-
Planting Seeds Day 9: Bear Fruit
We plant seeds that grow and eventually bear fruit. Let’s keep connected to Jesus and bear fruit that brings true joy! I am the true vine, and My Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch that doesn’t bear fruit, and He prunes what does bear fruit so that it will be even more…
-
Planting Seeds Day 8: Holy Spirit Guide
There are so many types of guides we may run into in our life. We mostly aren’t shy about respecting the expertise of others and we welcome help when we can find it or afford it. We may engage a marriage counselor, a business mentor, a life coach, an accountant, a lawyer, a tax-preparer, a…
-
Planting Seeds Day 7: Build and Rebuild
However God calls you to plant seeds for His kingdom, you won’t get far if you haven’t paid attention to the building that is the foundation for your faith: Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them is like a man building a house who dug deep and laid a…
-
Planting Seeds Day 6: Good Soil
Our eagerness to plant seeds is a wonderful thing! It spurs us on with added emotion to our spiritual demeanor. When God shows us something new, we become filled with joy and enthusiasm for such blessings. The energy we feel from serving God and being His voice can be exhilarating! But in this parable Christ…
-
Planting Seeds Day 5: Send Me
Isaiah the prophet was called to plant seeds for the people of Israel to clearly follow their God, but his awareness of their sin blocked his own sense of confidence in this role. God had a special vision for Isaiah that made all the difference! We know that we are sent to plant seeds for…
-
Planting Seeds Day 4: Feed My Sheep
This is one of my favorite passages in Scripture, because I have been on this John 21 beach! In 2002 I spent four months in Israel and was able to jump in the car and in a few hours reach pretty much any place mentioned in the Bible. This beach is by the Sea of…
-
Planting Seeds Day 3: Good News
Jesus’ ministry started officially when He was in the synagogue in Nazareth. He didn’t list things for us to do, but described a vision of what it will look like already done. And who would do it! Jesus stood up to read the scroll of Isaiah: The Spirit of the LORD is on Me, because…
-
Planting Seeds Day 2: I AM
Planting seeds for His harvest starts with a clearer understanding of just Who it is that designed and commanded this cycle of life that originated with our One and Only God. He is a sending God and sends us out to labor for this harvest of souls, supplied with all that He is in our…
-
Planting Seeds Day 1: The First Gardener
God is the Creator. He not only created the heavens and the earth that we now see, but He created the seasons, the rain, good soil and all the processes that had to happen for Him to be the First and best Creator-Gardener. Those systems serve to bring about a physical and a spiritual harvest…
-
Habits of Jesus Day 21: Go
God said to Isaiah, Who will go? And Isaiah said, “I’ll go!” In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, sitting on a throne, and the train of His robe was filling the temple. Above Him were worshiping angels, each with six wings: with two wings they covered their…
happy hunger
FIVE MARKS OF A DISCIPLE: OCTOBER 5 – NOVEMBER 2
Posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: Fasting builds intimacy with God, and encourages you to grow inwardly, upwardly, and outwardly. Explore five marks of a transformed disciple of Jesus and determine five actions that will allow God to change you. An action that applies to each mark is focus. Fasting and prayer is God’s way for us to find the kind of focus that builds intimacy within and actions without. Be with Him. Be like Him. Do what He wants.
COMING NEXT! MAKING SPACE: NOVEMBER 4 – NOVEMBER 27
Reflect on how to use fasting to make more space for God in your life. Make space in the moment and better reflect God to others. Make space in the morning and enjoy intimacy with Him. Make space in your conversations with others and learn how to listen like He does. Make space in your schedule to breathe and be refreshed by Him. Make space in your commitments so that you can say Yes! to the things He wants you to do. God made a space in this world for us. Let’s return the favor!
