Author: debo

Like newborn babies you should crave, thirst for and earnestly desire the pure unadulterated spiritual milk, that you may grow unto completed salvation. What a great scripture in I peter 2:2. We have all seen newborn babies looking for milk. They go at it with gusto! My sweet new little granddaughter Rylan Avery sure does! She knows what she wants, and won’t be satisfied until she gets it! Are you like that with God’s Word? We should be! Our desire for the milk of the Word, will make us complete satisfied if we are thirsty. When we make the Word a part of our day, we impart wisdom into our lives that will keep us rooted and grounded like a tall oak tree. Storms may come, but we will stand strong. The Word in our lives will make our roots go down deep so we can be like a tree planted by the streams of living water and bearing fruit in every season of life. It we continue in the Word we will be blessed in our deeds. James 1:25 say when we continue looking into the law of liberty (The Word) we will be blessed in what we do. For growth and blessing and completed salvation, our choice is easy. Keep our nose in the Bible! There is everything we need for life and for godliness. The incorruptible seed of the Word of God is planted in our heart. The seed keeps growing as we water it with the Word, and stay in God’s light and presence. So just like yesterday’s question. How hungry are you? Get filled and stay filled with God’s Word. It is what we thirst and crave for!

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (Psalms 119) Have you ever been walking through the house at night and stumbled over something you didn’t see. I know it has happened to all of us. God doesn’t want us to stumble in fact, he wants our path to be filled with light, so we don’t make a misstep. Walking in the light, we can see where we are going, we can be aware of snares of the enemy, and we can see the specific twists and turns in the road that we need to take so that we can make it to our destination. Without the light, we are helpless and hopeless, but the light has dawned for us, and for the Christian, the light gets brighter and brighter as we live in the light of God’s Word. Each of us also needs specific direction, and most of us don’t have a book of the Bible with our name on it (unless your name is Matt, Mark, Luke or John!!!) but we do have the promise that God will lead and direct us. We do need to believe that God does want to speak to us. He does that through His word, but he speaks to us in our spirit as well. We need to be listening to His still small voice, and be open and receptive to his leading. We can’t do life without God. We are too inexperienced to try to make it through life without God’s guidance. His Word is the guide that we need. Aren’t you grateful for His Word in your life? Let’s make it our goal to include more and more of God’s Word in our lives, to keep in our lips, and to hide it in our heart.

How hungry are you? There is a hunger and thirst in the heart of every person for something. Perhaps you have heard it called “God hunger”, or a God shaped vacuum. How can we feed the hunger in our lives for God? One simple way is for us to recognize that it is God who we are hungering for! Most of us try to fill the hunger on the inside of us with everything else but God. You know, with food, with stuff, with wrong relationships, etc. But God’s Word is what we are hungry for! It is the bread of life, the bread of heaven, and food for our soul. One of my favorite Bible verses is in Matt 5 verse 6 where it says that he who hungers and thirsts for righteousness will be filled. What a wonderful promise. When we hunger for righteousness, there is a promise of fulfillment. There is an answer to satisfy the hunger! It is to dig deep into the Word of God. God’s word is rich and satisfying! There are answers within that will quiet each question. There is comfort, forgiveness, restoration, peace, liberty, freedom, joy, ……you name it, what you need you will find in the Word of God. So are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Are you hungry and thirsty for what your really want, and what you really need? Then dig in deep into God’s Word, and then taste and see that the Lord is um, um good.

This week begins our Ladies AGF Fall Bible Study. To all you fabulous ladies who have will be attending one of the Bible Studies, I want to say, have a awesome time studying together, growing in relationship, and growing in the Word. This years study is Steven Furtick’s Video study based on his book Crash the Chatterbox. Knowing who you are in Christ is a great place to start when we want to silence voices in our head that are not of God. God designed you to identify with HIM. As you ladies set aside time this Fall to study and grow together, my prayer is that you will turn off the negative voices in your head, and listen to your shepherd, who is Jesus Christ. You are his sheep and you know his voice. I encourage you also as you meet together with other believing women to study the Word, to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and keep being refilled. Joined up with the Holy Spirit, you can do and be and have much more than you could ever have on your own. That applies to strength, wisdom, energy, enthusiasm, joy, ability and skills. Even patience!! Your natural talents, gifts, and callings will increase because you are filled up with power from on high. And multiply that with the strength of the others in your small group, and you are unstoppable. Here is a great confession for today. Why not repeat this after me?
My life is in Christ.
I am empowered by the Holy Spirit to be the person who resembles God the Father. Others can follow me as I follow Christ.
I am blessed to be a blessing, to my family, in my workplace, in my small group, and to the body of Christ.

Do you know that God has something to say about you? He has a plan for your life, and has called you his very own child. Your identity isn’t just as someone’s son or daughter, somebody’s mom or dad, or somebody’s grandchild. You are identified as a Christian. The word Christian mean Christ-like. You are also a disciple, which means disciplined one! There are lots of other things God has to say about you too. Why not say what God says about you? Don’t believe the lies of the devil; that you’re not smart enough, not educated enough, not tall enough, or rich or young/old enough to do what God has for you. Believe what the Bible says!
It says this….
You are God’s own son or daughter, once you became a Christian. The words of others are not as powerful as the words of God. His Word is what matters in your life.
You are above and not beneath, the head and not the tail, blessed going in and coming out, and most definitely able to do all things through Christ who strengthens you.
You are going to fulfill your destiny, and live the dream that God has for you.
Your life is full of blessing in every way.
I hope that encouraged you….you can be and do and have all that God has for you!

