Sometimes I just need God’s word

Written By @3130beloved
31:30 beloved @_jessicachow


”For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.”✨ | 1 Corinthians 9:19-23

Sometimes I just need God’s word. Not advice, not some fleeting inspiration, not more knowledge, not a story “similar” to mine, not your devotion of the day, and podcast sure do have a lot of words. Just give me Jesus.

If so, comment, ‘So Be It unto the Lord’, as I found out that’s what ‘Amen’ means!! Crazy, right?🙏🏼 ‘I’ve become ALL THINGS to ALL people, that by ALL MEANS I, (glory to Jesus), may save some.” From the man I wrote about 1 posts ago - to a voodooist on the street - to the Atheist at Target - to my own family… It’s not easy loving those we don’t understand or agree with. It’s frightening to stand with arms wide open as they greet you with judgment for your past and slander for who you “think” you are now; holier than thou. Well, Jesus never promised easy. He promised eternal life, he promised to walk with us, he promised to fight our battles for us and we need only to be still in the battle field, he promised us that his grace will be sufficient for us no matter how hard life gets, and ultimately he promised to deliver and redeem us. 🤲🏻
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But...it’s hard!
Like, dang. Someone condemns me for the ONE thing I was held down by for years! For the things I’m finally free from? I trucked the JOURNEY from shame and fear and into the light of forgiveness and restoration...but you want to keep me in the grave because YOU disapprove of my actions? You know how hurtful that is?
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No. No, some really don’t. But God reminded me of His #GoodNews so I got the same good news for you today, fam! By the power of His costly grace, no one can thwart the truth of who He says WE are, amen?!✊🏻
We are indeed washed by the blood of the lamb.
FROM that truth spoken over us, we can then be + BE WITH + GO TO + draw near to - ALL - people.
Our hearts can relinquish their judgement to God if we truly believe we’re set free in #ChristJesus, which allows #TheLord to increase our capacity to love.💙
To love those in/outside of #Christ knowing that WE are all made EQUALLY in the image of God.
They too, long for the eternity God planted in their hearts & we KNOW the way!
We can be small beacons of light into that eternity as we share the character of #God through love & acceptance.
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I’ve seen God soften the HARDEST of hearts when the simple #gospel is shared w/ just a smile + an awkward hug + a silly joke.
This word empowers me today to be ALL things for ALL ppl no matter what the cost is of myself for #Jesus sacrificed His ALL til death for me!
What’s a passage God’s repeated for YOU, fam?😌

@3130beloved

I’ve always hated these, “Bio” or “About me” sections— so awkward.

But… after living 25 years lost in my agnostic world chasing my own fame, glory, comfort and will I was brought to my end. After the death of my mom, ending the most manipulative & emotionally abusive relationship, a lifestyle of drug addiction, 2 abortions, and finding myself empty while standing in the middle of what the world says is “bliss”… I reached the end of myself and the beginning of seeing Jesus’ light beaming down on me.

I met His Holy Spirit for the first time at a Halloween rave called, “Day of the Dead.” To this day, I still think this is one of the darkest places to be on our planet. I raved and popped pills to numb my pain, to avoid my fears and to suppress my sadness. I was in the middle of bobbing my head and raising my arms to the electro house music blasting in my ears when images of skeletons came on the TV monitors and the weak spirit within me has a knee-jerk reaction to put my arms down. “Whoa! I don’t worship that!”, I thought. “Wait, what do I know about worship?” Now looking back, there God was! The beginning of my site for Him.

A year later, I followed my brother (his good looking friend) to church (@realityLA). I don’t remember the sermon but I heard God for the first time when worship began singing, “Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders. Let me walk upon the waters wherever you would call me.”

I LOST my mind.

It was an overwhelming & LAVISHINGGG upon me of, "Hi precious girl. I see you. I know you. I’ve been here. I know your pain. I know your loss. I know you are lost. I know you’re angry, specifically with me because you lost your mom and you think your life is unredeemable but my beloved, I’ve been coming after you because you are mine.” I cried the hardest I’d ever cried in my life because my entire being just knew… This. Is. God. This. Is. The. Master. Of. The. Universe— and He wants me? Broken, selfish, ugly me?

I soon followed this good looking friend of my brothers to a community group. There is where I met the love of God through His people as they accepted me, fed me, welcomed me, and took me in as family despite my lifestyle that rebelled against everything they believed. One year later, I said, “Fine. I’ll follow until you fail just like everything else has.” Well… He hasn’t failed nor broken any promise yet. ;) My choice to accept Jesus as my Lord, savior and new identity has brought me more freedom than I could have ever fathomed. I didn’t know what I was living for or aiming at but God truly lit up every shadow, broke down every wall, shattered every lie and came after me.

Salvation belongs to the Lord.

As the world kicks and screams trying to shout their way to justice, peace and unity on their own terms right now, may the roots of our identity in Christ grow deeper each day together as one body; as one family.

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.

The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.”

https://3130beloved.com
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