Jesus said, ‘This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” John 17:3 How much do you want to know God? How do you get to know God? Knowing God does not come from a program or a method. It’s a relationship. It’s an intimate love relationship with God. Through this relationship, God reveals His will to us. He invites us to join HIm with where he is at work. Obeying God, He accomplishes things through us only he can do. When you come to know God more intimately by experiencing God at work in you. I pray as…
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Christ’s Love Compels Us
For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: If One died for all, then all died. And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised. From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! Everything is from God, who has…
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Love An Action
This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need but closes his eyes to his need – how can God’s love reside in him? Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with truth and action. This is how we will know we belong to the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence, … 1 John 3:16-19 How did your grandparents or parents show their love for one another? I was lucky to have grandparents and…
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God’s Idea of Love
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiations for our sins. Dear Friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains…
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God Loved
For God loved the world in this way: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16-17 Are you a gift giver or do you like to receive gifts? I love gifts. I love receiving them. However, I am not a gift giver. I struggle in this area. Do you? I am a rule follower and I have rules to buying gifts. I think this take the joy out of giving gifts.…
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Contagious Joy
“After seeing them, they reported the message they were told about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.” Luke 2:17-18 Joy always compels is to want to share what is happening with others!! For example, I couldn’t wait to tell my family and friends that my boys are getting married. I wanted to blasted it all over social media! Have you ever had this experience? Where you wanted to share your joyous news with everyone and or other people’s joyous news? Do you feel that way about God? Do you want to spread your joy to others for the wonderful…
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The Presence of Jesus Brings Joy
“You reveal the path of life to me; in Your presence is abundant joy; in Your right hand are eternal pleasures.” Psalms 16:11 There are two upcoming weddings in our immediate family! There is excitement, stress, and joy all around. I hope that both sets of couples will take the time to enjoy the process of coming together. That they have the joy in each other’s presence like the day their dad and I got married. One is happening this month and the other next summer. I am getting two lovely daughter in laws. They are taking their single lives and are joining together with their spouse. Marriage is…
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Serving With Joy
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bond servant, and coming in the likeness of men. He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,…
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Through Suffering Comes Joy
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer, and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him, he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2 Do you believe that since we are believers that God helps those who help themselves? We think that since we are believers life will be easy. However, this thought is so wrong. Scripture…
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Peacemaker
For He is our peace, who made both groups one and tore down the dividing wall fo hostility. Ephesians 2:14a Have you ever been in a situation where you were having a casual conversation and it turned into a heated argument? Did you ever have someone with the group bring calmness “peace” to the group? This type of person is a peacemaker. Jesus brought peace with him when he came to the world. He gave us peace with God and with others through God. Jesus will bring ultimate peace when He comes back again. Jesus is our ultimate peacemaker. Jesus doesn’t’ just give peace. He is peace. His blood is what…