I remember the moment when my new life started. My fire for Christ was a piddling little spark, but gratefully the fire has grown and grown. What a good time of year to rekindle that first love of Christ. Be on fire!

Revelation 2:4-5

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

Bible Gateway link: Revelation 2:4-5 (ESV)

Ripped from the headlines! I love it when my daily Bible reading coincides with the news of the day! Jerusalem, Oh Jerusalem.

Joel 3:17

“So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.

Bible Gateway link: Joel 3:17 (ESV)

Wow, there certainly is a lot of this going on. Last days or not, I think I’ll take the advice to be a “lover of God.”

2 Timothy 3:1-4

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

Bible Gateway link:2 Timothy 3:1-4 (ESV)

This, I'm happy to say, is my life now. On that long ago night He was there to rescue me. I chose life over death. I am so grateful.

Psalm 56:12-13
I will fulfill my vows to you, O God, and will offer a sacrifice of thanks for your help.
For you have rescued me from death; you have kept my feet from slipping. So now I can walk in your presence, O God, in your life-giving light.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm56:12-13&version=NLT

I never wanted to get married. The only marriages I'd seen were disintegrating. When I needed to choose yes or no I asked God for help. He answered that I needed to trust one person in my life. That person is my husband now. He saved me, and I saved him.

1 Corinthians 7:16
For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Bible Gateway link: 1 Corinthians 7:16 (ESV)

Need I say more?😊

1 Corinthians 4:20
For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.

Bible Gateway link: 1 Corinthians 4:20 (ESV)

I think you need courage for the small decisions. For example, being kind when you don't want to, or, doing the next right thing instead of jumping into the breach because you 'feel' like it. I learned this by living with the consequences of thinking I could run my own life.

Psalm 27:14
Wait for the Lord;
be strong, and let your heart take courage;
wait for the Lord!

Bible Gateway link: Psalm 27:14 (ESV)