Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.” Matthew 22:37-38 Do you ever feel like there are times in your life when God doesn’t love you? Have you ever been accused of not loving someone in your life just because of the circumstances that a person is in? It’s not that you don’t love them unconditionally or that your love for them has changed, it is just that you are loving them differently. This is the same way we might feel towards God. However, that is not a true feeling.…
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God Speaks With A Purpose
“Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!” Matthew 25:21 Do you often think or feel that when God speaks to you, that it should always make you feel good? When God spoke to His people, He usually up to something. The moment God speaks to you is the moment you need to respond to Him. When God speaks to you, this is His timing. He speaks to His servant when He is ready to move. If we want to join Him, we better be ready. God is developing…
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God Speaks To His People
In the past, God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by His Son.” Hebrew 1:1 Do you ever feel like God doesn’t talk to you? What are other thoughts about God speaking to us today? God spoke in the Old Testament many times and in various ways to His people. In the New Testament, He spoke through Jesus to His people in His lifetime. God speaks through the Holy Spirit when Jesus left the earth. The Holy Spirit speaks to us about all truth, recalls things to our memory, He will teach…
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God Takes The Initiative
It is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Philippians 2:13 Are you willing to allow God to work in your life for his good purposes? God takes the initiative. God reveals himself and his activity when he goes to us. This is an invitation to join God and adjust our life to Him. In the Bible, when God encountered the people, they were never the same. They made major adjustments in their lives to be obedient to Him. That is true of today also. When we encounter God and obey, we will never be the same. God is the Pacesetter. We…
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God’s Plans And Not Ours
I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81: 10-12 Do you have a hard time submitting to God’s plans? Would you rather do your plans than God’s? We all struggle with totally submitting to God’s plans. We don’t always realize that God’s ways are the best. We cause problems within the church when we move away from God’s plans and implement our own. We need to…
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God Centered Life
Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. Psalm 20:7 Do you live a God-centered life or a self – centered life? This is what a self-centered life looks like. A self – centered person is focused on themselves. They are proud of their accomplishments and themselves. They are self-confidence. They depend on themselves and their abilities. They affirm themselves. They seek to be acceptable to the world and its ways. They look at circumstances fro a human perspective. They are selfish and ordinary living. A God-centered person has confidence in God. They are dependent on God and His…
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How To Be A Servant Of God
Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets. Amos 3:7 Are you a servant of God? Do you know how to be a servant of God? Do you think that God tells you what He wants you to do and then leaves you to do it on your own? God does not leave you to do His will. He is right there with you the whole time. You are joining him in His work. Not the other way around. God used Moses to work through His plan. God was already at work around Moses. God pursued a continuing love relationship with Moses that…
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Servant Of God
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death – even death on the cross. Philippians 2:5-8 The Bible shows many passages of Jesus being God’s servant. He came to serve to accomplish God’s purposes. In Matthew 20:26-28 it says, “whoever wants to become great must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave –…
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Jesus: Our Model
My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working. I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these.” John 5:17, 19-20 Are there times in your life when you respond to things from your own experience or wisdom? How do things turn out for you when you do this? Relying on our own experiences or wisdom…
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Jesus Is Your Way
. “I am the way and the truth and the life.” John 14:6 When you are seeking God’s will in your life, how do you approach God about it? Do you ask detailed questions? Do you accept His way of one step at a time? All God is asking us to do is Follow him one day at a time. God is the only one that knows the way to go to fulfill God’s purpose for your life. Jesus said, “I am the way.” He didn’t say, “I will show you the way.” He didn’t say, “I will give you a road map.” He didn’t say, “I will tell you…