdom; may He shore up your weaknesses and shine through your strengths. And tonight, may your sleep replenish you in every way. You're loved & blessed.
If you were more in love with Jesus than you are, what would you do next?
- Jim Denison
Wounded healer Suffering by Paul Tripp
Every soul needs healing of some kind. And every one of us has baggage that needs to go. Baggage like fear, despair, discouragement, jealousy, and insecurity. May you dare to humble yourself under God's mighty hand. Ask Him to show you your heart, the things you cannot see.
If we dare to trust God more and more in the days ahead, our bodies and souls will learn to rest, and perhaps, start to heal. Yes, trials will come. But the truth is, we’ll emerge stronger, wiser, and fiercer when we stay in step with Jesus and remember who our real Enemy is. Susie
Romans 3 - sin
Rom 4 - salvation
Rom 6 lasting change
Rom 7 struggle
Rom 8 live by the Spirit
”The person who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence indeed is the Lord, is blessed. He will be like a tree planted by water: it sends its roots out toward a stream, it doesn’t fear when heat comes, and its foliage remains green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.“
Jeremiah 17:7-8 CSB
https://bible.com/bible/1713/jer.17.7-8.CSB
”So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.“
Colossians 3:1-3 CSB
https://bible.com/bible/1713/col.3.1-3.CSB
”But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.“
2 Peter 3:18 CSB
https://bible.com/bible/1713/2pe.3.18.CSB
No matter how wise, strong and mature in your faith you become, you will never out grow your need for God’s grace. Paul Tripp
“Facing a lot of unknowns in life can be hard. But if we had all the blanks filled in, we would explain away God’s part in our story.God doesn’t want to be explained away. He wants to be invited in.” Lysa TerKuerst
Suffering has the power to expose what you have been trusting all along. If you lose your hope when your physical body fails, maybe your hope wasn’t really in your Savior after all. It was humbling to confess that what I thought was faith was actually self-reliance
Who can save a child from a burning house without taking the risk of being hurt by the flames? Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind? In short: “Who can take away suffering without entering it?
Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind? In short: “Who can take away suffering without entering it?
Left unchecked, discouragement will become your eyes and ears, determining what you see and hear and how you see and hear it. Unchecked, it will become the master of your emotions and the ruler of your choices and actions. Unchecked, discouragement will rob you of your hope and motivation. It will steal your reason for doing good things. It will rob you of your ability to trust. It will make you closed, self-protective, and easily overwhelmed. Discouragement will sap you of your strength and courage. It will cause you to see negative where nothing is negative and miss the positive that is right in front of you. If given room, discouragement will tell you lies that have the power to destroy your life. Discouragement is natural for someone who is suffering, but it makes a very, very bad master.
God is not shocked or surprised that you are discouraged. He doesn’t wring his hands, wondering what to do next. He knows every struggle of discouragement in your heart. He knows your cries before you cry. He knew that you and I would be weak; that’s why he promised to be our strength. He has promised never to give up the battle for our hearts until that battle is finally won forever. This means he fights for us even when we have given up the fight. Our desire to follow him may weaken, but he will never give up or turn his back on us. He knows us because he made us, which is why he sent his Son to be for us what we could not be for ourselves and to do for us what we could not do on our own.
Tozer - Jesus know the worst about you Never the less, He is the one who loves you the most
The greatest saints are not those who need less grace, but those who consume the most grace, who indeed are most in need of grace—those who are saturated by grace in every dimension of their being. Grace to them is like breath.” - Dallas Willard, excerpted from Renovation of the Heart
He gets us Jesus didn’t teach us to hate wash feet
Abuse damages a survivor's thinking when it is shaped throughout childhood by lies and deceit. Such beliefs as I am worthless, God is not good, love does not exist, and no one can be trusted are very strong. The work of discerning truth from the lies taught is a tremendous job.
The weaker and needier we feel, the more dangerous we are in our use of power because we are far more likely to use the vulnerable to feed ourselves. Compelled by their own anxieties, fears, and weaknesses, leaders often abuse the power they have been entrusted with.
Whenever the body of Christ, through denial or actual choice, ignores the sin of protecting evildoers in its midst, the entire body suffers terribly as a result.
We forget that anything done in the name of God that does not bear His character throughout is actually not of Him at all. In our forgetting we are more loyal to the commandments of men than the commandments of God.
We are not coming into the presence of a neurotic parent who has to hear only good things from his children. We’re not coming into the presence of a father who says, “Shhh, don’t feel that way; that’s wrong. Don’t cry. If you keep crying I’ll really give you something to cry about.” We are coming to a heavenly Father who understands our feelings and invites us to share them with Him. So we can draw near with confidence unto the throne of grace knowing that we will obtain mercy and find grace in the time of need. We can come when we need forgiveness and when we feel guilty for our sins. And we can also come when we are being racked and tormented by the feelings of our infirmities.
