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Worship X Day 15 The Eternal One

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Hebrews 10:1-18
Matthew 8:23-27
Psalm 73:23-28
Psalm 32:6-8

Worship X, Day 15

Thomas O. Chilsolm is the author of Great is Thy Faithfulness, the hymn we’ve been unpacking in this Journey Theme. Converted to Christ during a revival service, Chilsolm went to work for the Pentecostal Herald. He later became ordained with the Methodist Episcopal church and wrote an astonishing 1200 poems, having more than eight hundred of them published in various periodicals.

Today, we’ll take a closer look at the third verse of his poem-turned-hymn:

Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow
Blessings all mine with 10,000 beside
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.

Pardon For Sin
In the Old Testament, the Lord instructed the Jews to obtain forgiveness for their sins by bringing offerings to sacrifice on the altar at the temple. (Leviticus 16) However, Hebrews 10:1-4 explains these sacrifices only served as a temporary placeholder, needing to be repeated again and again as people continued to sin. That’s where Jesus came in, paying the price for your sin and mine, once and for all time:

“But this man [Jesus], after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God. [. . .] For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified.” (Hebrews 10:12-14)

Therefore, the apostle and preacher Peter made a great call for repentance, found in Acts 2:38, “Repent and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

Peter’s words echo through the centuries, urging each of us to experience the transformative power of repentance and seeking forgiveness from God.

A Peace That Endureth
With this pardon for sin, we can rest in God’s peace which will endure. In the Old Testament, both David and Gideon found peace in God, despite harrowing circumstances. (Judges 6:23-24; Psalm 4:8)

In the New Testament, three Gospel writers share an example of how great the Prince of Peace, Jesus, truly is by describing how He calmed a storm at sea. (Matthew 8:23-27; Mark 4:35-41; Luke 8:22-25) We can rest in the assurance that our God, Who calmed a storm in the middle of a sea, is ever-present with us through our storms.

“I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.” (John 16:33)

Thine Own Dear Presence To Cheer
When we walk in the peace and the presence of God, we have an awareness of Him.
“And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20)

The knowledge that He’s with us has a way of cheering our souls.
“But as for me, God’s presence is my good.
I have made the Lord GOD my refuge[.]” (Psalm 73:28)

And To Guide
Just as Gideon was given instruction by God to outwit the Midianite army (Judges 7:12-23) and Pilate’s wife was aware God spoke to her in a dream about Christ (Matthew 27:15-19), God continues to guide His people today.

“I will instruct you and show you the way to go;
With my eye on you, I will give counsel.” (Psalm 32:8)

Strength For Today And Bright Hope For Tomorrow
David, a young shepherd, had the strength to fight the militant giant Goliath, simply because David knew God was bigger than any giant, and he acted on that faith. (1 Samuel 17) Today, the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives gives us divine strength.
“Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by His vast strength.” (Ephesians 6:10)

With Christ as our Savior, we have a glorious Hope for tomorrow!

Blessings All Mine With 10,000 Beside
It’s easy to mistakenly consider blessings as only that which is tangible, costly: a large house, a boat, a seven-figure income. And these certainly can be blessings, but what if there’s much more to blessings? What if the blessings God has given us can’t be measured by financial cost? 

Consider the blessings of our children actively seeking the Lord.
Or a family member set free from addiction.
What if the blessings of the Lord are found in breath for another day?

Even in the midst of trials, if we focus on Him, we can see all the blessings He lavishly bestows.
His transforming forgiveness and peace,
His unending presence and guidance,
His unfailing strength and hope.
When we survey these many blessings, we can join Thomas Chilsolm in worshiping, “Great is Your faithfulness, Lord, unto me!”

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The GT Weekend! ~ Worship X Week 2

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The GT Weekend!

At Gracefully Truthful, weekends aren’t for “checking out”.
Use this time to invite the Almighty’s fullness into you life in a deeper way!
Saturdays and Sundays are a chance to
reflect, rest, and re-center our lives onto Christ.
Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with other women in prayer,
rest your soul in reflective journaling,
and spend time worshiping the Creator who
longs for intimacy with each of us!

Worship Through Journaling

Worship Through Journaling

1) Be still. Patience. Wait. How good are you at these? I love Sarah’s examples of David as she told of his quest for rest, and all the reasons he couldn’t find it. I recently attended a conference where I served on staff. With all the preparation and full days, it definitely didn’t speak “rest”.  While it was an incredible conference, and I was blessed to serve, the “hurry” takes a toll. We spend ourselves on good things, even “God-focused things”, and find at its end we still need rest. “Life”, with all its deadlines and busy happenings, continue its demands with earnest! More than likely, we aren’t running for our lives as David was, but we can still run ourselves to exhaustion. Perhaps we are keeping ourselves so busy we don’t hear the Lord above the din of our own lives. Be still. Patience. Wait. What would we need to move in our daily rhythms to begin excelling at these disciplines? The never ending “to do lists”, our jobs, places of service, and our families are all very good things, but the Lord never called us to burn out on these. He did call us to be still. Suppose we decide together to model our rhythms after the example of Joshua at the Tent of Meeting.  He entered the tent with the express purpose of meeting God. As he encountered Gods’ presence, he didn’t want to leave. Even when Moses left, Joshua stayed. May it be so in our lives!

