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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

The Essence of a Christ-Centered Life


Source: redrivermutual.com
Is the essence of who you are consistent with who God says you are?  God declares that we are each chosen, forgiven, and loved. Additionally, how do you live out the joy God describes in John 15:11?   

“These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, 
and that your joy may be full.”
 ~John 15:11
 
Join us today as one of our own from Mothers Together, Jena M, shares her insights and message that God has been building inside of her on these topics.  I would encourage you to allow Jesus to solidify his identity in you.  It is hard work to find your identity, claim it, believe it and live it out but the hard work is worth all the effort because once you have it, you will find peace, rest, and joy like you never have before.

We will take a deeper look at the scripture below to learn more about the essence of a life lived out in Christ


1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,  To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
2 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Confirming One’s Calling and Election
3 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.

~2 Peter 1:1-9 (NIV)

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~Tara Gaz