Six Notes Blog
Welcome to our Six Notes Blog. This is a place we’ll dive deeper into scripture. We’ll find guided prayers and spotify playlists. There will be images to inspire and encourage. Bible verses to reflect on, memorize and save. Our goal is to constantly connect right here with way to deepen your faith walk with Jesus.
There are many ways to connect with the Lord, get creative! God doesn’t care HOW you do it; He just desires you.
What it means to Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly
Quick context for Micah 6:8. Micah is picturing an imaginative court room. Israel is on trial before the Lord. God is bringing His case or complaint against His people, Israel. God asks them, “What have I done to you? “ I have done nothing but good for Israel (He shares examples) and I have been repaid with rejection and rebellion. And in this imaginative courtroom the Israelites call out “What do you want from me? We sacrifice like crazy and bring our precious offerings before you!”
What it means to Rise Up as a Christian
Isaiah 59 describes a time of thick and desperate darkness for the Israelites. But, Isaiah 60 is about the future glory for Jerusalem - a future Kingdom. It’s the promise coming. It’s God’s redeeming message and rescue. He is calling the Israelites out of the darkness and to respond to His wondrous light. He not only is the light to the nation but he gives them this same light to reflect his glory.
Isaiah 43:19 explained - I Will Make A Way
Isaiah foreshadows that the Lord will judge Babylon and promises His exiled people new life. The Israelites are in desperate circumstances in Babylon. Life looks bleak and they are stuck in a pit of despair as they look back in life. But God is saying when you remember the past, look at the great work I have done for you, not the discouragement and defeat. For He is a God of miracles and He will make a way just has He has done before for them before. He creates roads in the wilderness. He forms rivers in the desert. He will make a new way.
Book List: Favorite Christian Fiction
Christian Fiction or Biblical Fiction have been such a game changer for me. My free time to read is almost non-existant and I often get burnt out from in-depth Bible studies. Reading one of these books allows me to still keep Christ focused while reading for pleasure.
Genuine faith quote
What is Genuine Faith? This quote is inspired from the book of James. James was the half brother of Jesus and the devoted leader to the Jerusalem church after the disciples scattered. Blue Letter Bible says this about him;
”When he (James) did follow Jesus, he followed with great devotion. An early history of the church says that James was such a man of prayer that his knees had large and thick calluses, making them look like the knees of a camel. It also says that James was martyred in Jerusalem by being pushed from a high point of the temple. Yet the fall did not kill him, and on the ground he was beaten to death, even as he prayed for his attackers.”
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Pray this prayer before you begin. Yearn to study Him, getting to know Him verses what’s in it for us.
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When life is a little dry and mundance, when we need a little inner motivation, when we just need something to pull us out of this rutt… prayer this prayer and rest in His goodness.
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pray one of our favorite bible verses
resources
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Tessa Afshar, Connilyn Cossette, and Francine Rivers.
Some of the deepest moments of my faith journey has been picking up a good read and letting the charcters inspire me. Christian Fiction or better yet Biblical fiction has a way of opening up our mind into what life MAY have been like back then.
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These are two main resources that I love to go to when trying to dive deeper into a passage or theme in the bible.
Blue Letter Bible - Commentator David Guzik
The Bible Project