2) God is faithful! Christine kept this message before us in her Journey Study this week. How often we forget this! In the midst of trying circumstances, maybe even our current one, we fail to remember God’s faithfulness! We need to practice recalling God’s ways and His character. He is our very present help in times of trouble; Christine and Mandy reminded me of this truth as they pointed to His Word! We can toil, worry, and fret but it doesn’t help anything, and only escalates our anxiety. We can take God at His word! Recording His specific provision in our lives through journaling can help us look back and see God’s faithfulness. We can see God as provider, as our refuge, and our strength. If you’ve prayer journaled for a while, take a few minutes this weekend to read backwards and praise the Lord for His faithfulness to you! If you haven’t kept a journal before, take this as your invitation to start! He is our Hope and we can praise Him, even as we walk through struggles. When we see Him faithfully providing for us, and giving us His peace, even in unsteady waters, we can tell others of His greatness! When we worship the Lord for making a way through the pain or holding us while in the middle of it, we are glorifying Him!

3) On Day 10 of our Journey Theme, Bethany reminded us to keep on trusting the Lord because we know He is faithful. This hit as a timely reminder for me as my husband is currently unemployed, which is something we’ve never experienced in our marriage. It’s daunting indeed, and the longer we go without employment, I confess that, bit by bit, the supernatural peace I experienced before being unemployed seems to slip away. As our financial cushion is chipped away for all the usual expenses, so my faith also appears to be chipping away. I am not a new believer, Sisters. I have watched others walk through these same challenges and other hard things. It’s not easy to admit my faith waivers. I thank the Lord we have provisions for a time, but the lack of open doors pushes back against my faith. Still, this I know to be true: 1) God has never left us, even in challenging seasons. 2) His peace has not completely left; I am still comforted by Him. Since these are true, I can say, “Great is His faithfulness to provide all that we need. The physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs are all under His care. Great is His faithfulness as He holds us and walks with us in this season.”

Praying Scripture back to the One who wrote it in the first place is a great way to jump start our prayer-life! Pray this passage from Psalm 71:23-24 back to the Lord and
let His Spirit speak to you through it!

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to You because You have redeemed me.
Therefore, my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness all day long,
for those who intend to harm me will be disgraced and confounded.

Prayer Journal
Dear Lord, in all things, may my lips praise You. In the mundane of my day, in the struggle of loss, in the fear of uncertainty, in every circumstance let me be known for praising You. For You alone are worthy of my praise. All the time. Even when the path seems rocky and clouds are pressing in, let me shout for joy. You are faithful and just to preserve me, faithful and just to sustain me, faithful and just to provide for me. Let me be so happy and peaceful in simply looking upon You and Your good heart that I truly confound the naysayers around me and the plain evidence of my circumstances. Lord God, I want You and only You. Let all who see my life and hear my words, whether they trust You personally or not, to become convinced of Your faithfulness because of my worship. You alone have redeemed me and called me by name. I am Yours.

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Worship X Day 10 The Steadfast One

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2 Peter 1:3-11
Luke 12:22-25
Job 38:41
Psalm 24:1-2
Romans 11:33-36

Worship X, Day 10

Our car broke down. Gainful employment was scarce. We’d struggled to find a new church community after moving. Loved ones faced challenges with their health and needed help but traveling to reach them was more than we could afford.

Overall, it seemed we were lacking. We were short on finances, resources, energy, community, availability, and all the things we felt we needed.

During this season, I stumbled across 2 Peter 1:3-11. The first part of verse 3 struck me deeply, “His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness[.]” (2 Peter 1:3) The verse also brings to mind a line from the chorus of Great Is Thy Faithfulness, “All I have needed Thy hand hath provided.”

I struggled to see how God provided “everything we needed” during that season, and I’ve certainly wrestled with this truth since then, too. Still, God has graciously shown me over and over that what I need for life and godliness, He does provide.

The second verse of Great Is Thy Faithfulness points to how God uses nature to demonstrate His provision.

“Summer and winter, springtime and harvest
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.”

Along with the sun, moon, and stars that testify of God’s faithfulness, there are also the birds that fly among them, like the raven. Two particular references to ravens in the Bible encourage me that God does indeed provide everything we need, outside our bodies and within our souls, for life and godliness.

Luke 12:22-25 describes Jesus instructing us not to worry about life and the physical needs of our bodies like clothes or food. He points to the raven as an example of dependence, “Consider the ravens: They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than the birds?” (Luke 12:24)

As God’s hand provides all we need for life itself, He also provides what we need for abundant, rich internal life – godliness! Job 38:41 illustrates this as God asks Job, “Who provides the raven’s food when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?“

On the surface, this is another reference to physical need. But read in context, we find this is one of many, many questions that offer Job the astounding, reassuring perspective God cares for our souls, is aware of our suffering, and is sufficient for us when we experience lack, loss, and need. 

Just as God cares for the ravens’ livelihood and uses creation to demonstrate His care for the spiritual health of His people, so He cares for us in our everyday lives. 

How can God so faithfully provide for every raven, every person, every physical and spiritual need?  As “summer and winter, springtime and harvest” sing and the psalmist declares, “The earth and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants, belong to the Lord[.]” (Psalm 24:1)

We saw this firsthand back in that season of feeling such lack. God unexpectedly provided a more reliable car for which we still thank Him today. A tax refund came in at just the right time, in just the right amount, for us to travel to help hurting loved ones. God led us to a church committed to His Word, where we were fed spiritually. Christian friends loved us sweetly and consistently.

