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From my wonderful copy (from Sarah Benke) of Jesus Calling:

November 14th,
Bask in the luxury of being fully understood and unconditionally loved. Dare to see yourself as I see you; radiant in My righteousness, cleansed by My blood. I view you as the one I created you to be, the one you will be in actuality when heaven becomes your home. It is My Life within you that is changing you from glory to glory. Rejoice in this amazing gift of My Spirit in within you!
Try to depend on the help of the Spirit as you go through this day of life. Pause briefly from time to time so you can consult with this Holy One inside you. He will not force you to do His bidding, but He will guide you as you give Him space in your life. Walk along this wondrous way of collaboration with My Spirit.


Psalm 34:5 -- Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.
2 Corinthians 5:21 -- God made him who had no sin to be sin for is, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 3:18 -- And we, with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
Galatians 5:25 -- Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.




I just love me some Jesus Calling!
On another note, I finally got over my stomach bug (that I've had since Tuesday night. It was the most violent stomach bug I've EVER had, never puked so hard in my life!) and went back to a full day of work today. Which wasn't too awful, it was "Thanksgiving Feast" day, so we all dressed like pilgrims and indians and all the teachers brought Thanksgiving food and we had tons and tons of food. I wasn't able to stomach as much as I thought I would, but I got down some turkey and green bean casserole, woot woot! (Love that stuff... the green bean stuff).
Me and the sisters were supposed to go and see Footloose tonight but we changed our minds and went to House Church instead. At first I wasn't really feeling it, but I'm so glad I went. I love the people there. They're not all my closest friends, but when we're all gathered there talking about Jesus and what He's doing in our lives and what we're individually going through, I really feel Him there... and I feel we are a strong body of believers. It kind of gives a new meaning to the term "brother/sister in Christ"; perfect strangers that you're spilling your guts and your life problems to and having them come pray with you = AMAZING.
During our worship time while we were listening to some good Jesus Culture music, I had the sudden urge to pick up my Bible and find every verse I could about freedom. So I started thumbing through my index and I found me a good deal of verses that just about split my face open from smiling so much. You see, I have this problem of feeling free; my chains being 100% gone; being totally forgiven; being out of sin completely. But these verses made me see differently, and you know what? I am free. I always have been. It's just having to get out of my trapped and sinful mindset to be able to see it! So here are some kick butt freedom verses I found:
"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." - 2 Corinthians 3:17
"Therefore, there is now NO condemnation for those who are in Christ jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death." - Romans 8:1-2
"He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free. He gives sight to the blind and lifts up those who are bowed down..." - Psalm 146:7-8
"You have been set free from sin and have becomes slaves to righteousness." - Romans 6:18

I just got superbly happy after I found those verses, and I'm still on a high from it! While I was reading in Romans, I found more and more good stuff, and I stumbled across a verse I had never read before (funny how that happens, huh?) and I liked it a lot and I'm going to share it because I think it's applicable to a good number of situations/circumstances. Here 'tis:

"...But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently."
- Romans 8:24-25

I dug it. Oh yeah.
I'm hittin' the sack now, this girl has been up and running since 7am. Goodnight world :)