The Purposed Community

In my devotion time, I took a moment to read & meditate on Colossians 3:1-17.

The Lord has been for quite some time explaining to me the dangers of ruining our witness… I think that many of us believe that unbelievers are so naive that they cannot “discern” the contents of our lives.

The Bible tells us in John 13:34-35 that those who live by and operate in the Royal Law are whereby known as Jesus’s disciples.

Along with that, should come a shift in our minds and mindset. If we are then dead with Christ and now alive in Him there are some spiritual realities that we must tap into and abide in that will carry His DNA in a way that produces an outward manifestation.

By no means would I advise anyone to attempt to RUSH their process with God however I believe that there are far too many “saints” who’ve been in God for decades and are still making excuses for the same challenges they REFUSE to lay themselves on the altar for!

Today’s reading reminds me that there is ALWAYS A WORK to be done. Not a work of striving but a work of SUBMITTING & YIELDING to the Spirit of Perfection that worketh on the inside of me!

I’m meditating today in devotion on Luke 22:39-42.

The timeliness of this devotion is direct encouragement for what God has allowed me to experience during these 34 of 90 days of Psalms & Tongues.

Never did I look back however I glory that My Lord too asked His Lord if the cup could pass from Him and as He spoke, so did I. NEVERTHELESS THY WILL BE DONE❗️😭😭😭

My devotional reading today was from Mark chapter 11:12-14, 20-21

For me these verses of scripture spoke directly to our ability to produce in and out of season.

The description given about the fig tree from far off in comparison to its lack thereof as Jesus examined more closely parallels the perception of the likeness of fruit where this is foliage or a cover but yet there was no yield to fed the hungry!

Should not something be cursed that is only made to look fruitful but after careful examination it’s revealed that you fruit actually exist!!?? Whew— I enjoyed this read!

Today’s devotional is from Luke 6:1-11

This is an on-time devotional meditation for me because, in the final quarter of 2023, I heard the Lord so clearly tell me that 2024 would be the Year of Sabbath for me.

This has promoted me to sit before the Lord to truly understand the many ways that the Sabbath was made for man!

This has been an area that due to culture and tradition a time of Sabbath for a woman is almost taboo.

At one point I cleared my Saturdays of everything to observe what I thought was the Sabbath and then the Lord began to show me that the Sabbath is EVERY DAY and in everything if I allow it to be.

This is still quite a journey that I am undertaking but it’s been a JOY!

My devotional reading today is in 1 Corinthians 10:31 AMP which reads:

“So then, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of [our great] God.”

I’ve learned that to truly live out the Holy Canon we have to subject ourselves to that which God has ordained for the divine order of our lives.

We lost great balance because we’ve overcompensated the dispensation of grace that we stray so far away from holiness.

This verse of scripture has changed the trajectory of my life! Many years ago, I would do the very things that I do now on a day-to-day basis and find myself bitter and resentful for the things that society has placed upon the woman customarily.

After subjecting and applying this scripture in my life my heart posture and my thought process has had to decrease so that God could increase and He certainly did.

The mundane things of life are yet for a little while, my servitude to my family, clients, etc are an act of worship because God chose me for it.

Taking better thought in my undertakings and my indulgences has allowed me to see what serves and services my temple and what does not and I am therefore in my BEST years! HALLELUJAH!

The Word is DEEP but it’s also PRACTICAL!

Today I am meditating on John 14:27 which reads: Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

I am living in the evidence of the peace that ONLY God can bring.

As each day is ushered in, more and more, I recognize that what I have and will always have NEED of can ONLY be provided by the peace of and in God!

As I meditated upon this verse, I really sat with the reality and evidence that I am consumed by living within the peace of God. I REMEMBER when I had no peace! I also remember there was a peace that I once had that was not REAL but rather FABRICATED AND SHORT-LIVED! Now, I AM LIVING IN THE PEACE OF GOD, which cannot be comprehended by the world and its fallible way of thinking. To this I say, THANK YOU, LORD!

Matthew 5:13-14

Gave me a beautiful revelation of who I am. Still sitting in it.