Even as Christians, we must thirst and hunger after righteousness. There are so many bad influences in the world that will try to deter us from following Jesus, and knowing righteousness. The enemy will try to cause us to not listen to God’s Word and His teachings. This is where we must stay in the Word daily and meditate on it.
There are those who has never picked up a Bible to open it and read it. I have seen those who have a Bible that’s collecting dust on the table, or on a shelf never being used as God intended. We cannot learn what righteousness is unless we open the Bible and read the Holy Words God left us. It is the only way we will get to know God. It is the only way we will know how to live righteously.
What would we do if we did not have the Word of God to live by? How would we be able to love one another as we should? How would we even learn to love our enemies? Loving our enemies is the most hardest thing to do, and we really need God’s help to do that. That is something we just cannot do on our own. To be filled with righteousness, we have to go to the Word of God.
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 1 John 3:16 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/1jn.3.16.KJV
Looking at this verse, “and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren”. This stands out to me. The question is this: Will we lay down our lives for the brethren?
Some people have been martyred because of Jesus and their faith in God. They sacrificed their lives because of what they believed , and who they believed in. It has been going on since Stephen was martyred in the Bible. It is still going on today. Who would have ever thought that something like that would still be going on today in this world?
I know that there are people who cannot stand to hear the name of Jesus. It is a shame that they refuse real love, the love of God through His Son, Jesus Christ, who laid down His life for all of us; every human being on this earth, from generation to generation.
It does not matter who a person is, or where they are from, or what they believe in, Jesus died for us all. Will you turn to Jesus? Will you go to God so He can save your soul? We only get one life on this earth, but our soul will reside in heaven or hell after the judgement. Where do you want to spend eternity? Only you can make that choice.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1 John 2:15-16 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/1jn.2.15-16.KJV
This world is passing away more and more everyday. Look at what’s going on in the world today. Due to all of the virus variants that are here taking innocent lives, with the numbers going up, what is it going to be like a year or two from now?
Lust is another thing that is wreaking havoc in the world, and this has been going on since the beginning. It is a sin that has caused more trouble than a little bit. Everything that is not of God is sin. The Scripture explains all of this to us. Thank God for His Word, because without it, we would not know anything about sin, or how to live righteously before God. We would not know anything about Jesus and what He did for us. We would not know anything about salvation, or being free from sin.
What would our life consist of? How would we pray to God if we did not have the Word to learn from? We would be living by our wits. There’s so much going on in the world to not know who Jesus is. He is the only one who can end all of what’s going on in the world in every life, of every person.
I have heard people say,”I have my pride”. Will pride get you into heaven? Will pride save your soul? Will pride comfort you when you lose someone you love? Will pride stop a divorce? Will pride pay your bills? Will pride get you where you want to be in life? Will pride wipe your tears away? Will pride put food on your table, clothes on your back, shoes on your feet, and money in your pockets, or bank account, or buy that vehicle you want, or help you find that special someone to spend your life with? Will pride tell you that everything will be alright, and not to worry about anything? Will pride talk to you when your life is turning up side down? Will pride put a smile on your face? Will pride tell you to keep going when you want to give up? Will pride stop a person from taking their own life? Will pride tell someone to leave drugs alone because it can kill them? Will pride keep you away from trouble and sin? Will pride make anyone a better man or woman? Will pride make you see clearly the right things that should be done? Will pride save your life, and I mean your eternal life!?!
Pride will get you nowhere, and neither will his friend stubbornness, lack, judgemental, false accuser, despair, poverty, death, sickness, disease, plagues, and everything else that is against God!
I know I may have struck some nerves, but maybe that is what it takes to make people see the real realities of life. Don’t get caught up in pride because if you do, it will lead you to nowhere. Jesus is the way to salvation. He has already paid the ultimate price for us when He shed His blood on Calvary. That is a price we will never be able to repay; we were blood bought, and we have free salvation because of Jesus Christ, our King. Think about how He suffered for us, bled for us, died for us, and on the third day, rose again for us! He said He would be with us until the end of the age, until the world ends! Life is too short, and time is running out to be playing around with your eternal soul, and where you want to spend eternity! Wake up and open your eyes! Jesus is on His Way Back! Here’s the question: WILL YOU BE READY WHEN HE RETURNS, WILL YOU BE READY TO STAND BEFORE HIM? CHOOSE THIS DAY WHO YOU WILL SERVE, BECAUSE AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE, WE WILL SERVE THE LORD!
Do you want to continue to live in sin? Do you want to continue to rebel against God? Do you want to continue to live and walk in darkness, and if so…how deep is that darkness? Do you not want to live in the light of Jesus Christ? Do you even care about your own soul?
Tomorrow isn’t promised to any of us. We are all given one day at a time. In those twenty four hours we are given, how much of it is spent with the LORD? Do we even make time to spend with Him? He always has time for us no matter what. He never leaves us nor forsake us. He is always there to comfort us, to wipe our tears away, to pick us up when we fall, to provide for us, to make a way out of no way. When we think about all of those things, all of those blessings… doesn’t it bring tears to your eyes and humble your heart? Doesn’t it make you want to repent of your sins? Doesn’t His love and kindness mean anything to you? Doesn’t what He did for all of us matter? Yes, it does matter because He didn’t have to do it, but He did. Love did what love does. Love sacrificed His life for us, took the punishment that we deserved. He fell along the way to Calvary, but He got up every time. That is what LOVE did for us.
