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Your Right to a Sound Mind - Spiritled Woman

Your Right to a Sound Mind - Spiritled Woman

{ Day 233 }

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{ Day 233 }
My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in. —Proverbs 3:11-12

God does not say to the sinner, "You have sincerely repented, but look at all these unsettled issues in your life. We will see how you do. Come on in, I guess, but We will be keeping a close eye on you." We think God is this way because we ourselves are this way. People clap with excitement the day a man gets saved and testifies of his desire to leave his old ways and follow the Lord. They cheer and shout, "Praise the Lord! It's real! It counts!" But within a few months, the same crowd is ready to censure him for issues of immaturity they see in his life. Within days their theology changes, and they no longer delight over his growing faith. They turn into grumpy Pharisees, saying, "Bah humbug! Get it right. We're keeping our eye on you now." The Lord says the opposite: "I delight in you when you have zero maturity." If His gladness were based on our performance, He would be a sad God indeed!

{ PRAYER STARTER }

Father, how grateful I am that You delight in me regardless of my immaturity. You love me while You gently lead me into spiritual maturity. Help me to love others in their immaturity and to encourage them to grow instead of discouraging them with my criticism.

Remember, God can enjoy you even while
disapproving of an area of sin in your life.

Word of God

Romans 5:6-21
New International Version (NIV)

6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—
13 To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. 14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.

15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! 16 Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. 17 For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

20 The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

New International Version (NIV)
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'Secrets of the Secret Place' by Bob Sorge

Excerpt taken from 'Secrets of the Secret Place' by Bob Sorge.  This is a great prayer to pray for God to take control of your life and set you apart for Himself.  Thank you God for hearing us!!!

"Holy Spirit, let Your burning jealousy have its consuming way in my life, until every competing affection and false god is completely burned away and until one raging,

all-consuming passion fills my entire being -

love for the altogether Lovely One, Jesus Christ!"  Amen

Psalm 139

Psalm 139
New Living Translation (NLT)

For the choir director: A psalm of David.
1 O Lord, you have examined my heart
and know everything about me.
2 You know when I sit down or stand up.
You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
3 You see me when I travel
and when I rest at home.
You know everything I do.
4 You know what I am going to say
even before I say it, Lord.
5 You go before me and follow me.
You place your hand of blessing on my head.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too great for me to understand!
7 I can never escape from your Spirit!
I can never get away from your presence!
8 If I go up to heaven, you are there;
if I go down to the grave,[a] you are there.
9 If I ride the wings of the morning,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
and your strength will support me.
11 I could ask the darkness to hide me
and the light around me to become night—
12 but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.
To you the night shines as bright as day.
Darkness and light are the same to you.

13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.

17 How precious are your thoughts about me,[b] O God.
They cannot be numbered!
18 I can’t even count them;
they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up,
you are still with me!

19 O God, if only you would destroy the wicked!
Get out of my life, you murderers!
20 They blaspheme you;
your enemies misuse your name.
21 O Lord, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you?
Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?
22 Yes, I hate them with total hatred,
for your enemies are my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 Point out anything in me that offends you,
and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

Footnotes:
a.Psalm 139:8 Hebrew to Sheol.
b.Psalm 139:17 Or How precious to me are your thoughts.

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Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His faithful love endures forever. Psalm 136:1

I love you, O my God; and I desire to love you more and more. Grant to me that I may love you as much as I desire, and as much as I ought. O dearest Friend, who has so loved and saved me, the thought of whom is so sweet and always growing sweeter, watch over my lips, my steps, my deeds, and I shall not need to be anxious either for my soul or my body. Give me love, sweetest of all gifts, which knows no enemy. Give me in my heart pure love, born of your love to me, that I may love others as you love me. O most loving Father of Jesus Christ, from whom flows all love, let my heart, frozen in sin, cold to you and cold to others, be warmed by this divine fire. So help and bless me in your Son. Amen.

