Another Update

Hey guys,

My Abide Journey is still going but I have not had any time whatsoever to update the blogs again...

Update

Sorry for the delay to anyone reading my blog.

Was on vacation without good internet access and have not had a chance to update my blog since. Will try to make it up to date again soon.

God bless.

Galatians 2:20

Day 488

2 Corinthians 1:3-4
     Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,  who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Day 487

Psalm 139:23-24
      Search me, O God, and know my heart!
     Try me and know my thoughts!
      And see if there be any grievous way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting!

Day 486

Isaiah 25:1
     O Lord, you are my God;
     I will exalt you; I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things,
     plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

Day 485

Deuteronomy 6:6-7
     And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Day 484

Joshua 1:9
    Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Day 483

Isaiah 55:8-9
     For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. 
  For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Day 482

Job 23:10-11
     But he knows the way that I take;
    when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.  
   My foot has held fast to his steps;
    I have kept his way and have not turned aside.

Day 481

Psalm 73:25-26
    Whom have I in heaven but you?
    And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. 
    My flesh and my heart may fail,
    but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Day 480

Psalm 120:1
     In my distress I called to the Lord,
    and he answered me.

Day 479

2 Timothy 1:7
    for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Day 478

1 John 3:18
    Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Day 477

Luke 22:39-42
     And he came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.  And when he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.” And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed, saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

Day 476

Matthew 22:37-39
    And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Day 475

Jeremiah 29:11-13
    For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Day 474

Proverbs 14:22
     Do they not go astray who devise evil?
    Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness.

Day 473

1 John 4:18
    There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

Day 472

Romans 13:9-10
    “For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”

(Sorry for such short posts lately. Been finding it hard to get time to actually write the blog posts for each day in between studying and work. I've been getting my time with the Lord in thankfully!)

Day 471

Proverbs 17:9
     Whoever covers an offense seeks love,
    but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

Day 470

1 John 4:11-12
    Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.  No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

Day 469

Revelation 13:10
    If anyone is to be taken captive,
    to captivity he goes;
if anyone is to be slain with the sword,
    with the sword must he be slain.

Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

Day 468

Revelation 3:15-16
    “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.

Day 467

Romans 8:38-39
    “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

(Sorry for the delay in posting. Came down with something on Thursday and have been busy since.)

Day 466

1 John 4:10
    In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Day 465

1 John 13:34-35
    A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Day 464

Revelation 5:5
    And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”

Day 463

Matthew 11:28
    Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Day 462

1 Corinthians 13:4-6
     Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

Day 461

1 Corinthians 13:1-3
    If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Day 460

2 Thessalonians 1:3
    We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

Day 459

Matthew 5:43-45
     “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Day 458

Psalm 97:10
    O you who love the LORD, hate evil!
   He preserves the lives of his saints;
   he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Day 457

Proverbs 21:21
    Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness
   will find life, righteousness, and honor.

Day 456

Psalm 33:4-5
    “For the word of the LORD is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness. He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.”

Day 455

Psalm 18:2
      The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
   my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,
   my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Day 454

Psalm 59:16
    “But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.”

Day 453

1 Corinthians 2:9
    But, as it is written,    “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
   nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”

Day 452

Romans 6:11
    So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Day 451

Psalm 86:5
    For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
   abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

Day 450

2 Timothy 2:22
    So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Day 449

Mark 9:35
    And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

Day 448

John 4:23-24
      But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Day 447

Ephesians 6:12-13
    For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

Day 446

James 4:10
    Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Day 445

Philippians 4:8
    “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”

Day 444

Galatians 6:1
     Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Day 443

James 1:5
    “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.”

Day 442

Ephesians 5:15-17
     Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,  making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Day 441

Galatians 6:7-8
    “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.”

Day 440

James 1:2-3
    Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

Day 439

Matthew 7:2
     For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Day 438

1 Corinthians 3:16
     Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

John Mark McMillan - I Am a Temple

Great lyrics.

Day 437

Psalm 94:18-19
    When I thought, “My foot slips,”
   your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up.
 When the cares of my heart are many,
   your consolations cheer my soul.

436

1 Corinthians 10:13
    “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”

(Sorry for the delay in the last couple blogs. Came down with a bit of a stomach bug again. Feeling better now thankfully!)

Day 435

Romans 6:17-18
    But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

Day 434

1 John 4:20-21
    “If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.”

Day 433

2 Corinthians 5:19-20
     that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Day 432

Revelation 21:3-4
    And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Been a rough day after finding out a friend of mine had just committed suicide the night before. I didn't know him that well but it's been a blow nonetheless.

I love the picture in Revelation though of how one day there will no longer be pain, suffering, tears etc. God is the great conqueror and through Him we are more than conquerors!

RIP Scott Bickel

Day 431

Psalm 118:5-6
     Out of my distress I called on the LORD;
   the LORD answered me and set me free.
    The LORD is on my side; I will not fear.
   What can man do to me?

Day 430

1 Peter 1:15-16
    but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Day 429

Kristian Stanfill - Always

Absolutely love this song. So true, my God is my help, always! Always amazed by that thought.

"Oh, my God, He will not delay
My refuge and strength always
I will not fear, His promise is true
My God will come through always, always"

"My foes are many, they rise against me
But I will hold my ground
I will not fear the war, I will not fear the storm
My help is on the way, my help is on the way"


Thank You, Jesus for being there always for me!

Day 428

Amos 5:14-15
    Seek good, and not evil,
   that you may live;
and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you,
   as you have said.
 Hate evil, and love good,
   and establish justice in the gate;
it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts,
   will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Day 427

Ephesians 5:1-2
    Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Day 426

1 Peter 1:13
     Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Day 425

Had a rough day emotionally this afternoon with some stuff that came up. God was faithful as always and showed HIS strength through my life. He amazes me every single day!

This is the verse He brought upon my heart.

Psalm 73:26
    My flesh and my heart may fail,
   but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Day 424

Micah 6:8
    He has told you, O man, what is good;
   and what does the LORD require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
   and to walk humbly with your God?

Day 423

Titus 2:11-12
    For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Day 422

Psalm 90:12
    So teach us to number our days
   that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Day 421

Romans 6:6
    We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.