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A New Year Focus

Published on January 1, 2018December 27, 2019 by Nancy DemaryLeave a comment

What will this new year hold for you? None of us are able to see through the portal of the future into the new year. Only God knows our journey — and His loving heart is there no matter what happens. The most important resolution you can make, is to go into this new year holding His Hand. This year, some will face greater hardship, others greater joy — some will experience the death of someone they love, others the joyful birth of a child.

Some of us have determined goals we want to achieve. Goals are good — but do they focus upon God’s mission and purpose for our life or simply our own ideas? Think for a moment, what you are really living for? Is it for God’s glory? This will play a crucial part in how we handle whatever comes our way this year.

Scripture checklist concerning our love for God and desire to glorify Him:

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (Rom. 8:28 KJV)

²My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;³Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.⁴But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James 1:2-4 (KJV)

¹⁰But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. ¹¹To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. 1 Peter 5:10-11 (KJV)

⁶Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: ⁷That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 1 Peter 1:6-7 (KJV)

⁶⁷Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.⁷¹It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. Psalm 119:67, 71 (KJV)

Remember, God has our best interests at heart. If we have faith and trust Him, we will be able to walk through any situation with the confidence that He is in control. Keep focused upon Him and His heart of love for you.

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Who Am I Trusting?

Published on December 9, 2017March 2, 2019 by Nancy Demary2 Comments

bode-1501371__480 (2) God’s Kingdom is like no other. The King is 100% trustworthy. No where else is this found. So who are you trusting in today?

When we respond to the King’s call to enter His Kingdom we obtain a great gift, a certificate of sorts, that entitles us to the benefits of daughters and sons – and God faithfully protects His own.

As you go through this day facing situations, decisions, offenses, how will you handle them? Will you re-act allowing fear to be your guide? Or will you act, trusting that God brings us all things for His purpose and our good. Fear versus trust, the outcomes are very different. If we could see as our Father-the-King sees, we would realize how often we fail to trust Him and rather trust ourselves or another person.

Psalm 1:1-3 tells us that the man or woman who is blessed is the one who trusts in and relies upon God; who’s hope and confidence is in Him. This child is like a fruitful tree, with plenty of water flowing in and sends life forth. Jeremiah 17:5-8 repeats these same thoughts:

Trust in the Lord– and walk under His blessings.

Trust in man– dwell in a parched, wilderness place.

Rely upon the Lord– and have green, flourishing leaves.

Rely upon man– be naked and destitute in a desert place.

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Hope in the Lord– and do not be afraid.

Hope in man– be anxious and fearful.

Jeremiah 17:5 Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the Lord. 6 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. 8 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.” (RSV)

Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. (RSV)

Decide to be firmly planted by trusting in our Heavenly King, and no other. He loves you dearly.

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Light vs. Darkness

Published on June 27, 2017March 2, 2019 by Nancy Demary1 Comment

Walking in the Light is a wonderful place to be! The benefits of having unbroken fellowship with our Creator God and one another is beautiful. Because Christ provided the way to the Father, through His terrible suffering for sin and death on the cross, we are now free to enter into this beautiful place of LIFE!

Safety is found in the Light. Satan’s purpose is to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10). He operates through deception, lying spirits, and whatever leads to separation from God and others. Isolation is a large part of His plan. Guilt and shame keep people isolated in their sin. Praying for someone who is bound is our duty, privilege and opportunity as followers in Christ.

I John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.