She Loves the Word!

Kari Jobe believes in the Word’s of the Bible and the power of the God behind them. Get to know Him better today through His Word.

 

Time Out for Worship

Worship the beauty of God in His Holiness.

He is Light and He made light!~!!~!

Roles and Assignments (LR)

Pause. Rest. Reflect on who Christ is to you. Open your heart to Him. Worship. Bow. Adore Him. Let His life-giving Spirit come to you.

Now read and reflect.

Put On the New Self – ESV

Colossians 3:1-4 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your[a] life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Living Water (LR) (2)

Rivers of Living Water – ESV (John 7:37-39)

37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

The Message
37-39 On the final and climactic day of the Feast, Jesus took his stand. He cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way, just as the Scripture says.” (He said this in regard to the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. The Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)

Your Part to Play (LR)

“This task was appointed to you and if you do not find a way, no one will!” From The Lord of the Rings trailer, theme 2. God has given you a part to play in His grand design THAT IS YOURS ALONE. If you do not find a way, no one will.

We’ve covered “Fate has chosen him.”  For the believer, that’s God has chosen you.  We’ve looked at the Word to back that up.  Now we are moving to the next theme.

God has given you a part to play that is yours and yours alone, if yo do not find a way no one will. Do you remember that line from the Return of the Fellowship trailer. It was spoken by Galadriel to Frodo as he takes on the task of bearing the ring to Mount Doom.

Frodo shrunk back initially, but as we all know he assumed the role of ring bearer and bore

that ring all the way into Mordor and to Mount Doom. Taking the role we have been given requires risk taking and courage. But we are not alone–we are never alone in our role! What’s more, taking that role is our ticket to becoming the man or woman of God that He created us to be.

Ephesians One

I stepped to the side of my bed and picked up notes from a Sunday School class. I was searching. Vaguely I knew I wanted to get in the Word but I didn’t know where. The notes came from a friend of mine who taught the class and my eyes moved over to the references: “Ephesians 1.” That caught my eye.

I turned there in my Bible and the rest is history. I stayed in Ephesians 1 for a long season. I love that chapter. I found joy, love, grace, holiness, mercy, laughter, sorrow, bliss, and worship there. The words of what I call the proclamation, 1:3-14, still echo in my soul today. These verses remind me who I am and what Jesus, the Christ, has done in my behalf.

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The Crowning of Peter (LR)

Connected to God’s choosing us is His calling us out for our part to play in His Grand Design. Today we are looking at Jesus’ interaction with Peter. In contrast to the sons of Eli, who were honored by God, but faltered in the follow up; Peter is called out, honored by Jesus in Matthew 16. See verse 13 to the end of the chapter.

Here Peter gets it! He knows and understands who Jesus truly is. He speaks it. Jesus affirms him.

Later, Jesus is conveying what must happen to Him. None of the disciples understand Jesus’ trials. They remember the angels words to Mary in Luke 1–about the Kingdom lasting forever. Peter responds to Jesus statements, “may it never be!” Jesus then rebukes Peter.

This is a difficult passage for me. I have great lessons to learn from the interaction of Jesus with His disciples here. Jesus knew what was in the hearts of His disciples. Their hearts were full of sin and distorted thinking. Yet, Jesus finds the good. He affirms Peter for getting it right when he does.

Moving to the Dark Side (LR)

We don’t have to look far to find darkness, no farther than the House of God.

To set the stage for Samuel’s crowning, I Samuel 2 contains Hanna’s Prayer.

Painting of Samuel learning from Eli (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Hanna’s Prayer is a beautiful worship of her God.  Her prayer has a warning, however, “the wicked shall be cut off in darkness” and immediately the narrative turns to the wicked sons of Eli.  Eli allowed compromise in the service to the Lord. But his sons were the main culprits.  They sinned against God in the execution of the sacrifices of the people of God, 2:25 & 29.  but his sons were worthless though they were.   They lay with women, they abused their privilege during the sacrificial process and dishonored God.  God said He will put them to death (2:25).  Because of their disobedience, Eli’s line was removed from the earth (2:33).

The Lord did not leave Israel in a lurch.  He provided priests and he raised up Samuel.  

He is Risen!

But,  look what he had to endure…

…there was a terrible price paid for me…