DAUGHTER!

I have an assignment to read and study the miracles of Jesus, to watch how He operated and healed. I began with Mark's gospel.

What I've noticed in my study, Jesus walked, lived, and conducted Himself in such authority and power. Even greater is what propelled this authority and power was love! Compassion!

Chapter 5 - I've heard it preached so many times and have read the story countless times, but today regarding the woman with the issue of blood, my eyes saw somethings for the very first time. My pastor always tells us never to look at scripture with the attitude, I know that story, read that before, to always look at the Word of God with fresh eyes, with a fresh attitude. God's Word is alive, it is fresh, those things we have heard before even a thousand times, read again, and see if God doesn't open your eyes and heart to something new, or even a reminder of what you may have let slip or have forgotten.  I would encourage you to open your Bible and put your eyes on these verses, you learn more when you look at them.

Verse 5:27: "When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment."

Verse 5:28: "For she said, if I may touch but His clothes, I shall be made whole." 
Whole - sozo = healed, saved, complete,

5:29: "and straightway, the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed. of that plague." 

Just meditate on that for a bit - "she felt in her body she was healed."

• She heard
• She said
• She did
• She felt
• She knew

Jesus knows someone "believing" has touched Him, has pulled on His power and authority. He stops and looks around. 

5:33: "Woman 

• fearing
• trembling
• knowing

fell at His feet, and told Him the truth." Don't ever be in fear to tell Jesus the truth.
She could have been stoned for being in public with blood flowing. She was unclean, yet Jesus knew that someone had touched Him with faith.

Jesus response is so amazing full of love and intimacy, Jesus says, "Daughter".  Her position changed in that instant, she went from being a certain woman to this endearment of daughter!

Daughter, her faith brought her to such a position of intimacy.

Daughter, she wasn't just a woman, her faith caused her to be His heir.

Daughter, her faith moved her up in position, beyond a disciple, she became part of His family.

Daughter, you are Mine! Her faith made her His daughter, part of His family. Born from Him, His seed. 

Do you know this woman was the only one Jesus ever called Daughter!

Have you longed for Him to call you daughter?

He usually said, sons, or son ship but He never called anyone "Daughter" until this woman of faith. We don't know her name, but we know Jesus called her daughter! We know her position, we know she was His daughter. Her name is not as important as her position, daughter.

Has my faith made me an heir?
Has my faith placed me in God's family?

We all need to periodically examine our faith. Set it before you and examine, is my faith changing situations? By faith am I healed? Am I listening and spending time in God's Word daily to build my faith? Are my prayers being answered? 

In every retelling of this awesome testimony in each gospel of the New Testament, the retelling is the same, "Daughter" she is called.

In Luke 23:28 "Many women had followed Him and were mourning for Him as He was walking towards Golgotha." Jesus calls them "daughters of Jerusalem."  This woman of Mark 5, he called "daughter."

"Is your faith producing?" This is what examining your faith means, examine your faith to see if it is producing.

HOW TO EXAMINE YOUR FAITH

1. Am I making myself available to hear the Word?
2. Am I keeping the Word of God going in my ears and heart daily?
3. Am I spending time with God, in prayer and His Word daily?
4. Am I hearing and hearing the Word so faith can come? (Romans 10:17)
5. Am I speaking the Words of God in faith, or am I just speaking because it's what I have been taught to do?
6. Am I speaking at all?
7. Am I saying what I have, or am I saying what God says I can have?
8. Am I doing the Word?
9. Do I sit in church, clock in and out and go about my business?
10. Do I allow the Word of God to correct me and do I adjust to the Word of God, or do I adjust the Word of God to fit me?
11. Do I put action to the Word I've received, or to my words?
12. Do I spend time praising and worshiping God?

Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever."

Jesus is the same. I am like that certain woman, whose faith, of hearing, saying, and doing, hears just as this woman heard,

Mark 5:34 (amp) "And He said to her, "Daughter your faith (your trust and confidence in Me, springing from faith in God) has restored you to health. Go in (unto) peace and be continually healed and freed from your (distressing bodily) disease."

MY TESTIMONY OF FAITH

My faith (trust and confidence in Jesus) has restored me to health. I continually hear the Word daily, I spend time with God daily, praying in the Spirit, listening for His direction. I go and do, I make myself available for correction and I correct. Sometimes I don't know how to correct something He shows me, so I ask Him to show me how to correct it. As a Father would show His daughter how to correct or do something so my Jesus shows me.

