This morning I was listening to a Christian book while I ran. The author was talking about how as parents we have to learn to listen to our children, and as believers we have to learn to listen to God. He said people are always asking how to discern God's will in major life decisions, and part of the answer is to practice listening to Him in the everyday decisions.
I don't take the time to listen to God in the daily things. I simply rely on my own knowledge and common sense. While those things are gifts that God has given me to use, I also want to remember that I have the Holy Spirit to guide me. I want to practice listening to God and knowing His will daily.
Romans 12:2 (NIV)
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will.
On a side note, earlier today there was a devastating typhoon in Saipan. A friend from college is living there with her husband and two small children. They are safe, but lost their home and most belongings. She says there is no electricity and water on the island. Please pray for their safety, immediate needs, and peace.
"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?" 1 Corinthians 3:16, NIV
ReplyDeleteGood one, Erin!
ReplyDelete"The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith." 1 Timothy 1:5 (ESV)
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34 (ESV)
ReplyDeleteThankful for the Seeds of worship - It has made learning this verse a breeze already:)
ReplyDeleteCall to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know
Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV)
“For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh,”
ReplyDeleteRomans 8:3 NIV
With sin being increasingly tolerated, it can make me so scared to send our kids out into the world...but this verse reminds me that God's gift of Jesus's death and then resurrection is always ALWAYS more powerful than the flesh's powerful opposition to the Spirit.
great Truth! thanks, Gretch!
DeleteSo I missed last time; I'll post my next 3 Galatians verses. Taken together, there will be 6, one for each chapter, and they tell the story of the book of Galatians.
ReplyDelete"We know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified." Galatians 2:16
"Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith." Galatians 3:24
"And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!'" Galatians 4:6
But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31
ReplyDeleteAdding to what I've been working on...
ReplyDeletePsalm 121:7-8
The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
I am also posting my verse for next time, since we will be on vacation.
Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
James 4:7-8a Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.
ReplyDeletePut on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved,
ReplyDeleteCompassionate Hearts
Kindness
Humility
Meekness and
Patience,
bearing with one another, FORGIVING each other; as the LORD has forgiven you, so you must also forgive. And above all these, put on LOVE, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3:12-14
Sorry I'm late!
ReplyDeleteHumble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time.
1 Peter 5:6
I never posted my August 1st verse.
ReplyDelete“The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.”
Proverbs 13:4 ESV