Be Encouraged!
All praises to my ELOHIM, in the Shamayim ☺️! I was finally able to fit an exploration trip into my life as evidenced in the images above. I’ve been wanting to see Potter’s falls for the longest and I’m always hesitant when I have to go by myself because unlike CA, TN has so many hidden, wooded areas where bodies can be dumped. 🤭 As YAHWEH would have it, I was able to make the trek and it was an incredible, refreshing hike along these mesmerizing falls. This hike was the first time this year I felt free. It was amazing, but it was also a time for introspection and discernment. With that said, for this devotional, I only want to leave you all with a list of verses that prayerfully, uplift, encourage, strengthen and value each and everyone of you because we are valuable to our ELOHIM no matter how people in this world make us feel.
Shalom & Berekah!
Just a few supporting verses:
If the world hates you, understand that it hated me first.
-John 15:18 (CJB)
As you come to him, the living stone, rejected by people but chosen by God and precious to him,
-1 Peter 2:4 (CJB)
Even though my father and mother have left me, Adonai will care for me.
-Psalms 27:10 (CJB)
People despised and avoided him, a man of pains, well acquainted with illness. Like someone from whom people turn their faces, he was despised; we did not value him.
-Isaiah 53:3 (CJB)
He came to his own homeland, yet his own people did not receive him.
-John 1:11 (CJB)
The very rock that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone!
-Psalms 118:22 (CJB)
Can a woman forget her child at the breast, not show pity on the child from her womb? Even if these were to forget, I would not forget you. 16: I have engraved you on the palms of my hands, your walls are always before me.
-Isaiah 49:15-16 (CJB)
[The righteous] cried out, and Adonai heard, and he saved them from all their troubles. 19: Adonai is near those with broken hearts;
he saves those whose spirit is crushed. 20: The righteous person suffers many evils, but Adonai rescues him out of them all.
-Psalms 34:18-20 (CJB)
No, in all these things we are superconquerors, through the one who has loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers, neither what exists nor what is coming, 39neither powers above nor powers below, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God which comes to us through the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.
-Romans 8:37-39 (CJB)