Daughter, your faith (your trust and confidence in Me, springing from faith in God) has restored you to health. Go in peace and be free.

Jesus is never about legalism or religion. He operates in love and compassion. If He was about legalism and religion, He would have rebuked her for touching Him. He did the complete opposite, He called her Daughter!

Books of the Bible

During our monthly meeting with the children's department team, we agreed to begin teaching our kids the books of the Bible. I know when I was a child, I learned the books of the Bible during vacation Bible school, and they have stuck with me all these years.

As I began to prepare the lessons, as always, I bring the theme before the Lord, and wait to hear from the Holy Spirit how to proceed. Yes, I look at Pinterest for ideas, which there are so many fun and great ideas. I saved many to my Board - Books of the Bible. You can follow my board click here to go to Pinterest.com Suzybzzthings. 

Games are so necessary to memorize the Books of the Bible. As I kept searching, and praying, just learning the Books of the Bible wasn't enough. I believe the Spirit of the Lord, was impressing us to teach the books of the Bible along with What's in the Bible.  How the Bible has effected our world we live in today.

KICK OFF
God is so awesome, we began our 1st week finding Jesus in our Bibles. I found a cute clipart picture of Jesus from Educlips.com, printed copies, and cut out, then we put Jesus in various parts of the Bible, and highlighted passages which talked about Jesus. I also printed out various pictures, such as Daniel in the Lions Den, Adam and Eve, Moses, Noah, and hid them in various Bibles, along with highlighted passages for the kids to read, or the teacher to read for our non-readers. Every week we will begin our Bible time by searching our Bibles for these hidden figures.

We then proceeded to show videos of songs of the Books of the Bible. I made Books of the Bible cards and we went over the cards, we played a game by taking the first 5 OT book cards and 5 NT book cards, scrambling them up, dividing our kids into teams, one team player at a time, hopped to the mat, choose a card, and decided if it was an OT book or a NT book, they placed their card in the box of their choice, the team with the most correct, received a high five, and everyone received a special treat.

I created, " What's in the Bible WordSearch" to finish the evening!

click here to get my What's in the Bible Worksheet

2nd Week
Our next Wednesday service, followed Columbus Day, which many of our children had a vacation day from school. I discovered some information from Columbus' memoirs, which fit perfectly with our theme. Columbus, loved the Lord, and depended on God's Word daily.

Here is an excerpt from his memoirs and how it is incorporated into our Books of the Bible lesson:
 ·         Christopher Columbus said, “People have claimed that I was a navigator. (Navigator is: a person who directs the route or course of a ship, aircraft, or other form of transportation, especially by using instruments and maps. But, I knew little about navigation. I knew much about my God.”

·         Columbus made it clear that it was God, Who put it in his heart to set out in search of the New World. But while the desire was strong, Columbus simply did not know what to do. So, he sought God’s Wisdom (His Word). During that time of seeking wisdom from God, the Holy Spirit led Columbus to the book of Proverbs chapter 8 verse 27, “When he prepared the heavens, I (Wisdom) was there, when He set a compass upon the face of the deep.”  As Columbus read that verse, the Spirit of God said to him, “It cannot be a compass unless it is round!”

·         “The Lord Jesus Christ, In His Wisdom,” Columbus later wrote, “The Holy Spirit, showed me in His Word that the world was round, and there was no way I could fail. I SET SAIL BASED ON THAT VERSE.

·         Christopher Columbus didn’t fail, he discovered the world was round, just as God’s Word had said, he sailed and discovered America, the country we live in.

I      I created a worksheet, you can click on the link below to view the lesson which includes the worksheet, and craft idea.

       Yes, our kids are learning the books of the Bible, and so much more! If you would like to receive additional Books of the Bible lessons, leave a comment with your email address and I will send you the link as the lessons are prepared and ready to download.   

What's in the Books of the Bible Lesson 2 - Christopher Columbus

  Next week's lesson is.....BUGS! of the Bible.

*** If your children's department is in need of new curriculum please check out my teacherpayteachers Suzy Bzzz store, adding new Bible lessons monthly. 

       God Bless you!