Yes, He was a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. If you are grieving, He can feel it with you. For the lonely one—the widow or widower, the divorced—He understands what it is to be alone, to feel that a part of yourself has been literally torn away. Studies show that the two greatest stress-producing factors to body, mind, and emotions are the death of a spouse and divorce. In some ways, divorce can be worse. The death of a spouse, though painful, can be a clean wound. Divorce often leaves a dirty, infected wound, throbbing with pain. Jesus understands when a single parent is trying to be husband and wife, mother and father, all in one.
Flawed people, corrupt systems
Moses - doubted his abilities doubted God’s grace
Elijah - exhausted but needed Elijah
Gideon - doubted God’s selection - obeyed at night so no one would see - later went to his head
David learned relearned God’s grace with Saul
Joseph spent years rehearsing what his brothers has done to him, sold, locked up, forgotten until the right time
Woman at the well went to draw water at the right time and place for her appointment with Jesus
Esther and Mordecai - appointed for such a time as this - could have braced for impact but prayed
The crippled man was lowered through a roof to be healed by Jesus and his sins forgiven the power of friendship cooperating with the God’s presence
God is the Father of those who have not had a father
Jesus elevated the status of women - partners in grace and mercy
Robert Kellerman - It’s okay if some of us are deep feelers. After all, when God declared that He fearfully and wonderfully made us, the one aspect He highlighted in Psalm 119:13-14 was our emotions.
“For you created my inmost being (kidney, reins—emotions, feelings, moods); you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
Flat water press report on rural Nebraska https://share.newsbreak.com/64rbhf49
THE PERSON AND GOSPEL of Jesus Christ—building on simple “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so”—is the only complete answer to the false and destructive images and ideas that control the life of those away from God. The process of spiritual formation in Christ is one of progressively replacing those destructive images and ideas with the images and ideas that filled the mind of Jesus himself.
When two thirds of young men feel that “No one really knows me,” as this study shows, they reveal the fragility of their connections and relationships. We take that finding for what it is: a call for more honest, more grounded, more connected and more meaningful lives. We know the results of this study will be troubling for many. Conservative voices will say we are calling out men and blaming them, or that we are maligning American manhood. The State of American Men report is a call for compassion for men and a call to all of us to build and support healthy, connected versions of manhood for the good of all.
The so-called “right to privacy” of which so much is made in contemporary life is in very large measure merely a way of avoiding scrutiny in our wrongdoing.
Dr Anita Philips - Instagram. - Heart fact - there is Ky one organ in your body that feels at all times our creator wanted tk remind us what matters most your heart speeds up when you are afraid flutters when you are excited and madks the calm rhythms of peace when you know you are loved every part of your body is affected by the way your heart is doing every part of your life is affected by how you are feeling your emotions matter 2 these 3:5
2 Thessalonians 3:5
[5] May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
Biblical counseling is not biblical unless it is loving (Eph 4:15), relational (1 Th 2:7-8), gentle/humble (Gal 6:1), compassionate/comforting (2 Cor 1:3-4; Job 16:1-4), empathetic (Heb 4:14-16; Rom 12:15; 1 Cor 12:25-26), encouraging (Eph 4:29), patiently listening (Prov 18:13). - Bob Kelleman
Something profoundly deep in our souls happens when another person celebrates a small step of progress or change in our lives. Let’s be those kind of people for others. Doug Wolter
Psalm 63:8 cling
Phil 4 - Col 3 - look up search Mt 6:33
Intense relationship
Rom 12:1,2 transformed changed
2 Tim 2:2 entrust to those who are faithful
Laxman Mahato
To see the world like God sees the world
No matter the season or circumstance you are facing today, God has not left or forsaken you. “Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; he will neither fail you nor abandon you.” - Deuteronomy 31:8 NLT YouVersion
A holy space - prayer call
Worship - He is worthy
To teach each other and encourage each other
”Above all, fear the Lord and worship him faithfully with all your heart; consider the great things he has done for you.“
1 Samuel 12:24 CSB
https://bible.com/bible/1713/1sa.12.24.CSB
Jesus gets us.
He saves us.
He transforms us
He cleanses us.
He restores us.
He forgives us.
He heals us.
He delivers us.
He redeems us.
He loves us.
"...such were some of you. But you were washed...you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus." 1 Cor. 6:11
Jesus literally knows what our hearts feel in our weakest moments because He felt it too. How do I know? Because the Bible tells me so. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (Heb. 4:15)
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