God has many ways to speak to us in ways and languages that we can understand best so that we may follow Him, love Him and obey Him.
I am so thankful and forever grateful that He speaks to me in my heart language and so thankful that I will have the New Testament by next year.
I rejoice in Him because not only me, but all of those who speak the same language with me, wherever they live, they will have access to His living, changing word.
He is God.
Day 23: Today I am thankful for my parents. They are the world best grandpa and grandma for my daughters!
I don’t have their recent picture, but this is the most recent sketch that my oldest did 2 days ago, on Friday. She sketched them while talked with them on Skype video call 🙂 Last time we saw them about 4,5 years ago when the oldest was 1 years old and the youngest have bot yet met them in person.
I am giving thanks to The Lord for giving them as my parents. This year they celebrated their 36th Anniversary. God blesses them!
And I surely miss them every day!
Day 22: Giving thanks for a thankful heart like a little child. There are things we learn from a little child. I learn to have thankful heart and have faith just like little children by seeing that in my own children’s hearts. That is what Jesus taught us.
Oh yes, I give thanks to the Lord for this fire place we have at home. Surely, it warms our house in these cold days, especially in the winter.
I always dreamed to have a house with fire place. When my husband tool me to check on this house before we rented it 5 years ago, I fell in love already with this fire place!
Just thankful!
I am thanking God for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus, and new life given to me.
When we have the truth understanding of salvation that is through faith, and not by human effort and religion laws, then we will live our lives differently. We will live joyfully, thankfully and obedience to the Lord Jesus, as the head of everything in our lives.
We will grow strong in the truth because we have the Holy Spirit who leads us into the truth and right path. We will be given understanding and discernment which one from God and which one from human. We will be led to the heart of the Father and stays in Him.
Apostle Paul reminds the believers in Colossians that they were saved by grace and through faith, so lived with faith and not by human judgements.
So do we.
And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.
Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ. For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
When you came to Christ, you were “circumcised,” but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision—the cutting away of your sinful nature. For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead.
You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.
So don’t let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating certain holy days or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths. For these rules are only shadows of the reality yet to come. And Christ himself is that reality. Don’t let anyone condemn you by insisting on pious self-denial or the worship of angels, saying they have had visions about these things. Their sinful minds have made them proud, and they are not connected to Christ, the head of the body. For he holds the whole body together with its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God nourishes it.
You have died with Christ, and he has set you free from the spiritual powers of this world. So why do you keep on following the rules of the world, such as, “Don’t handle! Don’t taste! Don’t touch!”? Such rules are mere human teachings about things that deteriorate as we use them. These rules may seem wise because they require strong devotion, pious self-denial, and severe bodily discipline. But they provide no help in conquering a person’s evil desires. (Colossians 2:6-23 NLT)
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