1 Peter 1:2
Joy’s Notes:
. “God the Father knew you and chose you long ago, (look up Isaiah live letters!)
👉CHOSEN
2. and his Spirit has made you holy.
👉HOLY
3. As a result, you have obeyed him
👉OBEDIENT
4. and have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ
👉STAIN-less
5. May God give you more and more grace and peace.”
👉ENVELOPED
👉NEW
= C.H.O.S.E.N
You are Gods chosen instrument!!! YOU🤍
An instrument in the hands of a professional heels listening ears
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Right order leads to walking in FREEDOM!
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1. “God the Father knew you and chose you long ago” • Jer 1:5 “I KNEW you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.(my CHOSEN instrument)
—> “but Lord, I don’t know how to speak. I am too young!”
—> “but the lord said to me “ do not say, I am too young. You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and I will rescue you declares the Lord.
—> then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth.”
—> but I’m too _____
—> allow the Lord to FILL IN YOUR GAPS (he put his words in Jeremiah’s mouth!)
“Isaiah 51:16 “ I have put my words in your mouth and hidden you safely in my hand.”
You are NOT an interruption but a divine appointment & invitation
👉Isaiah 46:3-4 (see letter to myself)
SUSTAIN = “to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of something. to provide what is needed for (something or someone) to exist.”’
♥️God doesn’t just
DELIVER me, but DELIGHTS in me
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(Psalm 18:19-
“He led me to a place of safety; he rescued me because he delights in me.”)
Jamie k- museum art work. “Only the Artist can tell you the purpose of his painting.”
(God is the artist of my life!)
Here FOR a purpose
ON purpose
WITH a purpose (Laurie)
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2. “and his Spirit has made you holy.” (not my accomplishments, good deeds, qualifications, gifts, talents, etc) • HOLY= “set apart for a high purpose.”
• Mind of Christ (His Spirit)
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3. “As a result, you have obeyed him” 3types of obedience: Partial Delayed Instant
“Partial obedience is disobedience” -Charles Stanley
• Obedience is not a behavior but a posture.
• The Spirit draws my heart to obedience
Isaiah 50:4
“ morning by morning He wakens me and opens my understanding to his will!”
• Rom 5:5– the Holy Spirit “POURS” Gods love into our hearts FIRST— before we love Him.
• Obedience becomes a natural by product of receiving Gods Holy Spirit (which is the one who reveals Gods love!)
• And Gods love draws us to a heart of obedience!
Obedience without a surrendered heart isn’t Godly obedience;
it’s just religion in disguise
Some of the most valuable lessons of obedience are learned in the furnace of affliction.
“Jesus LEARNED obedience by the things He suffered.”
Having the COURAGE to Suffer (to pick up my cross) enable me to KNOW His comfort, kindness, nearness, withness, faithfulness, etc….
👇 enabling me to WANT TO Obey Him!!
"True circumcision is not merely OBEYING the law (the first step) rather, it's a change of heart produced by the Spirit!"Romans 2:29
"If we are to share His glory, we must also share in his SUFFERING." Romans 8:17
Isaiah 50:7
“… I have set my face like a stone, determined to do his will.”
👉 (His will is for you to know Him intimately & for Him to make you a person of character!)
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4. “and have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ.”(Walking in the FULL FORGIVENESS of His UNDESERVED blood!)
• Disobedience is forgetting I’ve been “cleansed by His blood.”
• Obedience is REMEMBERING I’ve been “cleansed by His blood.”
Is 53:5
He was PIERCED for my rebellion.
He was CRUSHED for my sins.
He was BEATEN so i could be made whole.
He was WHIPPED so I could be healed.”
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5. “May God give you more & more GRACE & PEACE.” • Natural byproduct= multiplied GRACE & PEACE
• To receive grace, requires humility.
“God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• this verse appears 3x in Scripture (Proverbs James & Peter.)
Pride does not want you to RECEIVE the grace of God.
The grace of God takes humility to Receive something we don’t deserve!
•”humble yourself (grace can now be given)under the mighty hand of God... and HE will exalt you, casting all your anxiety on Him, for He Cares for you!”
1 Peter 5:6
Humility=
grace=
anxieties given to God
Grace can only be activated through the doorway of humility
Anita’s Notes:
You are ENOUGH
PETER 1:2
“according to the forknowledge of God the father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.”
Be encouraged:
You are scattered.
You are outcasts
You will suffer
✔️ You are God’s ‘elect’!
✔️ You’ve been chosen by the Father. ✔️ You’re set apart by the Holy Spirit in order that you might live your lives in obedience to Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 3:12-21
“in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him. Therefore I ask you not to become discouraged about my tribulations in your behalf, since they are your glory. For this reason I bend my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner self, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever.”
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We find inspiration and encouragement related to those we have seen emerging through darkness.
His words powerful or not enough
His promises sharing truth we’re not enough
His actions though sharing miracles were not enough.
It had to be the CROSS. It had to be sacrifice.
You are beautiful, capable, and worthy.
You are made new in Christ. You were not given a spirit of fear, but of love, power, and a sound mind.
You are more than a conqueror in Christ who gives you strength.
You were created on purpose for a purpose.
You are loved.
You are chosen.
You are enough.