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March 28, 2017
Yes Lord!
“That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days:…” Deut. 30:20
“Trust me,” the Spirit of God told me one night as I knelt on my knees praying before bed. “You need to obey. You don’t need to understand.”
I had been questioning something He had told me to do. Had it really been God? Would He tell me to do something like that? It didn’t make sense. To me anyway. It wasn’t comfortab...
March 27, 2017
A New Heart for Your Enemy ““You have heard that it was ...
A New Heart for Your Enemy
““You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven…”” Matthew 5:43-45
It’s one thing to pray for someone who’s an enemy because we have to. It’s another thing because we want to. I was shocked and blessed one day to find myself in tears as I prayed for someone who had deeply hurt me. I wasn’t in tears...
Crazy Faith
“Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets…” Luke 6:22-23
Sometimes God calls us to do stuff that looks totally crazy to the world. Love for God obeys God no matter what our obedience looks like to others. Whether we...
March 25, 2017
Which Translation Do You Use?
“These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.” 1 Peter 1:7 NLT
“so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and g...
March 24, 2017
Wake Up
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” Mt. 7:21 ESV
“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.” John 3:36 ESV
“And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.” 1 John 2:17 ESV
“You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith a...
The Cane, the Walker, and a Lesson for All
“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” Proverbs 16:18
“Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,” Jude 1:24
A woman told me one day she had taken a fall. Not just a fall, to be precise. She had been falling. That day she had merely recounted one of her numerous falls. She wasn’t particularly old, mind you. But she had a disability, in medical terms anyway. Spiritua...
March 23, 2017
i was born that way
“Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3 ESV ///
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” Isaiah 5:20 ESV
“I was born that way,” someone told me one day in referring to a particular sin with which he struggled. He was not the first, nor the last, to believe such a thing. Countless others struggle with the same sin – and same justification. As though being “born that way” condones the sin and makes it...
March 22, 2017
Recognizing Your Enemy
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Eph. 6:12 KJV
There’s nothing more obvious and basic when it comes to winning a war than that you need to fight your enemy to win, right? One time many years ago my pastor at the time called two people to the front of the sanctuary and asked them to stand one behind the other, with one person’s arms wra...
March 21, 2017
Honey I Exalted the Kids
“O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.” Psalm 34:3
Got kids? Grand-kids? Dogs? Cats? Boyfriend? Girlfriend? Best friend? Loved one? Someone you just adore? Someone you love to speak passionately about? Because you just can’t help yourself? The person is just that fantastic, that wonderful, that awesome, at least in your heart and eyes anyway? So you find yourself constantly gushing at the mouth about your kids, grand-kids, dogs, cats, boyfriend, whomever? Remember...
Marching Band Man’s Miracle
“I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.” Psalm 22:22
Who doesn’t in this crazy, ever-worsening world filled with ever-crazier, ever-worsening news love to hear a true story of a marvelous miracle courtesy of the Lord and His amazing magnificence, splendor, love, grace, and mercy, right? I wonder how often, however, we get so lost in the wonder of the miracle and God’s awesome supernatural power and how He bestows it upon His creation tha...
