You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
Month: August 2022
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
…make it your ambition to lead a quiet life. You should mind your own business and work with your hands… so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on any one.
Run with Patience
We need to be diligent about setting an example of patiently running the race. Eternity is not a game.
Titus Yoder, Thorndike MI
Beside the Still Waters, Vol. 27, Issue 4
The ministry of reconciliation
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.
Destiny is now
Destiny means embracing each moment, being present for it, cherishing it because it is our now.
Destiny isn’t someplace we go. Destiny is where we are.
pp. 238-239, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie
1 Timothy: 20-21
Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, which some have professed and in so doing have departed from the faith.
Grace be with you all.
1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of the faith.
PSALM 57:1
Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge, I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.
Throw away old messages
Allow yourself to heal. Find new messages that empower you with love, messages that set you free.
pp. 237-238, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie
Romans 15:4
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.