Letters From God- His Love

Day 5

Bible Verses
Isiah 41:10
Romans 5:8
John 3:16
1 John 4:16
Psalms 188:6

Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for your unfailing love. No matter what I am going through in life, you still love me. Thank you for loving me for me, and that I don't need to change to receive your love. Thank you for loving me even when I can't Amen.

Letters From God - Self Worth

Day 4

Bible Verses
Psalms 139:13-16
Ephesians 2:4-9

Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for making me to be so wonderful. Thank you for see me for who you made me to be, even when I don't believe it. Help me to see myself like you see me when I am down on myself, or when this world tells me otherwise. Amen

Letters From God - Control

Day 3

Bible Verses
Romans 8:28
Jeremiah 29:11
Proverbs 19:21

Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for being in control of my life, because I know that you can do more with it than I can. I know that I often fight for control, but I am surrendering now. Please place your will on my life, and help me to trust you and follow what you have planned for me. Amen.

Letters From God - Forgiveness

Day 2

Bible Verses
1 John 1:9
James 5:16
1 Corinthians 10:13

Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for you forgiveness for all of our sins. Help us to believe that were are not far from forgiveness no matter how much we sin. Thank you for allowing us to come back after we have fallen away, and thanks for your help out of temptation.

Letters From God - Intro

So I am starting a new series called "Letters From God." I got this idea from a sermon that my church did, where there was no pastor talking to us, but we had to read the screens and the words were written as if God was speaking to us. So for the next two weeks, my posts will be formatted as letters from God. I pray that this has an impact on your life, as you read these letters. The first letter is below.

Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for your love, and I pray that as we start off into this new series that you will show us how you look at us, because it is totally different from what the world sees. Amen.

Words of Encouragement

I know that I have talked on this topic before, and I know that most of us have heard this many times in our lives: the words we say are important. Just recently my church was talking on this topic, and it wasn't just for the high school students, but the whole church talked about this on the same day, showing us just how important this really is. Our words really do matter. Ephesians 4:29 says, "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." This verse talks directly about watching everything that we say and making sure that what say is building someone up, and not tearing them down. My pastor said something amazing when it comes to this. She said, "it takes the same amount of breath to build someone up, as it takes to tear someone down." That is so true. If you were to say "I hate you." it would take the same amount of breath to say "I love you." There are three words, and two words are same. All you do is change one word, and it can either build someone up or tear someone down.

Now my church laid out three questions that we should ask ourselves before we speak that come from this verse.
Question 1-Do the words I say build someone up? If your words are not going to encourage someone with your words based of their needs at that time.

Question 2-The right thing said at the wrong time is that wrong thing. Is what I'm saying right for the occasion? This one I struggle with the most. So often we think of something, or we feel a certain way and we want everyone to immediately know about it. But if we wait for the right time to say it, then you could be say the right thing.

Question 3-Does it give grace to benefit the listener? So we are focusing and giving grace to the listener through our words whether they are a believer or not.

We won't automatically change our behaviour overnight. I5t will take time to change our habits, but we should work on this for God's glory.

Dear Heavenly Father
Thank you for giving us the ability to speak and communicate. I pray that you guide our words when we speak so that we may build each other up. Amen.

New Blog!

I wanted to let my readers know that I have a new blog, and it is all dedicated to song break downs. I will be posting once a week on Sunday nights, and tonight is the first night. If you have time, I encourage you to go over and check it out. Thanks.

Song's For God's Glory
songsforgodsglory.blogspot.com