What do people see IN you?
The following is for our meditation during our quiet time with the Lord, Psalms 1.
It is not intended for a rushed or casual snack!
Are you a reflection of the influence of the World, the flesh, or the influence of the Word, the Holy Spirit??
What you feed on will influence all that you say and do, your character.
The following Scripture, highlighted Devotional and prayer needs to be a regular meditation and reminder for us all throughout the rest of our lives!!!!!!
If we truly have Jesus Christ living within our bodies and minds we very well may happen to be the ONLY Bible some people will ever see or read!!!!
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Psa 100:1-5
Our Daily Walk
August 26, 2020
WALKING WITH JESUS
"As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him." — Col 2:6.
THE DAILY walk of the Christian soul is so absolutely important because it is our witness to the world.
Our character, as exemplified in our behaviour, is the world's only Bible and sermon......
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(2Co 3:2-3) You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone, revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.
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.....Let us learn to walk so as to please God, and to bless mankind. To walk is at first a matter of considering every little step, but afterwards it becomes the habit of the soul.....
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(Col 1:9-10) ....we... .....have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects — bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
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.......We received Jesus into our hearts by faith. He entered through the open door and became our Lord and Master.
In the same manner we must live always and everywhere, receiving from Him,
by faith(Trusting, faithful, dependence),
grace(Divine Influence) upon grace(Divine Influence),
and allowing what He works in, to work out in all manner of godliness,
tenderness,
and Christlikeness.
This practice of looking to Jesus for grace (Divine Influence) in every circumstance of life tends to become more and more habitual—
and this is what the Apostle means when he says, "Rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in......
'...the faith' (which is.... 'the walk' or 'in His way' on 'His Path')."
But such 'a walk' is only possible when we have learned to "crucify the flesh with the affections and lusts".....
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(Gal 5:24-25) Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.
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......The flesh is the assertion of our self-life, whether in lesser or grosser forms,
but whenever self intrudes, it exercises...
...a 'baleful influence'
....on our behaviour and conversation.
Just as the iron of the steamer will deflect the needle of the compass, so the intrusion of our self-life will act as a drag upon our character and walk.
How can we crucify the flesh?
Only by allowing the Holy Spirit to have supreme control.
He makes the Cross every day dearer and more effective. He will conquer evil habits in us and for us, while we stand by as more than conquerors through His grace (Divine Influence).
If we will be led by Him, there will not only be deliverance from the self-life, but He will produce in us the fruit of holy living which will please God and refresh men.
PRAYER
Let Thy Holy Spirit be continually with us, and may we feel the powerful effects of Thy Divine Grace constantly directing and supporting our steps.
AMEN.