       

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Child Evangelism

My passion is to evangelize children, for children to learn and live for Christ. I do not believe our children need a "rebellion world experience." The Bible says we are to follow Jesus, our children can follow Jesus' life example all their lives, loving their Heavenly Father, and doing exploits for the King of kings. 

Children are so important; do we really know how important and vital it is for us to share Christ with our kids.We live in an America were children are not churched, and many haven’t heard about Jesus their Savior, nor the God Who Created the earth, which they live in and enjoy.

Christmas is about Santa Claus, Jesus isn’t even in the equation of the season. Most children do not know the fundamentals of Christianity. They don’t know about a Savior who came to earth as a child, grew up, and died for them on a cross. Nor do they know about a Creator, Who made this world in 7 days. They don’t know about heaven nor hell. They are taught to say “no” to drugs, not because it is sin, but because it’s bad for their bodies and life. Without Jesus, their life is already headed in the wrong direction.

IF WE DON'T EVANGELIZE OUR KIDS SOMEONE WILL!

The world is doing a great job of evangelizing our children to the world’s standards. We must do a better job of evangelizing our children to the standard of God’s Word.

I pray God gives you such a fire to reach children with His love, Word, and power. We need to fight for our children, and NOW is the TIME! Let’s be like David and remove God’s lambs from the mouth of the lion and the bear!

STEPPING OUT OF THE BOAT

5 years ago my church moved from our previous location of 10 years. Our pastors and congregation thought we would be in our new building within 6 months at the most, so we met in a hotel, 6 months turned into 2 years. During our pack up, we also packed up the entire inventory of curriculum. We discovered our children's church would be held in one room at the hotel, with ages varying from 2 months to 10 years of age. We were met with various challenges every service, but God was faithful.

HOW DO YOU TEACH A LARGE AGE GAP

How do you minister to such a large age gap and feed these little lambs effectively? ANSWER: With much prayer, listening to the Holy Spirit, preparation, creativity, and direction from the Lord. And building a unity and commitment in your teaching staff, more about this on a future post.

During our time in the hotel my pastor, Kenny Gatlin, published and released his book, Staying Power. As I read the book which is filled with so much TRUTH, my spirit began stirring and my mind was going. Every page my mind kept saying, our kids need to know these truths. 

I have been in children's ministry close to 35 years, and have seen precious children who raised their hands and praised God, who knew their memory verses, wouldn't miss a Sunday or a Wednesday, grow cold to the things of God. They didn't have staying power, they left their first love, for the pleasures of this life. It has always broken my heart when I see one of "my kids" walk away from God. 

As I read this book Staying Power, I just was so impressed to begin to write Sunday lessons, based on the various chapters of this book. Pastor Kenny, likes Nascar and he references this in his book, so in my mind I saw the Sunday lessons with a race car theme.  I opened my Bible and began to study and write notes. I took my notes and began dividing the sections into lessons, games, crafts, a take home page, and so much more.

Each lesson has been kid tested and pastor approved. I believe everyone should read Pastor Kenny Gatlin's book, and especially those who minister to children. I believe if you are like me your desire is for your kids to follow Jesus all their days, with the Truth of the Word of God in their heart, and in their mouth. I believe they need to be taught ad encouraged to have STAYING POWER! There is a Champion in each one of them. 

WE HAVE A SUCCESS RATE
It has been 4 years since we have moved into our new building. I have seen "my kids" go from children's church, and graduate into the main service, they are not ashamed of Jesus. They serve as greeters, and ushers, during praise and worship they are at the altar raising their hands, and kneeling before their Savior. Honoring Him with their life. 

Staying Power! That is what the world needs now! 

After our time in the hotel, I have continued to write the curriculum for Oasis Kids. I believe with all my heart I am to step into the water and offer these lessons to churches, parents, grandparents. Maybe your child doesn't attend a Christian school and you want to give them Jesus every day, these lessons are for you. 

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Are you a home school parent who needs to insert Bible time into your children's learning?  The lessons are geared for 3 years old to 10 year old. Each lesson is broken up into age groups: 3-5, 6-10. Along with memory verses, crafts, and games appropriate for each age group.

Each lesson contains the full gospel of Jesus Christ. I have developed many Bible themed lessons: Camp Abraham, Noah, 12 Disciples, Samuel, Saul, David, Friendship, Stephen, Armor of God, Fruit of the Spirit, and VBS - Growing Your Light, and so much more.

