The warfare has been so intense these last days so I have planted myself in the Word of God and put my focus on Jesus Christ. Over the last couple of days I have meditated on this word – ABIDE. I am sure this will go further because it just is the way I am, but decided to type this out. I have kind of used it like one of my prayer/scripture cards. Maybe all of this will help someone else too.
Abide: To wait for, await. To endure without yielding, withstand. To bear patiently, endure. To remain in one place.
Synonyms for “abide”: To stay, dwell, remain. To hand around, stick around. Tarry.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. John 15:4-5 (one of my favorite scriptures)
Prayers from God’s Word to help keep me in the place of abiding
-Lord, have mercy on me
Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. Psalm 86:3
-Lord, impart Your thoughts to me
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 1 Corinthians 2:10
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.. Isaiah 55:8
-Lord, help me to take every thought captive to You
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 2 Corinthians 10:5
-Lord, test and examine my ways
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Lamentations 3:40
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Jeremiah 17:10
-Lord, make my desires Your desires
Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Psalm 37:4
-Lord, help me to be faithful in small things
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. Luke 16:10
-Lord, show me which way I should turn today
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.Isaiah 30:21
-Lord, keep me in Your dwelling place
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! Psalm 84:1
-Lord, keep me on track today
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. Phillippians 3:12-16
-Lord, give me Your mind
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16
-Lord, help me to set my mind on things above
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Colossians 3:2
-Lord, help my speech to be gracious
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.Colossians 4:6
-Lord, keep me in Your shelter and give me Your rest
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1
-Lord, more of You and less of me
He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:30
And when we have found our place of abiding with Christ, the fragrance of Christ is spread by us, for we are to God the aroma of Christ and we carry the fragrance of life to those around us.
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 2 Corinthians 2:14-17
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