Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18 Happy Mother’s Day!! I couldn’t wait to be a mother when I was a little girl. It’s all I wanted to be. Years later, I am married with two step children and 5 adopted children. God has blessed me abundantly. Not that there were no tears to be shed because there were many. Mother’s Day can be a day that is hard for many women. The women that can’t have a child of their own and adoption is not possible. There is an emptiness. Women that don’t have a mother to celebrate with. There is…
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Why The Law
Why then the law? It was added because o transgressions, until the offspring come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary. Galatians 3:19 The Hebrew word for law is Torah meaning to teach or direction. The law is referring to the Ten Commandments, the Pentateuch, which is the first five books of the Old Testament, and any commandment of the Old Testament. This verse is also referring to the sacrificial system that was part of God’s Old Testament covenant with Israel given to Moses. Paul states several things concerning the law. It was given because of transgressions. The law defines the offenses…
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Different Kinds of People
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understand the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him.” But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:14-16 There are three groups of people – believers, those who believe and follow Jesus Christ and non believers – those who do not believe or follow Christ, but follow their own ways, and the group that say the believe and follow…
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Reflection Day
Go grab your journal, pen, bible, music, favorite drink and favorite spot to spend time with God. Pray, listen, seek, listen, ask, ask listen. Write down what you hear God speaking to you about. Seek where in your life you need to make changes to honor God. Dear Heavenly Father, As we spend this time with you, please speak to our hearts. I pray that each one of us will be patient and sit at your feet. I pray that we will hear your voice and be obedient to what your speak to us about. Holy Spirit, guide our time with you. In Jesus Name Amen
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Sharing Our Gifts with Others
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies – in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To Him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter 4:10 God has gifted us with specific interests, talents, and abilities that he wants us to use to serve Him and others. We are all individuals that God created. He created each of us uniquely. There are things that no one else in the world can do quite…
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God Gives More Grace To The Humble
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded. James 4:6-8. God opposes the proud; however, he gives more grace to the humble. Being humble can be a hard struggle. I don’t know about you, but I do not want God to oppose me. I, personally, want more of His grace. Grace is God’s unearned and undeserved favor, mercy, kindness, consideration, help and spiritual empowerment. This…
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With Confidence
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16 Christ knows what it is like to be tempted. He knows what our weaknesses are. Jesus is moved with compassion by our weaknesses. He is also able to relate to us in our experiences in life. Therefore, we can come confidently to the throne of grace. We can approach God with confidence. We can know and trust that our prayers are welcomed and desired by our Heavenly Father. This meeting place is called the “throne of grace” because it is the flow of…
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Justified By His Grace
Titus 3:5-7 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to is own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. We are simply saved because of our Savior’s mercy. We don’t have to work for it. Our sins are washed away. We have a new spiritual birth when God forgiveness is taken place. We, then submit our lives to Christ and follow His ways. By attending church, reading/…
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One Lord
Ephesians 4:4-7 There is one body and one Spirit just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call – one lord, one faith, one baptism, one God, and father of all who is Over all and through all and in all. But Grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ gift. The Christian faith and unity is the confession of One Lord . Jesus Christ’s work of redemption is that there is only One Lord. This is perfect and sufficient! There is no other savior or mediator that can bring us to God. Jesus is the only one that…
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Grace Given To Us
Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith; Romans 12:6 God offers so many things to HIs people. God gives us grace and through that he also gives us gifts to use. These gifts are called gifts of grace. We can choose to resist grace and these gifts of grace. These gifts are God-given desires and special abilities. They Holy Spirit equips us, individually, with these gifts to build up each other in the church. Also, they are to show God’s love to others. Every christian has at…