OUTHSIDE SCOOP WEEKLY
IT’S FALL YA’LL!
EDITION 42
19 NOVEMBER 2023
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SOME GOOD ADVICE ON RESTRUCTURE & GOD’S PRESENCE KNOW This; You Are Included! By Sis. Ricki Fuller Circling back to understanding GOD’s Grace is rich toward us as He has saved us and made us free through Christ Jesus. Let’s delve further into what that glorious grace of freedom and righteousness means for us.
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The fact that GOD determinedly loves us is clearly evidenced in John 3:16, Romans 5:8, and Ephesians 2:4-5. Because of this rich knowledge which is deposited in believers’ psyches/souls, it seems we should express due to GOD’s great Love for us and for His continual Peaceful Presence in our lives. “How happy are the people who worship you with songs, who live in the light of your kindness! Because of you they rejoice… and they praise you for your goodness.” (Psalm 89:15-16 GNT) With such joy, let’s see some good advice from Jesus Calling: “FOCUS YOUR ENTIRE BEING on My living Presence. I am most assuredly with you, enveloping you in My Love and Peace. While you relax in My Presence, I am molding your mind and cleansing your heart. I am recreating you into the one I designed you to be. As you move from stillness into the activities of your day, do not relinquish your attentiveness to Me. If something troubles you, talk it over with Me. If you get bored with what you are doing, fill the time with prayers and praise. When someone irritates you, don’t let your thoughts linger on that person’s faults. Gently nudge your mind back to Me. Every moment is precious if you keep your focus on Me. Any day can be a good day, because my Presence permeates all time.” Us remaining focused on GOD and His abiding Presence in our multifaceted lives is the major premise here. Afterall, we know it is through the agency of HolySpirit that we are in a continual state of being restructured/recreated. Yes, this is why it is of utmost importance that each of us focus all of who we are on GOD’s enveloping Presence. Throughout Biblical Scriptures we are urged, even commanded, to love GOD, and to love others as we love ourselves (Matthew 22:37-40). Along with this we find: “My dear children, let’s not just talk about love; let’s practice real love. This is the only way
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we’ll know we’re living truly, living in God’s reality. It’s also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves.” (I John 3:18-20 MSG). Accordingly, we pray to and praise Abba: “Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault. All glory to him who alone is God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord. All glory, majesty, power, and authority are his before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time! Amen.” (Jude 24-25 NLT)
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