You define me.. Kim walker Smith

 https://youtu.be/RaR39AUUMLo

 Who defines you? What defines you?

 Oh my heart for our children today. So many mental issues are due to the way our society is, but also  parents not being of any help.  Telling them to be whatever makes them happy. Be a boy, be a girl, be a cat, be a dog, be a tree. How sick is our society.  I have seen people set free. So no one can tell me that your truth is your truth. God's truth is truth.

In many families fathers are absent, and even if they are there, they are still absent. Many fathers today sign their kids up for football, baseball, name whatever sport or activity you want.But the most important thing you don't do, is signing your kids up to know Jesus Christ and get them into the church assembly, and go with them. Fun weekends, great vacations, this is all well and good. But you will be held highly accountable for not being the father God has called you to be and created you to be. Mothers who are leading your children. Keep doing what you're doing. You will be highly rewarded.  Most of the boys and girls in jail today are fatherless.  Including no knowledge of their heavenly Father.  I thank God for prison ministries.  What a shame that for some , it takes this to be introduced to Jesus.

Genesis 1:1-27.  God called everything what it was to be, and it was so.  God-created mankind in his own image, male and female. Plants were plants. Fish were fish. You are, and I am made male or female.  I hate to be blunt. But just look below at the plumbing.

 I will end it on this note.  Some of us are mad at the leaders of this nation,when we can't even be the leaders we are supposed to be in our own home.

 Ending with scripture of truth.

 Romans 12:2,  Do not conform to the patterns of this world,  but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans1:28,  Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to their depraved mind. 

My Lord and faithful patient Father. All for your glory. 

Kim D..mvdevotional.blogspot.com.

So will I... Hillsong

 https://youtu.be/GfVd5x9W1Xc

Romans 8:22-23

"We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.  Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the 1st fruits of the spirit, grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies."

When a baby is being birthed. The mother groans in pain and new life comes into this world.  When we get old, and sickness comes. We grown with pain to go to a new life. Made hole and healed with our Lord Jesus Christ.

  I love how this passage was explained by a pastor.... All these viruses, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, fires, floods,  senseless murders,  and the fact that they are coming more frequently, is the Earth groaning for new life. 

 God-created this world for His purpose. He created us for His purpose. To worship. Everything he created was beautiful.  All nature and science follow the sound of His voice. 

 The world is decaying and spiritually infected with sin.The God of salvation is chasing down our hearts.  Sometimes it seems so close to his return. But I'm sure they felt that way thousands of years ago.  But like I said. Those things that are written, that he told us would happen more frequently, are happening, Mark 13:5-12 Luke 21:11, Matthew 24:7.

  So whether Jesus comes 1st, or he calls you home, are you ready for new life? Have you received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? 

For Your Glory Lord

Kim D

Beneath the waters.. Hillsong

 https://youtu.be/mTwA3NLEjY4

Are you determined to have your own way in living for God? We will never be free from this trap until we are brought into the experience of the baptism of “the Holy Spirit and fire” (Matthew 3:11). Stubbornness and self-will will always stab Jesus Christ. It may hurt no one else, but it wounds His Spirit... Wow,  When I read this this morning, I thought of so many people who have been baptized. But are they truly in love and commited to Jesus Christ.  Baptism is a symbolic commitment. It's being down with your old life, and up with a new one. Similar to wearing a wedding band and being committed to one. But we see today that people who are married and wear a wedding band does not necessarily mean they are committed to that 1.  They cheat on their spouse and make excuses for it. Same today when people are baptized, they don't live a life committed to the "ONE.".  Are we making excuses for cheating on God? Do other things come before Him? This would make me question. Did I really receive the Holy spirit? " Thou shalt have no other god before me."....  What gets most of our time?

 For your glory Lord

Kim D

Falling in love.. Phil Wickman

 https://youtu.be/YccG57dJVEA

Exodus 20: 2-6... No other gods before me...

 The more I praise Him the more I want to. I just keep falling more and more in love. I don't know how it works. It just does. The more I seek of Him, the more I want of Him.  There truly is nothing that captivates me more.

 I have dreams and places that I would love to see. If it's His will, it will happen. If not, I'm OK with that too. 

 He is my source of freshness and strength each morning.  I am so dependent upon Him, and He has been so faithful. John 3:3,  Being born of the Spirit means much more than we think.  He gives us new vision.  He gives us a never ending supply of the life of God.  Could you really want anything more than that?

