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If We Claim To Be Without Sin; We’re Making Him Out To Be A Liar

23 Aug

1 John 1:8-10 – 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.

There might be some pretty nice people out there, but I haven’t met anyone without sin.  As a society who has drifted away from God, many people don’t even know what God considers sin anyway.  They know what they consider sin and that is what counts.

Jesus came to die for our sins.  God in the form of the Son, dying on the cross, is the only purification from death from our sins.  He knows we are sinners.  It’s a free gift.

So why doesn’t everyone want a free gift that will bring them back to the Lord?

Because since the beginning there has been an enemy roaming out there with his demon followers convincing others that they can be like God and be the God of their own lives.  It started with Eve and hasn’t stopped.  Rebellion is a spirit.  We have a free will and God doesn’t want it any other way.  What one does with their free will is which side they choose to be on.  It determines what they will do in the spiritual war that we are all a part of.  We’re the playing field.  God wants us to come home, Satan wants us to rebel.

The problem is most people have no idea how high the stakes are.  Choose God and start reading His love letter for all our lives who want Truth.

 
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Faith Is So Important In Trusting God

21 Aug

Galatians 3:5 – 5 Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you observe the law, or because you believe what you heard?

Our strength in the Lord isn’t because of our goodness or strength.  It comes from knowing the Lord.  It’s about trusting in Him and knowing the best result will come about.  It might not always be what we think it should be, but He knows our needs.

Pray to the Lord with each other and know that He is God.  Pray that His will be done.  Have faith and know it will happen the way it is suppose to happen.  We make mistakes, God doesn’t make mistakes.

 
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Verses That Remind Us How We Should Live

20 Aug

2 Corinthians 5:14-17-14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

We get out of sync or away from God’s will when we don’t heed to these verses.  Crime happens when someone is being selfish.  What happens when someone steals food because their hungry?  Then it’s a crime someone hadn’t fed them before hand.

If we all live to serve then everyone’s needs get met.  When we live to serve ourselves and a few others, many needs get stepped on.

We need to always strive and do the best we can to seek God as none of this comes naturally without the Spirit of the Lord guiding us.

 
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Boast Not Of Yourself

17 Aug

Today’s post is inspired by the daily scripture on Bible Gateway.

2 Corinthians 10:17-18 – 17 But, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.” 18 For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

For a bunch of individuals who believe it’s only about us and our preferences, they’re wrong.  We are given a free will, but that is to freely choose to love the Lord and live for Him.  God is the center of the universe not ourselves.  The devil wants you to believe it’s all about you.  He wants you to believe you can be your own master.  Not because he cares about you, but because he knows it’s contrary and against what God wants for His creation.  He rebelled and misery loves company.  Not to mention that since he has a plan and wants to be like the Most High, there will be a day people on earth will be forced to worship him or die.

As it turns out I didn’t speak much on boasting, but more on why people boast on their own behalf.

We’re fallen.  God loves us.  Satan hates you.  Read God’s Word and do the best to follow our Lord.

 
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There Isn’t A Strong Family Without A Strong Woman

16 Aug

Proverbs 14:1 – The wise woman builds her house,
but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.

Point blank.  I don’t know of one strong, well maintained, Godly living family out there that doesn’t have a strong God fearing, God loving woman as the heart of it.

So what does that tell you?  Women stay strong.  Oh I’m not talking about role reversal, woman’s lib, or the poison that is destroying this country.  I’m talking about knowing the Word, calling your husband’s or the loving males out, if they are not following God’s Word.

We were made to have roles on this earth.  The devil has had a hay day destroying the families of America.  That spirit has been belittling the important jobs of a Woman being the utmost important glue to the household.

What happens when a nation stops following the Word of God?  It becomes lost, disoriented, and is doomed to go from being strong into being in shambles.