By the time that season ended, it was hard to argue that anything we had wasn’t provided by God because it had all come about in ways that only He can work. His faithfulness spurred us to “join with all nature in manifold witness.” His faithfulness, not ours, had provided all we truly needed, in abundance.

That’s what happens when we behold and experience His provision firsthand, finding Him faithful to provide everything we need for life and godliness through Jesus. We end up wanting to praise Him, to declare the truth about Him, even to sing about Him!

Everything comes from Him and through Him,
and we discover as we receive from His merciful, generous hand
everything is for Him, too.
For His praise and glory.
“For from him and through him
And to him are all things.
To him be the glory forever. Amen.” (Romans 11:36)

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Worship X Day 8 Faithful Redeemer

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Psalm 71

Philippians 4:6-9

Hebrews 10:19–25

Worship X, Day 8

“Sold!”

The gavel fell and the small crowd applauded. I forced myself to smile calmly as I shook the hands of the excited buyers. Strangers now owned my family home. 

On the inside I was screaming, “God, where are You? How could You let this happen? Why have You abandoned us? God, You could have stopped this, and now we have lost everything, even our home.”

I was heartbroken, defeated. My prayers unanswered.

The words of Psalm 71:1–3 resonated in my heart. “Lord, I seek refuge in you. Listen closely to me. Give the command to save me!” I cried out, not in faith, but in anguish and fear.

A few short weeks later, sitting in the living room of our newly rented home, a peace I couldn’t understand washed over my soul. The weight of debt was lifted, the pressure of repayment dates had disappeared, the remainder of money from the record sale of our home was safely invested and our family could breathe once again.

God didn’t give me what I wanted. He gave me what I needed.

God is faithful. He is always there, working in and through circumstances as they unfold. If only I had the faith to trust Him, fix my eyes steadfastly on Him, and not allow the crashing waves of emotion to knock me off balance so readily. God has never let me down. And I know He will not let me down now. 

Likewise, the psalmist remembered the faithfulness and goodness of God. (Psalm 71:5–8) He is our hope, our confidence, and our strong refuge. God was present before the beginning, guiding and protecting us through every season of life. He is faithful, and worthy of our praise.

I find this encouraging and challenging. It feels like we have a responsibility to be worried and anxious. The world is out of control; how can we be calm? There are so many people hurting and grieving. Can we really trust God?

The writer of Psalm 71 continues with confident faith. We can overcome fear and anxiety when we keep our focus on God. Verses 14-16 show us how to respond.

“But I will hope continually [. . .]” (Psalm 71:14a)

Hope.

We can always hope in God. No situation is beyond His redemption. 

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego found hope in a furnace.
Daniel found hope in a lion’s den.
Sarah found hope after 90 years of infertility.
Peter found hope locked up in prison.
There are a hundred more examples in Scripture, and a hundred more in my own life. When God is part of our story, there is always hope.

“[. . .] and [I] will praise you more and more.” (Psalm 71:14b)

Praise.

When we praise God, we magnify Him, making Him an increasingly bigger part of our picture. When God is bigger, our circumstances shrink into relative insignificance. Our praise builds our faith, reminds our hearts of the power of God, and, when we praise God with fellow believers, we strengthen each other’s wavering faith.

Hebrews 10:19-25 reminds us not to neglect spending time together with other believers, but to prioritize encouraging one another. We need a community of faith, to provide accountability and encouragement.

“My mouth will tell about your righteousness 

and your salvation all day long, 

though I cannot sum them up.

I come because of the mighty acts of the LORD God; 

I will proclaim your righteousness, yours alone.” (Psalm 71:15-16)

Tell.

When we have good news, we share it. When Murray asked me to marry him, we spent the whole afternoon driving around to our friends, flashing my diamond ring and celebrating the good news.

Now, with social media, it’s easier than ever to share good news. But so often, we share our annoyance, rather than our praise. It is easier to whine about the bad service we received at a local store or our outrage at an opposing point of view, than it is to share the eternal hope we have in Jesus our Savior.

I’ve been to many funerals, but some leave a lasting impact. One such service honored a missionary who lost his battle with cancer in his 50s. As a senior leader in a global mission organization, this man faced significant struggle for the sake of the gospel. The hardships he and his family faced were well known, but at his funeral, pages from his private journal were read aloud. During the most harrowing of circumstances, his journal was not full of worry and fear, but praise and faith.

He wrote of the faithfulness of God. He wrote of his peace, knowing God was in control. (Philippians 4:6-9) He wrote of how God was working through the circumstances to further His kingdom.

I found this profoundly challenging. Often, the pages of my journal are full of worry and concern. As I grow older, and the reach of my influence widens, I am challenged to be a woman of faith greater than fear, a woman who trusts in a powerful and loving God, and a woman who praises my Savior through every storm.

I want to join the psalmist and declare, “My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to You because You have redeemed me.” (Psalm 71:23) I don’t really want the pages of my journal to be read at my funeral, but if they are, I want them to declare words of faith.

