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!💖

Happy Father's Day!🌿

Living by Faith!🕊🌼🌿

Living by faith, we receive His grace, and our lives are changed. The committed followers of the Savior not only will have faith “in” Jesus but also will have the faith “of ” Jesus. Jesus’ quality of end-time faith will be theirs, and they will remain faithful, even unto death, as Jesus did...SSQ

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!💖

The Faithful Minority...🕊🌼🌿

Only a small proportion of earth's inhabitants will escape from the overwhelming deceptions of the last days and be saved. A little remnant, as always, will be more concerned about doing right than pleasing self, the crowd, or some other individual. The record of history consistently chronicles the story of that small company of dissenters who dared to reject the comfortable appeal of the crowd. The majority seem never to be searching for truth so much as for a smooth, easy, convenient religion which will allow them to live as they please. To them any doctrine which demands self denial or a disciplined lifestyle is bad news

 "When the son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8). In the same discourse He declared, "As it was in the days of Noe, so it will be also in the days of the Son of man” (Luke 17:26).

 Let us continue to pray for strength for the journey!

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!💖

Powerful Magnets of Temptation 🕊🌼🌿

Powerful magnets of temptation are all around us trying to disturb our spiritual balance and turn us upside down. Those who trust in feeling and majority opinion are easily up-ended by the strong attraction of outside forces. Consoled by the presence of so many others about them doing the same thing, they soon begin to see everything in relation to their distorted view. They reverse all the signs in order to read them better, and develop a firm conviction that they are balanced and correct, while everyone differing from them is wrong. Eventually they see wrong as right and right as wrong. Anyone who goes contrary to his or her perceptions is instantly branded as a fanatic or a critical troublemaker.

This points up one great truth: We cannot measure right and wrong by our feeling or by what the majority are doing! We need something from outside ourselves to tell us where the truth lies. Our impulses may be just as real as the pull of the magnet, but they could also be just as misleading. Our numerous friends may be most respectable and religious but their status stone could be linked to the same false guidance system, cleverly sabotaged by the enemy.  -Amazing Facts 

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!💖

God’s Plan For You!🕊🌼🌿💞

God has a plan for you, and it will be used to bless the world around you!

Today, during tough situations, God wants us to know he has a plan and purpose.

He also wants us to know that as we submit to his plan, he will use us to bless the world. The key remains during both good and difficult times: "You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart."

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!💖

Look Forward...🕊🌼🌿

Look Forward:  The Babylonians destroyed the first temple that Solomon built (1 Kings 8).

It was breathtaking. It represented the height of Israel’s power. The older priests and leaders knew the new temple would never touch that level of grandeur.

Rather than celebrate that God was reuniting his people, restoring worship, and repairing their connection with him, they lamented. They couldn’t see the gain because they only focused on what used to be.

God was doing a new thing, but they couldn’t let go of the old. They missed a chance at joy, at trusting God, at looking forward.

We cling to nostalgia and wrap ourselves in comfortable memories. We dream about the glory days and "run down" (or even outright prevent) the new things God’s doing now.

Don’t cling to the old when God is doing something new! - Daily Devotions 

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!💖