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If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Colossians 3:1 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/col.3.1.KJV
Jesus loves the little children.
My prayer is this: I pray that everyone who does not know Jesus as their LORD and Saviour will come to know Him as their LORD and Saviour before He returns. God sent His one and only Son into this world to save us that we would not have to die in our sins. The gift of salvation is free. Do you not want to work out your own salvation before the Lord with fear and trembling? God is a jealous God, He is a consuming fire. The Holy Ghost is here to lead and guide us in all of God’s righteous ways. Let His love grow in your heart today. Let Him fill you with love, happiness, joy, and faith.
Tomorrow isn’t promised to any of us, so, while the blood is still running warm in your veins, go to God in prayer, repent of your sins and accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour. It is totally and completely up to you where you want to spend eternity. The choice us yours. Jesus has already paid the price for us, the ultimate sacrifice when He shed His blood for us on the cross at Calvary. This is a price we will never be able to pay. He laid down His life for us, and He never decided not to do what He was sent here to do. All we have to do is accept Him into our life, invite Him to live in our heart forever.
If you are afraid to do it alone, call a friend who has been walking with the Lord for quite sometime and talk to them about the decision you are about to make, and they will be able to explain what it means to live for Jesus and to follow Him. Then when you are ready to make that walk, you will have someone to go with you. Just think how the angels in heaven will be rejoicing because one of God’s lost sheep finally returned home.
There are so many lost souls wondering around in this world looking for purpose, wondering what their life could be like if they had true happiness. Well, Jesus is that joy and happiness that we all need in our life. Times are hard right now, and Jesus is our only hope for a better life, and future. He is the only One who can give us what we truly need to survive, and that is the Holy Ghost.
(Not) Seeing and believing takes me right to Hebrews 11:1. Faith. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
It is sometimes hard to believe for something when we cannot see anything happening. We lose hope and we become discouraged along the way while we are waiting. One thing we can be sure of is this, if God said it, it will come to pass. This reminds me of those who had faith and believed but did not get to see the promise come to pass, but they died in faith.
Let’s look at Noah- By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. (Hebrews 11:7 NKJV)
Noah: Genesis 6:14, 22) : This is what God told Noah (v.14.)- Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
God is giving Noah directions as to how He wants things done. Noah followed God’s orders to the letter. He did not do it how he wanted to do it, but just exactly how God said to do it.
Do we always do things to the letter concerning the Word of God? Do we always do what God tells us to do when He tells us to do something that we don’t understand, or make since to us?
Maybe at the time when God told Noah to build the ark, he did not understand at first, but He obeyed God and did not question God about the matter. Are we like that? Do we do what we are told without asking why? Do we believe God by faith? Why is it so hard to obey God? He does not ask us to do things that He knows we cannot do. Even when we don’t understand the plan, or the purpose, we must still obey God.
(v. 22.)- Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
So, Noah did what God told him to do. He did not ask God a lot of questions as we do when God tells us to do something. He believed what God said.
When we do what God says for us to do, our lives will be better for us. He knows what is best for us. He knows how to protect us from the things that we do not know how to protect ourselves from. He can see the things that we cannot see, such as the flood. If everyone knew that God was going to flood the earth, I am quite sure they would have wanted to help Noah build the ark just to save themselves and their families..
This is why we must believe without seeing. Having eyes of faith and belief in what God says, one can never go wrong. Faith gives one hope that they may not have had.
Reading and studying about faith helps to keep my faith in God strong. It helps me to always remember that God is always working things out for my good. It helps me to remember that God is faithful when the enemy tries to make me believe that God is not faithful. It helps me to remember what God has brought me through in my life. It helps me to remember that He is always with me every day of my life.
What are you believing God for today? Is it something you have been wanting, or needing? Is it healing that you need? Whatever it is you are believing God for today, believe in faith, trust God, and He will bring it to pass. He will answer your every prayer.
This is a collaboration on the article and show I did on faith. The devotional study above is a 10 day audio Bible Study that can be found on You Version.
WORD STUDY: Romans 1:7
Romans 1:7- To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be *saints: Grace to you and *peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:7 THE SAINTS of GOD
“Saints” is the word that God uses for those who have taken Jesus Christ as their Saviour. It means set – apart ones (Numbers 6:2). In Greek it is the same word as “holy”, “consecrated”, or “sanctified”. It has nothing to do with a person’s own efforts at godliness. Saints are not special Christians addressed as “Saint” who are adored and appear in pictures, stained – glass windows, and altars. Rather, for His own purpose, God has set apart for Himself (Romans 8:29 and its note, “Predestination”) all who have believed in Jesus Christ as their Saviour. He calls them saints, though they are in themselves no better than other people. Other names for saints are Christians, children of God, the church of Christ, born – again believers. (Numbers 6:2)– Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, separate themselves to vow a vow of a *Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:
NUMBERS 6:2 A NAZARITE
The word must clearly to be distinguished from a Nazarene (an inhabitant of Nazareth). It can also be spelled “Nazirite” and means one who is separated.
