I am grateful The Holy Spirit suggested going down an old trail I have not been on for many years. There was fields of beautiful wild flowers that were dug up and transplanted in the garden.
I am grateful to have gotten up a steep dirt incline from the trail. A couple of times the scooter had to be pushed up.
I am grateful The Holy Spirit suggested going into this woodworking plant area. The owner gave me huge bags of sawdust to use on the front garden The Holy Spirit is guiding me to build.
I am grateful The Holy Spirit suggested going to a certain quiet place every day with meditation verse to spend quiet time with the Trinity
I am grateful for the warm weather. Almost all the seeds have come up in a matter of a few days in the sun room..
I am grateful the home made soup came out so good. It was one of the best I made in a long time. The Holy Spirit suggested using fresh parsley and garlic leaves as well as a few sprouts of mint.
I am grateful for the fantastic lightening storm last night. The electrons in them are very beneficial for the plants.
I am grateful for the warm weather. Now the tarps can be taken off of the tents and be kept off.
I am grateful the early spring crops like pea’s are coming up so well.
‘Do not fear [anything], for I am with you;Do not be afraid, for I am your God.I will strengthen you, be assured I will help you;I will certainly take hold of you with My righteous right hand [a hand of justice, of power, of victory, of salvation].’ Isaiah 41:10 The Holy Bible, The New Living Translation
I believe when trouble or hard times comes the best place to find comfort and strength is reading the scripture. That will lead to having faith in Jehovah, Jesus and The Holy Spirit Joseph- Anthony a son of Jehovah
Prayer: Thank you Jehovah (Jehovah Immeka Judges 6:12 The LORD Is with You ) for blessing me with The Holy Spirit to walk with me through trials and tribulations, sorrows and snares. I would never have made it without Him.
Thank you The Holy Spirit for blessing me with speaking to me through scripture. I praise You both in the name of He who has walked through so many of these traumatic situations Himself, Jesus Christ. Amen
indeovi vas ( may you live with Jesus in Latin )
Seleh- stop and think about it.
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I am grateful The Holy Spirit suggested getting loads of sand from the cemetery. Because I got four loads and mixed it with potting soil it was enough to make an old dresser drawer into a raised garden.
I am grateful for the warm weather. The seeds are sprouting in the sun room.
I am grateful to The Holy Spirit’s suggestion on making Snowball’s meals. He has not been constipated for a week.
I am grateful The Holy Spirit suggested moving some stuff around the outside of the garage. Now when the cleaner or PSW comes I can get out with the scooter while their vehicle is parked in the driveway.
Spiritual growth is making real in our daily experience what is already true for us in Christ.
Our progressive sanctification is an ever putting off all that belongs to the old man, and putting on all that belongs to the new man in Christ.
The old nature of man in Adam has not evolved better over the last two thousand years.
Has the carnal mind with its urges become so good to the Holy Spirit that we no longer need to subject it to the Holy Spirit?
Undisciplined self-gratification has never been compatible with strong, vibrant, mature spiritual growth.
You cannot be a mature believer and live anyway you choose. You cannot give nature all that it desires without defrauding the grace of God.
Romans chapter seven pictures every Christian’s spiritual battle in progress. Our old nature, though judged and condemned and deposed in the death of Christ is forever revolting against the sentence of death. It struggles daily to regain its lost supremacy.
The believer who is in Christ not only has died with Christ, but is bound to “die daily” with Him so long as he is in the flesh.
The two natures, at present are dwelling together, even though they are at perpetual war with one another. When one is weak the other is strong. When one loses the other conquers.
The crucifixion we have undergone as believers in Christ is personalized in our own person. The believer is “always bearing about in his body the dying of the Lord Jesus.” Our spiritual battle is a spiritual intimacy with Christ against the forces of Satan. Christ began a spiritual warfare that has not ended for us (Col. 3:9, 10).
We are new creatures in Christ whose inward man is “renewed day by day.” The new man from above battles daily with the forces of evil.
The cross and the resurrection of Christ extend their influence and power over the Christian’s life until the day we are presented perfect to our Father in heaven. The development of the Christian toward perfection is always going in two opposite directions. There is the mortifying, suppressing, subjecting the natural man, and the nurturing, renewing and developing the spiritual man who lives within.
