FAITH pleases God and it makes us malleable allowing Him to be in charge of our life so that He can direct our path.
Luke 8:48 And He said to her, “Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”The New King James Version
Everything is under God’s control when we invite Him into our life. Jesus birth came with shouts of peace, peace to the people of earth.
Luke 5:20 When He saw their faith, He said to him, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
In order to receive from God we have to believe that He is and that He cares and provides for us. Our lives are precious to the Father, enough that He allowed Jesus to die for us and give us Holy Spirit, so that we are never alone nor forsaken. We have a redeemer, a Savior, in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
Faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is LOVE.
God blesses us with all spiritual blessings knowing beforehand those who would believe in the Cross of Jesus Christ. Allowing all, who by faith, will live eternally with Him.
John 1:9 That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world
God’s light is in every being created whether they acknowledge it or not.
Romans 1:19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
The character of God is clearly seen and understood so that the whole of the human race is aware of His glory.
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness,
Every person has sinned and falls short of the glory of God. We are justified by the Blood of Jesus that we may declare His righteousness. He is the justifier of those who believe. Because He lives so do we. We are kept by the power of God through faith. Our faith will be revealed in the last days. Carla
It is the comfort of God’s people that all power is given unto Jesus Christ, their Saviour. He has under His check and control, the elements of the universe, the prince of the power of the air with all his most malignant demons, all human diseases, even death itself, and exercises these powers as will best glorify God.
He is rich in fact who is rich in faith in Christ, having received the good seed of His promises into their hearts. Summarized Bible: Complete Summary of the New Testament
Luke 7:50 Then He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”
Matthew 9:22 But Jesus turned around, and when He saw her He said, “Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.
Mark 5:34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”
1 Samuel 1:17 Then Eli answered and said, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you have asked of Him.”
“If we want to be happy at all, I think, we have to acknowledge that the circumstances, which encourage us in our love of this existence, are essential. We are part of what is sacred. That is our main defense against craziness, our solace, the source of our best politics, and our only chance at paradise.” William Kittredge
Only Jesus can reconcile us to God and to each other through His sacrifice on the cross (2 Corinthians 5:18-19; Colossians 1:20). Only Jesus can bring people from different nations and backgrounds into true, eternal fellowship with each other as His Church (1 Corinthians 12:12-13; Galatians 3:28). Only because of Jesus can we look forward to the day when we will enjoy perfect unity as believers from all peoples, nations and languages praise Him around His heavenly throne (Revelation 7:9-10). First 5
In 1513, Fra Giovanni Giocondo wrote to Countess Allagia Aldobrandeschi, “I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not. But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take.
No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.
Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in darkness, could we but see. And to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look!
Life is so generous a giver. But we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel’s hand that brings it to you.
Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel’s hand is there. The gift is there and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Your joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim it; that is all! But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are pilgrims together, wending through unknown country home.”
(Fra Giovanni Giocondo—1435–1515—was a Renaissance pioneer, architect, engineer, antiquary, archaeologist, classical scholar, and Franciscan friar.)
So. Here’s the deal: I believe this letter is addressed to every single one of us. More than ever, we need emotional and spiritual nourishment. Places of sanity and restoration.
The power of Giocondo’s letter is this simple reminder; these gifts (the “diviner gifts”) live within us. Today.
And yet, for various reasons, we do not see them.
And this I know, when we do not see, a part of us shuts down.
In the cultural full court press about what it means to be human, we live in perpetual consternation over completing some list of expectations, always wondering if we measure up. And in our fixation to find the remedies, we miss… the small gifts of life, the serendipitous gifts of grace, the presence of the holy, and the gentle does of the sacred reflected in our everyday, and extraordinarily ordinary world. Yes, the “diviner gifts”. Sabbath Moments
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