Carpe Zoe

Hello everyone. May all the blessings in Deuteronomy 28 overtake you in Jesus name. You know, sometimes I feel like a hypocrite when I write you, because I don’t perfectly live out what I write. But feelings are only feelings. We don’t go by feelings, right? We are made righteous by the blood of Jesus and our faith in His name. That is the truth that stands, amen?
1 Timothy 6:12 says 12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
Lay hold on eternal life. I don’t have access to my Strong’s concordance, but I remember the greek word for eternal life is ‘zoe’, which really means the God –kind of life, or the characteristics of God Himself. The Holy Spirit brought zoe into our spirits. I heard a teacher speaking on receiving, and he said that the greek word translated ‘lay hold’ here is the same word translated ‘receive’ in Mark 11:24, you know, believe you receive. He read some definitions for that word; to take, to lay hold of, to seize it. I don’t think the bible word is carpe, because carpe is latin, but it means seize also. So the following phrase is probably a kind of spanglish mix of greek and latin (gratin?) but I like it.
Carpe zoe! Seize God’s eternal, lush, victorious life!
I love y’all. Carpe zoe!
healed by His stripes,
Nancy