Catching Up! New Devots.!

Hi Folks,

 

Sorry I have bee MIA for such a long time!   Life has been good, but busy.

 

I am going to add several devots. to the blog at once that are Holy Week themed.
(They are taken from https://www.dayspring.com/.)

Then we will jump back to our current top on adversities, trials, how God can use them

in our life for HIS Glory and praise and what we can spiritually learn from them.

 

Lord bless you and yours this week!

~Grace

Devot. The Blood of Access

Hi Folks,

 

I hope you had a good weekend and are staying warm and well!

 

The devot. for today is Part 3 in our series, "The Blood of Access"-how we can have daily fellowship with Jesus because of the blood He shed for us on Calvary.

 

I pray you are learning new things from Scripture and gaining a Biblical knowledge that you may not have had before.

Pray you have a very blessed Palm Sunday!   Lord bless you and yours.

 

Devot.

 

Click on this Website: https://www.dayspring.com/

 

Scroll all the way down to the bottom.

 

Under MORE Click on the link that says Stories

 

Click the purple Lent on the top right side of the screen

 

Scroll down a bit and Click Circle 5

 

Our devot. is on this screen, 3rd devotional-The Blood of Access

Devot. The Blood of Forgiveness and Cleansing

Hi Folks,

 

I hope you had a good weekend!  

 

We are continuing our series on why the blood of Jesus is so crucial for the forgiveness of our sins,

how it cleanses us spiritually, and how it paid for our ticket to Heaven.

I shared Part 1 of this series from https://www.dayspring.com/ for Friday's devot,, "The Blood of Redemption."

 

Today I will share Part 2, "The Blood of Forgiveness and Cleansing."   Since I don't have permission to directly link you to the devot.

 

 I will give you simple directions on how to find it.   For you folks who haven't read  "The Blood of Redemption," it can also be found on the same page as our devot. for today.

 

Lastly, since last Saturday was St. Patrick's Day, daypring.com sent a neat, short article on the man behind the holiday, who he really was.

 

It is an encouraging, inspiring read and I think if you can take the time to read it through your week, you will learn some neat facts about the real St. Patrick.

 

Lord bless you and yours this week!

 

Devot.

 

Click on this Website: https://www.dayspring.com/

 

Scroll all the way down to the bottom.

 

Under MORE Click on the link that says Stories

 

Click the purple Lent on the top right side of the screen

 

Scroll down a bit and Click Circle 5

 

Our devot. is on this screen-The Blood of Forgiveness and Cleansing
 

 St. Patrick's Day: https://www.dayspring.com/articles/who-was-the-real-st-patrick?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TEBNAEN20180317StPatricksDayContent&utm_term=Super%20Engaged%20-%20Last%2014%20Days

 

Devot. The Blood of Redemption

Hi Folks,

 

I hope you had a great weekend! 

 

The devot. for today is a really neat one.  It is a throwback to Tuesday's devot. and it's about Jesus' blood and how it spiritually cleanses us from our sin.

 

This devot. is a 4 part series and it looks wonderful-spiritually uplifting and an opportunity to learn a Biblical concept that  is crucial in Scripture.

 

I don't have permission to link you directly to the devot., so I will give easy directions below.

 

I pray you have a peaceful week!

 

Devot.

 

Click on this Website: https://www.dayspring.com/

 

Scroll all the way down to the bottom.

 

Under MORE Click on the link that says Stories

 

Click the purple Lent on the top right side of the screen

 

Scroll down a bit and Click Circle 5

 

Our devot. is on this screen-The Blood of Redemption

 

Devot. Sin: Why We Need the Blood of Jesus

Hi Folks,

I hope you had  good weekend and are healthy and well!

As we move towards Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, I am going to share some devots. on the blood of Jesus, why His blood is so crucial to our faith, how it can forgive sin and clean us up spiritually.

