ODIE

I trust in Your unfailing love…In Your name I will hope, for your name is good. Surely You are my help - for You alone sustains me. You lead me to the rock that is higher than I, for You have been my refuge. I desire to honor You each day - show me how, help me to. Your passion will be renewed in me…

S: The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heaert, O God, You will not despise. (Psalm 51:17)

I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed. I cry out to God Most High, to God, Who fulfills His purpose on me. (Psalm 57:1-2)

(r_laurene)

Rick Warren

In awe of Your love..Amazed!

I know that You are for me….

#choosingtoworshipYou regardless

O: Jesus is looking for people who will worship Him in the depths of their hearts.

A: What really honors God are not our words but our hearts. We have to check our hearts that beyond words, our motives should honor Him as well, and every content of it.

P: Father, I pray that my heart will always worship you. More than my actions and words - but as well as my intentions and motives…grant me the grace to always please you with my heart’s content…Amen

(S-Scripture; O-Observation; A-Application; P-Prayer)

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our soul is restless until it finds rest in you.

S: Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. (Matthew 6:19-20)

O: What matters most are not the things of this world but heavenly things that will not be destroyed.

A: Focus on doing the things that increases your treasures in heaven - goodness, kindness, purity, holiness, Christ-like character - because these will be investments that are truly rewarding.

P: Dear Father, help me to fix my eyes, my mind and heart in doing good things here on earth, that my heart will truly be protected from desiring the things in this world. Help me to fix my eyes on you alone…Amen…

(S-Scripture; O-Observation; A-Application; P-Prayer)

S: Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. (Matthew 3:8)

Jesus replied, “Let it be so now, it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then Jesus consented. (Matthew 3:15)

And a voice from heaven said, “This is my son, whom I love, with Him I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3:17)

O: Repentance produces fruit called righteousness. And this righteousness pleases God.

A: As we have repented from our sins, we have to pursue righteousness. That in all things that we do, even in small ones, our desire is to do it right before God, because it’s Him that we should desire to please. 

P: Father, grant me the grace and the willingness of the heart to do all things right, for you have already made me righteous before you…Amen…

(S-Scripture; O-Observation; A-Application; P-Prayer)

S: “Is not Ephraim my dear son? The child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I have great compassion for him,” declares the Lord. (Jeremiah 31:20)

“Just as I watched over them to uproot and to tear down, and to overthrow, destroy and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the Lord. (Jeremiah 31:28)

This is what the Lord says, “Only if heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,” declares the Lord. (Jeremiah 31:37)

O:  God remembers His love for us. We are His children that even we have committed mistakes, His heart as a Father longs and yearns for us. His desire is for us to be built and to be planted. Nothing can make God decide to reject his people…Nothing.

A: Be overwhelmed by how much our Father loves us. Trust God that He will rebuild, that He remembers, that He never rejects.

P: Father, thank you for your everlasting love..for the assurance of your love today. It feels good to be reminded that you do remember me, that your thoughts are upon me. Thank you for your compassion, even for your heart to let nothing separate us from  you…Amen..

(S-Scripture; O-Observation; A-Application; P-Prayer)

S: Yet I will show love to the house of Judah, and I will save them - not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but by the Lord their God. (Hose 1:7)

The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress, love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love sacred raisin cakes. (Hosea 5:1)

O: God is so compassionate that even at the point of sin, He doesn’t want to hurt His people. Instead He showed them all the more how much He loves them. 

A: Have faith and believe in the heart of God, our Father. Believe on the kind of love that He has for us - an unconditional and selfless love. Stand on what He said about His forgiveness and love.

P:  Father, I pray that at times that I cannot see your ways - I will come to trust in Your heart and in the love that you have for me. To focus not on the consequences of sins but on how much You still love me despite of my sins. Amen….

(S-Scripture; O-Observation; A-Application; P-Prayer)

S: O earth, do not cover my blood, may my cry never be laid to rest! Even now, my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high. My intercessor is my friend, as my eyes pour out tears to God; on behalf of a man he pleads with God, as a man pleads for his friend. (Job 16:18-21)

I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. I myself will see Him with my own eyes - I, and not another. How my heart years within me! (Job 19: 25-27)

O: We have a witness and an advocate in heaven - Jesus. He intercedes for us, He pleads for us. He cries to His Father for us. In every circumstance, we have a friend to run to and know that the mere intention is to rescue us from where we are stuck at that moment. When everything is hopeless and teared down - the work of our Redeemer will be seen boldly with our own eyes. He will be seen as living and active.

A: Believe and be in faith that on our situation, Jesus is with us - not just crying with us but interceding and pleading for our  best. Be in faith, be still, that the hands of the Redeemer is at work - that in everything that we go through, one day, we will see Him standing over it all.

P: Dear Father, my heart yearns for you. I feel so unrest, so troubled, so helpless that I desperately need to feel your very presence with me. Assure me with your heart Oh my God. Help my faith to believe that even everything else is falling apart, I will see you standing over it. You are my intercessor, my friend and my Redeemer…Thank you…. 

(S-Scripture; O-Observation; A-Application; P-Prayer)