Jesus Calling: April 19

     I love you regardless of how well you are performing. Sometimes you feel uneasy, wondering if you are doing enough to be worthy of My Love. No matter how exemplary your behavior, the answer to that question will always be no. Your performance and My Love are totally different issues, which you need to sort out. I love you with an everlasting Love that flows out from eternity without limits or conditions. I have clothed you in My robe of righteousness, and this is an eternal transaction: Nothing and no one can reverse it. Therefore, your accomplishment as a Christian has no bearing on My Love for you. Even your ability to assess how well you are doing on a given day is flawed. Your limited human perspective and the condition of your body, with its mercurial variations, distort your evaluations.
     Bring your performance anxiety to Me, and receive in its place My unfailing Love. Try to stay conscious of My loving Presence with you in all that you do, and I will direct your steps. 

Jeremiah 31:3
English Standard Version 
    the Lord appeared to him from far away.
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
    therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

Isaiah 61:10
English Standard Version
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
    my soul shall exult in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
    he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
    and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Psalm 31:16
English Standard Version
Make your face shine on your servant;
    save me in your steadfast love!

Psalm 107:8
English Standard Version
Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
    for his wondrous works to the children of man!

My Prayer
Lord, thank you for loving me with an everlasting love. Thank you for believing in me, for placing me where you have placed me. You have equipped me and made me to be the person I am. You have made me and you have value for me. I love you Lord and I rejoice in You. You have made me clean and righteous. You have given me the riches of life. Shine on me so that I feel your love every day of my life. Lord, I can get so wrapped up in the events of my life, having anxiety, nervousness, fear, feeling attacked, not of value. I too quickly stare at my situations and surroundings, forgetting your Love, your steadfast love. Get my eyes to dwell on You throughout my day. As I encounter difficult situations, I want to bring them to you. I bring to you my work relationships that lately are tense. There is a discord in the office that makes it an unpleasant place to come. I haven't done this well in the past, that is bringing this to you, but seek to solve these tough situations outside of you. But, Lord, on this day I want to bring this environment to you. Like the Syrophonecian woman that came to you in faith to have you heal her demon possessed daughter, I come to you in the same way. I believe in you Jesus. Heal this office of mine. And my son, my youngest son who continues to set his own parameters and not respect our house rules. You know the anger that springs up in me, sometimes too quickly, when I just want to throw him out, to the dogs, Lord, I bring him to you and commit him to you. These are my anxieties Lord. Direct my steps. Draw people to you. Bring harmony where there is just confusion and keep my confidence in you. I love you Lord.


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