The Battle Is The Lord’s...Stand Still...🕊🌿🌼

So it shall be, when you are on the verge of battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people. And he shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel: Today you are on the verge of battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not be afraid, and do not tremble or be terrified because of them; for the Lord your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’

Deuteronomy 20:2‭-‬4 Walk In Faith...

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within Our Heart!

We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  

PRAISE THE LORD!💖

The Touchstone...🕊🌼🌿

A touchstone is a tablet of dark stone, finely grained, that is used for determining the quality of soft metals.

Scripture is our touchstone.

God has authored and inspired it through the pens of faithful men to reveal Himself to us.

He has shown us His holiness, His perfection, His grace, His justice, all of these facets of Himself and His character.

We must, like a piece of gold being tested, draw ourselves across the stone of the Bible. Instead of comparing ourselves with each other, we should look to God’s word as the measure of our lives.

Don’t give your joy away to comparison against the lives of imperfect human beings, but instead compare yourself with Christ for a true measure of spiritual fruit.

Open your Bible today and let the word of God encourage, challenge, and restore you!

-SD Devotional 

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within Our Heart!

We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  

PRAISE THE LORD!💖

Living Water...🕊🌼🌿

Jesus gives us living water. The Bible is like a river of life, and everything lives whenever His Word is preached. If you have the spirit in your life, your mind, heart becomes like a river of life. God wants that river to flow through us to reach others.

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

Isaiah 44:3

The Faith of Jesus!🕊🌿🌼

The faith of Jesus is a faith so deep, so trusting, so committed, that all the demons in the cosmos and all the trials on earth cannot shake it. It is a faith that trusts when it cannot see, believes when it cannot understand, hangs on when there is little to hang on to. This “faith of Jesus” is itself a gift we receive by faith and it will carry us through the crisis ahead. It is “the faith of Jesus” dwelling in our hearts that enables us to worship Christ as supreme and steadfastly endure when Revelation’s mark of the beast is enforced.

Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Revelation 14:12 

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within Our Heart!

We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  

PRAISE THE LORD!💖

How To Be Changed Like Paul...🕊🌼🌿

How To Be Changed Like Paul:

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, (Romans 1:1​ ESV)

Paul isn’t simply saying that he was ear marked for ministry—he was irrevocably transported to a new reality.

His new horizon as an apostle was vastly different than his old one as the disciple-persecuting Saul. And when your horizon is different, your entire future is changed.

Paul was expressing the irrevocable transformation the gospel worked in him. It wasn’t simply that some of his habits and ways of thinking changed at his conversion. It was that his entire horizon changed. God transported him from one place to another—from a dead life to a living one.

Paul didn’t simply change directions, he changed locations. And this is what it means to encounter the gospel of Jesus Christ and be made new.

What is the new horizon God has given you? -SD Devotional

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within Our Hearts....We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon! PRAISE THE LORD!💖

How To Be Changed Like Paul 🕊🌿🌼

How To Be Changed Like Paul:

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, (Romans 1:1​ ESV)

The secret of Paul’s greatness is that he was first a “servant” and second an “apostle.”

To understand and emulate Paul, we need to focus on his relationship with Jesus before we look at his feats of faith.

We should be astounded that Paul submitted to the authority of a man killed as a Jewish blasphemer and heretic—Jesus of Nazareth.

That is the power of the gospel to change people—to change us. There is no power greater and no heart too far. What an encouragement—and challenge to our limited beliefs—the life of Paul is. The gospel can change any heart, any time, anywhere.

The heart of Paul’s ministry is his intimacy and obedience to Jesus. He was a man under orders, not in control of his own life and destiny.

He looked to Jesus. He listened to Jesus. He obeyed Jesus.

He was a servant before he was an apostle. A man who gave up control of his life; who modeled what it means to submit to Jesus as Lord.

Are you a servant of Jesus? And more importantly, do you live like it? -SD Devotional

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within our Hearts....We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon! PRAISE THE LORD!💖

How To Be Changed Like Paul!🕊🌼🌿

How To Be Changed Like Paul:

Jesus worked in Paul before he ever worked through him.

Paul met the Christ he persecuted on the road to Damascus—and in a blinding flash—his life changed forever (Acts 9). And we simply cannot overstate the importance of this moment.

One moment, he was “breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord,” (Acts 9:1), and three days later he received a vision from Jesus that a man named Ananias would restore his sight (Acts 9:12).

Saul was transformed from persecutor to prophet. But he first had to encounter the gospel power of Jesus.

Today, my prayer isn’t first: “Lord use me like Paul!” It’s, “Lord change me like Saul!”

As the saying goes: Changed people change people.

Do you long for Christ’s power in you—or just through you?  

-SD Devotional 

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within our Hearts....We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  PRAISE THE LORD!💖