Kristi Woods

Encouraging Women to Walk Deeper with God

Is Your Citizenship in This Safe Place?

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Your Citizenship

Do you live, think, eat, and breath like your citizenship sits in this place?

As I prepared the verse graphic below (which, by the way, is free to print for personal or ministry use–just right mouse click) I stopped to consider the question.

What if we lived, TRULY LIVED, as though our citizenship sat solidly in heaven? Would that change how we interact with others? The words we offer? How we pray? What we believe about others and ourself? The possibilities we imagine?

Sometimes I house a small view. I limit God–what He can do in and through me. And goodness, what He has already completed and promised.

I want a bigger view–to believe more. Maybe that’s why God gave me the word “believe” this year–even though I’m not a “one-word” kind of girl!

What if we BELIEVE and operate daily with assurance our citizenship sits in heaven?

Can you imagine? Oooooweeeeeee!

blue sky background with a winter tree and Phil. 3:20 in black lettering

If you’re born again, that’s where your citizenship sits. In heaven. Period.

If you’re not certain you’re born again, check out this post or scroll to the bottom of this page. Heaven’s citizenship remains yours for the taking!

More on Memory Verses:

Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday look for a post here on KristiWoods.net containing a new memory verse. This year those verses focus on our true identity.

Yowza!

Can you imagine the power of God displayed in us when we truly know who we are in Christ?

Our past 2019 memory verses assure we are:

Soak in ’em, friend. This is you.

Your Thoughts?

A huge THANK YOU to those who already responded to the upcoming “Believe” bible study survey. You rock! Thanks for helping me form a study to and for people just like you. Sweet!

If you haven’t already responded the 3 short questions and would like to, click this link (opens in a new tab) click this link.

Have You Visited the Subscriber Library Lately?

A slew of downloads and helpful ministry tools await. In fact, the current featured download is a helpful printable called, I Am Enough: Truth and Declarations to Squelch the Voice of “Not Enough. The password is found in your subscriber’s welcome email as well as in each monthly newsletter. Look for those newsletters on the 1st Friday of most months. 🙂

Do You Pray for Future Generations?

God stirred me recently to pray for my future grandchildren and several generations beyond them. None of them have been born yet, but God is thinking of them. If you’re interested in reading more about this and praying for your future family members, check out this piece I wrote for iBelieve.com.

Linking with other Jesus lovers and writers here: #heartencouragementThursday, #faithonfire

Tuck This One In Your Heart

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Go ahead–tuck this verse in your heart. Keep it near, assuring every ounce of “you” of God’s interweaving.

Sometimes, as a strong-willed gal, I make plans to go here and there and look to the future. But sometimes I get so busy that I forget God.

I run ahead, failing to remember where I came from.

Tuck This One In Your Heart

My boys weight-lift. They’re big on maxing out. (Lifting as much as they safely can–taking it to the max.) Consider this memory verse ours for maxing out. So go ahead. Tuck this one in your heart.

Our Creator is our everything–our all in all. We are His–the work of His hand. You and I stand as evidence of His creativity. We’re not junk. We’re wonderfully and fearfully made.

This week, as we set this verse to memory, remember where you came from. Remember God.

Recall that you are the beautiful handiwork of the Alpha and the Omega. Seek Him for guidance. Refuse to run ahead. Be diligent to remember.

And have a beautiful week.

How Are You Made? {New Memory Verse!}

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How Are You Made?

 

How are you made? Who are you?

Trials may usher us straight to this question. Uncertainities and the comments of others may too. However, our 2019 memory verses are rushing to the rescue.

Gems like today’s verse are helping us proclaim our true identity. (Can I get an “Amen”?!)

Scripture–the very God-inspired words of the Almighty as penned through man–assures we are:

  • God’s Children (believers)
    We are His
    A part of
    A member of the family
    Included
  • So Loved
    Even when feelings drag us toward a different assurance
    In the face of failure
    When others walk out or away
    At our very, very, lookin’-bleak, darkest, lowest point in life

 

This week, in 2019’s 3rd memory verse, we receive affirmation that yes…

We are made in God’s likeness and image.

 

Ocean backdrop with the words of Gen. 1:27

 

Knit together by the Creator of the universe–fashioned in His likeness and image.

Wow!

Generation after generation, the devil attempts to undermine the Rock-solid, truth-invested reality of who we are in hopes we’ll teeter and stumble or simply fall. Anything to deny the True and Living God. Whatever it takes to steal glory from Above.

But we serve the Almighty, the Creator of all. His power causes praise. He solidifies our creation in His likeness. His image. He assures we are loved immensely–enough that a man should die for us, and that, as believers, we are family.

So there you have it–an answer to “How are you made?”

Truth for your today. Tomorrow too.

Join Us! A Few Memorization Helps:

Go here to find additional ideas for memorizing Bible verses.

Personally, I like to write them out each most days. (Just being honest!) My planner–a fancy new writer’s version and a new investment this year from My Brillant Writing Planner, affords space to write a verse each day. Also, in our Subscriber Library here on the blog, I’ve created a helpful download–a daily task list–that offers an area to write the current and a previous memory verse. This task list not only focuses on the tasks but also on spiritual health and masquerades as a tool to help build your faith as well.

Let’s meet again here next Tuesday for more to spur our faith and then again in 2 weeks for the next memory verse.

 

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