Meeting in the Meadow, by Roy Lessin

Friday, March 14, 2025

Timely Tidbits of Truth 57, Restore

Timely Tidbits of Truth 57, Restore
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

Restore means that God brings back and gives to us again what was once taken from us or lost to us. God assures us that what was lost can be found, what has ended can begin again, and what is no longer seen can be brought back into view. He can restore a broken relationship, lost health, a lost blessing, a broken heart, a former ministry, or a former joy.

I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten (Joel 2:25 KJV).

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit (Psalm 51:12 NKJV).

“For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wound,” says the LORD (Jeremiah 30:17 NKJV).

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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

The Seven Colors of Grace, Part 3

The Seven Colors of Grace, Part 3
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

Jesus

The heavens declare the glory of God (Psalm 19:1 NKJV).

That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:7 NKJV).

How kind God is to us. It is a kindness that gave us the gift of His Son! We who deserve nothing have received everything God’s love could give, and He gives it to us in abundance.

Grace doesn’t come to us out of thin air, it comes to us through a person. That person is Jesus Christ. Jesus is the embodiment of grace and He is the “yes” to every promise God has made. Jesus is the greatest gift love could ever give and in Jesus is found every spiritual blessing and every good and perfect gift.

Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ (John 1:17).

The following acronym helps define the meaning of grace found in Jesus Christ:

G-God’s gift of salvation
R-Richly and freely
A-Abounds toward us
C-Christ being the only source
E-Extending to us God’s mercy and forgiveness.

The riches that are in Jesus Christ can fill the poorest person on earth with the greatest treasures a human heart could ever possess.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich (2 Corinthians 8:9).

Jesus is the fullness of grace. Everything that Jesus is, He is in the fullest sense. Nothing in Jesus is given in small portions. The grace He imparts to us is abundant grace.

I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, that you were enriched in everything by Him (1 Corinthians 1:4-5).

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you” (2 Corinthians 13:14 NASB).

#grace #meetinginthemeadow #devotional #devotion #roylessin

Monday, March 10, 2025

My Morning Prayer: Encouragement in Prayer

Encouragement in Prayer
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

And all things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive (Matthew 21:22).

Draw near, then, seeking soul, with boldness; Draw near with the lowly boldness of a child—with the humble confidence of a son. Dear are you to your Father. Sweet is your voice to Him. Precious is your person, accepted in His Beloved. You cannot come too boldly—you cannot come too frequently—you cannot come with too large requests. You are coming to a King, that King your Father, that Father viewing you in His beloved Son. Oh, hang not back. Stand not afar off. He now holds out the golden scepter, and says, "Come near; what is your request? Come with your temporal want. Come with your spiritual need. Ask what you will, it shall be granted you. I have an open hand, and a large heart.
-Octavius Winslow

Benediction

May you set your sail of faith to capture the trade winds of the Spirit’s moving. May He carry you into the strong currents of God’s grace, to the harbors of Jesus’ comfort, to the ports that abound with blessings, and to the warm waters of the Father’s love.

May the Captain of your Salvation pilot you through troubled seas, quieting your heart when rolling waves beat against you. May you daily be kept from drifting away from the course He has set for you. May He guide you to safe havens, fill your vessel with eternal treasures, and bring you triumphantly to heaven’s distant shore.
In Jesus’s name, amen.

Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters—a pathway no one knew was there! (Psalm 77:19 NLT)

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Friday, March 7, 2025

Timely Tidbits of Truth 56, Regeneration

Timely Tidbits of Truth 56, Regeneration
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

Regeneration is not about reforming a life, but transforming it. Regeneration brings to the heart something that was never there before. Through regeneration, God makes all things new—new life, new hope, new hear, new goals, new purpose, new love.

In regeneration, the life of God, through the person of the Holy Spirit, enters within you, bringing about a new birth. The life of the Spirit takes you from where you never could be, and brings you into all God created you to be—turning your darkness into light, your emptiness into completeness, your spiritual death into spiritual life.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration (Titus 3:5 NKJV).

#regeneration #repurposed #devotional #TimelyTidbitsofTruth #roylessin #meetinginthemeadow

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

The Seven Colors of Grace, Part 2

The Seven Colors of Grace, Part 2
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

Grace

The heavens declare the glory of God (Psalm 19:1 NKJV).

God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work (2 Corinthians 9:8 NKJV).

How do the promises God has made to us become ours? How does salvation, forgiveness, peace, blessing, joy, strength, help, comfort, and hope arrive from God’s heart to ours? God has not chosen academic excellence, religious practices, hard work, good behavior, wealth, fame, or human influence as the way His promises arrive in our hearts and are experienced in our lives.

Everything that comes from God comes to us by grace. Every blessing, every gift, every favor is ours because of grace. Grace is given, it is not earned. Grace comes by receiving it, not earning it. Grace is based on mercy, not merit. Grace is a gift, not a reward. Grace makes it possible for us to receive from God what we do not deserve.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast (Ephesians 2:8-9 NKJV).

Grace is what God extends to us and imparts to us. It is something real. Grace means God has extended favor and kindness to us. Grace also means God has imparted His blessings in us.

Grace is our sufficiency.

Through grace God brings the help we need in our times of need. Through grace God also places His righteous desires within us and strengthens us with the power necessary to fulfill those desires.

(See Romans 5:17, 2 Timothy 2:1, Hebrews 13:9, Hebrews 4:17).

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men (Titus 2:11 NKJV).

God’s eyes do not search throughout the whole earth to find the most talented, highly educated, best looking, or most successful people so He can bless them and make His promises real in their lives. God is looking for hearts that want to be His, that want to know Him, that seek to please Him and that fully put their trust in Him.

For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His… (2 Chronicles 16:9 NASB).