You can check out my Teacher pay Teacher site 

I am in the process of tweeking the themed lessons for purchase. Available now is Noah and Staying Power Volume #1,  Camp Abraham.

If you would like to be notified of added curriculum, please  leave your email in the comment area and I will add you to my emailing list. I hope you will visit my site, and download the other resources I have available. 

There are freebies also at my Suzybzzthings, such as a monthly Bible Reading Calendar. Every month I add a Bible reading calendar to get our kids into making a habit of reading the Bible everyday.  Check it out!

Let's evangelize our children together, it is our mandate from the Lord to preach the gospel, and that includes children!

Be blessed,

Susie

Fill My Cup Devotional

FILL MY CUP

I am again reading Romans during my Bible time and these verses are just as powerful today as they were 4 1/2 years ago. 

October 4, 2017

Today during my prayer time what came into my spirit was a song, fill me up, I began to sing in the spirit Lord fill me up, fill my cup to overflowing, fill me up, fill my cup and make me whole. As I prayed and continued to sing these words I had my Bible open and I turned to:

1.       Romans 8:8-9: and those who are in the flesh cannot please God, v9: However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

I backed up to vs 5-8: For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is l Death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so.

Lately during my prayer time, I have allowed my mind to dictate my day and time spent in the Lord’s presence. Allowing all the many things of this life to cut short my time with the Lord. I would begin to pray and then after 10 to 15 minutes, my mind would begin to go down the list of all the things I could or should do today. I would pray for a few minutes longer and then go and do. My spirit was grieving from this. The Spirit of God does dwell in me, I am a child of God, but I was allowing my mind, set on the flesh to be in control, instead of the Spirit controlling me. 

When I read these verses, “that the mind is hostile towards God, it is even unable to subject itself to the law of God.” I repented and turned from this course of allowing my mind to direct me.  

As I continued to read and I reached v11: But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through the Spirit who indwells you.

I love that verse, but today I saw it in a new light. Right now, as I am writing this when I wrote “saw in a new light.” I thought about the Seraphim, who fly around the throne of God, and as they look on Him they cry out Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord.” I have heard it said they continually cry out because they see something new and marvelous, holy, and magnificent each time, they can’t help but cry out how magnificent God is. Could this be the same for the Word of God? Each time we look at a familiar verse, and we see something we didn't see before, and cannot but cry out, how wonderful, holy, magnificent the Word of God is.

This time I saw in this verse, if I set my mind on the flesh even though I am not of the flesh but of the Spirit, I quench the Spirit of Him to raise up my mortal body through the Spirit that indwells me.

I repented, and declared verses 6-11 like this:

For my mind is not set on the flesh, but my mind is set on the Spirit of life and peace.

My mind is not set on the flesh, but is subject to God and the law of God

I am not in the flesh, I please God.

I am in the Spirit.

The Spirit of God indwells me

I have the Spirit of Christ and I belong to Him.

Christ is in me

Though my body is dead because of sin

Yet my spirit is alive because of righteousness

The Spirit of Him who raise Jesus from the dead

Dwells in me

He who raise Christ Jesus from the dead

Will also give life to my mortal body

Through the Spirit who indwells me.

I began to pray in the Spirit, my mind was going, but I continued to pray in the Spirit not even allowing my thoughts to direct or dictate me.

I turned to Romans 5:5: “and hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”

Hope: I have a faith project that I have been waiting on, and I need hope to continue to wait in faith.

Hope does not disappoint – I began to sing again about filling my cup, fill it up and make me whole. And then I began to thank and pray to the Lord for filling me with His love that has been poured out into my heart through the Holy Spirit. I continued to repeat, thank you Lord for filling my cup with your love by the Holy Spirit, thank you for filling me up with Your love poured out into my heart, by your Holy Spirit.

I just meditated on that thought for a bit, then I was led to:

Romans 15:13: “Now may the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

God is the God of Hope

He fills me with hope

That I may abound in hope

By the Power of the Holy Spirit.

This hope is not a wishing thing, although in the flesh it would be.

But this God given hope

Comes only by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I began to pray in the spirit and then I saw that My God, the Holy Spirit was filling my cup with HOPE! A powerful hope, God given hope.

