Hello Dear Friends,
Respectfully, If you are feeling sick or hurt or abandoned or forgotten or mislead in anything … May I make a suggestion to you? Check your Bible for God’s thoughts He thinks toward you. Knowing and believing in God’s love for me personally, holds me personally in a place of trusting God beyond human comprehension -until I can see what God already knew!
Sometimes, I think people probably think, that I write about things I don’t understand. Well, in part this is true, I don’t understand all you are going through, but God does. Yet, I do go through many difficult things that you don’t know about either, but God does. In these things we can be of a good courage to each other, because God works it all together that we can encourage each other without knowing all the details. I am convinced that if I am going through anything on any level, it is for someone else.
Well, to break that down, why did Jesus come as a baby? How can we relate to being tender, gentle and kind to a baby. Isn’t it because we understand that a baby needs what we have to offer?
Jesus understand you and Jesus understands me and God has woven us together by His Word to be of One Family who is build on Jesus together to help each other. And this is why I am here for you today. To encourage you without saying a word.
What makes a difference to my outcome is “by my faith in Jesus Name” literally. And, so I will share two things God has given me to share today and like yesterday’s devotions, they tie together in a way that …
I believe with all my heart filled with Jesus that, Friends, WHEN you receive this, which means you will, you will never be the same!
I really am convinced in God’s love for you that much!
Welcome to Part 1 of Today’s Daily Devotion!
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Daily Devotion to God’s Holy Word.
How Much Does God Love You? Part 1, By Karen Rowe
What does the Bible say around this Scripture?
It is so important to understand that God’s message to us is that God SO LOVED the world!May I make a suggestion?
Would you consider there is a difference in that Jeremiah 29:11 actually says that God knows the thoughts that He thinks toward you.
How does this make a difference, to a change of words from what we hear quoted all the time? Does the Bible say, God’s plans for you? OR actually, God’s thoughts that He thinks toward you, thoughts of Peace to give you an expected end.
Just Jesus.(PERIOD) It is finished/New Beginnings is the expected end.
God is so Good, we have to pray each day for a method Of Jesus.
God’s thoughts toward Jonah was NOT of evil, but of highly favored!
God’s thoughts toward Jonah was NOT of evil, but of highly favored! God allowed Jonah to go …, because Jonah had to see. BUT GOD sent the whale to protect Jonah for the time it took Jonah to change his mind TOWARD God!
TOWARD:
“in the direction of God; as regards; in relation to God.”
God knows the thoughts that he thinks (of you? NO) TOWARD YOU, saith the Lord, thoughts of PEACE, and (God thought you needed to hear) and NOT OF EVIL, … thoughts of peace to give you an expected (IN CHRIST) end.
thoughts of Peace
and not of evil
thoughts of peace to give you an expected end.
For I know the thoughts that I think TOWARD you, saith the Lord , thoughts of PEACE, and not of evil, TO give you an expected end. THEN shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I WILL hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I WILL be found of you, saith the Lord : and I WILL turn away your captivity, and I WILL gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord ; and I WILL bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
Jeremiah 29:11-14 KJV
In the belly of the fish God sent to hold and protect Jonah UNTIL Jonah turned his thoughts TOWARD God …
We have this verse to apply to our own life in our own struggles.
Verse 12 is directly before Verse 13 & after verse 11.
I hope this is a blessings to you too.
This is the Verse that come after just knowing that God knows the thoughts he thinks toward us; and you call upon Jesus and GO and Pray unto Jesus.
Do you trust God’s Word to you is of peace an expected end to your troubles.
Jesus said, do not LET your heart be troubled, You believe in God, believe also in me.
Please look that up for yourself to ensure no one misquotes God’s Word to you, including me.
Go get the Truth from God personally.
With much love in Christ, I share this with you.
I don’t need to be right. I just want Jesus to be seen.
Love ~K
What does harken mean?
Hearken is an old fashioned form of the word hark, meaning “TO LISTEN”. In the Bible, prophets and saints are always telling people to hearken TO their words.
“Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Jn 14:5-7
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
John 10:10-11 KJV
How was this for you? I hope it left you wanting to know more about Jonah’s Story, because you have a story God’s wants you to see too – God’s thoughts he thinks toward you are of Peace and to give you an expected end.
What is that end to your trouble? Obedience? Trust in God, just because God says so? Praise to God? Friends, only God knows what we can’t see until we get to the other side of that thing with Jesus and in Christ. That’s why God gave us the gift of Faith. When you receive this from the Lord; will you come back here and share your story with us? Aren’t you glad to know Jonah did?
When I wrote The Train Whistle, Sounding the call of God’s Love, It was at the end of the publishing stage and something happened with the punctuation.
I had lost hours and days of work and I went on …
BUT when a comma was mysteriously changed from a comma to a period, it was like ripping my arm off.
BUT, that night I told my husband, Robert Glenn about this and he said, “Karen think about it. A period means to stop, but a comma means to continue on.”
This was my message from God that what Satan wants to stop in us, God wants us to continue on!
And, then recently, I said, I like your shirt Daniel.
The next day, Daniel said, “Mom, did you get it?
It’s ‘Just Jesus Period.’
Today, as I finish this devotion, he just come in and we had a wonderful talk about things.
As he looked as this, he said, and put that in quotations, “It’s Just Jesus.” “Just Jesus Period. “
Before I leave you with this thought today, will you look for Part two Today? I believe this is the time that God has given to me to share this with you too. So that …
and friends, when we receive this from the Lord, we will never be the same!
Hallelujah to the Lamb of God. Thank you Jesus and To God be the glory.
IN CLOSING ALWAYS …
Faith pleases God. And it is impossible please God without faith.
BUT LET a man EXAMINE himself, AND SO LET him eat OF THAT bread, and drink OF THAT cup.
1 Corinthians 11:28 KJV
FOR THIS CAUSE many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
1 Corinthians 11:30 KJV
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
James 1:12 KJV
THAT’S ALL FROM ME FOR TODAY!
And, Always Remember 2 Things!
1. When you receive this, you will never be the same!
2. God for us. God with us. God in us.
NOW … Believing on Jesus,
AFTER THIS MANNER THEREFORE PRAY YE:
9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Matthew 6:9-13 King James Version (KJV)
Holy Spirit You are Welcome Here!
And to God be the Glory!
Love in Christ,
Karen
Holy Spirit encourage the readers today. Lift our minds higher to God’s Thoughts. Bless those who will receive. And, keep molding our hearts to be always ready to bloom for the glory of God to be a blessing to us all.
and pray …in the Spirit of the Most Holy God. God knows what He is doing.
Love in Christ,
Karen Rowe
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…till next time!
Love in Christ,
Karen Rowe
“WRITING THE STORY OF MY LIFE WITH EVERY CHOICE JESUS HELPS ME TO MAKE AND LEARNING HOW TO BE BLESSED AND LIVE LIFE LARGE, HAPPY AND FREE. I CARE.”
Personal Motto: “I don’t have it all figured out, BUT GOD DOES … Follow JESUS!”
Personal Revelation Life Verse: And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him (1 John 4:16 HCSB)
Thank you Jesus!
Holy Spirit you are welcome here!
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