Anselm of Canterbury

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Hannah More

[From The One Year Book of Personal Prayer (Carol Stream, III.: Tyndale, 1991)

I BELIEVE... Scriptures to Confess Over Your Life

1. I AM A CHILD OF GOD CREATED IN HIS IMAGE
2. GOD LOVES ME UNCONDITIONALLY
3. GOD HAS WON - IT IS FINISHED
4. GOD IS PLEASED WITH ME
5. THE POWER OF GOD IS MINE FOR HIS GOOD PURPOSE
6. I AM GROWING SPIRITUALLY
7. NOTHING CAN SEPARATE ME FROM THE LOVE OF GOD
8. GOD'S DNA IS IN ME
9. I HAVE AUTHORITY OVER THE DEVIL
10. JESUS DOESN'T CONDEMN ME
11. I HAVE WISDOM
12. GOD DOESN'T CONDEMN ME
13. I ACCEPT AND LOVE MYSELF
14. I HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST
15. I AM ANOINTED WITH GOD'S POWER
16. I AM GOD'S SHEEP AND HIS SHEEP HEAR HIS VOICE
17. I HAVE TALENT AND ABILITY
18. I REST IN GOD
19. I AM THE APPLE OF GOD'S EYE
20. I AM VALUABLE
21. I BELIEVE IN YOU GOD
22. I TRUST IN YOU GOD
23. SIGNS, WONDERS AND MIRACLES FOLLOW ME WHEREVER I GO
24. I RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE FLEES FROM ME
25. THE LORD IS MY REAR GUARD
26. I HAVE AUTHORITY OVER THE DEVIL
27. I WEAR THE FULL ARMOUR OF GOD
28. I AM NO LONGER A SLAVE TO SIN
29. GOD'S POWER IS IN ME
30. I AM HEALTHY AND WELL
31. SURELY GOODNESS AND LOVE WILL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE
32. I HAVE AUTHORITY IN PRAYER
33. I LIVE BY GOD'S GRACE
34. I HAVE FAVOUR WITH GOD AND HE GIVES ME FAVOUR WITH MAN
35. I AM TRANSFORMED INTO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON JESUS CHRIST
36. I IMITATE CHRIST
37. I AM HUMBLE LIKE CHRIST
38. THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST IS IN ME
39. I REIGN AS A KING IN LIFE
40. THE DEVIL IS UNDER MY FEET
41. MY PAST HAS BEEN ERASED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST
42. I WILL NOT STRAY FROM GOD'S WORD
43. MY FUTURE LOOKS EXCITING
44. GOD LOVES ME
45. EVERYTHING I TOUCH PROSPERS AND SUCCEEDS
46. I AM A JOINT HEIR WITH JESUS CHRIST
47. I AM GOD'S PARTNER IN LIFE
48. I REST IN GOD
49. I AM MORE THAN A CONQUEROR IN CHRIST
50. I WILL DO WHAT GOD WANTS ME TO DO AND NOTHING OR NO ONE WILL STOP ME
51. I CAN DO ALL THINGS IN CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME
52. I AM NO LONGER A SLAVE TO SIN
53. THE JOY OF THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH
54. YAHWEH, YOUR BANNER FOR ME IS LOVE
55. I LOVE THE LORD MY GOD WITH ALL MY HEART, MIND, SOUL AND STRENGTH
56. I LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS IT IS WRITTEN
57. THE SAME POWER THAT RAISED CHRIST FROM THE DEAD LIVES IN ME
58. I HAVE STRONG FAITH IN GOD
59. IN ME LIVES THE FULLNESS OF GOD
60. I AM THE HEAD AND NOT THE TAIL
61. JESUS IS THE VINE AND I AM THE BRANCH
62. I AM OBEDIENT TO GOD
63. I LIVE IN GOD AND HE LIVES IN ME
64. IT IS BETTER TO TRUST IN GOD THAN IN MAN
65. I AM THE HOME OF GOD
66. I AM SEATED IN HEAVENLY PLACES
67. GOD IS FOR ME SO NO ONE CAN BE AGAINST ME
68. I WILL RUN THE RACE GOD'S SET FOR ME AND FINISH IT TRIUMPHANTLY
69. I DO NOT HAVE A SPIRIT OF FEAR.  I HAVE GOD'S SPIRIT OF POWER, LOVE AND A SOUND MIND
70. I WILL NOT STOP SEEKING GOD

IN JESUS NAME, AMEN!



DRY BONES (Fill me, my Lord)

Jesus Christ,

My heart will hold on to the expectant hope of you filling it entirely and completely with your love Lord.

I am dry as a river barren but as your love trickles down through me your living water removes the cracks, tears, washes away the stones and fills me completely.  It makes a dry barren land renewed (fresh).

Your Love Oh Lord, is a stream coursing through my body overflowing the banks of the river, spilling onto the dry, parched land surrounding me.  The waste, the desert, the cactus is all flooded and filled, renewed and revived (made alive) by your Spirit (love).

I AM NO LONGER DRY AND EMPTY.  I AM FULL.

I wait expectantly for you..............

Bill Johnson on Testimonies

Bill Johnson on Testimonies