Life is very fleeting! It is but a blink of the eye to the Lord!
Ps.90:10 The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.
Life is a gift! How are we using God's gift? We were chosen by God to receive this gift, it is not a coincidence that we are here! It is by God's power and His divine will! He will lift us up or bring us low! God's gift of eternal life is forever!
Romans 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Divine mercy!
Romans 11:32 For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.
From Him, through Him, and to Him!
Romans 11:36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
First sin consequence!
Gen.3:17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Job 14:1 "Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
Hold fast to the Lord!John 16:33 "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
We are in Christ!
Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Romans 8:37-39 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Lord, thank You for Your precious Word! Amen
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
The Man of Your Right Hand
Ps.80:17-19 But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself! Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name! Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!
The Son of Man is Christ! He came for God's purpose! To bring salvation to all who would believe on Him, through faith, that He was/is able to cleanse all unrighteousness! That, through Him, we could be reconciled to a holy God. That, we being unworthy, would be made worthy, in Christ alone!
Ps.83:18 that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.
God's Word is good!
Ps.86:4 Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
God's Word holds the key to eternal life for all!
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Romans 10:9-10 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Romans 10:13 For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Father, for Your glory and by Your power, save the lost! Amen
The Son of Man is Christ! He came for God's purpose! To bring salvation to all who would believe on Him, through faith, that He was/is able to cleanse all unrighteousness! That, through Him, we could be reconciled to a holy God. That, we being unworthy, would be made worthy, in Christ alone!
Ps.83:18 that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.
God's Word is good!
Ps.86:4 Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
God's Word holds the key to eternal life for all!
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Romans 10:9-10 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Romans 10:13 For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Father, for Your glory and by Your power, save the lost! Amen
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Are You Registered?
Ps.87:6 The LORD records as he registers the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary states"The church of Christ is more glorious and excellent than the nations of the earth. In the records of heaven, the meanest of those who are born again stand registered." Did you catch that? You can be down right mean, repent and be forgiven. Awesome, we all stand forgiven at the foot of the Cross!! Heaven keeps records, Christ is the only way God has made for salvation.
Acts 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
God has mercy and compassion on whom He will choose!
Romans 9:15-18 For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
Are you seeking God? His Word says in 1 Chr.28:9 "And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever."
Lord God, let us be found worthy through the blood of Christ! Amen
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary states"The church of Christ is more glorious and excellent than the nations of the earth. In the records of heaven, the meanest of those who are born again stand registered." Did you catch that? You can be down right mean, repent and be forgiven. Awesome, we all stand forgiven at the foot of the Cross!! Heaven keeps records, Christ is the only way God has made for salvation.
Acts 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
God has mercy and compassion on whom He will choose!
Romans 9:15-18 For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
Are you seeking God? His Word says in 1 Chr.28:9 "And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever."
Lord God, let us be found worthy through the blood of Christ! Amen
Sunday, August 7, 2011
This Body of Death
Romans 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Do you ever think about the bodies connection between death and life? At birth, we occupy the body which the Lord has given us for our brief time here. At death, we(the soul) departs the body the Lord has given us and go into eternity. I am speaking of the eternal soul which was designed by God for everlasting life! In the original Greek, the word is yuxhn which translated means psyche, which means breath of life (the vital force which animates the body and shows itself in breathing) or an essence which differs from the body and is not dissolved by death. This is amazing to me, that the Creator of the universe meant for us to be with Him for eternity.
Matt.10:28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
There is a war going on between our spiritual mind and our body of flesh.
Romans 7:14-25 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Satan is defeated and Christ is King!!
John 12:31-33 Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die.
John 14:30-31 30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, 31 but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.Stand firm in your faith! John 16:11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judgedCol.2:8-15 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him. Jesus is the victor!!Matt.28:18 And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Rev.1:17-18 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. Father, You do have the breath of life! People will try and deny You but they will be without proof or excuse. Amen
Do you ever think about the bodies connection between death and life? At birth, we occupy the body which the Lord has given us for our brief time here. At death, we(the soul) departs the body the Lord has given us and go into eternity. I am speaking of the eternal soul which was designed by God for everlasting life! In the original Greek, the word is yuxhn which translated means psyche, which means breath of life (the vital force which animates the body and shows itself in breathing) or an essence which differs from the body and is not dissolved by death. This is amazing to me, that the Creator of the universe meant for us to be with Him for eternity.
Matt.10:28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
There is a war going on between our spiritual mind and our body of flesh.
Romans 7:14-25 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Satan is defeated and Christ is King!!
John 12:31-33 Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die.
John 14:30-31 30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, 31 but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.Stand firm in your faith! John 16:11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judgedCol.2:8-15 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him. Jesus is the victor!!Matt.28:18 And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Rev.1:17-18 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. Father, You do have the breath of life! People will try and deny You but they will be without proof or excuse. Amen
Friday, August 5, 2011
Rest for Weary Souls
Rest for weary souls, through prayer and abounding in God's Word!