 

1 John 1:6-7 says, "If we (those who have trusted Jesus) say that we have fellowship with him, (are having a daily walk with Jesus, making Him apart of our lives) and walk in darkness, (we are not living in a godly way, we are doing things that we know to be sin and hurting His heart) we lie, and do not the truth (we are deceiving ourselves if we say that we are walking with the Lord when we are not):   But if we walk in the light, (if we walk in Christ likeness) as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, (we have that daily communion with Jesus) and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."

 

I pray the devot. below gives some added insight, Biblical knowledge on why Jesus' blood is precious, cleansing and powerful.   It is a crucial part to understanding why Jesus' death was so important in saving us.  

 

The song below also strongly backs up this devot. and is apart of my church's Resurrection Sunday program:)

 

Lord bless you and yours this week!

 

 Devot. https://www.intouch.org/read/blog/sin  (Used by permission.  Taken from https://www.intouch.org/)

 

Song:  Oh the Blood of Jesus Cleanses Me:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC59rgmcu34

Devot. 12 Lessons From Adversity

Hi Folks,

 

I hope you had a very blessed weekend! 

 

Our devot. for this week is on the 12 lessons we can learn from trials and adversities.

 

What can God teach us and what can we learn from painful experiences in life?  We can learn and gain much spiritually if we are willing to ask God help us see things through His eyes.  

 

I was thinking of 2 Peter 1:4-9 today in relation to what can be learned in trials, "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature  (once we have received Christ, God gives us the ability, strength to live a Christ like life), having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.    And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; (morality) and to virtue knowledge;  And to knowledge temperance; (self control) and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness (Christ likenes);   And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity  (Christian love).

For if these things be in you, and abound, (are alive and growing  you!) they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But he that lacketh these things is blind, (Spiritually) and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins (forgetting that your sins, past, present and future were forgiven by Jesus when you received Him as your Savior)."

 

Many times the trials we go through can produce "fruit" in our lives, a more Christ like way of living, but we have to be willing to learn as we go, willing to let the Lord use this trial in our lives to produce the character He would wish us to have.

 

I pray the devot. below is useful to your week and that you grow from it!
 

Lord bless you and yours!

 

Devot. https://www.intouch.org/read/blog/12-lessons-from-adveristy  (Used by permission.  Taken from https://www.intouch.org/)

Devot. Faith Through Adversity

Hi Folks,

 

I hope you had a refreshing, blessed and Christ filled weekend!

 

Do you know the old expression, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger?"

 

This has been my mindset and perspective for years.   

 

 I've realized in the last 8 years or so that God brings difficult times into my life for various reasons.  

 Many times He has used trials to spiritually "clean me" from the inside out if  I was harboring bitterness, pain,  a bad attitude, or a realization that I had allowed everything but God to fill my life.    Every time I have gone through something,  I have tried to think, "This can either kill me or make me spiritually stronger with the Lord's help, and the first option is definitely not on the table."

 

James 1:2-4 says, "My brethren (speaking to those how have trusted Jesus as their Savior, 'brothers and sisters in Christ') count it all joy when ye fall into divers (different)  temptations; (trials) Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.   But let patience have her perfect work, (let the trial produce patience and let patience do what is needed in your life) that ye may be perfect (means spiritually mature) and entire, wanting nothing."

 

Romans 8:28 (my mom's favorite verse) states, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."

 

What are you, someone you know or love going through today?   Can you lift this trial to the Lord and ask that He work in your/or your loved ones/friend's heart to give the burden over to the Lord, do a spiritual housecleaning on the inside/outside of you/them and He sees is needed, that you/them are willing to turn whatever is needed into the Lord's hands, and ask Him to use this for HIS glory in your/their life?   From personal experience, beautiful things can come out of crying out to the Lord and handing over whatever you are going through such as feeling free on the inside, feeling closer to the Lord and anxiously awaiting  to see what God is going to do.

 

I pray the devot. below is a big blessing to your week and that the Lord would uplift you through it.

 

Jeremiah 33:3, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."

 

 Devot. https://www.intouch.org/read/magazine/daily-devotions/developing-faith-through-adversity  (Used by permission.   Taken from https://www.intouch.org/)