I thank Jesus for all HE said through you last night Datha!
I am so thankful for the reproof/correction from GOD through you as it confirms to me how SPECIAL I AM TO GOD! AND HOW MUCH JESUS CHRIST LOVES ME!!! That is such an amazing feeling when you are going through a TRIAL!
Because of the storm, I got to go back to church and read and write some more proverbs down instead of putting away laundry!
So I thank JESUS for the storm!
I ran to Starbucks at lunch…and the sermon on 97.9 was about women with a contentious spirit…. J
And I am so thankful I can see that in me…and I am not blind I see so many people who can not see their issues and I am thanking JESUS today that I can see that in me…
Libby~
I ask the LORD about that revelation after/during your bible study and it was from the book of JAMES of course! J
Here’s the scripture…
2Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations.
3Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience.
4But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing.
5If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of [b]the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him.
6Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind.
7For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord,
Consider the trial a joy BECAUSE…Jesus is developing YOU…brining out endurance, perseverance, and this translation says PATIENCE J
So you were preaching out of Romans if I remember correctly and this was what the revelation was and what was HUGE for me…was I can thank him for this trial NOT because I just love trials BUT because HE LOVES ME SO MUCH HE IS DEVELOPING ME to lack nothing….
So if you flip it, and resent trial….HE CAN NOT DEVELOP US…So all of that HOPE message your dad taught and then you taught..surfaced all of the above scripture to be replanted in me then and right now! J
But again the biggest revelation to me was choosing the right attitude BECAUSE the trial…brings correction and reproof from JESUS to develop us so that we lack NOTHING…why do we correct each other and our children…because WE LOVE THEM….so it’s almost like when you submit to the trial…you can FOCUS on how much JESUS loves you…
Okay, wanted to share all of that with all of you!
Love you all!