Beauty for Ashes

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“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.” Isaiah 61:1-3

{Keep reading this post for the give away!} Why did God send His son Jesus to earth as a newborn baby to grow in wisdom in stature, to walk a hill to Calvary, to die on a rugged cross and rise again three days later? No other passage describes so clearly WHY Jesus came to earth. And the passage is from Isaiah, meaning these were prophesies that were written before Jesus came to earth and then they came to fruition in the life of Jesus! To proclaim good news To bind up the brokenhearted To proclaim freedom for captives To release prisoners from darkness To proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor & the day of vengeance of our God To comfort those who mourn To provide beauty for ashes To give a garment of praise for those who have a spirit of despair

Do You Believe?

Do you really believe that God can turn your ashes into BEAUTY? Take the trials of our lives and make something beautiful out of them? Use our suffering for His glory? Take the broken pieces of our heartache and make them into something beautiful? Sometimes when we look back on the hard things in our lives, we can see how God has redeemed situations or people or relationships. But, in the middle of it? That is a different story. In the middle of our trials, when we can look for the beauty, that is where faith steps in. Faith means we trust that God’s plan is bigger than we can see. Faith means we know God to be loving and kind, no matter how difficult the circumstance. Faith means we look for the eternal among the temporal, and we believe it is there. Faith means resting in Christ and being still before Him. Faith means we quit trying to fix the situation and turn our complaining to gratitude. Faith means counting our blessings instead of our complaints. Faith is what it looks like to believe God can take the scary situation we are in the middle of and use it for His glory and for our good. And even make something beautiful from it. Beauty for Ashes Bible Journaling

{Used on this page: Stamps from Beautiful kit, card from Beautiful kit, clip & ribbon from Beautiful kit, stickers from Hobby Lobby, watercolor paints}

Beautiful Kit from Illustrated Faith & Dayspring

Did you know that Dayspring and Illustrated Faith have a new partnership to bring us awesome Bible journaling products and kits? I may have swooned when I started looking at all their Bible journaling items! Washi tape, stamps, pens, paint…all of it! These new Bible journaling kits from Dayspring & Illustrated Faith are GORGEOUS! I was so blessed to receive the Beautiful kit to review for this post as well as a kit to GIVE AWAY to one of YOU! Included in the Beautiful kit:

1 devotional booklet (14 devotionals)
1 stamp pad
1 clear stamp collection with 1 sheet of cut outs enclosed
1 roll of washi tape
1 package of 3 Scripture sharables
1 sticker
1 bow clip

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