{"id":7427,"date":"2013-01-24T22:29:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T22:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2013-01-24T22:46:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T22:46:31","slug":"lets-get-cookin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7427","title":{"rendered":"Let’s get cookin’…………"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ephesians 1:1-14<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Greetings from Paul<\/span><\/h3>\n

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1\u00a0This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am writing to God\u2019s holy people in Ephesus,who are faithful followers of Christ Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n

2\u00a0<\/sup>May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Spiritual Blessings<\/span><\/h3>\n

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3\u00a0<\/sup>All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. 4\u00a0<\/sup>Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. 5\u00a0<\/sup>God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. 6\u00a0<\/sup>So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son. 7\u00a0<\/sup>He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. 8\u00a0<\/sup>He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n

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9\u00a0<\/sup>God has now revealed to us his mysterious plan regarding Christ, a plan to fulfill his own good pleasure. 10\u00a0<\/sup>And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ\u2014everything in heaven and on earth. 11\u00a0<\/sup>Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan.<\/span><\/p>\n

12\u00a0<\/sup>God\u2019s purpose was that we Jews who were the first to trust in Christ would bring praise and glory to God. 13\u00a0<\/sup>And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. 14\u00a0<\/sup>The Spirit is God\u2019s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Lord will have His way, whether we believe in His sovereignty or not. \u00a0His plan is far bigger than we can grasp, and it was designed in a way that will glorify Him while revealing our need for Him.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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That fateful line was from the In Touch devotional of a couple of days ago, and it is very revealing! \u00a0God has a plan, He has always had a plan, and His plan has not changed. \u00a0Part of the Master plan is an individual plan for you! \u00a0While God has not spelled out all His plans, He has made it clear in His word several things we can count on;<\/p>\n

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1. He wants us to trust in Him, and and accept His forgiveness!<\/p>\n

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2. \u00a0He is trustworthy, and worthy of our trust and praise!<\/p>\n

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3. \u00a0He proved His love for us when He sent His only Son to die for us! \u00a0Our forgiveness rests in that act!<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0Even though we, often, cannot see it, all things do work for our good if we love and accept Him.<\/p>\n

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5. \u00a0He promised He would never leave us or forsake us, and He won’t!<\/p>\n

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God will reveal His will for you if you seek Him.<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ephesians 1:1-14 New Living Translation (NLT)   Greetings from Paul   1\u00a0This letter is from Paul, chosen by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus. I am writing to God\u2019s holy people in Ephesus,who are faithful followers of Christ Jesus. 2\u00a0May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7427"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7432,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions\/7432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}