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Worship X Day 5 The Unfailing One

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Ephesians 1:1-6
1 John 1:5-9
Psalm 100

Worship X, Day 5

Dependable and trustworthy.
Has never broken a promise.
Loving and kind, yet strong and protective.
Sounds like the perfect man, right? But these words describe someone far superior to any common man. These words merely scratch the surface in describing our Great God. 

Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father
There is no shadow of turning with Thee
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be

Great is Thy faithfulness.
Such a bold statement. But God can back it up.
“Know that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps his gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commands.”
(Deuteronomy 7:9)

God is a faithful covenant keeper. With the Abrahamic covenant, He swore by Himself. He fulfilled both sides of the covenant. (Genesis 15) In a covenant, the “lesser” person would walk through the cut up pieces of animals, symbolizing their own fate if they did not uphold their end. But God walked through instead of Abraham, taking upon Himself the punishment. God guaranteed the fulfillment of the covenant because He is faithful.

Thousands of years later, Jesus came, died on the cross and was resurrected to begin a new covenant for all who believe in Him. “For a thousand generations” God was faithful to Israel. And now, thousands of years later, He is still faithful to all who place their trust in Him. (Psalm 100:5) Each day is an opportunity for a fresh measure of His faithfulness.

Morning by morning new mercies I see.
We can boldly proclaim, “Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you. I will praise your name,
for you have accomplished wonders, plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.”
(Isaiah 25:1)
I can boldly proclaim it, looking back over every desperate prayer I’ve ever prayed, seeing His faithfulness to provide, direct, protect and heal.
He has never failed because His faithfulness is great.

O God My Father.
 C. Sproul said, “He has given to us the right and privilege to come into the presence of the majesty of God and address him as Father because indeed he is our Father. He has adopted us into his family and made us co-heirs with his only begotten Son” (Romans 8:16)

When we profess Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we become chosen, adopted, predestined and redeemed by God. (Ephesians 1:1-6) Each day is a reminder that we are His beloved daughters.

Morning by morning new mercies I see.
Jesus gave us a way to become comfortable with calling God our Father when He said, “But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret” and “Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy.” (Matthew 6:6-14)

This Father, who lavishes His love on us (1 John 3:1) is the one we can call on to provide our every need. (Matthew 6:31-32) He is our ultimate protector. How do we know? His Son told us, “My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.” (John 10:29)

This Son, Jesus, has redeemed us “so that we might receive adoption as sons.
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” So you are no longer a slave but a son [.]” (Galatians 4:5-6) So as sons and daughters, we confidently call to God Our Father who gives us the best gifts.

 There is no shadow of turning with Thee.
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” (James 1:17)

One of the characteristics of God is His immutability, which means “God is unchanging in his being, perfections, purposes, and promises, yet God does act and feel emotions, and he acts and feels differently in response to different situations.” (Wayne Grudem)

Shadows shift and change, God does not. Shadows are not always present, but God is. God Himself says “For I the Lord do not change” (Malachi 3:6, ESV) The same God who created the earth, (Genesis 1:1-25) formed Adam and Eve, (Genesis 1:26-31) parted the Red Sea, (Exodus 14:15-31) rescued Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego from the fiery furnace, (Daniel 3:8-30) and sent Jesus to redeem us, (John 3:16) is the same unfailing God whose mercies are new every morning. (Lamentations 3:22-23)

As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be.
A loving God who’s “faithfulness endures forever.” (Psalm 117:2)  Let me tell you about Him in my life. In 2020 my uncle, sister and grandmother and a friend all passed away. I got laid off from my job. Both my daughters lost their jobs. My husband had a medical emergency and had to have an emergency procedure.

I could have wallowed in my grief, sorrow and frustration. But instead I trusted in my unchanging God. I prayed to the God who helped me deal with the sudden loss of my dad twenty years earlier. I praised the God who provided a job within one month the previous year when I experienced my first layoff. Every morning I focused my eyes on the new mercy that God provided, enabling me to live for His glory one more day.

Gift cards showed up unexpectedly. Checks showed up from people I had not connected with in year. A job came from an unexpected place. I discovered new worship music to help me through my grief. God connected me more deeply to a beautiful soul, that I now serve alongside in ministry.

That’s just a sampling of how our loving, unfailing God works. There was never a time I felt alone, because God was always with me. (Matthew 28:20) He was always supporting me. (Psalm 94:18) And whatever else may come my way, I can endure because…..

Morning by morning new mercies I see.

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Psalm 28:6-9
1 Samuel 1:27-28
Mark 9:14-29

I’ve sat down several times in the last few days to convey on paper my thoughts to the lyrics of a song that I might describe as haunting (as in, poignant and evocative; difficult to ignore or forget). Little did I know that my procrastination was actually working out God’s sovereign timing. I certainly don’t condone a habit of delaying inevitable tasks, but as always God was doing something, even through my postponement.
Letting go of every single dream, I lay each one down at Your feet.
Every moment of my wandering never changes what You see.
I’ve tried to win this war, I confess.
My hands are weary, I need Your rest.
Mighty Warrior, King of the fight, no matter what I face, You’re by my side.*

On the very morning I realized I could no longer delay my writing, I was also made aware of my great need to fully embrace the truths of the song in which I had chosen to meditate. The first two words stabbed me the very moment they caught my eye.

