Never-Ending
But let us NOT be discouraged.
The Abiding of the branch in the Vine is a Life of Never-Ending Growth.
He Lives to Give It to us.
Girded Up The Loins
For this reason,
Having girded up the loins of your mind,
Being sober,
Hope perfectly on the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
1 PETER 1.13
Loins of Our Mind
Our thoughts may not be bad, but even good and tasteful thoughts are not conceived at the right time.
This is because the loins of our mind are too loose and not concentrated.
Yet God is Well Able to Restrain our minds and bring our thoughts Into Focus.
Wednesday October 23 2024
ACTS 2.4
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit,
EPHESIANS 5.18
but be filled in the Spirit,
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MATTHEW 18.19
Again, I say to you that if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask—it will be done to them from My Father who is in the heavens,
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COLOSSIANS 2.6-7
as, then, you received Christ Jesus the LORD, walk in Him, being rooted and built up in Him, and confirmed in the faith, as you were taught—abounding in it in thanksgiving.
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PROVERBS 29.25
Fear of man causes a snare, || And the confident in YHWH is set on high.
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PHILIPPIANS 3.12
Not that I already obtained, or have already been perfected, but I pursue, if I also may lay hold of that for which I was also laid hold of by Christ Jesus;
JOHN 15.7
if you may remain in Me, and My sayings may remain in you, whatever you may wish you will ask, and it will be done to you.
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1 PETER 1.13
For this reason, having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly on the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
Forsake All To Follow Thee
Many Christians think that they Receive Jesus as someone who can Save them and Help them, but virtually they deny Him as Master.
They think they have a right to have their own will in a thousand things.
They speak very much what they like, they do very much what they like, they use their property and possessions as they like.
They are their own masters, and they have never dreamed of saying,
Jesus, I Forsake All to Follow Thee.
Ministry To God
…they have not ministered to the Lord.
…their own pleasure and delight having been satisfied.
…to what you inwardly minister is your own flesh!
In Truth, you are not at all seeking to please the Lord.
Let us Ask God to Gives us Grace that we may Know what is Ministry to God.
Believe
The Life of Grace is Always and Only a Life of Faith,
And in the Relationship to Jesus the one daily and unceasing duty of the Disciple is to Believe.