“The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you, in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17 Do you realize God is with you? That He is a mighty warrior who saves you? protects you? Who in His love will no longer rebuke you, but rejoices over you? I love this verse! It one of my top favorites. I came across this verse when I was going through a very rough time in my life. God gave this verse to me, I didn’t quiet get it, but it was…
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Chosen by God
For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, 1 Thessalonians 1:4 God chose you! Say that to yourself looking in a mirror. Do you believe it? We all at one point struggle to accept that God loves us. He loves us unconditionally. Keep telling yourself that. God Loves Me. Jesus loves me until you believe it with your whole heart. God has taken the first step in renewing our relationship with him by sending his son Jesus Christ. Jesus, by paying the price of our sins, bridged the gap between God and us. Paul describes God’s chosen people by those who have accepted his invitation of forgiveness…
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Motive In loving Others
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Romans 13:10 Love is fulfilled by both positive (the things we are to do) and negative (the things we should not do) commands. Love must always look at the good and best interests of others. Love is positive, yet it can be negative. For example, placing restrictions on certain behaviors. The negative way is in that it takes the overwhelming human tendency towards sin, selfishness, and cruelty. Eight of the ten commandments are restrictions of what not to do, because sin comes naturally, while good does not. The first sign of Christian love is turning…
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Christ’s Death! God’s Love. Part 4
for while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person – though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die – but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-9 Christ died for sinners. We were helpless and useless. Christ died to save us from our sins. Jesus died at the right time for all. God designed to deliver from sin into work a great change. While we are sinners in this sinful state, we are rebellious to God. We have…
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Hope and Love – part 3
And endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Another spiritual blessing is hope! In today’s society Hope is to have wishful thinking on something that might happen. However, the biblical meaning is not wishful thinking but having confidence in God concerning his promises. This makes it sure and leaves no room for doubt because it is based on God’s word. We will experience this hope because God is “the God of Hope”. This means that he himself is the object and assurance of…
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Chose You And Appointed You
. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the father in my name, he may give it to you. John 15:16 God Chose you! He chose you first! He made the first choice to love and die for you. God wants you to choose him. He has an invitation for you to choose him. Remember He doesn’t make you choose him. It’s up to you. After you choose him, God appoints you to go and bear fruit. What the fruit we are to bear? As Christians, we…
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Passion Week: Devotions – Jesus Teaches
Matthew 21: 28-24:51; Mark 11:27-13:37; Luke 20:1- 21:36 Part 3: The Great Commission: This here is a mighty, mighty lesson. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul. God has to be our full focus. He must have all of our love. Then we are to love all people. The mean, the wicked, the people who hurt you, Love all people. When we love God completely and love others unselfishly, then all of our attitudes and actions…
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Don’t Hide The Sin
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy. Proverbs 28:13 Do NOT! Repeat Do Not hide your transgressions. When we deny our sin, we are rebelling against God. When we don’t work with God on our sin, we are going our own way. At this point we are not making any spiritual progress. Therefore, we are not prospering. It is in our nature to hide or overlook our sins. To not let others know our sins or our wrong doing. We all make mistakes. Humans make excuses over their sins.…
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Forgive From The Heart
So also my Heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart. Matthew 18:35 God wants us to forgive. Jesus taught about forgiveness. He taught about God’s forgiveness. Even though God freely gives to those who confess and turn away from sin, it also depends on each individual’s willingness to forgive others. A person could lose the chance to be forgiven of their sins. If they are unwilling to forgive others. A person heart can become bitter, resentful, and unforgiving when they refuse to forgive. This is a sad state to be in. This is where you could lose…
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According To His Own Mercy
But after the kindness and love of God our savior toward man appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, Titus 3:4-5 God sure does show us kindness and love. We have no excuse for being self – exalted or mistreating of others in thoughts or action. Since God shows us mercy, we are to show mercy to others. Our changed life is attributable to the manifestation of man because of God. He appeared to us in human form. God lived among us to save us, not for the works we…