5-01-20 THOUGHTS

Well Good Morning my loved ones.  I have prayed for you today.  
I decided I needed to go back to a fundamental that I knew I would need in this time.
I grabbed my hardcopy of the Church directory, and walked down through your first names.
Children are there now too.  It’s a way of being specific instead of general.  The blurr of self-isolation disappears as individual souls come into the heart.  Each of these that I love have a major commonality with me.  We each love God through Christ Jesus.  Nothing is more important to us.  It makes us...  US!  
Acts 20:28   "Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
Titus 2:14    who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
1Pet 1:18-19    knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,  19  but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
Rev 5:9   And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood [men] from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
1Pet 2:9    But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR [God’s] OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Peter begins his first letter with...     Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. 3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4  To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,    1Pet 1:2-4
Think on our AWESOME PLACE TOGETHER IN CHRIST!  Think on US...one at a time!

My Prayer:
Oh God of heaven who saved us in Christ Jesus.  We can but praise and lift up your great name.  You Oh God have made us alive and seated us together in order to serve You.  Help us to do exactly that.  Draw us together in the love of Jesus.  May we draw others to You!  
            In the precious name of Jesus            Amen

Eph 2:4-7   But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5  even- when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6  and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7  so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.