A lot of people have this idea that they can earn God’s love and rewards based on their own good works, on their own performance, that if they do “such and such” for God that he will in return give them what they want. So, they “do” for God hoping to receive rewards from God, … Continue reading That He Might be Preeminent
Year: 2021
Family Against Family
Matthew 10:16-22 “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear … Continue reading Family Against Family
You Say You Love God
An Original Work / November 2, 2021 You say you love God, but do you truly? For, your life is being lived unruly. You say that darkness it did dissipate But by your words you the truth now negate. You say a lot of things that are untrue. Believing what you say is hard to … Continue reading You Say You Love God
In Your Head or In Your Heart?
Psalms 119:1-8 ESV “Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways … Continue reading In Your Head or In Your Heart?
Shake Them All Off
1 Peter 2:1-3 ESV “So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.” The Scriptures are filled with such warnings regarding … Continue reading Shake Them All Off
They Secretly Bring in Destructive Heresies
2 Peter 2:1-3 ESV “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will … Continue reading They Secretly Bring in Destructive Heresies
Exhort One Another Daily
Hebrews 3:7-11 ESV Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and … Continue reading Exhort One Another Daily
In the Power of God
Ephesians 1:15-23 ESV “For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit … Continue reading In the Power of God
According to the Purpose of His Will
Ephesians 1:11-14 ESV “In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you … Continue reading According to the Purpose of His Will
Becoming Like Him in His Death
Philippians 3:8-11 ESV “Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own … Continue reading Becoming Like Him in His Death
Run With It 