Today Might Be the Day

It was just a normal day.

Living life, striking out in the car, with the baby.

Something you and I do practically everyday.

Thinking in the car of all the things that had to be done today.

Sound familiar? 

Then it happened, a semi truck took my physical life!

Metal on metal, a horrible sound ending in twisted metal and a terrible feeling of something is just not right.

My baby?

Then nothing!

Everything ended!!!
A split second, you are gone!

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. - James 4:14

I am speaking this as a warning!

I am reminding you that life does not end at death!

Your physical body dies but your spiritual body, your soul that God Almighty made, lives on!

Were you buried with Christ through baptism?

Were you raised with Christ, with a new life and now you walk by faith, knowing Christ alone brings forgiveness and salvation?

5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. - 1 Timothy 2:5-6

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4

18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. Ephesians 2:18-22

6 This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
7 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power.
8 To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
9 and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things,
10 so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. Ephesians 3:6-10

4 There is one body and one Spirit--just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call--
5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 
Ephesians 4:4-6


Bow before God, humbly asking for forgiveness, repent and obey,

You will have joy and hope that is unfathomable!! 

He is coming to claim His Church!!!

Are You A Member?

More Than One Reason to Live by God’s Principles

BIBLE MEDITATION:

"For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness." 1 Thessalonians 4:7

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

A former president of the American Psychiatric Association said, "Premarital sex relationships resulting from the so-called new morality have greatly increased the number of young people in mental hospitals."

Dr. Billy Graham said he talked to the head psychiatrist at one of our great universities. At that time he said, "Over fifty percent of the students at that university are suffering psychological problems because of immoral relationships." 

ACTION POINT:

Friend, why does God tell us to live a pure and holy life? It’s not only so that we can have fellowship with Him, but also it is for our own mental health! He knows holiness brings life to our bones, healing to our hearts, and joy to our steps!

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

The Goal of An Unbroken Circle

BIBLE MEDITATION:

"In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and His children shall have a place of refuge." Proverbs 14:26

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

The devil hates families who worship together. He will allow parents to be religious, but he does not want them to take their children to heaven with them. As a result, we’re losing an entire generation. Our children are being left behind to die and go to hell because we are compromising with Satan.

Catherine Booth, wife of the founder of the Salvation Army, prayed, "Oh God, I will not stand before Thee without all my children." 

ACTION POINT:

There are many fathers and mothers today who need to say that. Stand firm, Mom. Stand firm, Dad. Gather those children close to you and love them to Jesus.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Just Give Me Jesus

BIBLE MEDITATION:

"Give unto the LORD the glory due unto His name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness." Psalm 29:2

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

There was a man who had lived a long life with Jesus, and now he was dying.

His loved ones came to him and asked him to sign his name to a legal document. They said, "Daddy, if you would sign this, it would help us with a lot of legal difficulties. We hate to mention it, but it needs to be done."

With the old man facing eternity, he lifted his quivering hand and signed the paper. Before long, he went to be with the Lord. When the family picked up the document, to their amazement he had signed, "Jesus." More than likely, it was the only name that meant anything to him in those moments.

ACTION POINT:

What name means the most to you right now? There will come a time when the only name that will mean anything to you is—Jesus.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Does Your Life Help or Hurt the Cause of Christ?

BIBLE MEDITATION:

“How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?” Romans 10:14

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

You are either a helper or a hurter when it comes to reaching the world for Christ. Why? Because, like “Big Brother,” the world is watching your “Sunday-go-to-church” behavior and wondering how it compares to your behavior the rest of the week.

Do they see you giving your time and resources to help them when they’re hurting? Do they witness how you treat your family? Or how you entertain your friends? Or do you even know their names?

ACTION POINT:

The greatest argument for Christ and the greatest argument against Christ is the life of a Christian. “Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave! Some poor fainting struggling seaman You may rescue, you may save” (Philip P. Bliss).

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Every Failure—Is a Prayer Failure!

BIBLE MEDITATION:

“In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him.” Ephesians 3:12

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:

One of the grandest privileges you and I have is the privilege of prayer. I believe when we get to heaven, one of the things that will amaze us is that we prayed so poorly, and we prayed so little, while we were here on earth.

I want to tell you: you do not have a failure in your life but what it is a prayer failure. You do not have a need in your life but what prayer could supply that need. There’s not a sin in your life that a proper prayer life couldn’t overcome.

Hymn writer Joseph M. Scriven penned these words, “O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.” 

ACTION POINT:

Friend, rather than wringing our hands, we ought to be bending our knees.

LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers

Season of Doubt

What is a season of doubt?

It's a time of not feeling God's presence.

It's when you are feeling your world come apart.

It's a time of testing and trial.

It's those fiery darts that are cast in your direction!

Just remember these words in times of trouble:

22 The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; 

23 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.  - Lamentations 3:22-23

1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; 

2 he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; 

3 surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. 

4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones; 

5 he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; 

6 he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago. 

7 He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy; 

8 though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer; 

9 he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked. 

10 He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding; 

11 he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate; 

12 he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow. 

13 He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver; 

14 I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long. 

15 He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood. 

16 He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes; 

17 my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is; 

18 so I say, "My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD." 

19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! 

20 My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. 

21 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:  - Lamentations 3:1-21

Can't we all identify with Jeremiah?
What were Jeremiah's last words in this chapter?
I have Hope!
Why?
Because he knew he worshiped a God who is able! 
Jeremiah also knew that God wanted a humbled obedient heart! 


1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! 
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. 
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 
6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. 
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 
8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. 
9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. 
11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.  - Psalm 51:1-11

So what do we take away from this teaching?

There is a time of testing!

There is a time of joy!

God's creation will doubt!!

God is more than able!

Hold fast to your faith in God and His promise of everlasting love and mercy!!!