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Jesus Thinking…

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Greetings, Precious Family:

I pray that your hearts, minds, and souls are in a place of perfect peace in Christ Jesus. It took me years to realize that my words and the energy behind my words are so important. Jesus was my first teacher on why a person’s mind, mouth, and heart must be in synch with heaven (The Lord’s Prayer). 

Even though the Bible says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7), I didn’t understand that universal law applied to everything IN and every area OF my life.

There have been great teachers in my lifetime that have helped me to apply and understand the scripture passage that says, “Life and death are in the power of the tongue” (Proverbs 18:21).

For me, it was Jesus who taught me to think differently. It perplexes me when people seem to be afraid of the way Jesus taught and thought. The same fear is present when people discuss New Thought.

In 2014, I graduated from the most amazing seminary. I am a licensed and ordained New Thought Christian Minister. It has always been the goal of this devotional to help you go deeper.

Many people think that the term “New Thought” is threatening to Christianity. Little known fact, New Thought or what I like to call “Jesus Thought” was spread by Christians who wanted to be more like Jesus and not so much live by the letter of religious law. Which is in line with the Bible, as Jesus encouraged us to do even greater things than he did. Why does thinking how Jesus taught us to think scare people?

Jesus was hated and ultimately crucified for thinking and responding with love FIRST. The law was important to Jesus, but caring for sentient beings was the MOST important.

Are we afraid to be who Jesus called us to be? Are we afraid to do greater things, as Jesus instructed? As Christians, please do not allow a label or a word to scare you. Just think like Jesus, teach like Jesus, and live like Jesus, and you will be just fine.

Scriptures of Higher Thinking

Philippians 2:1-11

New International Version

Imitating Christ’s Humility

2 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
    by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
    being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death—
        even death on a cross!

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.

Worship with the Mind of Christ

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I love you, all, with the amazing and everlasting of our Savior. Wayshower and King, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rev. Marcia Davis

Covington/Atlanta, GA

The Universe Speaks…

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Over the last several days, I have been consciously speaking out loud and coming into agreement with the healing that God wants for me.

I can always tell when God is shifting me. I let out a series of guttural, soul-shaking screams and moans, followed by tears from the deepest part of my soul.

It is not me that is doing it, but the spirit inside me that is updating me with the most recent program updates for my life from heaven, because my prayers are that I learn to be on the vibration of heaven (on earth, as it is in heaven).

In those moments, I am reminded that I am a spirit having an earthly experience. In those moments, I get the results of my spiritual final exam for the semester. Did I pass? Did I fail? Do I need to repeat the course again, or do I need to change majors all together?

Scriptures of Revelation

1 Corinthians 2:9-16

New International Version

9 However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
    what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”[a]—
    the things God has prepared for those who love him—

10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[b] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
    so as to instruct him?”[c]

But we have the mind of Christ.

Songs of Worship and Connection

Family, I know that I typically send out devotionals on Wednesday, but this COULD NOT WAIT!!!! Our lives are not our own. We are here for a reason. In order to find out that reason, we must be connected to the heavenly spiritual realm.

If you have not already, may I suggest you read last week’s devotional dated 11/30/2023.

I love you, Family. We are moving higher together. We are one in the Spirit. They will know US, by our Love.

It is with the amazing and everlasting love of Christ that I seal this devotional. ❤️

Your sister,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Covington/Atlanta, GA

Our Father…

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Greetings, Precious Family:

I pray that you all had time to reflect and be thankful for the many blessings in your life, over the holiday weekend. Whether it is your family, your health, or your ability to be able to talk to the Creator of the whole world, there are so many things to be thankful for today.

There are days that even though we are grateful, we still go through trials and tribulations in this thing called life. One thing to remember is that we are never alone. God promised to never leave us or forsake us (Deuteronomy 31:6).

On more than one occasion, in conversation, someone would talk to me about something they were going through. Inevitably, at some point in the conversation, they would share their frustration in not knowing how or what to pray for in their particular situation.

