A City Defiled

May 16, 2018 Sue Love Christian Devotional Bible, Christianity, Encouragement, Faith, God's grace, God's love, gospel, Salvation, Songs

Zephaniah 3:1-5 NIV Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled! She obeys no one, she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the Lord, she does not draw near to her God. Her officials within her are roaring lions; her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning. Her prophets … Continue reading A City Defiled

My Prayer

March 8, 2018 Sue Love Original Works Songs Christianity, Encouragement, Faith, God's grace, Love, original songs, poetry, Prayer

When we accept God’s invitation to his great salvation by his grace, through faith in Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for our sins, he indwells us with his Holy Spirit. We now have the Spirit of God within us leading, guiding, counseling, helping and directing us in the ways of the Lord and … Continue reading My Prayer

By Way of the Flesh

February 5, 2018 Sue Love Christian Devotional Christianity, deception, Encouragement, Faith, false believers, false gospel, false shepherds, fear of God, freedom, God's counsel, God's grace, God's Word, gospel, hardship, Jesus Christ, lies, Music, slavery, Songs, tribulation

We read in John 10 about false shepherds of the people who have entered the church, but not through Jesus Christ. They have snuck into the church stealthily and secretively by another way other than the true way, i.e. they have not entered by way of the cross of Christ, but by way of the … Continue reading By Way of the Flesh

How Sweet the Sound

February 5, 2018 Sue Love Original Works Songs adoration, Christianity, Encouragement, Faith, forgiveness, freedom, God's grace, honor, humility, Jesus Christ, Love, original songs, poetry, Praise, sacrifice, Salvation, singing, thanksgiving

There is nothing so wonderful as the sound of voices singing together in adoration of God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There is also no better subject to sing about, in my opinion, than about God's grace to us in saving us from our sins via Jesus' shed blood on the cross, when he … Continue reading How Sweet the Sound

He Gives Purpose

January 27, 2018 Sue Love Original Works Songs Christianity, direction, Encouragement, Faith, forgiveness, God's grace, God's will, gospel, Jesus Christ, Jesus follower, obedience, original songs, purpose, repentance, Salvation, witness, worship

There are many people in this world, especially here in America, who claim to be Christians, or who profess to have personal relationships with Jesus Christ by faith in him, and in what he did for us in dying on a cross for our sins so that we could be forgiven our sins and have … Continue reading He Gives Purpose

We Once Walked

January 21, 2018 Sue Love Christian Devotional Christianity, crucified life, disobedience, Encouragement, Faith, fleshly passions, former life, God's grace, gospel, obedience, repentance, Salvation, sin, sinful practices, Songs, Spirit-filled

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out … Continue reading We Once Walked

According to His Purpose

January 21, 2018 Sue Love Christian Devotional adoption, blessings, chosen, Christianity, crucified life, Encouragement, eternal life, Faith, faithful, forgiveness, God's grace, God's will, godliness, gospel, heaven, holiness, honesty, hymns, integrity, Jesus Christ, Old story, purity, purpose, saints, Salvation, Songs

The Lord Jesus led me to read Ephesians 1 (Select vv. ESV). Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Vv. 1-2 Notice with me … Continue reading According to His Purpose

Gift of God

January 19, 2018January 19, 2018 Sue Love Original Works Songs Christianity, Encouragement, Faith, gift, God's grace, gospel, Jesus Christ, original songs, poetry, Salvation

The Bible teaches us that “God so loved the world that he gave his one and only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (Jn. 3:16). Jesus Christ is God’s gift to us. He is the Gift of God. All else flows from Him. God the Father sent … Continue reading Gift of God

You Bet I Am!

January 17, 2018 Sue Love Christian Devotional, My Walk of Faith addiction, Christianity, deliverance, Encouragement, failure, Faith, forgiveness, freedom, God's grace, gospel, hope, proactive, put off, put on, Salvation, sinful practices, struggling, the plan

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 ESV Over the course of the forty-five years of my marriage to my husband, he was not free in Christ, although he claimed to be. He claimed to be a follower of Christ, … Continue reading You Bet I Am!

For the One I Love

January 9, 2018 Sue Love Original Works Songs burdens, Christianity, Faith, forgiveness, God's grace, heartaches, Love, original songs, poetry, Prayer, Salvation

I was inspired by the passage I read for my quiet time from Isaiah 5, which begins by Isaiah saying, "I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard..." I sensed the Lord had a song for me based off of that song, only about Jesus Christ and what he did … Continue reading For the One I Love

Run With It

So that a herald may run with it

God’s grace