Hi Peeps,
Today’s Quote
“Following good directions and working out God’s plans can be tricky, particularly when your motives are all wrong and you don’t even know it.” ~ Jon Barnes
Follow God
Enjoy the daily wonder of discovering new opportunities, when you relax, doing the work, and following the plan of Love as it unfolds before your eyes. Your happiness does not unravel because of evil. Pray that your focus stays on Him and not yourself, talent, or abilities.
Followed God
Many people are called to Love and Work, but few are chosen because they lack the faith to believe God is Real to the end of their journey. Look in the mirror and ask yourself, how does a person believe they are alive and pretend that God of all creation is dead and used up? Fake people followed God for His Goods and Services and cast Him aside after getting what they want.
Following God
God will lead and guide your steps and you will become the center of attention to help others become better people, who appreciate God’s Love. The work of God is the center of attention in the Good that you do and not what you say. Enjoy growing in your labor of Love with God and smile at your temporary problems, knowing that God provides more than enough for you to give some things away.
Today’s Question
Are you still following God or did you just Eat and Run out of the hand of God?
Enjoy Today’s Readings.
2 Corinthians 9
9 There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the Lord’s people. 2 For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action. 3 But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be. 4 For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to say anything about you—would be ashamed of having been so confident. 5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given.
Generosity Encouraged
6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 9 As it is written:
10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 11 You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
12 This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. 13 Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. 14 And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. 15 Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
Love,
Jonathan
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