So now here’s my cup, fill me up and make me whole: My cup is filled by the Holy Spirit with God’s love, abounding with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit, filled with joy, peace, and faith (believe = faith).

God is so wonderful, there is nothing that can compare to Him. 

He never leaves us where He finds us.

 I am His, and He came for me and corrected me, but so loving and so compassionate. 

He corrected my thinking and then He filled me up. 

He placed in my heart a song, for Him, to fill my cup, to fill me up, and make me whole. 

Then He led me to the verses of correction, how my mind and my flesh were keeping me from being filled up. 

Then after I repented, He filled my cup with His love, His hope, He filled me with Himself, because God IS love, God OF Hope, peace, joy, faith. 

How much I have missed and could continue to miss if I allowed my mind to be in control and resist and quench the precious and great Holy Spirit.

Be blessed today,

Suzy Bee

Walk in Love

I just love the Book of Joshua in the Bible. 

Joshua is one of my favorite people. Caleb and Joshua have been such a faith builder and courage strengthener for me throughout my life. Their courage and their faith in God is amazing. Once I discovered Joshua I wanted to be just like him. I loved that he was a servant to Moses, that he just stayed in the background watching, listening, following, and obeying Moses. Joshua experienced the glory of the Lord because he was with Moses on the mountains. 

My Bible reading has brought me to Joshua again, and it is like reading it for the first time. So many wonderful truths and instructions. I don't think I would see it with such fresh eyes if it wasn't for my Pastor Kenny Gatlin, the truth of the word he imparts to us on a weekly basis opens our eyes and ears to see things that I wouldn't have seen before. I just listened to a CD called "What God Wants In Your Life." this CD focused on our "Love Walk". Jesus commanded us to love one another. Pastor Kenny expounded on our love walk should grow to the point that when we see our sisters or brothers dealing with a sickness that won't go, or a circumstance with their children or family, whatever it could be that we take up the battle with them (we don't have to let them know that we are doing it), we give up a meal or two to pray for them, we look up scriptures and declare over their situation, this is practicing and growing our love walk.

Reading Joshua 1:13-15 (amp)
Remember what Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you saying, "The Lord your God is giving you (a place of) rest and will give you this land (east of the Jordan). Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall dwell in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan, but all your mighty men of valor shall pass on before your brethren armed and help them (possess the land). Until the Lord gives your brethren rest, as He has given you, and they also possess the land the Lord your God is giving them. 

Here God is giving us an example of what our "love walk" should look and be like. When we pray or fast for others to receive healing, deliverance, to overcome the devil and every circumstance. We pray, we fast until our fellow believers "rest" in the promises of God. Not half way, but 100% possess everything God has for them.

Joshua 1:15....then you shall return to the land of your possessions and possess it, the land Moses the Lord's servant gave you on the sunrise side of the Jordan. 

I love where it says, "on the sunrise side" that is what will happen when we walk in love with our fellow brothers and sisters, we will live (dwell) on the sunrise side of the promise.

A great man of God said, "You can't possess anything you don't have a revelation of."

We can do it! Let's do this! Love Walk - on the sunrise side!

The Narrow Way

"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it." Matthew 7:13

Holy, Holiness:

The Bible declares that God is holy so we should be holy. Obeying His commands and statues, seeking His wisdom and His way of doing things instead of our own way.

Leviticus 27:30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's; it is holy to the Lord." 

I know many will say that is Old Testament so it is not for us New Testament believers. God is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8. So if the tithe was holy to the Lord then it is holy to Him today. But let's not go here. I want to focus on the Holiness of God Almighty.

Holy, Holiness, thinking on this scripture and thinking about "holy" I don't know about you but I know that I've taken it lightly. When being holy involves the "whole" of who I am. It involves not just my spirit, but my soul (my mind, my will, and my emotions). It involves my activities no matter how innocent I believe them to be, the question is does God? Holy includes being obedient to the things of God, spending time with Him listening to His word and obeying what I hear, prayer, praise and worship, spending time in His presence, getting His heart on my today. 

Holy - the tithe is holy; the seed is holy. Seed - the beginning of anything, the planting.

