Highs -n- Lows Living with the Disease

Monday, October 21st

Another beautiful morning...so many things to be thankful for :-)

Tonight, there is a speaking at church that suffered 19 years with a rare nerve disease and was healed after falling out of her wheelchair.  She saw Jesus and He healed her  :-) I continue to pray for healing.. Thank you Lord!

As my friends and I continued our discussion about our journey...We talked about taking in kids to help them in the situation they were in...everyone wants to know they are loved and these kids were struggling...
God gave us the gift to love and respect them.  To help them gain the conference and find the help they needed to move forward in a positive way.  To help them regain hope...when hope was lost..

Sometimes we face life in darkness but with God as our light we are able to do anything we put our heart and minds to...

To judge others is to judge God...

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Today's Bible Study

Making Big Requests of God

Read | John 14:9-14

Jesus often spoke about the role of prayer for the believer and the church. He guaranteed His presence when two or more gather in unity to pray. He also promised to act whenever believers speak to God in the authority of Christ’s name. Jesus taught that God is to be the focus of our petitions, and He showed by example that the basis for ministry is communion with the Father.

If we want God to release His power into a situation, it’s important that we do two things:

First, we must depend solely on Jesus’ merits and mediation. Our new life as children of God began when we acknowledged our helplessness and accepted Christ’s substitutionary death on our behalf (Rom. 5:6). He acted as our mediator and reconciled us to the Father (1 Tim. 2:5). If we want God to do mighty works in and through us, we must continue in that same spirit of dependence on Christ (Gal. 2:20).

Second, we must separate from all known sin. At the cross, when the Savior paid our penalty for transgression, sin’s controlling power over us was broken. However, its presence remains in this world and also lingers in us. Gossip, laziness, gluttony, and selfishness are commonplace occurrences. The remedy for every sin is to confess it to God, turn away from that attitude or behavior, and receive God’s forgiveness and cleansing (1 John 1:9). He uses cleansed vessels.

If we are going to make big requests of God, we must come to Him with clean hearts and hands—that is, solely on the merits of His Son Jesus.

Another great day!