Love Never Fails…

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Good morning, Family:

In my role as a Wedding Officiant, I truly enjoy being able to perform wedding ceremonies. One of my favorite segments of the wedding ceremony is talking about Love. 

Specifically, I love what the bible says about love. Love changes everything. There is no better definition than in the scripture passage below:

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

English Standard Version (ESV)

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends

Go in peace, while praising and serving the Lord.

Rev. Marcia Davis

Miracle Monday…

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Good morning, Family:

What an amazing miracle filled Monday. The miracle is that TODAY is a day we have never seen before. We are experiencing  a brand new miracle of love, joy, faith, happiness and grace today. Even though every day is a miracle, we stay in the present moment, the now moment of thankfulness.

Lamentations 3:22-23 

English Standard Version (ESV)

22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;
23 they are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.

Greet your miracles today with joy. Be a miracle to someone today.

Be blessed.

Rev. Marcia Davis

More of You…

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Good morning, Family:

Have you ever been hungry? Have you ever been thirty. When you are hungry and thirsty you go where food and water is available.

Every day, our desire for God should be like a person who is hungry and thirsty. You don’t want anything but what will satisfy you.

Matthew 5:3-10 

The Message (MSG)

“You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.

“You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.

“You’re blessed when you’re content with just who you are—no more, no less. That’s the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can’t be bought.

“You’re blessed when you’ve worked up a good appetite for God. He’s food and drink in the best meal you’ll ever eat.

“You’re blessed when you care. At the moment of being ‘care-full,’ you find yourselves cared for.

“You’re blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.

“You’re blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That’s when you discover who you really are, and your place in God’s family.

10 “You’re blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God’s kingdom.

Go with God, family. Find out what the heart of God desires for your life. Spend time, intimate, precious time, in His presence. Become familiar with the fragrance of God. His smell should rub off on you. So much so, that others can tell you have been in His presence.

Rev. Marcia Davis

Beautifully Made…

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Good morning, Family:

I greet you with the abundant and overflowing  love of Christ. The love of God is so completely perfect. It is a love that encompasses all that is good and holy.

Think about what it means to made in the image of a perfect, holy, and loving God.

Genesis 1:26-27 

New International Version (NIV)

26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

27 So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

Be blessed, family. Follow and chase God with all your heart, mind and soul. Go in peace, while serving and praising the Lord. 

Rev. Marcia Davis

Amen, Amen and Amen…

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Good morning, Family:

Today is a new day that we have never seen before. It may not be perfect, in our eyes, but today does have a purpose.

May we align ourselves with the spirit and will of God, moment by moment. This morning DID NOT AT ALL go like I wanted it to, but my mind, heart, and spirit are still in unison as we smile at God. All of me still says, “Let your will be done on earth and in my life, as it is in heaven. Please continually position me in a place and posture of thanksgiving. In the name of Jesus, my Lord. Amen, Amen, and Amen.”

1 Chronicles 16:36 

New King James Version (NKJV)

36 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting!

And all the people said, “Amen!” and praised the Lord.

Go in peace, while praising and serving the Lord.

Rev. Marcia Davis

 

Welcome, Everyone…

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Good morning, Family:

I just want to extend a warm welcome to all of our new subscribers to the Sacred Journey Devotional website.

I’m so blessed and humbled that some part of the devotional is nourishing to your soul and heart. I am simply a vessel that God uses.

Unless otherwise noted, all of the scripture references that are shared come from the Bible Gateway website. All of the music that is shared comes through YouTube. I love being able to put a spotlight on gospel and contemporary Christian artist.

For those that don’t know, I NEVER ask for any form of money or contributions. This devotional is my “time tithe” back to God. No one should ever contact you for money.

I believe that it is essential to give back to God a portion of what he has blessed us with. For me means our gifts/talents, time, and finances.

I have some exciting news to share with you. I am in the early stages of writing, and hopefully publishing, a book of daily devotionals. Be on the lookout for more information in the next few months.

