September 16 Devotional

Posted on September 16, 2013 by drscott

Dear Free People,

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”  Wow!  How perfect is the timing of this devotional?  We were just talking about freedom yesterday during our worship services (which you all were magnificent at btw)  I enjoyed pastor David’s sermon as well, especially the part about “it is for freedom that Christ has set us free.”  It took me a moment to wrap my feeble brain around that.  Lady Avis made a good point as well after the first service.  She said that not only is the slave not free, but the person who is the slave owner is also not free.  The person that has the reins of the yoke is equally enslaved by their desire to enslave someone.  For us, our freedom of choice to be in union with Christ is a beautiful gift from God above.  And as we are in union, we reflect the glory of God as we are transformed into His likeness.  Shine on my friends!  Peace and Love, Scott
p.s.  you should be able to listen to Christmas music below!  Hope this helps you in your preparation.  Thanks for your faithfulness!

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I Designed You

to live in union with Me.  This union does not negate who you are; it actually makes you more fully yourself.  When you try to live independently of Me, you experience emptiness and dissatisfaction.  You may gain the whole worldand yet loose everything that really counts.

Find fulfillment through living close to Me, yielding to My purposes for you.  Though I may lead you along paths that feel alien to you, trust that I know what I am doing.  If you follow Me wholeheartedly, you will discover facets of yourself that were previously hidden.  I know you intimately-far better than you know yourself.  In union with Me, you are complete.  In closeness to Me, you are transformed more and more into the one I designed you to be.

Mark 8:36 36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

Psalm 139:13-16 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Daily Devotional from “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young

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