You are always loved!-Encouraging Messages

[Judy Harder]

Our All in All, Part 1

21 Mar 2011

Christ is all and in all. Colossians 3:11 NKJV

Your bondages? Jesus breaks them. Your enemies? Jesus conquers them. Your diseases? Jesus heals them. Your transgressions? Jesus removes them. Your fears? Jesus overcomes them. Your burdens? Jesus carries them. Your sins? Jesus cleanses them. Your storms? Jesus stills them. Your sorrows? Jesus comforts them. Your pains? Jesus sooths them. Your worries? Jesus dispels them. Your longings? Jesus fulfills them. Your needs? Jesus meets them.

[Judy Harder]

Our All in All, Part 2

23 Mar 2011 07:58 AM

Christ is all and in all. Colossians 3:11 NKJV

Your peace? Jesus gives it. Your purpose? Jesus defines it. Your future? Jesus holds it. Your soul? Jesus restores it. Your strength? Jesus renews it. Your life? Jesus sustains it. Your walk? Jesus directs it. Your service? Jesus anoints it. Your sufficiency? Jesus maintains it. Your fruitfulness? Jesus multiplies it. Your day? Jesus blesses it. Your hope? Jesus secures it. Your home in heaven? Jesus prepares it.

[Judy Harder]

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[Judy Harder]

Our All in All, Part 3

Christ is all and in all. Colossians 3:11 NKJV

Your good? Jesus wills it. Your redemption? Jesus bought it. Your body? Jesus owns it. Your hand? Jesus holds it. Your pathway? Jesus walks it. Your destiny? Jesus secures it. Your ministry? Jesus ordains it. Your place? Jesus establishes it. Your wisdom? Jesus speaks it. Your anxiety? Jesus quiets it. Your prayer? Jesus hears it. Your worship? Jesus receives it. Your heart? Jesus knows it. Your all in all? Jesus is it!

[Judy Harder]

Prayer of Service
Jesus, use my voice to speak as You; use my ears to listen as You; use my hands to give as You; use my feet to walk as You; use my life to serve as You; use my heart to love as You.

But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out His special favor on me...it was not I but God who was working through me by His grace. 1 Corinthians 15:10 NLT

Roy Lessin

[Judy Harder]

 

Eucharisteo
Jesus, the God-man who came to save me from prisons of fear and guilt and depression and sadness. With an expiration of less than 12 hours, what does Jesus count as all most important?

"He took bread, gave thanks, and broke it and gave it to them." Luke 22:19

In the original language, "He gave thanks" reads "eucharisteo". The root word is "charis" meaning "grace." Jesus gave thanks, eucharisteo, for the grace, and within "eucharisteo" is also the derivative, chara --- meaning joy.

Deep joy -- chara -- is found only at the table of the euCHARisteo -- the table of thankgsgiving. So then as long as thanksgiving is possible -- Joy is always possible.


And how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of what He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes to His grace.

Charis. Grace. Eucharisteo. Thanksgiving. Chara. Joy.
A threefold cord - that might hold a life?


-Ann Voskamp
Excerpt from the New York Times Best Selling One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to LIVE FULLY Right Where You Are.
Through Ann's heart-breakingly beautiful stories, she offers a profoundly powerful guide to finding joy wherever people live. Even in the darkest moments, in the midst of everyday challenges, you can discover an ancient way of living that is deeply, fully alive. Joy really is possible. Right now.

 
 

When You Really Want To Live
When God gives you a redemptive story, He'll ask you to live its truth out over again, in a thousand different ways, even when you think you learned this way already. God intends to write His story deep into us and there is always more grace to experience. And when you picked up my book, One Thousand Gifts, and read all the vulnerable stories, I had to learn to trust all over again.

To let go all over again, to give thanks and surrender all over again, to find joy all over again, and when my knees knocked hard through interviews and I felt wild with fear, He invited me to live again the words I had written in the book: "It's impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear."

As you read the story of "eucharisteo," of daring to live fully right where you are, God invited me, a broken mess, to live the dare all over again with you, to learn it again, afresh, make the words of the book take on skin again, and find joy in Him, a God we can trust. He is always good and we are always loved.

-Ann Voskamp
Read more of Ann's encouraging testimony and story behind the book One Thousand Gifts on Bloom (in)Courage Book Club.

[Judy Harder]

Roy Lessin
   

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Fret buster #92

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 06:38 AM PDT

Relax, throw open the windows of our stuffy little souls and let the cooling breezes of a better world sweep through! What will all our petty worries amount to fifty years from now? Rejoice in the old simplicities which no man can take away—like spring and green woods and mocking-birds. And, better still, rest our souls in the goodness of God and His amazing grace. –V. Havner

May my meditation be sweet to Him; as for me, I will rejoice in the Lord. Psalm 104:34 AMP

[Judy Harder]

Roy Lessin
   

Magnify the Lord

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 06:41 AM PDT

O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together. Psalm 34:3 KJV

Self-righteousness, self-justification and self-sufficiency do not magnify the Lord's sacrifice, redemption, and atonement for us on the cross. It is only through brokenness, humility, and repentance that we can fully magnify who the Lord is and what He has done in our lives. For it is out of our poverty that we magnify His riches; it is out of our smallness that we magnify His greatness; it is out of our frailty that we magnify His power; it is out of our need that we magnify His fullness; it is out of our flaws that we magnify His perfection; it is out of our deficiency that we magnify His abundance; it is out of our unworthiness that we magnify His mercies; it is out of our imperfection that we magnify His beauty; it is out of our weakness that we magnify His strength; it is out of our insufficiency that we magnify His grace.

God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. 2 Corinthians 9:8 NKJV

[Judy Harder]

 

The Measure
Let the grace of the Lord be the measure of your sufficiency;
let the peace of the Lord be the measure of your quietness;
let the power of the Lord be the measure of your strength;
let the goodness of the Lord be the measure of your contentment;
let the love of the Lord be the measure of your service;
let the faithfulness of the Lord be the measure of your trust;
let the beauty of the Lord be the measure of your worship;
let the fullness of the Lord be the measure of your joy;
let the sovereignty of the Lord be the measure of your confidence;
let the promises of the Lord be the measure of your expectations;
let the coming of the Lord be the measure of hope.

You are my portion, O Lord. Psalm 119:57 AMP

Read more encouraging messages by Roy Lessin, DaySpring co-founder and writer, on Roy's blog Meet Me in the Meadow.

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[Judy Harder]

 

Celebrate Passover as a Believer
The central message of Passover is REDEMPTION and there are many elements within the Passover feast that point us to Jesus.

...Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. I Corinthians 5:7

The I AM Collection was created to bring together the significance of Jewish traditions and their meaning as believers in Christ, and to give greater insights into the powerful redemptive work of Yeshua - Jesus Christ.

I am the way, the truth and the life. John 14:6