Encouragement for Today (3/11/25)

Praises to the Lord for giving us another day! As we were traveling from one town to the next, I made an audio and asked brother Tupos to share in it also, you can find that HERE.  It's called 'Calling Bluffs and Proving all Things'. 

I saw that in a store while I did a witness walk and thought about how they took all the scriptures and used them to prop themselves up.  Although there's truth to it, they neglect the rest of God's word just like they do with many of the other "feel good" messages they put on cups and plates and pictures and shirts and hats etc.

I wrote a post about this topic HERE, warning women to be very careful sharing such things with people who aren't walking in all truth.  

I'll share the entire verses:

Deuteronomy 31:6 
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Ephesians 1:3-4 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: [4] According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

2 Timothy 1:7 
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Romans 8:2 
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Ephesians 1:7 
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;


Colossians 2:10 
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Ephesians 4:24
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.


Colossians 1:13-14 
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: [14] In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:


1 Corinthians 15:57 
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Did you notice while reading those verses, whoever made that notebook or diary, focused on man.

It basically is saying ...
I am strong
I am chosen
I am brave
I am free
I am forgiven
I am complete
I am holy
I am redeemed
I am victorious
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Go back and read the verses in context and see how they miss the whole point of the focus being on Christ for what HE did and we can only be those things THROUGH Him.  That all comes from being born from above through the gospel which you can test yourself to HERE.
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It's just like Satan to use God's word to lift up man over Christ.  Let us lift up Christ over and above all because:

John 15:4-8 
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

We are nothing without Him! 
Hold fast and abide in Christ who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and be ready because He's coming back to do this....

2 Thessalonians 1:7-9 
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

The Lord be glorified!
Sister Aman