“Letting go…”
I recognized immediately the impact of those words throughout Scripture.
Abraham
Moses
David
Hannah
These are only a few examples of the kind of surrender to which we are called.

Paul’s life and message compel us to an even more radical release of our own wills, reminding us of the most humble and genuine surrender of all through the life and death of our Lord Jesus. Philippians 2:1-11

As a mama and grandma who has kids and grandkids living thousands of miles away, I have learned that letting go is a part of life. As a foster mom, the reality of releasing hits even harder because of the massive unknown attached to it. In the past several years, I have had to let go of how I had pictured life might look and trust God with the unforeseeable future of all the children that He has placed in my care.
Laying things down that I like at my good Father’s feet is one thing.
Laying people down that I love is another.
It freshly and squarely hit me today that
letting go is always the starting point for trusting God.

On this very day, we find ourselves in a place we have never been as foster parents. We have realized that we are unable to provide everything needed for the children who have recently entered our home. The brothers who came through the door earlier this week have experienced difficulties in their lives that I’ll never fully be able to comprehend.
The neglect they have encountered is completely foreign to me.

After several days of looking at my husband with a broken heart, he confessed that he is overwhelmed and underqualified for this particular situation.
Knowing that fostering kids in need like this has to be a team effort (he is an amazing foster dad), I knew it meant we had to make a change.
I have cried and prayed.
I had to come face to face with hidden motives and agendas and plans.
I had to admit that we are not called to save every child.
We are not even called to rescue them from terrible lives.
We are only called to be faithful servants.
I confessed to God: “My hands are weary, I need Your rest.”

You are my strength and comfort. You are my steady hand.
You are my firm foundation; the rock on which I stand.
Your ways are always higher. Your plans are always good.
There’s not a place where I’ll go, You’ve not already stood.*

Sometimes I do the right thing.
Sometimes I do the right thing for the right reason.
And sometimes I do the right thing for the right reason, but with a skewed view of God.

I forget that He alone is capable of doing what is perfectly good.
Only He knows what tomorrow brings.
I may have good intentions in the spiritual battle I’m fighting,
but if I don’t recognize that He is the King of the fight,
I begin to fight for outcomes and answers
rather than fighting for faith.

As I cry out to Him, I too often hold on to a false hope in my own ability to fix and heal.
Only when I let go of all my pre-conceived notions of what should happen am I able to fully trust Him.
My faith cannot be in the moving mountains or the parting waters,
though He is able to do those things, Exodus 14, Mk 11:22-24
rather my trust is to be completely in Him, not in what He does.

When You don’t move the mountains I’m needing You to move;
when You don’t part the waters I wish I could walk through;
when You don’t give the answers as I cry out to You, I will trust.*

The Psalmist communicates so clearly again and again that our trust must be solidly placed in only One Person.
HE is our strength and comfort.
HE is our steady hand.
HE is our firm foundation.
HE is our rock.
HE is exalted.

Yet, everything that makes Him a God who is far above us Isaiah 55:8-9,
doesn’t keep Him from also being a Father who is near and good! James 1:17

I am unable to fully explain how much I needed the truths of this song to permeate my heart and mind today. Letting these kids go is so difficult.
What is the Father calling you to let go of and trust Him with?
Lord, “Truth is, You know what tomorrow brings. There’s not a day ahead You have not seen. So, in all things be my life and breath. I want what You want, Lord, and nothing else.
I will trust in You.”*
Amen!

*song lyrics by Lauren Daigle, “Trust In You”


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Worship X Day 3 Unshaken & Secure

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Psalm 16
Romans 8:31-39
Isaiah 43:1-7

Worship X, Day 3

Like air in your lungs.
Like breezes in your hair.
Like sand in your toes.
Like roses to your senses.
So is His faithful love to us.

“The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the expanse proclaims the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour out speech;
night after night they communicate knowledge.” (Psalm 19:1-2)

This love is for you in the dark.
For you when the waves are sweeping over you.
For you when the riptide pulls you under again and again.
For you when the enemy lurks, when the voices from your past haunt, when the Deceiver lies in your ear, when the world crumbles.
This love is for you.

“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name; you are mine.
When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you[.]” (Isaiah 43:1-2)

Regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, background, dark secrets, money in the bank, or country of origin. This love is for you.

This faithful love is sung over you. (Psalm 42:8)
This faithful love hems you on all sides. (Psalm 139:5)This faithful love prepares a feast for you in the presence of your enemies. (Psalm 23:5)
This faithful love fights for you when all you can do is surrender. (Ephesians 6:10)
This faithful love upholds you from everlasting to everlasting. (Deuteronomy 33:27)

This love is for you.

This faithful love endures forever. (Psalm 136)
It shows up with mercies freshly wrapped every morning and invites you to unpack them throughout your day. (Lamentations 3:22-23) This faithful love holds you as you sob, wipes your tears when you drop your head in defeat (Psalm 56:8), kisses your cheek to welcome you (1 Peter 5:14), shouts over you with victory cheers (Zephaniah 3:17), and makes even the darkness as light (Psalm 139:12). Not a hair falls from your head (Luke 12:7), not a sparrow falls to the ground (Matthew 10:29), not even a worm is without ordained purpose (Jonah 4:7) because of this faithful love.

