Sandy’s quite time is enriched by several devotionals. The postings here are her thoughts and prayers, a “putting it all together’ part of her day. May it bless you too.
Quiet Time TAKEAWAY: Humbly pray to God and He will completely forgive you. My NOTES: “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their …
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Quiet Time TAKEAWAY: Garden with a friend- it takes two to grow God fruit. My NOTES: “… bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” John 15:8 “… I chose you, and appointed you so that you might go and bear much fruit- fruit that will last.” John 15:16 “Fruit shows up as: self-control, …
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Quiet Time TAKEAWAY: Claim your trials as your course correction. My NOTES: “You don’t get to pick your trials… God often uses troughs more than peaks to teach us things.“ “Satan wants to devour us, Jesus wants to deliver us.” Both notes C. S. Lewis “You don’t know the trials that have conditioned someone’s life…A …
Share God With Us Quiet Time TAKEAWAY: Withering is natural, but doing it without Jesus is dreadful. My NOTES: “No sooner are they sown…they take root…then he blows on them and they wither…” Isaiah 40:24 “…everyone is but a breath,… in vain they rush about…” Psalm 39:4 “But there they are, overwhelmed with dread, when …
Withering is natural, but doing it without Jesus is dreadful. Read More »
Quiet Time TAKEAWAY: When we degrade others with deceitful words, we disgrace ourselves in front of God. My NOTES: Sometimes I read the Psalms backwards and the message is stronger. In Psalm 52 David is wrestling with betrayal and deceit from another: “Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: …” Psalm 52:5 “You …
When we degrade others with deceitful words, we disgrace ourselves in front of God. Read More »
Quiet Time Takeaway: It’s God’s Spirit within our spirit that sustains us. My NOTES: “May I long for nothing but to know Jesus as King, Brother, Friend.” Valley of Vision paraphrase “Where the unbelief of God is most vehemently expressed, His presence is most profoundly revealed.” Henry Nouwen “Where darkness is the deepest, light shines …
It’s God’s Spirit within our spirit that sustains us. Read More »
Share God With Us Quiet Time TAKEAWAY: God’s Spirit helps us through music as praise. It can be our prayer and praise. (Not sure on this… Still trying to figure out these notes, sorry.) My NOTES: “… music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, invents.” Ludwig Van Beethoven “Prayer is unrehearsed …
God’s Spirit helps us through music as praise. It can be our prayer and praise. Read More »
Quiet Time Takeaway: God made everything good for us and told us to take care of it. My NOTES for Genesis 1: God and the Spirit were together, the first thing they do is call to Jesus to do it with them: “Let there be light.” Gen. 1:3 I think this because Jesus told us: …
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Quiet Time Takeaway: It’s repentance that rips you into a piece of God’s remnant. My NOTES: ”If I don’t live differently five days from now I won’t be any different five years from now…” “If my repentance doesn’t change me I’m doing the devils work for him by deceiving myself, he doesn’t have to do …
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Quiet Time Takeaway: Gratitude shows God I remember him. My NOTES: ”Wholehearted gratitude is to be our response to God, but instead of thanking him we forget about him.” Dr. Joseph Mercola paraphrased “Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.” Psalm 106:1 & 107:1 “But they soon forgot what …
Quiet Time Takeaway: God made creation for my enjoyment, not for me to worship. My NOTES: ”Whatever a man trusts in, from that he expects happiness.” Valley of Vision “We look for God where he can’t be found. We shop for God horizontally when He’s found vertically.” P. D. Tripp “It’s the cruelest lies that …
God made creation for my enjoyment, not for me to worship. Read More »
Quiet Time Takeaway: If I’m not ‘real’ with others, with myself, with God- He will spit me out. He is God. My NOTES: ”Blesses are those whose …hearts hearts are set on pilgrimage.” Psalm 84:5 “Pilgrimage can mean: ‘The course of life on earth.” Merriam-Webster “In the days of Noah and Lot, people were eating, …
If I’m not ‘real’ with others, with myself, with God- He will spit me out. He is God. Read More »
Quiet Time Takeaway: There is only one road to eternity with God, but many roads to eternity without Him. My NOTES: ”We think a lot about this life but not not about where we are going.” Francis Chan “There is just one lane to get to God – it’s the overpass that Jesus built for …
There is only one road to eternity with God, but many roads to eternity without Him. Read More »
Quiet Time Takeaway: God gives me a refuge when my rhythm is off. My NOTES: ”When our time is unexpectedly interrupted, we feel like part of our personal birthright was stolen.” C. S. Lewis “Humans experience time successively, day after day, seeking a rhythm between change and permanence.” Each season is new, yet the same. …
Quiet Time Takeaway: Forgiveness changes everything; Satan wants us miserably unforgiving. My NOTES: ”Being a Christian means that Christ has entered you, filled you with His love, and is pouring His life through you to others.” Francis Chan- Until Unity “I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I in you.” John …
Forgiveness changes everything; Satan wants us miserably unforgiving. Read More »
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