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James and Beth

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I’m still slowly working in my James Study Guide (Beth Moore) and every day I come to it that’s what I need for the time.  Today we read:

7 Therefore, submit to God. Moreover, take a stand against the Adversary, and he will flee from you. 8 Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Clean your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded people!

via James 4:7-8;2 Timothy 2:26 KJV;CJB – Submit yourselves therefore to God. – Bible Gateway.

And this:

26 come to their senses and escape the trap of the Adversary, after having been captured alive by him to do his will.

via James 4:7-8;2 Timothy 2:26 KJV;CJB – Submit yourselves therefore to God. – Bible Gateway.

Now verse 26 in context is speaking of people who are yet unbelievers but in context with Day 3 it is in my face.  Come to your senses and escape the trap of the Adversary. Come to my senses about what? Anything and everything that is troubling, gnawing, frustrating, baffling, — you get the idea?

I have made a PDF of page 143, Week 5, Day 3; it will help clear matters; I hope you will visit the page. Beth Moore James Study W 5 D 3 P 143

At the page, Beth asked: ‘Which “submit to God” encouragement most spoke to you? Why?’

My underlining reveals which for me. See which speaks to you. Click on the words Beth Moore James Study W 5 D 3 P 143  ABOVE and find out.

Thank You, ABBA. I needed this today and I’ll need it another day I suspect. :) Thank You for being YOU and for loving us. I ask that each who comes here will receive Your love, correction, and encouragement even as You have sweetly given me. I love You.  As a dear sister-friend used to say,  Take a reading on our hearts, see others there, their needs, and mine, and do as You will in JESUS’ name.

Day 54 of 2014, praying for revival of the Body of CHRIST.

Kathie

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Revisited 6.16.2023
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Stinging Support

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Well, my Friends, I got some stinging support this morning. Initially, I thought I might withhold the publication name that I was reading because I did not want to give the name as I intended to somewhat disagree.

The statement with which I disagreed? This: “Sometimes the desires they reveal have no moral or spiritual consequences – our taste in food or clothes, for example.”

However, I am certain the unnamed writer was not speaking of gluttony or immodesty as having no moral or spiritual consequences or revelations about our choices and desires when food and clothes were given as examples.

Too much food and too little clothes most certainly reveal something spiritual about us.

Too much food tells me that I am trying to satisfy a legitimate need in an unholy way; too little clothing (or too clingy or too tight) tells me I am trying to satisfy a legitimate need in an unholy way.  But this is not the main purpose of this post.

By the time I reached the end of the prescribed reading for today, I was convinced it was one of the most bell ringing Journey devotionals that I have read in a while. In fact it is so right on that I want to share it with you. I have inserted it here as a PDF. (click Journey 1 17 14 below. If you are reading this in your email, you may have to click the title of this post at the top of your email message and come to the website to access the PDF.) It spoke to me. As I said stinging support. It bites but it also gives me strength to make better choices for JESUS sake; and that will benefit you and me. :)

Journey 1 17 14

By the way, those underlines in the PDF – those are my stings, might not be yours. :)
Love and thanks to you, my Friends, on this 20th day of 2014.

Kathie

Proverbs 11:6 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

6 The righteousness of the upright rescues them, but the treacherous are trapped by their own intrigues.

via Proverbs 11:6 KJV;CJB – The righteousness of the upright shall – Bible Gateway.

Proverbs 11:6 King James Version (KJV)

6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

via Proverbs 11:6 KJV;CJB – The righteousness of the upright shall – Bible Gateway.

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A Fresh Touch

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At the Beth Moore Simulcast on September 15 I accepted her counsel to daily review with JESUS certain Scriptures related to FEAR. I have some fears. And HE intends for me to come to freedom. By the way if you want this list of Scripture you can click HERE and get your own copy.

I loved yesterday’s TEXT. It was blunt, to the point and delivered with His holy, loving gentleness to my heart. I loved it!! I said that already, didn’t I?  Here’s yesterday’s:

“Say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Don’t be afraid or cowardly because of these two smoldering stubs of firebrands . . . “

Isaiah 7:4 HCSB

I’m telling you I love it! “Calm down and be quiet – that’s nothing! I got this!”

That’s what it said to me. I can hear HIM saying it. I can see the love in His eyes and the loving grin on is Face when He said it to me! He is so AWESOME!!

Today.
Well, today is just as loving, just as kind, just as wonderful and just as blunt and correcting!

Isaiah 35:4 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

4 Say to the cowardly: “Be strong; do not fear! Here is your God; vengeance is coming. God’s retribution is coming; He will save you.”

via Is 35:4 HCSB – Say to the cowardly: “Be strong; do – Bible Gateway.

Cowardly.
I don’t care much for that word. Not at first blush. Perhaps you don’t like it either. HOWEVER, it does fit. King James translation uses the word fearful. New American Standard uses the word anxious. And I checked a few other versions each uses either fearful or anxious. And we get the meaning, right?

Cowardly is not flattering. But neither is JESUS. He is Truth.

Cowardly does mean fearful. Anxious. Timid. And so on.

However. In the middle of my heart came a sobering message. It bites a bit but it is freeing when applied.

Say to the cowardly – the timid, the fearful, the anxious . . .

What is often the hallmark of anxious, timid, fearfulness? Is it: Negative, complaining words leading to negative, complaining, anxious countenance? Yeah.  I’m Afraid so. :)

So could it be that our complaining, negative, ‘what now!’ words are actually announcing that we are acting in a cowardly way?  Could it be that our complaining, negative, ‘come on now!’ words are actually saying:

“I am afraid, GOD.”
“I am afraid of what is happening right now.”
“I am afraid of what will happen.”
“I am afraid, GOD, that You really don’t have my back here.”

And to the cowardly, The HOLY SPIRIT of GOD says: “Be strong; do not fear! Here is your GOD; vengeance is coming. God’s retribution is coming; He will save you.”

Now how’s that for a loving correction?!  And in the words of my Pastor: “Get it? Got it! Good!”

Today I am first of all praising and thanking ABBA for this message. And I am here with not new requests but the same. All the same. They are not old – to Him or me – just ready for a fresh touch today.

ABBA, thank You. Thank You for Your Word that is forever fresh, forever alive to give a fresh touch each time we read. Thank You for Your personal touch to every open heart. Thank You for the touch You have for each one who comes here to read and pray today. It is my prayer each will accept and receive what You have for them. Mindful now, of many: Nicole and Matt; Dori, Kerri, Pam, Debbie; others grieving and adjusting to a new kind of normal; hard-willed children, grandchildren and spouses. Israel. America. November’s Election. Arrogant, blindness. And the BODY of CHRIST.  All matters important to our beings. In each of our individual places, we come believing You, loving You and entrusting them and us to You in JESUS Mighty and Holy name.

Blessings to you Dear Friends    +++

Remember YOU have the God-given RIGHT to do right in this wrong world!