You were created with divine purpose by God “for such a time as this” to arise and shine and to go forth telling the people in your sphere of influence about the hope you have in Christ Jesus. If you don’t tell them, how else will they know? Choose to live with eternity in mind and think about souls.

The world we live in today has changed drastically and is nothing like many of us encountered in our youth. We are witnessing the demise of a nation through four categories of immorality before our eyes that Paul lists for Timothy. Exaltation of self, rejection of authority, rejection of moral standards, and vicious and unloving. We are living in a world that is clearly the end times. 

Live like Jesus may come today and lift up the Name of Jesus by being the hands and feet of our loving Savior to a lost and dying world around us. Godly people ought not be haughty nor proud, but bold and confident in Christ. Exalt Christ and “Be clothed with humility” (1 Peter 5:5). It’s a choice to walk in humility because the flesh will try to rise up because of our sin nature. We must make a choice to allow God to do a work in us so we can be used by Him in the lives of people around us. 

Every day you get out of bed, make the decision to put on humility and walk in it the remainder of each day. Once you are born-again through the gift of salvation in Jesus Christ through the finished work on the Cross, your life isn’t about you anymore–it’s about Jesus. When you let this truth sink in, your life will change. 

Knowing God and making Him known ought to be our life goal. Submit to God’s authority and walk in the power He provided. Raise the standard – the Word of God – and live by God’s principles. Love people through speaking the truth in love–even if you have to love some from a distance. 

Live for God, not this world. Put Jesus first–no matter what! Surround yourself with other believers of strong faith and spur each other onward in Christ. The writer of Hebrews says, “Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching” (Hebrews 10:24-25).

Make sure you have come to know Jesus because the hour is late and eternity is forever. Learn to walk with Him and tell everyone you know He is coming back soon!

His love and mine, 

Deborah 

“Now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.”

                       — 1 CORINTHIANS 13:12

 As we take time to study the Word of God, the Holy Spirit gives us eyes to see Jesus, the “image of the invisible God” (Colossians 1:15). However, even as our vision is cleared by the Spirit of God and as we grow in knowledge through Scripture, we can still only see a glimpse of God’s infinite immensity here on earth. 

No one knows the day or hour they will leave this earth, through rapture or death, or when Jesus fulfills His promise to return, but one thing for sure is this—we will see Him clearly as it is written in 1 Corinthians 13:12.

When we see Jesus Christ face-to-face and know Him as He knows each of us, the beloved family of God—the members of the body of Christ—the church—it will be a glorious day. The Holy Spirit will infuse us with faith, hope, and the love we need to stand firm until we gaze into the eyes of our living and loving Savior and say, “I can see You, Jesus.” 

Take time to study the Word of God. Pray and meditate and memorize passages from the Bible. You will need to use the Word of God the way Jesus did in the wilderness before this life is over. 

REFLECTION AND HEART CHECK:

What particular passage has the Holy Spirit illuminated to you recently? What has the Holy Spirit revealed to you? How has your growth in the knowledge of God and His Holy Word changed you?

Let us pray:  Dear Jesus, help me to see clearly; to see You more clearly and know You intimately as I walk with You through this life. Increase my faith until the day You call me home or come again. Make me so such like You Lord that no one can resist You in me. Help me to walk in Your Love and to live each day watching for Your return. 

READ YOUR BIBLE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT! 

You are extravagantly loved by God!

HIS love and mine,

Deborah 

Go into 2024 with a new perspective …viewing life through the lens of teamwork, cooperating and partnering with the Holy Spirit. 

We live under an Open Heaven with an open door of opportunities to fulfill our divine purpose, while seeing all the amazing things God wants to do in us and through us to bring souls into His Kingdom.  

The Door is open until God shuts it like the Ark. The Ark pictures salvation in Jesus Christ, our “Ark” of salvation. Jesus said, “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved” (John 10:9). The Bible makes it clear that we are “dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1). Nothing we can do can save us from our sin and the consequences–eternal separation from God. But the Bible tells us that if we confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in our heart that God has raised Him from the dead, we will be saved (Romans 10:9). It is “by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8). Salvation is all of God, but it is our responsibility to choose to go through the doorway (Jesus), and God will save us. 

Live to know God more intimately and make Him known!

Acts 20:24

“But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God” (NLT).

Live supernaturally in the natural by partnering with God through surrender and total dependence upon Him! “Whatever He says to you, do it” (John 2:5). Run with the Gospel–the Good News–and tell the world about JESUS. He’s coming back soon! 

Have a blessed 2024! 

Deborah