I would always remind them that Jesus had already taught us how to pray in Matthew 6:9-13.

Our prayers should be structured in this format:

1. Give God and the Kingdom of Heaven honor

2. Acknowledge that you want to be in agreement with what has been spoken and decreed in heaven.

3. Our prayers MUST be in agreement with the will of God. Our prayers are for what has been spoken in heaven to manifest on earth. It is not about our will.

4. In prayer, it is not about what we want. Ask God to teach you how to pray in agreement with heaven (Your will be done. Your kingdom come, on earth, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN).

4. Ask God to keep you from all hurt, harm, and danger. Ask for protection from any seen and unseen traps, snars, and witchcraft of the enemy. Ask God to teach you how to pray specifically over your home, town, and country, according to His will.

5. Close the prayer by acknowledging the majesty and power of God.

6. Seal your prayer with the all-powerful name of our Lord, Wayshower, and Redeemer Jesus, The Christ, who intercedes for us at the right hand of the Father.

That is the formula to effectively pray in ANY situation.

Songs of Prayers and Instruction

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I love you all with the amazing and everlasting love of Jesus Christ, Our Lord.

Your sister,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Never Alone…

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Good morning, Precious Family:

We are approaching the end of another year at what seems like a lightening fast speed. It truly seems like yesterday that it was just January.

One thing I can definitely say is that God has been faithful to be with me throughout the year. Every day, I have felt God’s love surrounding me and keeping me. Has every day been perfect? Of course NOT. Perfection was never the promise. The promise was that God would be with us, even to the furthest ends of the earth.

Scriptures of Promise

Deuteronomy 31:8

New International Version

8 The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”

Worship Songs With a Promise

Today’s worship video is dedicated to Rev. Carlton Pearson. His heart was always in the right place. He just wanted people to know how much God loves each and one of us, as demonstrated by Jesus’ shed blood on Calvary.

Family, I pray that each of you knows that you are a part of a great family. As believers in the Finished Work of the Cross, we stand hand in hand on this journey we call life. May we learn and hold onto the secret things of God.

I love each of you with the amazing and everlasting love of our Lord and Redeemer, Jesus Christ.

Your sister,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Covington/Atlanta, GA

Crying Out…

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Greetings, Precious Family:

I pray this week’s post finds you in a place of peace. As we walk with our Lord, we walk knowing that we are never alone. I know that we have all gone through seasons in our lives where we may feel as though God has abandoned us.

One thing my mother would always say, when I felt that God’s presence was gone from my life, is that God never walks away from us, but instead it is us who have knowingly or unknowingly walk away.

In those times, it is we who must humbly cry out to God and ask Him to pull us from the place we have found ourselves. We may have fast, pray, and consecrate our lives back to God, just as the Prophet Joel spoke about in the Old Testament. Without fail, God will hear the sincerity in our cry.

Scriptures of Consecration

Joel 1:13-20

New International Version

A Call to Lamentation

13 Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn;
    wail, you who minister before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
    you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings
    are withheld from the house of your God.
14 Declare a holy fast;
    call a sacred assembly.
Summon the elders
    and all who live in the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out to the Lord.

15 Alas for that day!
    For the day of the Lord is near;
    it will come like destruction from the Almighty.[a]

16 Has not the food been cut off
    before our very eyes—
joy and gladness
    from the house of our God?
17 The seeds are shriveled
    beneath the clods.[b]
The storehouses are in ruins,
    the granaries have been broken down,
    for the grain has dried up.
18 How the cattle moan!
    The herds mill about
because they have no pasture;
    even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

19 To you, Lord, I call,
    for fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness
    and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.
20 Even the wild animals pant for you;
    the streams of water have dried up
    and fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness.

Song of Consecration

Ron Winans

Family, may we all be in a place that we are so close to God’s heart that we can hear in the whisper.

I love you all with the amazing and everlasting love of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ.

