running the race
Monday, January 19, 2009 @ 5:58 PM
I subscribed to daily verses at http://www.heartlight.org/ awhile ago and it's been blessing me everytime I check my email. Be blessed as well! (I usually post when I check my email since blogger and gmail are linked, yay and that's when I'll be prompted to share certain verses with y'all :)) The verses are almost always timely. All is perfect in God's timing.
Life's how you look at it. Our perceptions matter 100% (like attitude does) but the love of God overpowers everything else huh. "And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." -Romans 5:5
"THOUGHT:
Hope has become such a "wimpy" term in modern vocabulary. It hardly qualifies as an adequate translation of the meaning in most New Testament passages. Hope is the assurance that what we believe will happen. We could call it spiritual confidence. We have that spiritual confidence because more than just a wish, more than just an emotion, more than just a belief rests in our hearts; God himself lives in us through his Holy Spirit. When we become Christians, Jesus pours out the Spirit upon us (Titus 3:3-7) as God's gift to us (Acts 2:38; 5:32) to cleanse us (1 Cor. 6:11), make us part of the same Body (1 Cor. 12:12-13), and live inside us (1 Cor. 6:19-20). Paul adds one more thing to that list of blessings from God's presence within us -- God's love. We don't just have it; God keeps refreshing it through the Holy Spirit, just as Jesus had promised (John 7:37-39)."
It's because of that hope we have in God (Isaiah 40:28-31) we live our lives in such ways. Praise Him above all!
I think 'Lord I offer my life to you's a very anointed song for us sec 4s. Somehow.
Lord, I offer my life to you
Everything I've been through
Use it for your glory
Lord I offer my days to you
Lifting my praise to you
as a pleasing sacrifice