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Hello friends. I truly hope you are having a good week.
For the past couple weeks I have been using a devotional called "Seek God for the City" to guide my morning times with the Lord. It is very good. Each days entry starts off with a simple prayer-- but this past Sundays prayer stopped me in my tracks:
{Fill our minds with knowledge. Fill our hearts with wisdom. Fill our agendas with redemption. And fill our city with peace like a river.}
The thought of filling my agenda with redemption makes me want to cheer! It's what it is all about. I have been praying that thought over and over again to the Lord this week.
I love the word redemption. It's so full, beautiful, painful & packed with a grand story.
Redemption means deliverance from some evil by payment of a price. The cross of Christ is the price paid to release the slaves, to let the condemned go f r e e. It's the process of freeing but by payment of a price.
The price is the blood of Christ.
Christ redeemed us by taking our place, by bearing our curse. Redemption not only looks back to Calvary, but forward to the freedom in which the redeemed stand. (thoughts from New Bible Dictionary by Inter-Varsity Press)
---> You were bought with a price, so glorify God in your body. 1 Corinthians 6:20 What does it look like to let redemption fill your agenda? I'm not exactly sure but here's what I'm thinking:
1. Ponder{consider deeply} the cross & the sacrifice of the perfect Christ.
There is nothing in time or eternity more absolutely certain and irrefutable than what Jesus Christ accomplished on the Cross— He made it possible for the entire human race to be brought back into a right-standing relationship with God. He made redemption the foundation of human life; that is, He made a way for every person to have fellowship with God.
-from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
2. Speak words of liberation over the people in your life that are believing lies that counter was is true in the Bible//God's heart. We need each other in this battle.
3. Pray, really pray, for your friends that are hurting and ache because of the pain that this world is filled with. Pray with them on your own. Pray with them over the phone. Meet them and pray for them.
4. Make the most of the daily opportunities that the Lord gives us to point people to Christ, the Redeemer.
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Have you heard the song "When my heart is torn asunder" by Phil Wickham? It's the best. It's a song of redemption for sure...I love every single lyric in the song but my personal favorite right now is, "I have found redemption in the blood of Christ---my body might be dying but I will always be alive!" If you don't have this song on Itunes-- comment below by midnight tonight with your email address. It's too good to not have. I will randomly select a winner tomorrow morning & email you! hugs and loveee.