In the crucifixion of the old man we make the death of Christ our own. The carnal mind must always be delivered up to death for Christ’s sake. This is our life-long experience.
If we are to become like Christ in our daily practice we must subdue our sinful desires, behaviors and bring them under the influence of the cross.
Our sanctification is prolonged and perpetuated in our daily experiences.
We are to have the same mind of Christ. We have been judged in the person of Christ knowing that He bore our sins in His death, follow on in the path of the cross judging and mortifying all that we find in our lives contrary to Christ. Anything that is opposed to Christ in our lives must die. We must deny and die to the expression of the old life as we knew it before we become Christians. We must refuse the indulgence of the old man.
The Holy Spirit is always bringing us to the surrender of self in all its forms to the will of God.
Our Savior’s suffering is never more beautiful than when reproduced in our daily lives as we die to self, fleshly desires and unholy ambition.
However, no amount of self-denial of the old nature will make us holier, unless we are brought at the same time into a deeper intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit. As we abide in Christ we walk as Christ walked.
Self-denial creates voids in our soul that must be replaced with Christ and divine affection. It is our desire to appropriate the eternal life Jesus has given us. This new life in Christ creates within the believer a hunger and thirst for more of Him. Meditation on the Word of God and contemplation of the character of Christ promotes that end. In the process He conforms us to the likeness of Christ until, we have attained the fullness of the stature of Christ, His life constantly imparted and His character reflected in our lives (2 Cor. 3:18).
Daily communion with Jesus is a certain way of overcoming sin in our lives. Our growth in grace and knowledge of Christ can never fail to promote the subjection of nature. Our natural man cannot endure the burning heat of the unclouded presence of Christ.
May our steady gaze upon Christ blind our hearts to the desires of the unregenerate life-style.
Oh, blessed day when the battle is over and we cease from our putting off and putting on and we are presented spotless in Christ “when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortal.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.Selah!
Message by Wil Pounds (c) 2006
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I am grateful for the employee’s being very studious at a hardware store today. Last week there was an item on sale but they had run out of them. I was given a rain check to be given to them when the item arrived. Today I forgot the rain check receipt and they spent about twenty minutes looking it up on the computer so the sale was still good.
I am grateful The Holy Spirit encouraged me to clean up the spare bedroom where I sleep ( Jezebel is a pack rat that has boxes piled up with junk some of which is fifty years old ). Then a dresser drawer was moved in front of the window so Little Smokey can sit there and watch the birds.
I am grateful The Holy Spirit suggested a way to line up the weed trimmer the way it needs to be.
I am grateful The Holy Spirit suggested setting up the rain barrels because it is supposed to rain tomorrow.
I am grateful The Holy Spirit suggested gently rubbing Snowball’s head early this morning because he was walking around very agitated. After a few rubs he snuggled up with me in bed and went right to sleep.
I am grateful Jezebel did not lose an eye this morning. Because she was abusive to Little Smokey he does not allow her to get close to him. This morning she tried to get close to him and her clawed her face just missing her eye. Stupid people win stupid prizes. She of course blames Little Smokey and threatened to throw him outside. I told her if she did that I would call the humane society and have her charged with cruelty to animals. He is very lovey dovey to me. Sometimes he will growl at me because he wants to be left alone and I leave him alone. No problems.
I am grateful that a dollar store had headphones. Mine broke and most stores wanted around fifty dollars for a pair I got at a dollar store for five dollars. I need them to drown out the annoying screeches of the cardinals when working outside.
I am grateful The Holy Spirit suggested laying an old carpet around the air conditioner outside to keep the weeds out.
I am so grateful to those kind men for giving me sawdust for the garden. Not only will it keep the weeds down but it looks beautiful.
I am grateful The Holy Spirit reminded me of long cardboard boxes in the garage. They can be used in the garden. Dig a hole, put them in it, fill it it with dirt. Then, plant carrots. After that cover the area surrounding it with sawdust.
I am grateful The Holy Spirit reminded me that Jesus has forbidden me to share the work of my labour with Jezebel. Yesterday I dug up a big bunch of garlic and asked her to give it to a mutual friend who helps us out. Instead she gave it to her friends just to get praise. We got into a huge fight. From now on if The Holy Spirit guides me to share, I am to give it to them personally.