Your sister,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Covington/Atlanta, GA

How Excellent

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Greetings, Precious Family:

I pray that this week’s devotional finds you in a place of peace and joy in the Lord. As the old song lyrics say, “This joy that I have, the world didn’t give it and the world can’t take it away!” I believe Reverend Shirley Ceasar wrote that song, as I can only find her name as the author and composer.

We are right in the middle of the last quarter of the year for 2023. The world’s focus will slowly begin turning to the Christmas season. The birth of the only begotten of God is approaching. The perfect little lamb without spot, blemish, or sin has willingly taken off his godly robe to become a human being, but at the same time still continuing to be King of Kings and Lord of Lord’s.

As we approach the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior, may we meditate on the never-ending love that Jesus had and still has for us. We can sing with confidence, Oh Lord, Our Lord, how EXCELLENT is your name in all the earth. Hallelujah!!!

Scriptures of Adoration

Psalm 8

New International Version

For the director of music. According to gittith.[b] A psalm of David.

Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
    in the heavens.
2 Through the praise of children and infants
    you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
    to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,
    the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
    which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?[c]

5 You have made them[d] a little lower than the angels[e]
    and crowned them[f] with glory and honor.
6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
    you put everything under their[g] feet:
7 all flocks and herds,
    and the animals of the wild,
8 the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,
    all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Song of Adoration and Praise

Walt Whitman

I love you, Family, with the never-ending perfect love of our Lord and Savior Jesus. The Christ.

Your sister,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Covington, GA

By Your Spirit…

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Good morning, Precious Family:

I pray that this week’s devotional finds you in a place of peace in the Lord. Not peace as the world gives, but the peace that passes ALL UNDERSTANDING through the Christ Mind.

There are times in our lives when we must stop our race and become still. Even though we have the authority to speak to the mountains and they must obey, we sometimes need to stop and go back to our charging station.

Our charging station is any place that helps us reconnect with the Living God. We may arrive at the charging station with a low battery life indicated, but once we plug in and spend time worshipping and loving on God, we are renewed and ready to face anything that comes our way.

Scriptures of Refreshing

Isaiah 40:31

King James Version

31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Refreshing Through Worship

Tasha Cobbs Leonard

Family, no matter what you are going through, please remember that you are never alone. There are more with you than are against. Walk knowing that you are waking with the unseen Army of the Lord.

I love you with the amazing and everlasting love of Christ Jesus, our Lord, Redeemer, and Wayshower. It is in His name that I lift this prayer to the Great, I Am.

Your sister,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Covington, Georgia

Being Poured Out..

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Greetings, Precious Family:

I pray that this week’s devotional finds you in a place of peace through Christ Jesus. Jesus is indeed our peace. The very one who leads and guides us with His spirit is the very same one that calmed the storm with the words, “Peace, be still. (Mark 4:39).”

In the midst of some of our most toughest moments there can also reside our greatest times of worship. There is something about being pressed on every side that brings forth the most precious oil. Unfortunately, not everyone will understand the purpose or use of the oil that is being poured out.

Once the precious oil is ready to be used for its intended purpose, it is at that point that many folks want to get their hands on it. The oil from your life is set apart for a special purpose.

Just ask Mary, sister of Martha, how precious the alabaster box of oil was that she anointed our Savior’s feet with. She paid a lot of money for this very expensive fragrance. She knew that as she poured the oil in her hair and began to wipe the feet of Jesus with it that He was also set apart for a special purpose. He would soon be the anointed Fragrant sacrificial offering without spot or blemish.

Scriptures of Worship

John 12:1-8

English Standard Version

Mary Anoints Jesus at Bethany

Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.

3 Mary therefore took a pound[a] of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, 5 “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii[b] and given to the poor?” 6 He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.

7 Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it[c] for the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”

Songs of Worship

Family, I know there will be times when we ask God, “Why?” or “Why me, God?” Only God knows the purpose for which we were set apart. Part of the journey of following Christ is to walk by faith and not by sight. If we love our Lord, then we must follow, Amen.

