Happy Wednesday and Day 31 of reading together, friends!
Today our reading is Colossians and 1 Thessalonians.
Yep, our reading again today is 2 WHOLE books of the Bible which sounds pretty cool, but now that we are seasoned Bible readers, you know that you can handle that (and that it doesn’t always mean a lot of reading.)
Both yesterday and today I my pen was BUSY! I was underlining scripture that I felt would be beautiful to use as prayer for my children, my husband, my friends, YOU, myself. Then I decided that, for several of those, just underlining wasn’t enough. I pulled out my journal and I transcribed several of them, so that I would be sure to use them as prayer prompts. These are a few from today I wrote down:
- Colossians 1:9-12
- Colossians 2:6
- Colossians 3:15
- Colossians 4:2
- Colossians 4:6
- 1 Thessalonians 5:10-11
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
- …. and there were MORE
This scripture is GOLD, y’all!
Every single time I read the Bible new messages show up and previous messages often greet me like old friends. That absolutely amazes me.
I hope you are soaking in all of the majesty, beauty and love. I didn’t write out the scriptures up there because I want you to read them in the Bible, but I do want to reveal this:
This week, I keep hearing that He wants us to experience joy. He wants us to experience peace. He wants us to hold onto good.
Yes, there is evil in this world, but our Father didn’t put that there. He fills it with good. He fills it with grace and love and kindness. And he wants us to see that, to share that, to let THAT rule our hearts.
I’m so grateful to you for choosing love, for choosing to read the New Testament with me. It is my prayer that God will “fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. I pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience and joyfully giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.” (Colossians 1:9b-12)
The best is yet to come.
In Love,
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