This Faithful Love spoke creation into existence (Genesis 1:3), breathed into mankind (Genesis 2:7), delighted in marriage (Genesis 2:22-25), broke the bonds of slavery (Exodus 13:14), championed His people (Exodus 14:14), taught them to walk by holding their toddling hands (Hosea 11:3), watched with broken heart as they whored after other far-lesser loves (Judges 2:17). This Faithful Love put on human flesh (John 1:14), exited a girl’s birth canal (Luke 2:5-7), grew through puberty (Luke 2:52), loved the masses (Matthew 9:36), ached with compassion (Matthew 20:34), grieved under injustice (Luke 17:1-2), and got angry when others made it hard to come close to Him. (Matthew 21:12-13)

This Faithful Love sought out the rejects of society (Luke 7:44-50), partied with the unlovable (Luke 19:5-7), and then died for the rebellious (Romans 5:8) as mockers scorned Him (Matthew 27:30-31) and His best friends denied (Matthew 26:75), betrayed (Matthew 26:48), and abandoned Him (Matthew 26:56).

Faithful Love came back to life from a corpse
to break all of humanity out of their graves,
buried under the consequences of their sin,
if they accept the living Hand of Hope held out to them.

“Now if we died with Christ,
we believe that we will also live with Him,
because we know that Christ,
having been raised from the dead,
will not die again.
Death no longer rules over Him.”
(Romans 6:8-9)

Death to Life.
Chains to Freedom.
Performance to Grace.
Abandoned to Adopted.
This Faithful Love is for you.

“Who is the one who condemns?
Christ Jesus is the one who died, but even more, has been raised[!…]
Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? […]
in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers,
nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth,
nor any other created thing will be able to separate us
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
(Romans 8:34-35, 37-39)

Faithful Love holds fast, for all eternity, all those who trust in Him.
“Lord, you are my portion
and my cup of blessing;
you hold my future.”
(Psalm 16:5)

Faithful Love will never allow His Own to be shaken.
“I always let the Lord guide me.
Because He is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.”
(Psalm 16:8)

Faithful Love gives rest and security.
“Therefore, my heart is glad
and my whole being rejoices;
my body also rests securely.”
(Psalm 16:9)

Faithful Love sets us free to run the pathways of abundant life.
“You reveal the path of life to me;
in Your presence is abundant joy;
at Your right hand are eternal pleasures.”
(Psalm 16:11)

Faithful Love is the Lord God Almighty.
And He is For You!

Read the Bible.
Know your God.
Surrender to Faithful Love.

“What, then, are we to say about these things?
If God is for us, who is against us?
He did not even spare His own Son
but gave him up for us all.”
(Romans 8:31-32)

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Sacrifice Day 6 The Blood Path

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Genesis 15:1-21
Mark 14:22-24
Romans 4:13-25
Hebrews 6:13-20

Sacrifice, Day 6

As Abram gathered the animals for the sacrifice, he must have done so with trepidation.

This would be no ordinary sacrifice. He was preparing to enter into a covenant, a binding agreement, with the Almighty God. This was a serious matter.

Abram knew he was unworthy. He had always been unworthy. His life had been spent worshipping idols until his encounter with the true, living God changed everything, prompting him to step out in faith and obedience leave his homeland, Ur, to travel to Canaan. (Genesis 12:1-4)

Since then, Abram had seen God’s faithfulness. God had led him to Canaan, blessed him, and promised him an abundance of descendants. His words to Abram had always been full of grace and encouragement, and Abram believed God, despite the seeming impossibility of the promise.

Even so, Abram felt uneasy. He knew he was far from perfect. Maybe he shouldn’t have asked God for reassurance about His promise. (Genesis 15:2-3, 8) As he gathered the cow, the female goat, the ram, the turtledove, and the pigeon God required, he was all too aware of their fate, and he began to ponder his own fate for failing the covenant.
Who was he to make a covenant with God?

Then came the part he was dreading the most, cutting the animals in half. As the blood of the animals was splattered and spilled and he arranged half of each animal to line either side of a small ditch, allowing the blood to pool, Abram reflected on the covenant into which God was directing him to enter. To seal a covenant, both parties would walk the path of blood, symbolising how, if they broke the terms of the covenant, they too could be slaughtered like the animals.

Here was the cause of his fear: Abram doubted his ability to keep the covenant. What would happen to him if his choices failed to honour God? Deep down, he knew that it wasn’t so much a matter of “if” he would fail, but “when.” At some point, it was inevitable.

God, however, was fully aware of Abram’s unworthiness, still He also knew his faith, and it pleased Him. (Hebrews 11:6) He had seen Abram’s faith in action as Abram responded to the call to leave his home and step into the unknown. God knew that despite his imperfection, Abram trusted His promises, and God had a plan. Faith would save where works could not. (Ephesians 2:8-9)

“Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.” (Genesis 15:6)

God knew that Abram would never be able to keep the terms of the covenant. If it depended on Abram’s goodness and his ability to keep the moral law, it would certainly fail. God knew that the only way to preserve Abram’s family line and this covenant promise was for Him to walk the blood path for both of them.

