How To Build A Vibrant Spiritual Life...🙏🌿🌼

How To Grow A Vibrant Spiritual Life🙏🌿🌼

What if we consider this sowing-and-reaping principle (Proverbs 24:30–34) in terms of our spiritual life? Specifically in our relationship with God.

We might not all live in castles or own vineyards, but we do all have the most valuable possession in the world: a human heart, soul, and spiritual life that needs tending.

Which scene resembles your inner quality of life in the following ways:

Your spiritual life and relationship with the Lord,

and your relationship with yourself?

If you’re like me, it’s probably a mix of the two.

Tending To Your Spiritual Life

There are places in my relationship with the Lord I can honestly say are well-cultivated.

For me, being in the Bible and in prayer are two places I’ve experienced incredible life. I have also put myself on the line in order to be obedient to his direction—even though it’s been scary and uncomfortable.

It’s a mainstay of my personal relationship with Jesus.

I may not have a heart populated by colonnades and cascading fountains, but there is life there for both myself and for others.

But if I dig deeper:

What about pride and my desire for recognition and praise?

What about envy?

What about my greed?

What about mean-spiritedness and incessant judgment of other people based on appearances?

What about how I deal with anger?

And the list goes on…

You see, the further I look past the well-tended fixtures of my inner life, I notice neglected places and crumbling walls.

I see nettles intruding on flower beds, choking the life out of what is good.

Tending To Your Personal Inner Life

The same goes for my relationship with myself.

Do I hold myself accountable for my attitudes?

Do I deal with anger before it blossoms into resentment?

Am I the same person in private as I am in public?

Am I cultivating habits that, while not comfortable, will produce life?

And again, the list goes on…

I encourage you to survey your spiritual life in the same way. Find both areas that are flourishing and those that are crumbling.

How can you be diligent to tend to both? How will you increase fruitful areas while tilling up the weed-infested ones and starting over?

For me, it all starts with a willingness to see reality. So, are you willing to see the real problems that exist in your heart? Are you willing to admit that there are cycles of trouble in your life that don’t stem from everyone else’s actions, but are caused by your own attitudes and dispositions?

Here’s the deal. Until you own the entirety of your inner life—the fruit trees and the weeds—you’ll never have the power or clarity to nurture it to its full potential.

So, if you find yourself in a spiritual draught, be diligent in cultivating the places where life can be found.

We can nurture wonderful landscapes within our hearts and minds—but we must do so on purpose. The question today is....are you/will you?

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!💖

Trust and Obey...🙏🌿🌼

Today’s Word:

There was a very long and rarely-used trail across Nevada’s Amargosa Desert that had one old well on it. The following letter was found in a baking-power can wired to the handle of the old pump that offered the only hope of drinking water:

*“This pump is all right as of June 1932. I put a new sucker washer into it and it ought to last five years. But the washer dries out and the pump has got to be primed. Under the white rock I buried a bottle of water, out of the sun and cork end up. There’s enough water in it to prime the pump, but not if you drink some first. Pour about one-fourth and let her soak to wet the leather. Then pour in the rest medium fast and pump like crazy. You’ll git water. The well has never run dry. Have faith. When you git watered up, fill the bottle and put it back like you found it for the next feller.*

_(signed) Desert Pete_

*P.S. Don’t go drinking the water first. Prime the pump with it and you’ll git all you can hold.*

Too many times we want the after without exercising faith in the before. The thirsty traveler had to prime the pump before all the water flowed. Christ has a well of hope, joy, peace, and love which will never run dry. Prime the pump in prayer and obedience and thank God today for the outpouring of his blessings.

Today’s Prayer:

Father, thank You for Your grace and mercy. Help me to be steadfast in prayer trusting that Your commands are not grevious.  There will be a blessing on the other side of tribulation if I trust You and obey. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen.

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!💖

God’s Word United With Your Weakness...🙏🌿🌼

While you were once weak, now you are strong; where once you would have trembled and fallen, now you stand unmoved like a house built on a solid rock.

What is this unseen power? What is your new life? It is the life and power of God’s word united with your weakness. It is the life and power of God Himself, for God goes with His word “working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight.” “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.”  You alone, without the Word in you, are like a house that is built on the sand. There is nothing to hold you up when the floods come and the winds blow. It is utterly impossible for you to withstand the tempest, for you do not have strength in yourself.  But even if you are the most helpless person who ever lived, God is willing to take you—if you will submit to Him—and work through you in the most marvelous manner by His mighty word. He loves to do it. 

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 Water Of Life...🙏🌿🌼

Have you ever been so thirsty that you felt like you were going to die?

Can you imagine being
so thirsty for God that without Him you would perish? Turn to Jesus, the Water of Life, and He will quench your deepest longings.

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!💖

Now Is The Acceptable Time!...🙏🌿🌼

Christianity in the present tense takes you just where it finds you; and therefore you don’t need to wait or be discouraged. The Lord intends to save you and He cannot do this except by taking you just where you are now, and just where you are at each succeeding moment of your life. Each moment will become “now” as soon as you reach it. If He cannot save you in this way, He cannot save you at all. But He has assured you that He is able to save you, to the very uttermost, if you will look to Him.  Therefore the only thing to do is simply to look to Him now and believe now, without reference to your past failures or future hopes. The only starting point in the Christian life is “now;” the only point attainable is “now.” To live now is not for you to wish or resolve or anticipate now, but to believe and take. It is looking to Christ now. It is when you forget to live in the present moment, by not surrendering the moment to Jesus Christ for grace and strength, that you fail. 

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!💖

Dedicate Yourself to the Lord...🙏🌿🌼

Today’s Word:

We arrive at this day January 1st, every 365.25 days—the number of days it takes the earth to revolve around the sun. We call that period a year, and we call it New Year’s Day. January 1 is a marker, telling us that time is moving on. Perhaps the most sobering reminder it brings is that our days are decreasing in number.

When things become scarce, we tend to treat them more valuably. The fewer dollars we have, the more careful our spending. The same applies to time. If we approach the end of our life with limited years left, we should be careful about how we live. For the Christian, that means asking a primary question: How am I doing with God? The Christian life is based on the idea of growth. Just as a healthy plant grows taller and more fruitful over time, so should our spiritual life. January 1 is a great opportunity to assess how we are growing in God.

Give thought and prayer today to where you are and where you could be spiritually at the end of this new year. 

The year is made up of minutes: Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God.

Prayer for Today:

Father, thank You that You  make all things new.  Thank You for all that You've allowed into my life this past year. It reminded me of how much I need You daily. I pray that Your Spirit will lead me each step of this New Year. I ask that You will guide my decisions and turn my heart to deeply desire You above all else. Help me to pursue You first in everything. Thank You for calling me to follow You and Your direction in my life. In Jesus' precious Name, Amen.

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!💖

Happy New Year!🙏🌼🌿✨️🌙💛