Are you confused or “saved and stuck” like I was for many years? I had no idea how to minister hope and healing to myself let alone anyone else. Where do you think that the fruit including peace and joy we have in Christ comes from? The hope we have in heaven alone? Or do you believe that life on this earth is just hit or miss? “Because you just never know what God is going to do?” Can you…
There are two parts to being chosen for anything. You choose this awesome player for your team. Yay! But they reject your invitation to play. Do you leave that spot blank? No! You choose someone else! Then, they must accept the invitation to play to continue to be chosen. Someone is invited to a party. Awesome! Let’s party. That person must show up to enjoy the party as a chosen guest. And this is exactly what Jesus explains in Matthew…
You are loved! Be Loved! God calls you “Beloved” because He wants you to be loved by Him. Unless you receive His love for you, how can you freely give it to the world through your testimony? And there came a voice from heaven, [saying], Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. (Mark 1:11 KJV) Mark 1:11 is God talking about Jesus. 1 John 4:17 (below) says “as [Jesus] is, so are we in this world.”…
NewsBoys WE BELIEVE is another powerful song that brought tears to my eyes; it expresses my own personal BELIEFS. And as the pattern continues, this song reminded me of the movie GOD’s NOT DEAD 2 where the BELIEF in the lyrics sparked a court battle to defend a teacher’s RIGHT to BELIEF in her FAITH to share JESUS. INSPIRATION We have a lot of flavors in this record, and I think “We Believe” says, all that aside, this is who we are….
If we could just get a revelation of the unconditional love of God toward us and then allow it to flow through us into, first, our closest family members, and then into the church, and finally into the world, WOW!!! Revival! Don’t Pass Over the Love of God But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and…
We can learn to abide among the wise and abhor evil by reading and meditating on the Proverbs daily. Isn’t it convenient that there is a chapter for every day of the month! Being a wife and mother, I read the second part of Proverbs 31 pretty often. See, God gives us the desires of our hearts. That is why we all really deep down desire to be the best! When we delight ourselves in Him, He brings those desires…
When I got born again (John 3:3,7, 1 Peter 1:23) in 2007/08 I was a fat mess! Literally! I weighed 230-250 pounds easily. I had been overweight or fighting it for most of my life. Our family of six lived in a three-bedroom single-wide mobile home on someone else’s property. I was a straight HEATHEN! I didn’t want to be a heathen. My mother and grandmother raised me, and I was not raised by heathens. My wonderful husband was not…
We can know and prove the will of God.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. – Rom 12:2 KJV”
I tried reading the Bible for years before I heard the gospel spelled out for me in a way that I could understand. The Bible did not make any sense to me, and I did not understand how to be saved or even what that meant! This is my salvation story. Various religious-looking people had crossed my path, but no one could help! They had no life in them to give me! They were religious hypocrites too. We were deceived!…
Fourteen verses in the King James Bible specifically say that grace and peace are from God the Father and His Son Jesus. This exhortation is specifically from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. The authors of these letters are being inspired by God, the Holy Spirit, to encourage the church. God wants us to know His grace and peace are being poured out or lavished upon us! Wow! “Grace be to you and peace from God our Father…