‘WHAT TO START FIRST IS THE FOUNDATION

 

 WHEN WE ACCEPT JESUS INTO OUR LIVES, HE BECOMES OUR FOUNDATION. THE FOUNDATION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART. IT PROVIDES THE STABILITY TO WHATEVER IS BUILT UPON IT. ANYTHING FROM THAT POINT ON WILL EITHER STAND OR FALL.

IF IT”S BUILT UPON THE ROCK(JESUS) OUR FOUNDATION IS FIRM.

MATTHEW 7:24 THEREFORE WHOEVER HEARS THESE SAYING OF MINE, AND DOES THEM, I WILL LIKEN HIM TO A WISE MAN WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE ON THE ROCK: AND THE RAIN DESCENDED, THE FLOODS CAME, AND THE WINDS BLEW AND BEAT ON THAT HOUSE ; AND IT DID NOT FALL FOR IT WAS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK

MATTHEW 7:26-27 BUT EVERYONE WHO HEARS THESE SAYINGS OF MINE, AND DOES NOT DO THEM, WILL BE LIKE A FOOLISH MAN WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE ON THE SAND AND THE RAIN DESCENDED, THE FLOODS CAME, AND THE WINDS BLEW AND BEAT ON THAT HOUSE: AND IT FELL .AND GREAT WAS ITS FALL.

 

JESUS IS REFERRED TO IN THE BIBLE AS THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE . EPHESIANS 2:20

SINCE MY HUSBAND WAS IN THE CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS, I ASKED HIM WHAT IS A CORNERSTONE AND WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT? HIS ANSWER WAS THE SAME AS TO WHEN I RESEARCHED IT :

The cornerstone (or foundation stone) concept is derived from the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation, important since all other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entire structure.

 

 

EACH AND EVERYONE OF US HAS FLAWS AND CRACKS AND ARE CONSTANTLY UNDER REPAIR

NOW WE MAY MESS UP AND FALL, BUT WITH THE LORD IN OUR LIVES, HE FORGIVES US AND ENCOURAGES US TO MOVE ON IN HIM.   

JEREMIAH 29:11 FOR I KNOW THE PLANS I HAVE FOR YOU SAYS THE LORD, PLANS TO PROSPER YOU AND NOT TO HARM YOU, PLANS TO GIVE YOU HOPE AND A FUTURE.

PHIL. 1:6  BEING CONFIDENT OF THIS, THAT HE WHO BEGAN A GOOD WORK IN YOU WILL CARRY IT ONTO COMPLETION UNTIL THE DAY OF CHRIST JESUS.

 

THIS DOESN’T HAPPEN ALL AT ONCE, BUT IS A PROCESS

IT DOESN’T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT, IT TAKES PLANNING,PREPARING AND PREPPING. WE ARE SO IMPATIENT AND HARD ON OURSELVES AND WANT IT TO BE DONE NOW. WE DESIRE TO BE PERFECT AND BEAT OVERSELVES UP WHEN WE MESS UP. THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSON WHO IS PERFECT AND THAT IS JESUS. WE ARE TO LIVE A LIFE THAT RESEMBLES HIM AND CONFORMED TO HIS IMAGE, BUT WE WILL NEVER BE PERFECT.

THERE ARE DAYS WHEN I THINK TO MYSELF, “OKAY I’VE BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE AND THOUGHT IT WAS TAKEN CARE OF OR LEARNED MY LESSON FROM IT THE LAST TIME”, ONLY TO FIND I FELL TO THIS WEAKNESS AGAIN. I BEAT MYSELF UP FOR IT AND ASK FORGIVENESS AGAIN. REALIZE THE LORD IS USING THESE TIMES TO TEACH ME AND GROW ME AND MAKES ME STRONGER, FOR WHEN I AM WEAK HE IS STRONG!!  IT MAY COME AGAIN, BUT NEXT TIME SEE IT COMING AND RESIST.

GOD HAS A DEFINITE PLAN

ROMANS 8:28-29 AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD TO THOSE WHO LOVE GOD,TO THOSE WHO ARE THE CALLLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. FOR WHOM HE FOREKNEW, HE ALSO PREDESTINED TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON.

OUR LIVES ARE CONSTANTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION UNTIL WE TAKE OUR LAST BREATH. WE ARE CONSTANTLY BEING CHANGED, REMODELED, AND IN A CONSTANT PROCESS. JUST LIKE A BUILDING HAS INSPECTIONS, IT’S NOT SOMETHING WE LOOK FORWARD TO, BUT WE KNOW IT NEEDS TO BE DONE. IF WE ALLOW JESUS TO TRULY INSPECT, CHANGE OR CLEAN OUT ANYTHING THAT DOESN’T NEED TO BE THERE OR IS DANGEROUS, IS WHEN WE TRULY GRASP HIM TO BE LORD OF OUR LIVES. TO  DO THAT EVEN THOUGH IT MAY HURT OR BE UNCOMFORTABLE FOR A LITTLE  WHILE.  IT WILL BE SO WORTH IT ALL!!

IF WE ONLY COME TO  REALIZE THAT HE HAND CRAFTED US AND FORMED US AND HAS A TRUE AND UNIQUE PLAN FOR OUR LIVES. HE  ALONE HAS THE UNIQUE BLUEPRINTS FOR OUR LIVES UNLIKE ANY OTHER’S.

PSALM 119:73 YOUR HANDS HAVE MADE ME AND FASHIONED ME.

JEREMIAH 1:5  BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE WOMB I KNEW YOU

PSALM 139:13-15  FOR YOU FORMED MY INWARD PARTS; YOU COVERED ME IN MY MOTHER’S WOMB. I WILL PRAISE YOU, FOR I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE. MARVELOUS ARE YOUR WORKS, AND THAT MY SOUL KNOWS VERY WELL. MY FRAME WAS NOT HIDDEN FROM YOU, WHEN I WAS MADE IN SECRET, AND SKILLFULLY WROUGHT IN THE EARTH. 

PSALM 139:16– YOUR EYES SAW MY SUBSTANCE, BEING YET UNFORMED .AND IN YOUR BOOK THEY ALL WERE WRITTEN,THE DAYS FASHIONED FOR ME,WHEN AS YET THERE WERE NONE OF THEM. 

AS ALWAYS I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU, IF YOU HAVE NEVER INVITED THE LORD INTO YOUR HEART AND LIFE AND BECOME ALL THAT HE HAS CHOSEN FOR YOU, I WILL LEAVE THIS SIMPLE PRAYER WITH YOU.

IN HIS LOVE,

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