"No amount of fretting will change anything. Does worrying make matters any better? No. So, shouldn’t we learn to tenderly trust God and to take life as it comes to us? Yes. For, worry is useless. So, let us fret not." -kww
Psalm 37 will help us.
So, i begin again to turn worry into worship.
Pastor Kerry Willis
“And it was observed, that in the greatest hurry of business in the kitchen, Brother Lawrence still preserved his recollection and heavenly-mindedness. He was never hasty nor loitering, but did each thing in its season, with an even uninterrupted composure and tranquillity of spirit. “The time of business,” said he, “does not with me differ from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clutter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess GOD in as great tranquillity as if I were upon my knees at the Blessed Sacrament.”
* Excerpt From The Practice of the Presence of God
Now i begin again to observe His Presence.
Pastor Kerry Willis
"Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness." Jesus, Matthew 23:28 NLT
i would say the cure for our hypocrisy is His Holiness. In other words if we are to cure our hypocrisy in our public lives we will have to become holy in our private lives, yes, increased intimacy with Jesus Himself is the cure.” -kww
So i begin again.
Pastor Kerry Willis
Jesus… You are...
…my purity -- my holiness...
…my clarity -- my vision...
…my sanity -- my wisdom...
…Amen.
Now i begin again… in Your Name!
Pastor Kerry Willis
Thoughts inspired by Oswald Chambers, today:
Patience is more than endurance.
Trust yourself in God’s hands.
Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith.
Faith is… vigorous confidence built on the fact that God is Holy Love.
You cannot see Him just now, you cannot understand what He is doing, BUT YOU KNOW HIM.
Fling yourself in reckless confidence on God.
God has ventured all in Jesus Christ to save us, now He wants us to to venture all in abandoned confidence in Him.
This is eternal life, that they might know Thee. The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything without wavering.
My prayer based on these thoughts: "Lord, i want to trust You without wavering again today and day-by-day and night-after-night. Amen.” -kww
Now i begin again to confidently trust God!
Pastor Kerry Willis
“In a post-Pentecost dispensation we must not settle for being mere "followers’ of Jesus. Our inheritance has increased in intimacy. Jesus now wants us to be ‘sanctuaries’ of His Spirit. At Pentecost the outside God moved to the inside -- from ‘first with His people’ to ‘finally within His people.’ Ever since this reality happened God’s Presence dwelling within those who belong exclusively to Him has been -- and still is -- Christianity Plan A. There is no Plan B." -kww
"And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor--Counselor, Strengthener, Standby), to be with you forever-- the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be IN you." -Jesus, John 14:16-17 AMP
"On that day [when that time comes] you will know for yourselves that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am IN you." -Jesus, John 14:20 AMP
"I have made You known to them, and will continue to make You known in order that the love You have for Me may be in them and that I Myself may be IN them."-Jesus, John 17:26 NIV
"I have been crucified with Christ [that is, in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives IN me. The life I now live in the body I live by faith [by adhering to, relying on, and completely trusting] in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me." Galatians 2:20 AMP
"For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work IN you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure." Philippians 2:13 AMP
"Christ IN you the hope of glory." -Colossians 1:27b
"Holiness is Christ IN me." -Matt Mayer
So, i begin again with Christ IN ME!
Pastor Kerry Willis
"If you feel yourself being riddled and say ‘I don’t know what to believe,’ go to God on the authority of Jesus Christ, and ask Him to give you the Holy Spirit, and experience what the New Testament means by regeneration. It means receiving a new heredity. Jesus Christ never asks anyone to define their position or to understand a creed, but -- "Who am I to you?" Has Jesus Christ made any difference at all to me and my actual life? Jesus Christ makes the whole of human destiny depend on one’s relationship to Himself." -Oswald Chambers
"If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!" Luke 11:13 NKJV
Now, i begin again by the Holy Spirit!
Pastor Kerry Willis