Again, thank you, everyone, for keeping Sacred Journey Devotionals in your thoughts and prayers. Our cyber family is growing and I’m so excited. Please share the devotionals with your friends and family, as you feel led.

Psalm 119:105 

          New King James Version (NKJV)

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105 Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path.

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Remember, go in peace while praising and serving the Lord.

Rev. Marcia Davis

Relationship, Not Religion…

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Good Joyful morning, Family:

Spirit of the Living God, you wanted a relationship with us from the very being. Your highest goal has always been having relationship with your creation.

Thank you for not stopping with Adam and Eve. Thank you for not stopping with burnt offering and sacrifices. Thank you for not stopping at the cross. You gave us eteral access and eternal relationship on THE THIRD DAY, When you rose with ALL POWER IN YOUR HAND. You conquered DEATH AND THE GRAVE!!!!

Thank you for the Resurrection!!! Hallelujah

Luke 24:1-7

New King James Version (NKJV)

He Is Risen

24 Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.
2 But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
3 Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
4 And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.

5 Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?
6 He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, 7 saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’”

Amen, Amen, and Amen!!!!!

Jesus Paid it All, Family. Go in peace, while serving and praising the Lord.

Rev. Marcia Davis

Ride On, King Jesus!!!

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Good morning, Family:

What a great and perfect day it is to praise the Lord!!! It is a privilege to say that we are children of the Father. Through our kinship with Jesus Christ, we have become heirs and coheirs into the kingdom and family of God.

One thing each Christian believer has in common is that we each had to make a personal declaration that Jesus was the only begotten, not made, Son of God. We also must believe that through the completed, victorious work on the cross, and resurrection from the grave, Christ died for our sins so that we may be saved and spend eternity in heaven.

One of my favorite songs to sing, regarding the day when Jesus Christ returns for his Bride, The Church, is “Ride On, King Jesus!” Those who have died will be caught up first and then those who remain will caught up with the Lord.

I pray continually for your Christian journey. When the time comes, on that great day, I wish you well. May God bless you and keep you faithful, until that great gettin’ up morning comes. Do not allow any man to cause you to stumble, while you are working down here. We all still have a lot of work to do.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 

Living Bible (TLB)

51 But I am telling you this strange and wonderful secret: we shall not all die, but we shall all be given new bodies! 52 It will all happen in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For there will be a trumpet blast from the sky, and all the Christians who have died will suddenly become alive, with new bodies that will never, never die; and then we who are still alive shall suddenly have new bodies too.

Go in peace, while praising and serving the Lord. 

Rev. Marcia Davis

Planted…

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Psalm 1: 3

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit IN HIS SEASON; his leaf shall not whither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Our Prayer:

Spirit of the Living God,

Let us be so saturated in YOU that when its time for our appointed season we would bear GOOD FRUIT. Let us be so saturated in your Word, your Will, and your Way that our FRUIT has no choice but to prosper.

Let it be, according to your WORD, in the precious name of Jesus, Amen.

Go in peace, while praising and serving the Lord.

Rev. Marcia Davis

Why God?

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Good morning, Family:

I’m sure by now that you have heard about the tragic death of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others. Yesterday,  I was in the car waiting for my husband to come out of Home Depot. All of a sudden my cell phone started chiming and dinging. I looked down and read what was coming across my screen. What do you mean Kobe Bryant is dead???!!! I wanted so bad to run inside the store and find my husband to tell him. My husband had so much respect and love for Kobe Bryant.

After a few moments, each man that I saw coming out of Home Depot had the same look of shock on their face. It’s was a pain that no one was ready for, yesterday. The more information we learned, our hearts just broke. My husband and I cried.

We prayed for their family and the road they would be facing. Death is never easy, but when its sudden and unexpected it hurts even more. Please keep the Bryant family and Vanessa’s extended family in your prayers, as well as the other family that lost their lives.

I know there will be a lot of people that have questions, including me. A great deal of people will ask, “Why God?” I wish I knew why anyone had to die. I don’t know the answer. All I can do is pray for strength, peace, and understanding over time.

John 14:27 

New King James Version (NKJV)

27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Rev. Marcia Davis