So, as darkness fell, God put Abram into a deep rest while allowing him to see the vision of what He was about to do on Abram’s behalf. The silence of night surrounded Abram and the ground where blood gathered became sacred as a smoking fire pot and flaming torch passed between the pieces of the animals; God secured His promise by His own faithfulness. Smoke and fire are common symbols of God’s presence in the Bible, e.g. the smoke on Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:17-19) and the burning bush where God met with Moses (Exodus 3:1-2). Here, they represent God walking the path of blood. God alone.

How relieved Abram must have been to find that he was not required to walk the path, to discover that the covenant did not depend on his own faithfulness but on God’s, and therefore, it could not fail. (2 Timothy 2:13)

Abram would have a child, and, despite enduring 400 years of slavery, his descendants would return to possess the land. (Joshua 1:1-9)

All of this pointed ahead to a day when an even greater sacrifice would be made; when, in Jesus, God sacrificed Himself. (John 19) As blood dripped from His thorn-crowned head and poured from the nail-wounds piercing His hands and feet, He sealed His promise forever

And He secured the hope for all who trust in Him that we, like Abram’s descendants, would one day be brought home, not simply to Canaan, but to the Promised Land of eternity where God and man would dwell together, free from sin’s entanglement. (Revelation 21:1-4)

For us, as for Abram, the good news is that this does not depend on our goodness, our ability, or our faithfulness. As He walked the blood path of incredible sacrifice, Jesus did all that was necessary.

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Kneel Day 3 Fierce Faith

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2 Kings 19:8-37
2 Kings 18:1-8
2 Corinthians 4
2 Timothy 2:1-13

Kneel, Day 3

“I’m at the end of myself. The end of myself. The end of myself.
Lord, my God, every day I see again, I’m at the end of myself.”

Those lines flowed from my pen this morning. Hopelessness and despair pocked my heart like so many arrows, threatening to undo me.
Then came the lies, slowly at first, then quickening.
This trial isn’t worth the cost.
You’re losing the war.
Give up. Save yourself.

As is my learned habit when bringing the full weight of my brokenness to the Lord, I sat before Him, my tears mixing with the ink on my page, waiting for Him. When I was spent, trouble still brimming over in my soul, there was nothing left to do but wait in stillness.

I settled into the holy hush, waiting.
I knew He had heard.
I knew He had seen.
I was now an active participant in listening,
for prayer is much more about shushing than speaking.

This habit of pouring out myself in frankness before the Holy Almighty One, then awaiting His response, has grown richer over time. Its budding practice began years ago when I uncovered an Old Testament narrative of one king who gave himself completely to relying on the Lord God. (2 Kings 18:5-6)

Hezekiah was markedly different from Judah’s exceptionally wicked kings, and everyone noticed. When the popular vote swung toward evil, Hezekiah fixed His gaze unswervingly on the Faithful One and followed the Lord’s ways, effectively drowning out culture’s clamor. The consistency of Hezekiah’s faith was compared to the king known as the man after God’s own heart, David. (2 Kings 18:3) Stirred up by his love for the Holy One, Hezekiah boldly pressed against decades-old traditions and idolatrous patterns of the people of Judah. (2 Kings 18:4) Following the Lord in obedience wasn’t lip service for Hezekiah, it was the practiced pattern of his everyday life.

One doesn’t suddenly become stalwart in dependence on the Lord.
Fierce faith must be cultivated, developed, and practiced daily.

Hezekiah had been king for 14 years when King Sennacherib attacked, plenty of time to practice relying on the Lord.

The most loathsome empire, the Assyrians, known for their gruesome acts of war, had methodically moved through Judah, capturing one city after another. Terrified of seizure, Hezekiah attempted to bargain with the terrorists, even stripping the Lord’s holy temple of every shred of treasure as offering to Assyria’s king. (2 Kings 18:14-16)

The Assyrian Chief of Staff gleefully took Hezekiah’s gold and silver, then began to taunt him, relishing in calling him cowardly and his God, impotent. Next, in a brazen act of malice, he stood tall for all Jerusalem’s citizens to hear as he publicly mocked Judah’s king and fed Hezekiah’s countrymen lies in their own language. (2 Kings 18:26-28)

Slowly at first, then with gathering speed,
“What are you relying on? (…) Suppose you say to me, ‘We rely on the Lord our God’ (…) It’s the Lord who said to me, ‘Attack this land and destroy it.’” (2 Kings 18:20-25)

Lies spewed from the Chief of Staff with titanic fury;
he was enjoying his scathing mockery,
“Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; he can’t rescue you from my power! Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to rely on the Lord! (…) Don’t listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you saying, ‘The Lord will rescue us.’” (2 Kings 18:29-30, 32)

Silence was deafening in the wake of words that waged war before swords had been unsheathed. (2 Kings 18:36)

Sackcloth. Ashes. Fear. Trembling. Agony.
Prayer

The prophet Isaiah was summoned.
The people waited for the king’s next move.
Hezekiah, with torn garments from his overwhelming grief, took the mocking letter of threats from King Sennacherib and did exactly what he’d practiced all his life.
He prayed.

“Hezekiah…went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it [the letter] out before the Lord. Then Hezekiah prayed before the Lord.” (2 Kings 19:14-15)

In all broken honesty and total surrender, clearly at the end of himself, Hezekiah demonstrated the ferocity of his genuine faith by praying to the “Lord God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You are God – You alone – of all kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.” (2 Kings 19:15)

He proved his faith in the pattern he’d practiced.

