Kindle In Your Heart The Sparkle Of Love - Thoughtful Tuesdays

It is the Thoughtful Tuesday today.

There are many people who have been close to God and have given us good thoughts to meditate on.

God's Word gives us many verses we need to pray about.

Today is dedicated to those thoughts, ideas, verses and words that make us think and make us want to be closer to God.

Here are today's thoughts!

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with Him right now- to be happy with Him at this very moment.  But being happy with Him now means loving like He loves, helping like He helps, giving as He gives, serving as He serves, rescuing as He rescues, being with Him twenty-four hours a day- touching Him in His distressing disguise.

Mother Teresa

People may be pure in their own eyes, but the LORD examines their motives.

Proverbs 16:2
The New Living Translation

Ja sitä minä rukoilen, että teidän rakkautenne tulisi yhä runsaammaksi tiedossa ja kaikessa käsittämisessä, voidaksenne tutkia, mikä paras on, että te Kristuksen päivään saakka olisitte puhtaat ettekä kenellekään loukkaukseksi, täynnä vanhurskauden hedelmää, jonka Jeesus Kristus saa aikaan, Jumalan kunniaksi ja ylistykseksi.

Fil. 1:9-11 KR33/38

This post is part of the Thoughtful Tuesdays series.

Faith Comes From Hearing the Message - Prayer Monday

God encourages us to bring our worship and praise, confessions, thanksgivings, intercessions, and petitions before Him, throughout the Bible.

As we pray more and grow in the prayer, it becomes clear that there is always more to learn.

How is it possible to have a more profound prayer life and relationship with God?

Through faith!

And how does one attain faith?

From hearing the message.

“Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.”

Romans 10:17

To be able to pray, to be closer to God, and to know God better, we need to learn His words.

And those can be learnt through the message of Jesus and through His Word, the Bible.

“Dear God, let me hear your message and learn to love it. Allow me to enjoy your Word and hold it always in my heart. Let me hunger and thirst it so that I will continuously draw nearer to You. I want to know You, who You are. I need to hide in your love and be always part of You. Let You and Your Word be the center of my life. Amen!”

This message is part of the Prayer Monday series.

Have You Learnt The Easy Lessons - (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Walt Whitman

“not by works, so that no one can boast.”

Ephesians 2:9

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Mahatma Gandhi

November 4th

Our minds, our hearts and our lives - October 3rd

Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ.

Thomas Adams

How many time, uselessly, I try to find pleasure elsewhere.

I think that happiness is possible without God.

I even consider that I could be happier without Him.

But that hope is vain.

Like love, He is the source of happiness.

Without Him, there is no love, and no happiness too.

Too many times I treasure the useless things.

I appreciate things that only turn into dust in my hands.

That leave me empty and yearning, thirsty of truth, of love and joy.

Parched I lie in the wilderness, in the desert of my life.

Where is my treasure?

Where is my pleasure?

Where are the love and life?

In the wilderness, waterless desert, when the living water runs through everything He touches.

And only thing impeding me to reach it, is myself.

November 2nd

November 1st