These are two magnets that I have front and centre on my fridge and I find my thoughts immediately influenced as a result of seeing them. I find myself so encouraged to know that His promises are new every morning and a new day brings new hope. At night when my day is spent for all of eternity I want to thank Him for it & know I used it wisely and invested in things of eternal value. That I loved the things God loves and I hated the things God hates.
A verse that has helped to form the way I pray and give thanks to God is:
Romans 15:5-7 "Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus, so that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God."
I recognize that it is God that grants perseverance not people or myself. His encouragement isn't fickle or fleeting but rather everlasting. And I love that the purpose and focus of being of the same mind with one another is that it is according to Christ Jesus not according to a worldly mindset that is acceptable to man. If we are not one in Christ then we are not one at all. There is no mixing the two. The outcome of being of one mind in Christ Jesus is we may then together glorify God. Oh that I may run this race and finish well according to Christ Jesus and glorify God.
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