Jer.31:25 For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish."
Ps.119:28 My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to your word!
Ps.73:25-26 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Is.40:28-31 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. Matt.11:28-29 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. From before, birth we have been hid in Him!Ps.71:6 Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you. You rescue us!Ps.71:20 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again. Lord, there is no heart that can truly want to know You and not find You. You are there for those who wholeheartedly seek You! Your Word is a blessing to me! Amen
Jer.31:25 For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish."
Ps.119:28 My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to your word!
Ps.73:25-26 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Is.40:28-31 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. Matt.11:28-29 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. From before, birth we have been hid in Him!Ps.71:6 Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you. You rescue us!Ps.71:20 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again. Lord, there is no heart that can truly want to know You and not find You. You are there for those who wholeheartedly seek You! Your Word is a blessing to me! Amen
Thursday, August 4, 2011
One Man's Disobedience/ One Man's Obedience
Romans 5:19 For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.
The first "one man's disobedience" is Adam. The second "man's obedience" is Jesus Christ. That is mind blowing isn't it? God's perfect creation perverted by sin and His plan of salvation for those who will repent. He knew man was weak and would yield to temptation. What a wonderful Creator who knew us as weak and sinful and still made a way for our salvation. What a tremendous gift Jesus is!!
We had death in Adam and we have life in Christ!
Romans 5:12-13 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned-- for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
Romans 5:17-18 For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
Be at peace with God, through Christ!
Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Lord, I sing praises to Your name. You sent salvation in the form of a man, one who was sinless, one who obeyed, one who cares for us daily and we are blessed by You. Amen
The first "one man's disobedience" is Adam. The second "man's obedience" is Jesus Christ. That is mind blowing isn't it? God's perfect creation perverted by sin and His plan of salvation for those who will repent. He knew man was weak and would yield to temptation. What a wonderful Creator who knew us as weak and sinful and still made a way for our salvation. What a tremendous gift Jesus is!!
We had death in Adam and we have life in Christ!
Romans 5:12-13 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned-- for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
Romans 5:17-18 For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
Be at peace with God, through Christ!
Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Lord, I sing praises to Your name. You sent salvation in the form of a man, one who was sinless, one who obeyed, one who cares for us daily and we are blessed by You. Amen
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Under the Guilt of Sin
Grace frees us from the guilt of sin! It is free to all who will have faith in Christ! However, it was not free for Christ, it cost Him His life. On a cross, like a criminal guilty of some heinous crime, He gave His life willingly so that grace and mercy would flow like His precious blood flowed because He took the wrath due us! He who knew no sin became a sinner! You must confess your sin before a holy God to be pardoned. There is no way to be reconciled to God other than through Jesus atoning blood! He imparts His righteousness to us when we through faith believe Him for salvation!
Romans 3:10-12 as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one."
Romans 3:18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
Romans 3:22-26 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
The whole World is guilty, none are excluded! Some of us have put our faith in Christ and believe in Him for our salvation. His Word is precious to us and we meditate on it night and day. My memory is not what it used to be, I can't retain all that I need too. To be able to quote the bible verses I need to is not all ways available to me, but I can look them up!! God knows my heart, that is what matters!! I am not always the person I should be, I get mad, I act ugly, I bawl out other drivers, I am still human! And that said, I know you all will identify! That is why I know I need Christ! If I were judged by my works and actions, they would not be acceptable before God. I need a Savior who is righteous and sinless to cover my human sinful ways. Be humble before the Lord, you are dependant on His Grace!!
2 Chr.7:14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
James 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Lord God, forgive us as we often fail You. Let us be mindful of the gift of Your Grace. Let us forever be humble for You alone are worthy of our praise. Amen
Romans 3:10-12 as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one."
Romans 3:18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
Romans 3:22-26 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
The whole World is guilty, none are excluded! Some of us have put our faith in Christ and believe in Him for our salvation. His Word is precious to us and we meditate on it night and day. My memory is not what it used to be, I can't retain all that I need too. To be able to quote the bible verses I need to is not all ways available to me, but I can look them up!! God knows my heart, that is what matters!! I am not always the person I should be, I get mad, I act ugly, I bawl out other drivers, I am still human! And that said, I know you all will identify! That is why I know I need Christ! If I were judged by my works and actions, they would not be acceptable before God. I need a Savior who is righteous and sinless to cover my human sinful ways. Be humble before the Lord, you are dependant on His Grace!!
2 Chr.7:14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
James 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Lord God, forgive us as we often fail You. Let us be mindful of the gift of Your Grace. Let us forever be humble for You alone are worthy of our praise. Amen
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