God made everything glorious – so what does that make you, my friend?
Good morning fellow CUP readers.
Dewey is off for a little while and Karen and I will be offering this CUP in his absence.
Let us open with Praise and honor to God.
Psalm 139:14 (NIV)
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Your works are wonderful. I know that full well.
“Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind’. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’” Mt22:37-39 (NIV).
This morning’s Cup is about friendship
We all need friends; someone in which we can confide, share a laugh or tear or just a good or bad day.
Jesus had friends, 12 of them. At the end of His ministry on earth, He said to His disciples< I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his Masters business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I have learned I have made known to you” ( John 15:15).
We were made to be in relationship with others. Remember in the Garden of Eden, God saw that it was right for man to have a companion, and so He created Eve out of a rib of Adam’s side. He created us to be together, to be in relationship with one another.
We are friends of Jesus and we are to be friends with each other, but choose your friends in Jesus carefully and on purpose, just like Jesus did>He chose the 12 to be close to Him and to confide in and to lean on.
We are friends and brothers and sisters in Christ. Proverbs 17:17 reads, “
A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for a time of adversity
Perhaps the best-know friendship in the Old Testament was that of David and Jonathan, King Saul’s son. 1st Samuel Chapters 18 and 20 describe how the King’s own son befriended David and protected him from the wrath of his own father towards David in Chapter 19. In Chapter 20 David and Jonathan made a covenant with each other and to love each other more deeply than brothers love each other. Jonathan even gave David a way of escape when King Saul was set on killing David.
So what does a good friend do? And where does a friendship begin? From the Word of God, circumstances and by acts of God. If we support one another in Christ, then we are built up in our faith to walk in our gifts from God. We need each other because we are the Body of Christ on earth. And each are given different gifts, Paul writes. Some have a gift of prophecy, others of knowledge, still others of service. An Eye cannot say to the big toe, ‘I don’t need you’, nor can the ear say to the hand, I’m better than you (These are just my own examples). If we support each other in Christ, then we are built up in our faith to walk in our gifts from God – not only for our benefit, but also for our purpose to build others up in Christ along our way. A friend brightens our light so we can have the courage to let our light shine. A friend’s smile takes away our fear so that our light can shine brighter still.
Thank you friends and family for joining us on this Cup Today! May your days be bright and filled with hope! May your nights by comforted and filled with rest. May peace be full in your soul and may joy be your experience in all good things and through all difficult trials that come to us in this life that we are made to overcome.
We hope you know you have a friend in Jesus and this friendship makes us friends in Christ!
Hallelujah to the Lamb of God for giving us the gift of friends …
Love in Christ,
Jim and Karen
Jim Hofflander
Karen Rowe
Hope in Today www.hopeintoday.com
The Train Whistle, Sounding the Call of God’s Love www.thetrainwhistle.com
Be Ye a Healthy Person
The word meditate and medicate are almost identical in their root meaning. Right thinking, which is filling one’s mind with God’s great promises, is medicinal…it’s healing.
God creates good health, and He can recreate it as well but, it takes our cooperation.
The word “health” comes from the same word as the word holy, which is also the same word as wholeness. Holiness actually means to be a whole person, not just a pious person, but one that has allowed the presence of God to invade every aspect of one’s life.
Open your life every day to receive God’s renewing power to create a wholeness in you which brings health that invades every area of your spirit, soul and body. To be a healthy person you must be spiritually alive. You do this when you daily become filled with God’s positive thoughts about you and others. There can no longer remain any room for anything else, which is when health and happiness take over.
Action steps
– Holiness is not external but internal; so is health.
– Constantly examine your thoughts. Are they so filled with God’s goodness that there’s no room for anything else?
– Make a decision to be filled with the Holy Spirit so that God’s goodness and His mercy allow your life to be an offering poured out for others. Health and joy will be yours.
I will be speaking with several others tomorrow, Saturday, at the Garland, Texas WE Church, 3255 Broadway Boulevard
www.stepbystepcampaign.com – a Free 2 to 4 PM Event for Parents, Teachers, Communities Leaders and children 5 years old and older.
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