Daily Affirmations - Day 2 - Heavenly Gardener - A Planting of the Lord

Day 2: A planting of the Lord

Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me

They will be... a planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor (Isaiah 61:3).

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in Him, rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ (Colossians 2:6-8).

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:16-19).

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O Lord, may nothing dwell in my soul

But Your pure love alone.

Till my every thought, word, and act be love.

Yes Lord, may Your love posses me whole;

You’re my joy, my treasure, my crown!

~ John Wesley

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All but Christ, the wondrous secret,

He, the Blessor, fills my soul;

Like a watered garden keeps it

In His precious, sweet control.

Refrain:

All but Christ I’ve freely given,

He is all my heart could crave;

For in Him are stores of wisdom,

He alone has pow’r to save.

All but Christ, my soul adorning,

His own life o’erspreading mine,

Like a lustrous summer morning,

When the sun o’er all doth shine.

All but Christ I’ve freely given,

I’m in Him to hide away;

He’s in me for exaltation,

While in this vain world I stay.

All but Christ, the pearl of treasures,

All I leave that I may see Him,

the source of life and pleasures,

Living, reigning here in me.

All but Christ, my heart is singing,

Singing forth my happy lay;

I rejoice while wholly living

In His presence every day.

~ Barney E. Warren ~ pub. 1900

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