Sometimes people wanted to give themselves to work for the Lord in a very special way. They might have decided that they wanted to do this special work for one or two months, or for one or two years, or even longer. To show that they had taken this vow of the Nazarite, they promised also to keep certain signs:
1. They would drink no wine.
2. They would let their hair grow long (men and women both took this vow).
3. They would not touch anything that was dead.
What corresponds to this in the New Testament is that we are urged to present our bodies to God as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1); and the Nazarite’s three signs correspond to self-control, willingness to bear reproach for Christ’s sake, and separation from sin. Well- known Nazarites were Samson (Judges 13-16) and John the Baptist (Luke 1:15).
ROMANS 8:29- For whom he did foreknow, he also did *predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
ROMANS 1:16-17 – SALVATION by FAITH
Salvation is in three tenses: past- every believer has been saved from the guilt and penalty of sin (Romans 3:19); present- every believer is being saved daily from the power of sin in his life (Romans 6:14); future – every believer will be saved from even the presence of sin in his nature, so that in heaven he will be without sin and become more like the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 13:11).
In bestowing salvation on us, God uses the way of faith instead of the way of works. He offers His righteousness only to those who believe (Romans 3:22). Faith, in the cases of salvation and righteousness, is distrusting self and trusting another- in this case, true before we see that it is.
So, we see faith throughout the whole Bible. We can go to the Word for faith, hope, truth, and salvation. Everything we need to know about life is in the Word of God. Open the Word up today and let it fill your spirit. Let it open your eyes today that you will be able to see the truth about life.
This has been very interesting. I was sharing a Bible reading audio plan when God spoke to my spirit again on faith, so, here is the message.
and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Deuteronomy 6:5 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/deu.6.5.KJV
We are to love the LORD with every fiber of our being. How can we not love Him? Look at all of the things He does for us. Look at what God did for us by sending His One and ONLY SON into this world to take the punishment we deserved. How can we NOT Love Him! If it were not for God, nothing would have been created in this world that we see with our own eyes, and that which we cannot see with our own eyes. We would not even be alive if it were not for Him. This is why this Scripture is so important. It is what we must always do for as long as we live and have our being. He loves us unconditionally, and His love for us will never fail. When we look through our spiritual eyes, loving God is the most important thing in the world. We are important to Him, but the question is this: IS HE IMPORTANT TO US? I ask this question because there are some who does not realize just how important God is. Just always know and remember that we are loved by God. When we feel as if no one else loves us, God does.
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Psalm 30:5 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/psa.30.5.KJV
Because we believe in God and follow His Son Jesus, nothing can harm us because we are followers of that which is good.
God is with us to protect us from harm and danger. He can see the things that we cannot see and move them out of the way to protect us.
It would be good if we could actually see Him as the disciples did, and talk with Him as they did, but we have to know that even though we cannot see Him with our eyes, we can see some of the things that He does for us through faith. We see the things come to pass that we have and have not prayed for. He gives us blessings that we sometimes do not even ask for, such as waking us up the next day. Giving us our health and strength, our senses. God only wants to give us good things, not things to harm us.
Life isn’t perfect, but we serve a God who is. He will always be with us. Even when we don’t feel His presence, He us with us. What would we do if He were not with us in our life?
The LORD shows us mercy everyday. He has been since we came into this world. It is good to know that His mercies are new every morning. We serve a merciful God, and I am so glad we do, because without it what would we do? We can show others mercy because of Jesus. It is all because of Jesus. He is the reason we want to be better people. We want to live how we should live. We want to love our enemies, and do what He would have us to do to bring God glory, honor, and praise. Show someone mercy today, and it will be shown right back to you.
Sending roses to brighten a cold, windy, and cloudy day.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/1co.10.13.KJV
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Psalm 19:14 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/psa.19.14.KJV
For thou hast possessed my reins: Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvellous are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.
Psalm 139:13-14 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/psa.139.13-14.KJV
This reading plan can be found on You Version. I thought this would be a great plan to look into. If you choose to, I pray that God will reveal His heart to you through the message. Have a wonderful day, and stay safe.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/2ti.1.7.KJV
Good morning everybody! I pray that you all are doing well on today. I want to talk about the Scripture Verse above: 2 Timothy 1:7. The question is this: What Do We Have To Fear? There is power in the name of Jesus! All we have to do is speak His name and the enemy will flee. We do not have to walk around being filled with fear, because we were not given the spirit of fear. Look at what we do have. But of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. We can walk in faith, and believe in faith, and know in faith that God has given us these things that we do not have to be in fear about anything. He has covered us with His protection under the shadow of the Almighty. We are covered by the Holy Ghost. The love of God is perfect, so it casts out all fear. We have the love of God living in our heart, so fear cannot live there. Fear has no place where there is love and faith.
Food for the Soul 