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 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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Knowing God
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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Don’t Drift Away
Therefore, we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since the message declared by angels prove to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedient received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, it was a test to us by those who heard, Hebrews 2:1-3 Do you struggle with hearing what is spoken to you? Can you remember what you heard? The author of Hebrews focus on this superiority of God’s son and his revelation is to stress to those who have salvation that they must…
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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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Sold Under Sin
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. Romans 7:14 Following Christ is one of the best things a person could ever do. Is it easy? No! Is it hard to live life without him? Yes! The phrase I am of the flesh, sold under sin, points to the spiritual or unspiritual condition of the persons who have not been reborn again in Christ. Paul is explaining the inability of the law to rescue us from sin. Yet, the good news (which is all about our savior and how he saves us) is capable of bringing spiritual salvation and freedom from sin…
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Who Will Go To Heaven
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many Mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, your workers are Lawlessness. Matthew 7:21-23 Jesus taught the carrying out God’s purposes and desire was a condition for entering the kingdom of heaven. This does not mean that we can earn spiritual…
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You Will Be My Witnesses – Part 2
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the Earth.” Acts 1:8 The moment we encounter God through salvation, he wants us to be his messenger to others. As we grow in our relationship with him, the Holy Spirit gives us power to proclaim the message of salvation. The Holy Spirit also increases the effectiveness of our own personal testimony or witness to God. The Holy Spirit reveals and makes more real the relationship with God. Listening to the Holy Spirit will bring us to a deeper,…