 Jesus set me free, and continues to set me free of the things that can hold me in captivity here.  Things like money, pleasure and material possessions can hold you captive.  These things are nice. But they should never take 1st place.  I have learned not to put earthly desires above Spiritual priorities.

 Look what Jesus tells the samaritan woman at the well in John chapter 4:10.  "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water."  He satisfies to the utmost! Look at verses 13-14, Jesus says," Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst"....  As you read on in this chapter you see that the woman went through 5 husbands.  How many relationships do we have to go through? How many things do we have to buy? How many vacations do we need to go on?  Fall in love with Jesus and see that only He satisfies to the utmost!

For Your glory Lord

Kim D

Good morning God.. Jessica Mack

 https://youtu.be/njTH3kSXwlg

Every morning you wake it starts. Those thoughts and plans for the day. The enemy always trying to trip you up.  But what a beautiful prayer to rise each morning and asking God to show you His plan. God desires our every waking moment, and so does the enemy, John 10:10.. I choose to give it to God. It always turns out to be a better day.

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. Psalm 143:8

Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. (1 Peter 5:7 ....Lord, please teach me not to hold on to all that frustrates me, makes me uneasy, or stirs up anxiety in my heart. Right now, I choose to throw each concern toward You, entrusting them into Your sovereign care once and for all. When I struggle to release my cares to You, please give me grace to trust You. Help me not to take them back but entrust everything that concerns me to You, knowing You are good and kind and all powerful. Prompt me by Your Spirit the moment I am tempted to retrieve any worry or concern. Thank you for carrying all I cannot. Thank you for loving me, caring for me, and watching over me. Thank you for enabling me to live in Your very real peace. In Jesus’s name, amen.. 

Be blessed .. Kim D

Too good to not believe. Cody Carnes and Brandon lake

 https://youtu.be/SXgpg2AIHKw

Isaiah 30:21, " Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” 

 Truly, I have seen miracles that my mind can't comprehend.  There is beauty in what I can't understand.  He's too good to not believe. We truly have a wonder working God.

 Proverbs 18:21 tells us that life-and-death are in the power of the tongue.  So even if you don't believe it, just say it. Claim it! In the name of Jesus.  This year is going to be the best ever. Our words can help us receive all that God has for us. 

Are you unsure about God's vision for you? Just buy into the truth.  God has a vision for us. 

Picture God in front of you calling you forward. Your moving, but then your not seeing Him there as clearly as you did. Faith tells us that believing is not seeing.  So now picture this. Him behind you.  That voice behind you telling you, "keep moving forward in the direction I am telling you to go."   He will tell you when to turn right or left. He will tell you when to stop. He will tell you when to keep moving. Get very acquainted with the Holy Spirit. Our very present help, Psalm 46:1. 

 We all struggle sometimes with not understanding what God is telling us to do. Just believe that He has a plan. A vision for our life that has been pre planned. It's always good.  Let that shift your prayer into asking God what it is He already has planned.  You may not be clear on all the details. But go with that voice behind you,  and walk in it. Begin to move as He unfolds little by little.  He's too good to not believe. He's not a God of confusion. He will direct your path clearly. As long as you draw near to Him. He will draw near to you and make it clear,  Jeremiah 29:12-13.

 Be a faithful heart to do the next thing that God has told you to do.

 For your glory Lord

Kim D

Take courage.. Kristene DiMarko

 https://youtu.be/LJoABwNMzvM

Trust God in the waiting.....

 I have to say, that sometimes I like when God doesn't answer my  prayer right away. Because what Hes doing inside of me, is far better than that prayer being answered when I expect it to be answered.  Knowing that He is there with me in the waiting gives me courage.

 Pursue God's presence more than you pursue your prayer request. When you pursue His presence, you are always transforming. 

 Do we look at God as some kind of genie? Do we stand on the promises of His word?  God's job is to perform the miracle. Our job is to just believe, and never stop believeing. I want God to know i always trust Him. That i will never stop believing what i am praying for, according to His will. 

We can get dissapointed in God at times.  But He's big enough to understand that. 

 There are many waiting in the waiting room of hope of their prayers being answered.  I pray that we grow in the waiting room of hope. There could be so much growth and joy.  What we thought was a delay, could actually be a blessing. 

In the waiting i pray we are full of hope and life. 

Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

And lean not on your own understanding;
 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.

For Your glory Lord

Hold on to the Hope giver. Lord increase our faith. 

Kim D