God, everything about you is Holy. Anything that has to do with You is Holy. I must be Holy as you are Holy. I am holy because You Lord have made me holy. And now that You have made me holy I must keep myself holy. The meaning of I am not my own becomes so clear.  I must live this life according to Your standard, Your commands, Your precepts, Your statutes. You have placed me here on this earth at this time in history just for this reason to live holy, to live a separated life from the world around me. What a  privilege. 

The challenge is saying "NO" to ourselves. Our wants, those reality shows that can suck us in. When we don't "feel" like it. Faith doesn't feel. Who said this life of faith was easy??? NO one! But the closer we get to the end of the end of days, the narrower the road will be, and we will need to guard our hearts and minds like never before. So some of the things we do may be things the Lord will say to give up to guard our hearts and minds. Walking in Faith is just that - walking! One step at a time. Listening for direction to the finish line!

To live this holy life means the road in this life gets narrow.

The more evil the world is becoming the more narrower the road. 

We Win! If we keep ourselves in the Word, doing the Word, and loving God with all our hearts and mind and soul! 

ALL FOR US!

In our children's department we began a series on Samuel, Saul &  David. It has been such an enriching time. Our kids are learning and hearing how awesome and great our God is, He hasn't changed. 

He uses young Samuel because he has ears to hear. Eli, had become blind and hard of hearing, yet he was the priest of the temple in that day. How many of us who serve God for years, decades, can take for granted the awesomeness of God. Have we lost our zeal for God? Have we lost the excitement of being in God's house, of worshiping our Lord?  I would encourage you to read the scriptures below. Our God is a jealous God and I am so thankful He is.

In the story below they said God was their God, but they didn't know Him intimately. They no longer worshiped just Him. They had forgotten His words and commands. They wanted to be like all the other nations around them, and it brought only defeat in their lives.

 Read 1 Samuel 5 & 6, Exodus 25:10-22

If the Fear of the Lord doesn’t come upon you I would ask you to examine your heart. as my Pastor Kenny Gatlin  always tells us if we examine our hearts and judge ourselves than the Lord wil not have to.

When we don’t make a practice of living in our Bibles we can lose sight of how great our God is. This world and all its doings can get us distracted, and the pressures of life can seem so big and impossible. But then when we open up the Word of God and begin to read, the Truth refocuses us and we see as we should see, that the God we serve, love, believe, trust, and depend on holds our right hand so we have confidence we will get to the other side of whatever situation we face. The Way Maker will make a way. How can we not worship our Lord!

When I read the story of Dagon the idol god, It brings to my mind, “God is a jealous God.  I remember hearing Oprah saying once (many, many years ago when I watched her)  when she heard this in church this turned her from wanting to serve this God Who was jealous. I think about that and wonder how many people have turned from God because they looked at the things of God by their humanism. Unfortunately they truly don't know the Creator, the Lover of their soul.

Where was her pastor to not have explained God doesn’t do anything to benefit Himself, He doesn’t need to, everything is His! He is jealous for us, our wellbeing, our life abundant, He is jealous to give us a good life, the best life, and jealous for us to receive all of His benefits. He is jealous for us to get all He has planned for us, which sometimes does include correction because as fleshly beings our flesh can try to get the upper hand on our lives. 

Yes, our God is a jealous God, and I am thankful He is jealous. If He wasn’t jealous for us, would He have sent His Son?  He created this world and us for Him, so we can be a family. He wasn’t going to give us up to His arch enemy, His creation, Satan. Thank you, Father God, for being jealous for us. There is no other god but our God – Jehovah Rapha our healer, Jehovah Nissi the God who fights for us, Jehovah Tsidkenu, Jehovah El Elyon, Jehovah Jirah, Jesus, Messiah, Redeemer, Sanctifier, Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Adonai, the list of His names goes on and on which declare His greatness and character.

We serve a mighty God. Allow the Lord to pour His greatness over you. Stop and worship the Lord.

“ OH THAT MEN WOULD PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS GOODNESS,

 AND FOR HIS WONDERFUL WORKS TO THE CHILDREN OF MEN!"

PSALMS 107:8

"FOR HE SATISFIES THE LONGING SOUL,

 AND FILLETH THE HUNGRY SOUL WITH GOODNESS." PSALMS 107:9

Our God is jealous for our worship and praise, why? Because it allows us to come into His presence, and then He “inhabits” us, our world, our situation. It is all for us! Yet as Paul said, “For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.” Philippians 1:21. Die to self, and allow God to give you His best life.