I love you, All, with the amazing and everlasting love of our Lord, Savior, and Redeemer Jesus Christ. May his love surround and enfold you at every moment of every day.

Your sister,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Covington. GA

Come Home…

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Greetings, Precious Ones:

The song lyrics to “Softly and Tenderly” are lyrics that hold a special place in my heart. The heart of God is that no one, not one soul, would be lost.

The heart of God holds more love than many of us can really fathom or imagine. I have had the pleasure and grace to have experienced the sweet and tender love of Jesus through a personal encounter after a time of fasting and prayer several years ago.

I was in a season of seeking God because it felt like I was just “going through the motions” of church. I dont know where or at what point I began to fill distant from God. I just knew that I had to find a way back to my first love. My pastor at the time suggested that I go into a season of fasting and prayer. On the 30th and final day of my fast, something amazing happened.

Instead of reading scripture that day, I felt led to worship and sing a new song to God. While I was singing, it felt like I was going into some type of trance, but at the same time, I knew that I was at home and sitting on my bed.

The whole story would take too long to tell here, but the love that wrapped its arms around me that day was a love that I had never experienced before or since. The love that radiated through me instantly disintegrated any darkness, shortcomings, or fear. I experienced true, pure, unfiltered love. I knew in that instant what it meant to be born again.

It is my prayer that everyone would have that same encounter with God so that they would know what is waiting for them in heaven…and here on earth, as the Kingdom of God is within us.

The encounter I had birthed my desire to teach the Word of God. My worship from that day was never the same. Every song I sing to God is full of gratitude and thanksgiving.

Scriptures of Hope

1 Peter 1:3-5

English Standard Version

Born Again to a Living Hope

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Invitation to Worship

Family, I love you all with the amazing and everlasting love of our Lord, Savior, and Redeemer Jesus Christ.

Your sister,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Covington, GA

Wade In The Water…

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Good morning, Precious Family:

As always, I pray that this week’s devotional finds you in a place of peace and stillness in the Lord. I pray that the cares of this world do not have you carrying a heavy load in your mind, body, or spirit.

This week, the song that the Holy Spirit put on my heart is the Negro spiritual Wade in the Water. I love the version and verses sung by the acapella group Sweet Honey in the Rock.

Song of Praise and Faith

Credit to Riddlefilms.com

The song encourages the listener to wade into the water because God is troubling and doing a special work in the water. The song reminds most people of the lame man waiting for someone to place him in in the pool at Bethesda, as told in John 5. The angel of the Lord was said to come and stir, or trouble, the water and the first person in would be healed. (I did a devotional on this passage a few weeks ago).

I want to propose a different passage with the song Wade In The Water. I want to offer the passage from John 4, specifically verses 10-14. This passage is of Jesus asking the Samaritan woman for something to drink from the well.

Scripture of Invitation…

John 4:10-14

New International Version

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Family, in the passage above, the Samaritan woman  notices that Jesus has nothing to draw the water. Jesus reveals himself to be the Living Water. We have to understand that when we accept the invitation of Salvation, we are accepting the Living Water.

As we make the decision to walk to God, we are, like Peter, asking Jesus to bid us to come. Please know that the invitation to come to Christ is always open. Whether you are someone new to Christianity or someone who needs to come back home, the arms of Jesus are always open, with no guilt or  shame. The Living Water is calling you to come.

The Prayer of Salvation is a simple one:

Jesus, I believe that you are the only begotten Son of God. I believe that you are the Messiah and that you willingly died, conquered death, and the grave, and after three days, you got up with all power in your hand to be the perfect sacrifice for my sins. I invite you to come into my heart and my life, Amen.

If you prayed that prayer, I joyfully welcome you to the Family of Christ. If you are coming back home, I am so glad to see you, and I love you ALL with the amazing and everlasting love of our Lord, Savior, and Redeemer, Jesus Christ.

Your sister,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Covington, GA