Then Hezekiah waited.
No lightning voice from Heaven.
No scrolling pen on his wall.
He waited for the Lord to speak through the means He had ordained, His prophet, Isaiah.

Isaiah came and assured Hezekiah he’d been heard; the Lord would move in response to his faith. Hezekiah need only wait and watch. (2 Kings 19:20-21, 32-34)

Sisters, read for yourself the work of the Lord!
“That night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and left.” (2 Kings 19:35-36)

The undefeatable, wiped out in moments.
The lies slain, the mocker defeated.
Truth won as faith fought with ferocious surrender.

Sisters, may our lives reflect full reliance on the Faithful God. When the enemy pursues and lies pock our hearts, let’s act with confidence by spreading out our grievances before the Holy One in prayer.

Then, let’s wait for His sure response.

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The GT Weekend! ~ Alive Week 1

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The GT Weekend!

At Gracefully Truthful, weekends aren’t for “checking out”.
Use this time to invite the Almighty’s fullness into you life in a deeper way!
Saturdays and Sundays are a chance to
reflect, rest, and re-center our lives onto Christ.
Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with other women in prayer,
rest your soul in reflective journaling,
and spend time worshiping the Creator who
longs for intimacy with each of us!

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1) God grants a wonderfully freeing, fully permanent declaration in the opening words of Romans 8. No more shame. No fear of condemnation. Both are radically erased because the One we have offended with our sin has freely forgiven us! The sticking point is two-fold. First, this gift of freedom remains entirely inaccessible if we have not recognized our own sin to the Holy God, repented of it, and chosen to trust Christ to rescue us from permanent death and separation from God. Second, if we have indeed been made free in Christ, the temptation to believe a lie seems to follow us like our shadow. The lie? That we aren’t really freed from shame, that we still, somehow, owe God and should therefore beat ourselves up for our past sin. Can you relate like I can?! Let’s refuse to let our enemy continue to have a foothold here! Name that place where you most often find yourself falling into the trap of shame and guilt from sins you’ve already been forgiven from and pray persistently over these. Lay hold of truth and carry it with you in place of shame! “If the Son sets you free, you really will be free!” (John 8:36)

2) Either we live according to flesh or according to Spirit. We cannot please both simultaneously; it is impossible. On Wednesday, Marietta helped us understand we must all make a personal decision to follow Jesus for ourselves. Our default position before God is not goodness, but an inherited sin nature that rejects God and rebels against Him. Thankfully, what is impossible for us and our natural sin nature, is possible with God when He puts His new nature inside of us! All believers, those who have been made new in Christ, have certain areas of life where we struggle more than others to surrender to God’s nature over our own. In the span of 3 verses in Romans 8, we find the phrase “mindset” used five times! The key to overcoming our areas of struggle is to surrender to the Spirit’s activity in us, and take up His mindset, which is entirely renewed and different from our sin-nature mindset. Think about the character of God, really pause to do this! Look up some passages to help like Philippians 4:8-9, Psalm 86:5, 15, and 2 Corinthians 1:3-4. As you consider His heart, His “mindset”, turn your thoughts to your areas of struggle and your old mindset of approaching them. See the difference?! Ask the Lord to renew your mind! (Romans 12:1-2)

3) I once heard a story of an orphan child who had lived for most of his young life in severe poverty and food insecurity. This child was adopted into a loving and secure family, where there was no question about the source of the child’s next meal. He was fully provided for. However, he would often take food from the kitchen and hide it in his room, keeping it secure for himself. Even though his entire situation had changed, his attitudes and behaviors were still in accordance with his previous insecurity. For those of us who have come to the place of belief in Christ, repenting of our sins, and trusting in Him to give us new life, we are like that adopted orphan. We no longer need to worry about our security, but we often act like we are still in spiritual poverty. When we sin, we are living according to our old manner of life, but when we walk by the Spirit and set our minds on things above, we are operating in our new identity as children of God. Colossians 3:12-17 give us one picture of what our new life in Christ can look like. Write out these verses and post them somewhere you will see them frequently. Set your mind on things above by reading and contemplating these verses and by applying them to situations in your daily life.

Praying Scripture back to the One who wrote it in the first place is a great way to jump start our prayer-life! Pray this passage from Romans 5:6-11 back to the Lord and
let His Spirit speak to you through it!

For while we were still helpless, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly. For rarely will someone die for a just person though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die. But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. How much more then, since we have now been justified by His blood, will we be saved through
Him from wrath. For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

Prayer Journal
Oh Lord, our God, thank You for the great work You have done by setting us free from our old ways of life. Once we were dead in our sins, without hope, striving to make ourselves better. But You, oh God, being rich in mercy, because of Your great love, made us alive together with Christ. (Ephesians 2:4-6) You weren’t forced to save us, but You did. And now, we can walk in freedom with no more shame, no more condemnation, and no more fear. Forgive me, Father, for the times I revert to my old way of living. I am acutely aware of my tendency to live as though I need to save myself or make myself better. But You are the one who transforms and makes me new. Enable me to be transformed by the renewing of my mind, shifting my mindset to focus on the truth of the new life that You have given me. (Romans 12:2) Help me live my life as one who has been changed by You, sharing the joy and freedom that comes with new life in Your family.

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