I am grateful The Holy Spirit guided me to the Bible verse where Jesus says that a laborer is to be paid their fare wages. The Holy Spirit has strongly informed me that I am not to work in Jezebel’s flower garden. If she has a hissy fit I am to remind her of what Jesus says and that I am forbidden to work in her garden until my ten years of wages is paid
Jesus said: Those who work deserve their pay. Luke 10: 7
Then, to remind her that the wages she owed me she gave to her drunken grand daughter who has done nothing for but to get drunk. You want garden work done, call her, not me.
The ten years of torment are over and now it is time to fight back.
But, I will not be doing the fighting, Jesus is my champion.
Jesusis with me as a dread champion [one to be greatly feared];Therefore Abusive men and women will stumble and not overcome me.They will be completely shamed, for they have not acted wisely and have failed in their schemes Jeremiah 20:11
I am grateful Snowball is having regular bowel and urinary movements again
I am grateful the Lord has blessed me that the broccoli, cauliflower and peas are coming up good in the raised gardens. The potatoes are a little behind but that is okay
I am grateful The Holy Spirit reminded me to sow the lavender, basil, clover and chamomile tea in the garden. I planted two rows of potatoes amongst them
I am grateful The Holy Spirit reminded me to sow the flower seeds in the greenhouses ( tents with tarps over them ).
I am grateful the vegetables and herbs are coming up in the sun room
“That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith . . .” (Ephesians 3:17).
A good friend asked me, “Do you feel you are adequately experiencing the presence and power of the Holy Spirit?” That is a probing question every Christian should pause and consider.
I firmly believe that every born again believer is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, but not every believer is yielded to His control. Our experience of His divine presence depends upon our yielding to Him moment by moment. If the Holy Spirit is to have a larger part of our lives we must make a deliberate choice and allow Him to take control.
The Spirit wants to fill our lives so that Christ may settle down and make Himself feel completely at home as a permanent resident in our hearts (Eph. 3:17). Our prayer should be that Christ would settle down, even now, in our hearts and take control as the rightful owner.
Imagine what it would be like to experience the “fullness of God” (v. 19). Paul was praying that we may be filled up to or unto all the fullness that is in God Himself. That will not take place until we stand complete and perfect in the likeness of Christ at His coming, but it can be our prayer and vision now. Paul was praying that we would be filled and filled and filled and filled forever, as God out of His infinite resources increasingly pours Himself into His redeemed people.
David Brainerd wrote in his diary April 21, 1742, “O My sweet Savior! Who have I but Thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.” Then he added, “If I had a thousand lives, my soul would gladly have laid them all down at once, to have been with Christ. My soul never enjoyed so much of heaven before; it was the most refined and most spiritual season of communion with God I ever yet felt.”
Oh, for a mature, intimate love relationship with Christ. The Holy Spirit always points us to Him and in that a felt presence and power that is wholly beyond man.
It is from that inner resource of “the riches of His glory” that we are “strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man so that Christ may dwell in your hearts and through faith. . .” (3:16-17).
The filling and control of our lives by the Holy Spirit is not automatic. We are baptized once when we believed on Christ as our savior, but filled many times. It is a deliberate choice we make each day. This empowering presence of the Holy Spirit within us enables us to live an abundant spiritual life.
“Do you feel you are adequately experiencing the presence and power of the Holy Spirit?” Why did you respond that way?
When He is in control, our minds are set on the things above (Rom. 8:5).
Do you have a richer, fuller desire to know the Lord Jesus Christ and fellowship with Him? That is the work of the Holy Spirit in your heart.
Who is in control of your life? Have you made a conscious deliberate choice to let the Holy Spirit be in charge of your life? Is He a dynamic, shaping, controlling presence in your life today? How can He become an ever-present reality in your daily life?
Will you make a conscious decision to let Jesus Christ rule your life from this day onward? From that moment on begin each day with a solemn commitment to let Him take control of your life through out the day.
“Lord Jesus I give this day to you. I make myself available to you to live Your life in and through me. Take these hands and feet, this tongue and these eyes, and let them express a heart full of Thee. Here, come live in and through me this day. I yield myself to You.”Selah!
Message by Wil Pounds (c) 2006 Anyone is free to use this material and distribute it, but it may not be sold under any circumstances whatsoever without the author’s written consent.
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