Living Joyfully Free

These aren't regular devotion book. Each page is a stepping stone, a place to pause and ponder. God invites you to live joyfully free.

[Lisa Buffaloe @lisabuffaloe]

“This is ‘the joy of the Lord,’ fellowship with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. ... for our Lord saith to us ‘abide in me.’ The habit of communion is the life of happiness.” ~ Charles Spurgeon

[Lisa Buffaloe @lisabuffaloe]

“There is an abyss of delight for every Christian when he comes into actual fellowship with God.” ~ Charles Spurgeon

[YouVersion Bible App @YouVersion]

James 5:8

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[Lisa Buffaloe @lisabuffaloe]

Beautiful prayer by Chuck Swindoll…“This is Your day, Lord. I want to be at Your disposal. I have no idea what these next twenty-four hours will contain…. Help me to be a branch that abides in the vine, to lean on You, to draw strength from You, and to have You fill my mind and my thoughts. Take control of my senses so that I am literally filled with Your presence and power and dynamic. I want to be Your tool, Your vessel today. I can’t make it happen. Without You I can accomplish nothing. And so I’m saying, Lord, fill me with Your Spirit today.”

[Billy Graham @BillyGraham]

"In the beauty and abundance around us we see the magnitude of God's power and the infinite detail of His planning." —Billy Graham

[Lisa Buffaloe @lisabuffaloe]

“I will let every flood of stress today be an invitation to get into the ark of my Savior. I will let every flood of trouble remake the topography of my soul into someone better – not bitter.” ~ @AnnVoskamp

[Christian Standard Bible @CSBible]

"Who is this King of glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle." - Psalm 24:8

[Sharing @sharonePack]

#Pray
Until you hear God
#SayYourPrayers

[Lisa Buffaloe @lisabuffaloe]

“There is no situation so chaotic that God cannot—from that situation—create something that is surpassingly good. He did it at creation. He did it at the cross. He is doing it today.” ~ Handley C. G. Moule

[Lisa Buffaloe @lisabuffaloe]

“Fully dependent on God, Jesus never seemed to rush from one place to another. He was purposeful rather than driven, available rather than busy, touchable rather than distant. Because He was led by the Holy Spirit, Jesus saw everything and everyone as part of God’s will for His life. And because he trusted that the Father had everything under control, His life was marked by a beautiful peace. Imagine what our lives would be like if we did the same.” ~ @JoannaWeaverBks, Embracing Trust

[Lisa Buffaloe @lisabuffaloe]

“God doesn’t need your help as much as He wants your heart. Whenever you start to focus more on your talents and gifts than on Him, you miss the main invitation. Which is to pursue them together. With Him.” ~ Allen Arnold

[Lisa Buffaloe @lisabuffaloe]

“If you would have Christ with you, seek him boldly. Let nothing hold you back. Defy the world. Press on where others flee.... If Christ be your one and only love, if your heart has cast out all rivals, you will not long lack the comfort of his presence.” ~ Charles Spurgeon

"Not that I have already obtained it [this goal of being Christlike] or have already been made perfect, but I actively press on so that I may take hold of that [perfection] for which Christ Jesus took hold of me and made me His own. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have made it my own yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the [heavenly] prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. All of us who are mature [pursuing spiritual perfection] should have this attitude. And if in any respect you have a different attitude, that too God will make clear to you." ~ (Philippians 3:12-15, AMP)

Press on toward the heavenly goal!

[Lisa Buffaloe @lisabuffaloe]

“We must learn to use our pain in the right way, not lashing out, but looking within to share the pain of others. There is a choice in every pain, an opportunity in every trial. Pain makes us focus inward or outward. It makes us martyrs or merciful. The choice is ours.” ~ Mary Southerland

[Sharing @sharonePack]

Pay Attention
Life and Health

[Lisa Buffaloe @lisabuffaloe]

“This is what the Lord says, He who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to create it, He whose name is the Lord:  ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’ https://t.co/FAfkTSyWBN via @biblegateway

[Sharing @sharonePack]

#HeavensSong

We have come as one heart, as one voice
To join heaven's endless song on the earth
Lifting up our adoration towards Your throne
Praises rise, songs of love are now ascending
For the King, for the Lamb who gave His life to save us

[Louie Giglio @louiegiglio]

God is the One who gives back what the Enemy has stolen. He is restoring what’s been lost and orchestrating for you a story of overcoming grace.

[Sharing @sharonePack]

#SayYourPrayers

[Lisa Buffaloe @lisabuffaloe]

“What is God’s will for my life? Is not the right question. I think the proper question is, What is God’s will? Once I know God’s will, then I can adjust my life to Him. In other words, what is it God is purposing to accomplish where I am? Once I know what God is doing, then I know what I need to do. The focus needs to be on God, not on my life.” ~ Henry & @richardblackaby, Claude King, Experiencing God, @LifeWay Press, Nashville, Tennessee, p 15