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Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – I get life upside down in my priorities so easily and so quickly and then I wonder why life yields me what I strive for. The true goal of life is relationships of love, so sow here and reap accordingly.

1 Peter 3:8-9 TPT
[8] Now, this is the goal: to live in harmony with one another and demonstrate affectionate love, sympathy, and kindness toward other believers. Let humility describe who you are as you dearly love one another. [9] Never retaliate when someone treats you wrongly, nor insult those who insult you, but instead, respond by speaking a blessing over them because a blessing is what God promised to give you.

Here is the revelation that is having my life today – we play games with God to impress others and we miss the beauty of his knowing us.

Luke 16:15 TPT
[15] So Jesus addressed them directly. “You always want to look spiritual in the eyes of others, but you have forgotten the eyes of God, which see what is inside you. The very things that you approve of and applaud are the things God despises.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – I create a me that is not my true self. I then see me in Him, the divine me, the me I always have been but lost in the journey. It’s in my encounter with Him that I discover myself and then become me. I live my revelation.

James 1:23-24 TPT
[23] If you listen to the Word and don’t live out the message you hear, you become like the person who looks in the mirror of the Word to discover the reflection of his face in the beginning. [24] You perceive how God sees you in the mirror of the Word, but then you go out and forget your divine origin.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – the way to live intimately loved by God is completely, forever open to all.

Hebrews 7:19,25,27 TPT
[19] For the law has never made anyone perfect, but in its place is a far better hope which gives us confidence to experience intimacy with God! [25] So he is able to save fully from now throughout eternity, everyone who comes to God through him, because he lives to pray continually for them. [27] ….he finished the sacrificial system, once and for all when he offered himself.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today- the desire, or even sense of entitlement, that I should live without facing ‘life’s ordeals’, has me miss God and his intended beauty.

Hebrews 2:14,18 TPT
[14] Since all his “children” have flesh and blood, so Jesus became human to fully identify with us.….. [18] He suffered and endured every test and temptation, so that he can help us every time we pass through the ordeals of life.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – there is only one version, vision, of God that is true and trustworthy, and it’s the Christlike God.

Hebrews 1:3 NIV
[3] The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being.

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – God holds nothing back from me, and I create the reasons for rejection.

Luke 5:4-6,8,10 NIV
[4] When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” [5] Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” [6] When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. [8] When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” [10] and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – where you find your answers shapes your life.

Luke 3:21-22 NIV
[21] When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened [22] and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you, I am well pleased.”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – I was not made to do life alone, I don’t have what it takes.

2 Timothy 2:1 TPT
[1] Timothy, my dear son, live your life empowered by God’s free-flowing grace, which is your true strength, found in the anointing of Jesus and your union with him!

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today- Jesus uses a double negative, “you will never ever enter the Kingdom,” to get our attention. This is important, you enter into God’s love, her Kingdom, by being open to love like a child. No other way.
Mark 10:15 TPT
[15] Listen to the truth I speak: Whoever does not open their arms to receive God’s kingdom like a teachable child will never enter it.”

Here is the revelation shaping my life today – God’s desire is that I would know him intimately and be shaped by his truth.
1 Timothy 2:4 TPT
“He longs for everyone to embrace his life and return to the full knowledge of the truth.”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – sin defiles, so sin disqualifies, what total ridiculous trash.
Mark 2:16 TPT
[16] But when the religious scholars and the Pharisees found out that Jesus was keeping company and dining with sinners and tax collectors, they were indignant. So they approached Jesus’ disciples and said to them, “Why is it that someone like Jesus defiles himself by eating with sinners and tax collectors?”

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – I’m invited to the life God intends and I am shaped for the life God intends from being at the party.
Matthew 22:8-9 TPT
[8] “Then the king said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, yet those who had been invited to attend didn’t deserve the honor. [9] Now I want you to go into the streets and alleyways and invite anyone and everyone you find to come and enjoy the wedding feast in honor of my son.’

Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – I am deliberately building my life in and on Jesus, my personal experiences and encounters with him.
Colossians 2:6-9 NLT
[6] And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. [7] Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. [8] Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ. [9] For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body.