SylviaSpirit, listen to your Father's heart from His Word in Deuteronomy 30:19.

"I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your

descendants may live."

Be blessed in the name of the One who is life. Your Father is pleased that Jesus His Son lives in you and His Spirit makes His home in you. Choose the abundant life of Jesus in you. He will never cease living in you. God chose your spirit to be His dwelling place before He created the physical body to place you in. Be blessed to choose life, His life in you. Your life is secure in Him.

God pledges the full faith of His great name to you. His Word says in 1 Samuel 12:22,
"For the sake of his great name the Lord will not reject his people, because the Lord was
pleased to make you his own." You have the pleasure of the Lord. He is pleased that you are
His. You belong to Him. You are precious in His sight. You are a divine choice. Celebrate your
chosenness. You are an expression of the embrace of the everlasting love of God. By His
grace, seize your opportunities every day to choose life, to be life, to give life. Choose against
what distracts you, confuses you, and puts in jeopardy the life of the Beloved in you. Choose
to live from the loving heart of your Father.

Spirit, be blessed in the encouragement that comes from being united with Christ.
Receive comfort from His love. Be blessed to choose fellowship with the Spirit. Bask in His
tenderness and compassion. Make His joy complete by receiving His unshakable purpose for
you in your Father (Phil. 2:1). You have not read the final chapter of His plans for you. He has
written a future and a hope for you. In Jeremiah 29:11 God says, "I know the plans I have
for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." This
verse was written to people who were exiled and captive in a foreign country for seventy
years. God kept His promise, and they returned to the land He gave them.

The pain you feel is real, your circumstances are what they are, but be blessed with
hope for your future in Him who chose your life. Choose to believe in hope that He who called
you is faithful. It is your choice. Spirit, be blessed with trusting His thoughts and plans for
welfare and peace, for your good and not for evil.

Be blessed in the name of the One who has life in Himself,

and His light is your life (John 1:4).

Reflections to Consider

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Publications

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Music

  • Jesus be the centre

    Center is a song that speaks of the essence of our life in Christ, and echoes the words the Christ Read More
  • I Lift My Hands

    A powerful hymn of adoration and praise Arkansas Gospel Mass Choir. This succinctly captures the joy of knowing our savior. Read More
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Audio & Video

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Favorites

  • Transforming this World: The Hope of Glory by NT Wright +

    Wright confronts the perspective that this world doesn’t matter, and that we live only to be in heaven. He shows Read More
  • What is Good in a World that Defies Hope: a talk by NT Wright +

    This is the second part of three talks by NT Wright at Harvard University in November, 2008 on the topic Read More
  • The Stream, the Lake and the River: NT Wright +

      Acts 2.1-21; John 7.37-39; a sermon at the Eucharist on the Feast of Pentecost, 11 May 2008, by the Read More
  • Jesus in the Perfect Storm by NT Wright +

    Zechariah 9.9-17; Luke 19.28-48; A sermon for Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011, In the University Chapel of St Salvator, St Read More
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Hidden Blessings

  • Christ is a Great Savior: a review of the movie Amazing Grace +

    Amazing Grace is a historical drama about William Wilberforce who was elected to British Parliament at the age of 21 Read More
  • Wilberforce, Hollywood's Amazing Grace, Charlotte Allen +

    William Wilberforce's relentless campaign eventually led the British Parliament to ban the slave trade, in 1807, and to pass a Read More
  • Making Beauty out of Ugly Things: Grace by U2 +

    Grace, she takes the blame She covers the shame Removes the stain It could be her name Grace, she carries Read More
  • The True Nature of Grace and Love: a movie review of the Soloist +

    The 2009 movie The Soloist is based on a book by the same name, written by Los Angeles Times columnist Read More
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