What allows us to be able to trust God with our whole heart?

How do we trust when a love one dies?

How do we trust when we have suffered a great loss?

How do we trust when everything we own is swept away by a flood or other natural disaster?

Trusting God is never promised to be easy. What trusting God does insure is that we can have access to peace, in knowing that God will never leave us or forsake us. Every time we experience hurt, pain, sadness or loss, God is right there with us.

Today we can all pray the prayer of faith to help us to trust God more, just as written in the gospel of Mark. The father asked for Jesus to heal his son. He did have some faith that Jesus would heal his son, but he still asked Jesus to increase his faith even more.

Mark 9:21-24

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²¹ Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has he been like this?”

The man answered, “Ever since he was a child. ²² The demon has often tried to kill him by throwing him into a fire or into water. Please have pity and help us if you can!”

²³ Jesus replied, “Why do you say ‘if you can’? Anything is possible for someone who has faith!”

²⁴ Right away the boy’s father shouted, “I do have faith! Please help me to have even more.”

Let us pray:

Heaven Father: We thank you that you are so patient with us, as we learn and grow in You. We know that we have still not come into the fullness of who we are destined to be in Christ. We believe, but help us to believe and trust you even more. More than anything, Lord, we want a heart like Yours.

Thank you for loving us so much that you would place your spirit in us to lead us and guide us in your will and in your way. We love you, Lord, because you first loved us, beyond Calvary. Hear our prayer, Lord. Let our prayers be a sweet sound in your ears. In the mighty and matchless name of Jesus, we seal this prayer. Amen and Amen.

I love you All with an AMAZING LOVE. Praise God that we are learning and growing together. Please feel to share this and any other of the daily devotionals that have blessed or encouraged you in some way. Rev. Marcia Davis

Please enjoy the worship today. It is a gospel medley of I Love You/We Exalt Thee.

WHAT DAY IS IT!!

FRIDAY, FRIDAY, FRIDAY.

That means it’s time to get our battle praise ready. Every Friday, at the Sacred Journey, means that we start the day off with High Praises to God.

We are praising God with a purpose. Mainly because He is worthy of all of our praises, but also because it is time for the body of Christ to get in the enemy’s face. We have been way to passive and silent for entirely too long. The enemy has gotten away with much.

As you sing with this song today start naming the things you are going to WAR about. Be serious about it and be mad.

Are you ready? Then let’s get it started.

The song is performed by Charles Jenkins and is entitled, “War.”

Have a great weekend. I love you with an AMAZING LOVE.

Rev. Marcia Davis

Good morning,

This morning’s devotion is in a different format than usual.  As you know, I love worship music. The lyrics to today’s worship video are so powerful that I decided to make the song the message for today.

LISTEN and sweetly sing the song to God this morning. (Can you imagine going outside and singing this song as the sun begins to rise?)

Please meditate on the words of this song as you watch the video.

Have a wonderful day. I love you with an AMAZING LOVE.

Rev. Marcia Davis

Today’s devotional is extremely important, please do not ignore. 

God loves his children. God is very protective and jealous. If you are in relationship with God and are sensitive to the voice and promoting of the Holy Spirit, you will receive divine  instructions and revelations.

If God begins to show you things about a situation, DO NOT IGNORE WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN SHOWN. Get your feelings and emotions out of the way and LISTEN. What you are being shown may very well save your life.

Ask three questions:

1. Why is God showing me this?

2. What are my instructions?

3. When do I need to act?

After you ask your questions, be quiet and LISTEN. Don’t call three people and ask them what they think. They weren’t the ones that gave you the instructions, so why go to them for the answer.

Be still…

Our society is so used to microwave gratification that we have grown uncomfortable and anxious when we have to wait.

Still your mind and heart , and wait on God for the answers. Most importantly, once you receive the answers, OBEY.

There is a reason that 1 Samuel 15:22 says that Obedience is BETTER THAN Sacrifice.

1 Samuel 15:22

Expanded Bible (EXB)

²² But Samuel answered,

“What pleases the Lord more:
    burnt offerings and sacrifices
    or obedience to his voice?
·It is better to obey [Obedience is better] than to sacrifice.
    ·It is better to listen to God than to offer [Submission/Heeding is better than] the fat of ·sheep [rams].

I know that going where you have never gone before may be a little scary, but know that God would never tell you to do anything, or go anywhere, that he had not already prepared for you. Stand in faith. Walk out into the deep waters, as deep calls out to deep.

Saints of God, I love you and I want the very best for you. I pray that you would have every blessing that heaven has ordained for you to have. I also pray that you would be a blessing to someone else as well.

Please enjoy the worship video today performed by Hillsong United entitled  “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)”

Good morning, Saints of the Most High God:

What an amazing feeling it is to be loved, beyond our faults, beyond our sin and beyond our imperfections.

What is the Grace of God? The Grace of God can really be summed up in one word…Relationship.

Ephesians 2:8-9

New International Version (NIV)

⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved,through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹ not by works, so that no one can boast.

Grace cannot be earned, bribed, or coerced. Grace is an ummerited gift. God’s Grace was provided by Jesus Christ. Jesus had no sin and was unblemished. He became the Sacred Sacrifice for our sins.

The blood of the Cross and the resurrected Savior is the only reason that God can see us perfected. God is looking at us through a pair of blood stained glass. He doesn’t see our sin because the blood sacrifice was made on our behalf.