For the women of God please stay God fearing and strong.  To the men out there, encourage them to do so.  If you looking for a special woman to spend the rest of your life with, remember she will either get you closer to the Lord, or literally sink your ship.  Unfortunately when children are involved they become part of the spiritual casualties.  We are responsible for all of our actions so live for the Lord and live wisely.

Women don’t settle for an ungodly man if you’re not married yet.  Pray for the right person and trust in the Lord.

 
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The Lord Hears The Prayer Of The Righteous

14 Aug

Proverbs 15:29- 29 The Lord is far from the wicked
    but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

God doesn’t make enemies.  People choose to become enemies of God. 

He sits with His hands wide open and the free gift of grace is available.  To Everyone!  Who will accept it?  Since Jesus came and died on the cross, all that accept Him as Lord, now have righteousness.  It’s nothing of our own, but only because of Him.

The Lord hears the prayers of the righteous.

Not only does he hear them, He loves it when we come to Him with a humble loving spirit.  He hears the prayers and if it benefits the Kingdom and His will it seems to happen and then some.  He loves us, we need to love Him back constantly.

 
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Leaning Not On Our Own Understanding

13 Aug

Inspired by a new friend I met recently.

Proverbs 3:5 – 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
    and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make your paths straight.

God without a doubt knows a thousand times what’s better for us than we do.   I know because my life never seemed to be going in the right direction until I trusted Him.  That doesn’t mean as fallen creatures we listen all the time, but the more we do and trust it works out the way it was supposed to.

Jeremiah 29:11 – 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

What is prospering in the eyes of the Lord?  It’s much different than the prosperity message we get from man.  It’s about prospering more for Him and the Kingdom.

God will never let us down.  Without even trying we always get ourselves in trouble.

 
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The Lord Most High Is Awesome

10 Aug

Psalm 47:2 – 2 For the Lord Most High is awesome;
He is a great King over all the earth.

Creator, King, Lord of All!  He has given us a choice.

Self or Him!  Who will you serve?

We read in the Word of God that those who choose to serve Him get rewarded by the Maker of All.  He knows our wants and our joys. 

Satan isn’t just a loser or misery loves company kind of guy.  He hates, murders, steals, kills and destroys.  If he had it his way you would bow to him and he isn’t going to reward you for eternity.  He can’t.  He also can’t love.  When he left God he disconnected himself from that.

The world teaches us to serve ourselves, however, only if it works out for the greater good of all.  Selfishness in an unselfish way.  Make sense?  It can’t, and that’s why things are haywire.  Those who want you to be selfish in an unselfish way want you to do so, because they want to be able to be selfish.  Look at congress or leadership in all countries.  Do they live on the same level or by the same rules that they impose on others?  No.  They never have.

Matthew 23:1-4 – 1Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. 4 They tie up heavy loads and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

Without out our AWESOME GOD, it’s all doomed failure.  We need to fight that sinful nature on a regular basis and do our best to serve our KING!

 
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We All Like To See Justice

09 Aug

It’s in every one of us.  Even in those who do wrong want to see justice when something has been done to them.

Our God is love, but he is also just.

2 Thessalonians 1:5-10 – 5 All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. 6 God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.

Romans 12:19 – 19 Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord.

We need to remember that God is in charge and that he will ultimately handle the situation.  Just know that the perfect loving ruler of the universe will be just and do so.

We live in such a wishy-washy world today in which this country seems to give more rights to those break the law that it is confusing.  That’s part of the fall.  There are so many leniencies that people after awhile don’t believe there are repercussions for rebellion. 

We read ultimately there will be.  Let’s continue to spread the Good News of grace while people still have a chance.

 
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The Spirit Of Love

07 Aug

Galatians 5:22-26-  22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.  26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

It’s a fast paced world and it’s easy to get caught up into the hustle and bustle.  It’s easy to lose patience, kindness, gentleness, and our peace.

What takes us out of this Spirit?  Things that are not associated with God.  Self seeking usually takes us out of our game.  We need to remember to stay in the Spirit.

 
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