Sunbeams Through My Window, Part 4

Sunbeams Through My Window, Part 4
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

Everything good is found in Jesus. He has no bad ideas, poor suggestions, untimely advise, misleading viewpoints, or confusing opinions.

For all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!” And through Christ, our “Amen” (which means “Yes”) ascends to God for his glory (2 Corinthians 1:20 NLT).

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My Morning Prayer: How Great He Is!

My Morning Prayer: How Great He Is!
-Roy Lessin and Marina Bromley, Meeting in the Meadow

How Great He Is!
-Roy Lessin

For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. Psalm 95:3 AMPC

 

The song of the kingdom is not “How Great We Are,” it is “How Great He Is.” Kingdom greatness is found in God Himself—His is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever! Our greatness is found in having the childlike characteristics of humility, dependency, and trust in the Lord that allow us to discover His greatness.

 

Little children live in a place of discovery. They are little explorers who find wonder and amazement around every corner. Our greatest adventure of faith in God’s kingdom is discovering His thoughts and His ways.

My Morning Prayer
-Marina Bromley

Father, God...as we are amazed with the beauty of Spring, the approaching of Summer, and all of Your creation being brought back to life, help us to be as amazed at the revelation of Your thoughts and ways as You work in our life. 

When I feel hopeless or confused, bring a child-like wonder—the truth that You are who You say You are, and are to be trusted. When I ask for You to be at work in me, or in circumstances and situations happening around me, help me to trust You as a child trusts their loving parent, and to know that You only want what is best for me today. 

I love you Lord Jesus, and I need You to be at work in me, through me, and all around me. Thank You for Your love for me, and help me to learn to be humble and dependent upon You. In Your name I pray. Amen.

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Reflections from Psalm 25:10, Part 3

Reflections from Psalm 25:10, Part 3
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth (Psalm 25:10 NKJV).

 

God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? (Numbers 23:19 NKJV)

 

To believe in God is to believe in absolutes.

 

God’s nature and attributes are absolute. He cannot deny Himself and be someone less (2 Timothy 2:13).

 

God is Truth (Jeremiah 10:10), Jesus is the Truth (John 14:6), and The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth (John 14:17). God will never speak or live a lie. He is true Truth. Absolutely!

 

Because God is absolute Truth, He cannot lie!
Only God’s Truth can form righteous values and shape godly character within us.

 

Truth has no human origin. Truth is greater than anyone’s personal opinion, viewpoint, or value system. Only Truth can identify what is good and what is evil, what is right and what is wrong, what is true and what is false. Because God has always been and always will be, Truth has always been and always will be. Truth does not go out of style, nor can it be invented or reinvented. Truth is always relevant because it is eternal and not in need of change.

 

He are some important things God has said about Truth:

Know the Truth- John 8:32
Practice Truth- John 3:21
Speak the Truth- John 8:46
Be guided by Truth- John 16:13
Be sanctified by Truth- John 17:17
Obey the Truth- Romans 2:8
Rejoice in Truth- 1 Corinthians 13:6
Do nothing against Truth- 2 Corinthians 13:8
Love the Truth- 2 Thessalonians 2:10
Believe the Truth- 2 Thessalonians 2:12
Welcome Truth- 2 Timothy 3:8
Listen to Truth- 2 Timothy 4:4
Be established in Truth- 2 Peter 1:12
Walk in Truth- 2 John 1:4

 

#truth #absolutetruth #Godstruth #Godistruth #psalm25 #roylessin #meetinginthemeadow

 

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Sunbeams Through My Window: Shalom

Sunbeams Through My Window: Shalom
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

Shalom is the greatest blessing of peace, because it means the peace of God. It means that you have far more than circumstantial peace, because God’s peace within you is greater than anything that is happening around you. It is a peace beyond reason or understanding, abiding in the deepest level of who you are.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid (John 14:27 NIV).

#shalom #shalompeace #peace #sunbeamsthroughmywindow #peaceofgod #roylessin #meetinginthemeadow

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My Morning Prayer: Surrendering to God’s Rest

My Morning Prayer: Surrendering to God’s Rest
-Roy Lessin and Marina Bromley

 

Surrendering to God's Rest
-Roy Lessin

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service (Romans 12:1 ASV).

 

In order for us to fully surrender we must understand who we are surrendering to. We are not surrendering our lives to a mean tyrant, to an uncaring person, or to a capricious creator. We need to see our surrender as a surrender to perfect love.

 

The meaning of full surrender is simply stated in the following adapted quote by François Fénelon:
It is simply resting in the love of God, as a little baby rests in its mother’s arms...Surrender consists, not in doing great, heroic deeds about which self can brag, but simply in accepting whatever God sends, and not seeking to change it (unless it is His will for it to be changed)...Full surrender is full peace.

My Morning Prayer
-Marina Bromley

Father, help me to remember that time and time again You have called me to rest in You. It is a place I belong, and surrendering to rest is accomplishing something; whether healing my body, my mind, my emotions, my spirit— by laying my burdens at the cross and climbing up in Your arms to hear Your heart beat. Bring Your Peace that passes all understanding, and teach me to be content in that posture.

Help me to discern the lies of the world that shout for me to accomplish and produce when my heart is hearing You call me to 'be still and know that You are God'. That to rest in You is being obedient to You, and allowing You to work in the deepest places within me. That You show me Your Love when I wait in this place of rest.

In the same way, Lord, help me to respect other's seasons of rest, whether an hour, a day, a week...to expect that You can be working in another person's stillness just as You work in my own. Teach me to give up my judgmental attitudes and accept that to rest is to be obedient, and to focus on Your presence in these places is a reason to celebrate. Work in me, through me, and around me, and change me as I learn to rest in You. Amen.

#rest #mymondayprayer #surrenderingtoGodsrest #meetinginthemeadow #roylessin #marinabromley

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