One pivotal factor that often colors our identity and who we are, is our past. Bad things really do happen in life. Sometimes we hold on to the past through bitterness and unforgiveness. When we do, we bind ourselves to what has happened to us in the past. Once we recognize where we have experienced wounds, they can be healed. It is something that only you can do. Prayer from others certainly helps, but forgiveness is a choice that you must personally make. To get to any root of bitterness, and remove the poison that it produces in your life, the root needs to be exposed, and then forgiveness can come. God says that we are free in Christ. That means there is no bondage to the past or anything that will hold you back if you make the choice to forgive. Forgiveness is a choice, but for the believer, it isn’t an option. We must forgive. Freely we have received forgiveness, freely we should grant forgiveness. I realize that there are those who have deep wounds, but there is nothing too deep for God to reach if we will let Him. One stone, or one scoop full at a time, let’s see the mountain of pain removed as we live a life of forgiveness and then live free in God.
Say this with me…..
He who the Son sets free is free indeed.
I am free to live life to the fullest, and to enjoy this wonderful abundant life that Jesus came to give to me.
I forgive much because Christ has forgiven much in my life.
I am free from the law of sin and death.
I freely receive all that God has for me.
Be encouraged today that you are who God says you are, and you can be all that God says you can be. Your identity is in Him!

 

A big areas of battle for all humans take place in our physical body. Whether it is controlling our appetites, or making choices to eat food that leads to health, a war goes on inside. It is very clear that God want us to prosper and be in health, even as our soul prospers. Soul prosperity happens with the renewing of our mind. When we line up our lives with the Word, and our soul is prospering, a natural outflow is that we are healthy and have success. We do live in a fallen world, where the devil roams about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. We know the devil is the one who come to kill, to steal and to destroy. It is Jesus who came to give us abundant, thriving, vibrant life. We serve a benevolent God! He has given us power to live above the enemy’s tactics, and He has conquered death, hell and the grave, and then handed the victory to us….making us more than conquerors! Thank God for what Jesus! did on the cross So what does God say about our bodies? That’s exactly what we should be saying too!
Why not say this with me…
My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Healing is mine.
I prosper and live in health, even as my soul prospers.
My body is healthy and whole.
I am receiving the healing that I need to be able to walk in health and the divine life that God has for me.
I am disciplined in my body, and guard my mouth from anything that would defile God’s temple.
The stripes that Jesus took on his back have brought healing to me.
The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, quickens and makes whole my mortal body.
I will live long and prosper on this earth!
I hope that encouraged you!

Once you decide to change and grow in your Christian walk, you can just about guarantee there will be obstacles put in your path. The daily discipline of just doing the right thing all the time can seem overwhelming, but empowered by the Holy Spirit, you can do all things through Christ who is strengthening you. His power is released in you to live the life, and walk the walk as well as talking the talk. The daily disciplines of the Christian walk…. Study, prayer, meditating, worship, and living a fasted life, are what get you through obstacles and over into progress and success. It is the person who begins saving as soon as they start earning a wage that will have a large sum in the bank at retirement. The later you start the harder it is to catch up. That same principle applies with just about anything. Why not start today to live a disciplined life…. Because that is who you are!
Say this with me….
I am a disciplined person.
I am not conformed to this world, but am being transformed into the image of Christ. I seek God first, and seek those things which are above.
I set my mind on things above.
I give myself continually to the ministry of the Word and to prayer.
I study to show myself approved unto God, I’m a workman with no shame in my life. My life is changing because I believe what God’s Word says about me.

Perhaps you are looking at who you are in the natural, and thinking this is not who I want to be. One thing that is so awesome about serving God is not only can we have a dramatic change of direction through salvation, but our life continually can grow and change. We don’t have to continually do the same things over and over, we can make improvements. The biggest factor in changing is in choosing to renew our mind and to change the way we think. If we would take every thought captive as the Bible tells us to do, we would realize that we have some faulty thinking going on! To change that, we need to renew our mind, and begin to think and believe like what the Word of God tells us to do. To renew our mind means we take what we believe and make it line up with the Word. Past experiences, or what someone else has told you, can shape who we are. To change to be who God wants us to be, we must make our beliefs and thoughts conform with the Word of God.
Say this with me….
I am renewing my mind, and am putting on the new man, which is created in righteousness and true holiness.
I am putting off the old man, and becoming who God has made me to be.
I will take off the old me and put on the new me!
I keep the Word of God in my mouth and in my heart, so my way is prosperous, and I have good success! I hope that encourages you today!

Intro:
Do you know that what you think about is what you will become? Hi this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. This week we’ll be talking about identity. Who do you think you are? Who in Christ are you? As believers we are known to walk way beneath our privilege as believers, but when we know who we are in Christ, we will never let that happen again. Be encouraged to be who God created you to be, starting now! Here is your dailyeword!

Who are you? Jesus asked that question to Peter…who do you say that I am? Well let me ask you the same question. Do you know who you are? Not just who are your parents, or what is your position, or occupation, but who are you really? Paul prayed that we would know who we are in Christ. What you believe about who you are is really a major factor in your life. God’s image of who we are is what we should go for! This what God says about you. You are His child, once you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, in fact, you are a new person in Christ. The old is gone, and you are a new creation! God has raised you us to live in newness of life. You are made to be the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. He says you are blessed with everything that Heaven has to offer. Not only blessed with spiritual blessing, but also with everything that pertains to life and godliness. He says that your needs are met, and that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. You can overcome in any problem or situation or circumstance, because you are more than a conqueror. Wow! Those are great things to believe, and they are what God says about you! So, who are you? You are who God says you are! Those are encouraging words for you today!