We are the children of God. We should be wearing the same grace-covered glasses as we look at others. With the same Grace that God has given to us, so must we give to others.

It is not up to us to judge others. We must love as Jesus did and pray for those who are still learning and growing in the Lord.

We were given a gift. Let us be grateful every day for God’s Amazing Grace. As we walk the earth, let us shine and encourage others so that they to may be partakers of the greatest gift ever given.

Be blessed today. Please enjoy the worship video performed by Chris Tomlin entitled, “Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)”

Remember, I love you with an AMAZING LOVE.

Rev. Marcia Davis

Good morning, Saints of the Most High God:

Every Monday, at the Sacred Journey, we begin the day with prayer. Please join me.

Heavenly Father,

We pause for a moment in our day to say, “Thank You.” Even when times are tough and so many things may not be going our way, we still say, “Thank You.”

Great Jehovah, we understand that you know the end from the beginning. We understand that your thoughts are much higher than our thoughts, as we are your creations and you are the Creator of all things.

We run to the Throne Room and cry out with the angels and elders:

 “Our Lord and God,
    you are worthy
to receive glory,
    honor, and power.
You created all things,
and by your decision they are
    and were created.”

Amen.

Revelation 4:9-11

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

⁹ The living creatures kept praising, honoring, and thanking the one who sits on the throne and who lives forever and ever. ¹⁰ At the same time the twenty-four elders knelt down before the one sitting on the throne. And as they worshiped the one who lives forever, they placed their crowns in front of the throne and said,

Please enjoy today’s worship video performed by Kim Walkee-Smith entitled, “Throne Room.”

WHAT DAY IS IT????!!!!

It is Praise Friday.

Today we set aside this morning to give God an all out crazy praise. Not because we feel obligated to, but because we WANT to praise the Lord.

Why do we praise? We praise because our  beautiful relationship with God. We praise because of the faith we have in God to always come through in his perfect timing, under Grace and perfect conditions.

It would be strange if someone gave us a gift and then we said nothing and just walked away.  We would naturally respond to the gift with a grateful and humbled attitude. So it is when we are in friendship with God. Our friendship leads us to put our faith into action.

Meditate on the scripture passage below, this weekend.

James 2:18-26

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

¹⁸ Suppose someone disagrees and says, “It is possible to have faith without doing kind deeds.”

I would answer, “Prove that you have faith without doing kind deeds, and I will prove that I have faith by doing them.” ¹⁹ You surely believe there is only one God. That’s fine. Even demons believe this, and it makes them shake with fear.

²⁰ Does some stupid person want proof that faith without deeds is useless? ²¹ Well, our ancestor Abraham pleased God by putting his son Isaac on the altar to sacrifice him. ²² Now you see how Abraham’s faith and deeds worked together. He proved that his faith was real by what he did. ²³ This is what the Scriptures mean by saying, “Abraham had faith in God, and God was pleased with him.” That’s how Abraham became God’s friend.

²⁴ You can now see that we please God by what we do and not only by what we believe. ²⁵ For example, Rahab had been a prostitute. But she pleased God when she welcomed the spies and sent them home by another way.

²⁶ Anyone who doesn’t breathe is dead, and faith that doesn’t do anything is just as dead!

It is so good to know that we are a FRIEND OF GOD. I hope and pray that by now you know that I have a great love for you. Go with God today and be blessed.

Please enjoy today’s worship video performed by Israel and New Breed entitled, “I Am a FRIEND OF God.”  Rev. Marcia Davis

There is a name I love to hear, I love to sing its worth; it sounds like music in my ear the sweetest name on earth. Oh, how I love Jesus. Because he first loved me. 

This song always makes my heart so full of love and joy.  It is a precious song that reminds me of God’s great love.

John 3:16

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

I don’t know too many parents that would offer their first born child as a way to show love, but God did just that. He gave the ultimate gift, his life.

When all hope is gone and you can’t seem to make your way through the heaviness, remember how much God cares for you and truly loves you. It will all work out for the good of those that love him

Have a blessed day. Be a blessing to someone else. Keep the light shinning.

Please enjoy today’s worship video performed by Ann Nesby entitled, “Oh, How I Love Jesus.”

Rev. Marcia Davis

James 1:2-8

New International Version (NIV)

Trials and Temptations

² Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, ³ because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. ⁴ Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. ⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. ⁶ But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. ⁷ That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. ⁸ Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do. 

When a test comes, how do you respond?

A lot of natural disasters have been happening around the world. Tornados, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and fires. Do we panic? Do we question God? For some people the answer is yes. I can understand why. I wouldn’t be human if I didn’t understand.

However, if we are anchored in Christ we are called to respond differently.  The Word of God tells us that the trials come to strengthen us.

Where do we go for shelter, for hope, for a place to catch our breath?

I Go to The Rock!!!

Good Tuesday evening, Beautiful Beams of Light:

I know that I am coming to you later than usual, but a hurricane and power outages hindered me from writing this morning. We still have no power, but even in the coming  darkness, I want to bring you a word of hope and encouragement.

The on-line devotional, that I write each morning, has NEVER been about me. This devotional is all about the God-head that I serve, which I refer to as the Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit — 3 in 1)

So before I lose power on my cell phone let me leave you with this word.

John 1:1-5

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