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One rainy afternoon I was driving along one of the main streets of town, taking those extra precautions necessary when the roads are wet and slick.
Suddenly, my daughter, Aspen, spoke up from her relaxed position in her seat. “Dad, I’m thinking of something.”
This announcement usually meant she had been pondering some fact for a while, and was now ready to expound all that her six-year-old mind had discovered. I was eager to hear.
“What are you thinking?” I asked.
“The rain! ;” she began, “is like sin, and the windshield wipers are like God wiping our sins away.”
After the chill bumps raced up my arms I was able to respond. “That’s really good, Aspen.”
Then my curiosity broke in. How far would this little girl take this revelation? So I asked… “Do you notice how the rain keeps on coming? What does that tell you?”
Aspen didn’t hesitate one moment with her answer: “We keep on sinning, and God just keeps on forgiving us.”
I will always remember this whenever I turn my wipers on.
In order to see the Rainbow, you must first endure some Rain.
Malachi 3:3 says: “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.”
This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.
That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn’t mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver.
As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.
The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot then she thought again about the verse that says: “He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.”
She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined. The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.
The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, “How do you know when the silver is fully refined?”
He smiled at her and answered, “Oh, that’s easy - when I see my image in it.”
If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has His eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.
1 Hear me, LORD, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.
2 Guard my life, for I am faithful to you;
save your servant who trusts in you.
You are my God; 3 have mercy on me, Lord,
for I call to you all day long.
4 Bring joy to your servant, Lord,
for I put my trust in you.
5 You, Lord, are forgiving and good,
abounding in love to all who call to you.
6 Hear my prayer, LORD;
listen to my cry for mercy.
7 When I am in distress, I call to you,
because you answer me.
8 Among the gods there is none like you, Lord;
no deeds can compare with yours.
9 All the nations you have made
will come and worship before you, Lord;
they will bring glory to your name.
10 For you are great and do marvelous deeds;
you alone are God.
11 Teach me your way, LORD,
that I may rely on your faithfulness;
give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear your name.
12 I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart;
I will glorify your name forever.
13 For great is your love toward me;
you have delivered me from the depths,
from the realm of the dead.
14 Arrogant foes are attacking me, O God;
ruthless people are trying to kill me—
they have no regard for you.
15 But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.
16 Turn to me and have mercy on me;
show your strength in behalf of your servant;
save me, because I serve you
just as my mother did.
17 Give me a sign of your goodness,
that my enemies may see it and be put to shame,
for you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
- Psalm 50:23
- Psalm 72:25-26
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When God spoke out of the burning bush in the desert to Moses, Moses asked who he should say had instructed and sent him .
And God said unto Moses, “I AM THAT I AM:”
and he said, “Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.” (Exodus 3:14)
When you are sharing God’s love with another
you must remember who you are. You may respond to the question, “Who are you?,” as follows:
1. I am a minister of the Gospel of Christ (2 Cor 11:23, Romans 1:16)
2. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ (Romans 1:16)
3. I am a witness (1 Thessalonians 2:10)
4. I am not my own (1 Corinthians 6:19)
5. I am not of this world (John 15:9)
6. I am not under the law (Galatians 5:18)
7. I am not a slave (Galatians 4:7)
8. I am not inferior (Job 13:2)
9. I am not alone (John 8:16, 16:32)
10. I am bold (2 Corinthians 11:21)
11. I am not ashamed of who I am (2 Tim 1:12)
12. I am an ambassador for Christ (1 Corinthians 5:20)
13. I am jealous for the saints with a godly jealousy. (2 Corinthians 11:2)
14. I am an intercessor who stands in the gap (Ezekiel 22:30)
15. I am Christ’s (1 Corinthians 3:23)
16. I am the friend of God (John 15:15)
17. I am a servant of God (1 Corinthians 9:19)
18. I am a part of the Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:27)
19. I am one of the saints in Christ Jesus. (Romans 1:6, Galatians 3:28)
20. I am the Bride of Jesus Christ (Revelations 21:2-10)
21. I am a fellow citizen with all the saints in the Kingdom of God (Ephesians 2:19)
22. I am the temple of the Lord and the Holy Spirit dwells within me
(1 Corinthians 3:16, 6:19, 2 Corinthians 6:16, John 14:7)
23. I am redeemed (Revelations 5:9)
24. I am bought with a price (1 Corinthians 6:20)
25. I am Blood bought (1 Peter 1:19, Revelations 5:9)
26. I am valuable to God (Matthew 10:31)
27. I am one in which God has an inheritance (Ephesians 1:18)
28. I am reconciled to God (2 Corinthians 5:18)
29. I am made clean (John 13:10)
30. I am saved by the Gospel (1 Corinthians 15:2)
31. I am born again of incorruptible seed (1 Peter 1:23)
32. I am a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17)
33. I am in Christ Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:30)
34. I am complete in Him (Colossians 2:10)
35. I am free from the control of man (1 Corinthians 9:19)
36. I am free from sin (Romans 6:18,22)
37. I am free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2)
38. I am free from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:13)
39. I am free indeed (John 8:32-36)
40. I am called according to His purpose (Romans 8:30)
41. I am called into the fellowship of His Son (1 Corinthians 1:9)
42. I am called to peace (1 Corinthians 7:15)
43. I am called to liberty (Galatians 5:13)
44. I am called to His eternal glory (1 Peter 5:10)
45. I am God’s field (1 Corinthians 3:9)
46. I am God’s building (1 Corinthians 3:9)
47. I am a branch connected into the Vine Jesus Christ and His life flows through me (John 15:5)
48. I am healed from my infirmities (1 Peter 2:24, Isaiah 53:5)
49. I am immune from every sickness and disease (Exodus 23:25, Deuteronomy 7:15)
50. I am an epistle of Christ, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God (2 Corinthians 3:3)
51. I am Abraham’s seed (Galatians 3:29)
52. I am an heir according to the promises made to Abraham. (Galatians 3:29)
53. I am part of a chosen generation (1 Peter 2:9)
54. I am a member of a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9)
55. I am a citizen of a holy nation (1 Peter 2:9)
56. I am one of His own special people (1 Peter 2:9)
57. I am an heir of God a joint heir with Jesus Christ (Galatians 4:7)
58. I am member of the household of God (Ephesians 2:19)
- Zephaniah 3:17
- Jeremiah 15:20
- Psalm 61:2
- Psalm 142:3
