Giving to All

No matter the return I receive from loving others, my character is being strengthened through the process.

I love giving to people and not getting anything in return. I feel that by giving of myself I can somehow better glimpse, understand and relate to Christ.
This is how He lived.
He served others and received rejection and discouragement time after time.
However, His cup did not run dry because the Lord filled His spirit abundantly with joy and satisfaction.
The Lord carried Him daily through circumstances that would otherwise drain a person - yet he remained strong and full of life and love.
He gave without much tangible return in the form of encouragement.
I believe His relationship with His Father was strengthened through dependence on Him as the source of all.

I intend continue to pour myself out with a smile, contented heart, joyful spirit and overflowing soul. For I have been given much and I intend to pass on those blessings and keep the channel open. Much Love to you all!

Pursue righteousness to enjoy peace!

"And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever."

I am purposing to focus on becoming more righteous today.

Looking to love others.

Thinking less of myself and more of how I may serve and give to others.

Much Love to you All! :)

The Only Way (June 8)

Down through the Ages, My Power alone has kept millions of souls brave and true and strong who else would have fallen by the way.

The Faith has been kept alive and handed down, not by the dwellers in ease, but by those who struggled and suffered and died for Me.

This life is not for the body, it is for the soul, and man too often chooses the way of life that best suits the body, not the way that best suits the soul. And I permit only what best suits the soul.

Try, each of you, to picture your soul as a third being trained by us - by you and Me - and then you will share, and rejoice in sharing, in the discipline and training.

Stand apart from your soul with Me and welcome training - rejoice at progress.

The Only Way

Down through the Ages, My Power alone has kept millions of souls brave and true and strong who otherwise would have fallen by the way.

The Faith has been kept alive and handed down, not by the dwellers in ease, but by those who struggled and suffered and died for Me.

This life is not for the body, it is for the soul, and man too often chooses the way of life that best suits the body, not the way that best suits the soul. And I permit only what best suits the soul.

Accept this and a wonderful molding is the result; reject it and My Purpose is frustrated, your best prayer unanswered, spiritual progress delayed, trouble and grief stored up.

Try, each of you, to picture your soul as a third being trained by us - by you and Me - and then you will share and rejoice in sharing, in the discipline and training.

Stand apart from your soul with Me and welcome training - rejoice at progress.

True Beauty (June 7)

"Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live." Isaiah 55:3

Not only live but grow in grace and power and beauty - the true Beauty, the Beauty of Holiness.

Reach ever forward after the things of My Kingdom.

In the animal world, the very form of an animal alters to enable it to reach that upon which it delights to feed. So, reaching after the treasures of My Kingdom, your whole nature becomes changed, so that you can best enjoy and receive the wonders of that Kingdom.

Dwell on these truths.

How You See Me (June 6)

I came to help a world. And according to the varying needs of each, so does each man see Me.

It is not necessary that you see Me as others see Me - the world, even the Church, My disciples, My followers - but it is necessary that you see Me, each of you, as supplying all that you personally need.

The weak need My Strength. The strong need My Tenderness. The tempted and fallen need My Salvation. The righteous need My Pity for sinners. The lonely need a Friend. The fighters need a Leader.

No man could be all these to men - only a God could be. In each of these relations of Mine to man you must see the God. The God-Friend, the God-Leader, the God-Savior.

That Tender Voice (June 5)

Very quietly I speak. Listen to My Voice. Never heed the voices of the world - only the tender Divine Voice.

Listen and you will never be disappointed. Listen, and anxious thoughts and tired nerves will become rested. The Voice Divine - not so much in strength as in tenderness. Not so much in power as in restfulness.

But the tenderness and the restfulness will heal your scars and make you strong, and then it must be your task to let all your power be My Power. Man's little power is as clay beside the granite rock of My Power.

You are My great care. Never feel at the mercy of the world. My angels guard you day and night, and nothing can harm you. You would indeed thank Me if you knew the darts of fret and evil they turn from you.

Thank Me indeed for dangers unknown - unseen - but averted.