God's word, 5/31/15

5/31/15

1Co 4:7  For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

I guess that a “good Christian”  would give all the glory to God, and rightly so because, “What do you have that you did not receive?”

God's word, 5/30/15

5/30/15

Joh 3:27  John answered, "A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.

You know that I teach that you are responsible! And that God is sovereign! So knowing that do the best you can with the day you have before you and always know that you cannot receive even one thing unless it is given you from heaven. Even maturity in your walk with Him.

God's word, 5/29/15

5/29/15

Php 2:12  Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

Php 2:13  for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Do all that you can to do the right thing, and don’t be worried about your failings because, “it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.”

God's word, 5/28/15

5/28/15

Heb 6:1  Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

Heb 6:2  and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Heb 6:3  And this we will do if God permits.

In a lot of conversations we hear someone use the term, “a good Christian.” What exactly does that mean? I know that some people do “look” like good Christians by the way we see their lives, but the real maturity in a Christian is up to God, not our works. Right? “And this we will do if God permits.”

God's word, 5/27/15

5/27/15

Joh 12:46  I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

Don’t remain in darkness.

God's word, 5/26/15

5/26/15

Psa 139:4  Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.

Psa 139:5  You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.

Psa 139:6  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

When you try to think of God’s love for you, it is to wonderful to take in and your mind cannot attain it.

God's word, 5/25/15

5/25/15

Psa 139:1  …. O LORD, you have searched me and known me!

Psa 139:2  You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

Psa 139:3  You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.

You are never left alone! Even in your darkest of days. So always be thankful, as the song says and the word bares it to be true.

“His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.”

He sees you. Right now, what every is going on.

God's word, 5/24/15

5/24/15

Jas 1:27  Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

How many orphans and widows have you looked after this week?

God's word, 5/23/15

5/23/15

Jud 1:4  For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Don’t you know that even the people in your life that are trying to pervert the grace of God in your life were designated for that purpose? Of course you do.

God's word, 5/22/15

5/22/15

Pro 19:21  Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.

Be diligent and plan your way as best you can and if your plans workout or if they go awry, trust God.

God's word, 5/21/15

5/21/15

Lam 3:37  The will of the Lord alone is always carried out.

No matter what this day brings to you, good or bad, don’t use a lot of your allotted hours in despair or worrying about it. Trust God and know that His will is carried out and that it is always for His glory and for your good.

God's word 5/20/15

5/20/15

Pro 21:1  The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will.

John Newton, the author of “Amazing Grace” said;

The kings of the earth are continually disturbing the world with their schemes of ambition.  They expect to carry everything before them, and have seldom any higher end in view, then the gratification of their own passions.  But in all they do they are but servants of this great King and Lord, and fulfill his purposes, as the instruments he employs to inflict prescribed punishment upon transgressors against him, or to open a way for the spread of his Gospel. . . . They had one thing in view, he had another.

God's word 5/19/15

5/19/15

Exo 11:2  Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry."

Exo 11:3  And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians.

later;

Exo 12:35  The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.

Exo 12:36  And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

What in the world are the Egyptians doing? They are freely giving the Israelites anything they ask for. Silver, and gold jewelry and possibly lot of other stuff because it says that “they plundered the Egyptians!” And the Egyptians gave them all that stuff on their own “free will” because God is sovereignly in control. 

God's word 5/18/15

5/18/15

1Co 8:6  yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Jesus Christ (God) caused and sustains all things. That means that in the farthest reaches of the universe there is not one atom that is not kept in its place without Him!

God's word 5/17/15

5/17/15

Col 1:16  For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Col 1:17  And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

We can go our way in a lot of days and not give thought to the wonders of our God, and the mighty gloriousness of His power.

“in him all things hold together!”

God's word 5/16/15

5-16-15

Heb 1:3  He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

When we remember the first chapter of Genesis and how much God did just by His word (“and God said”) it is no wonder that He upholds the universe by His word.

God's word 5/15/15

5/15/15

Jer 18:4  And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

He is the potter and we are the clay. There is an old song that says, “All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife
But he made something beautiful of my life”

Even when the clay of your life seems spoiled the potter can rework it into whatever seems good to Him. We serve a potter that love us and He is sovereign.

God's word 5/14/15

5/14/15

Col 1:19  For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,

Col 1:20  and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Col 1:21  And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

Col 1:22  he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

Now we know full-well that we are in fact not holy and blameless and above reproach…. But He has reconciled us; He has done it! By His life and death and resurrection. He is our holiness and our blamelessness and He see us as without reproach.

God's word 5/13/15

5/13/15

He saved us because of His mercy! And now we are heirs! Wow!

Tit 3:5  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,

Tit 3:6  whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

Tit 3:7  so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

God's word 5/12/15

5/12/15

We know that when God has done a thing no one can undo it or change it in anyway!

Joh 10:28  I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

God's word 5/11/15

5/11/15

When He made the chose to draw you unto Jesus Christ (before the world began) He did that in order to conform you to the image of His Son.

Rom 8:29  For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son

God's word 5/10/15

5/10/15

Jesus also said; “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.”

Joh 6:44  No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

God's word 5/9/15

5/9/15

Jesus said; “All that the Father gives me will come to me.”

Joh 6:37  All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

So, since your name was written before the world began, we can say that the Father has given you to Jesus.

God's word 5/8/15

5/8/15

I want you to know that the bible is very sure of the fact that your name is in the book of life before the foundations of the world! Let’s let God be God and all other not. OH what a glorious thing that is!

Rev 13:8  and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.

Rev 17:8  The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.

Eph 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

Eph 1:4  even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.

God's word 5/7/15

5/7/15

The reason that God gives life to the dead man on the bed, is not because the dead man did a work and reached out, but it is because of His (God’s) own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began!

2Ti 1:9  who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

God's word 5/6/15

5/6/15

We see sinful man as very sick, we paint the picture of sinful man, laying in the bed, too weak to get out on his own. When someone comes to his bedside with the magic cure for his sickness and says to him; “here, I have provided a cure for you, reach out and take this that I bring to you and you will live, all you have to do is take it. Oh please, reach out and take it.” But the bible says that that man in the bed is dead, he cannot reach out and take the medicine, what the man really needs is to be born again, made alive, before he can reach out, before he can do anything.

Eph 2:4  But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

Eph 2:5  even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Eph 2:6  and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

God's word 5/5/15

5/5/15

Rom 9:10  And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,

Rom 9:11  though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—

Rom 9:12  she was told, "The older will serve the younger."

Rom 9:13  As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

Rom 9:14  What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!

Rom 9:15  For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

Rom 9:16  So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

In our civilized society we don’t like a God that is really God. We want, instead to be god for ourselves. I think that is because we do not have a high enough view of the Holiness of God.

God's word 5/4/15

5/4/15

At your birth, do you remember that great desire you had to be born? That felling that you needed to have life in this kingdom we call earth? Don’t you remember that? No? No, you don’t, because you had no way of having anything to do with it, so it is with your Spiritual birth, you had nothing to do with it.

Joh 1:13  who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

God's word 5/3/15

5/3/15

Yesterday I said; “He choose us, to be His sons and daughters, for His good pleasure, for His glory!” And again I say.

Eph 1:11  In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Eph 1:12  so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.

God's word 5/2/15

5/2/15

He choose us, to be His sons and daughters, for His good pleasure, for His glory!

Eph 1:4  even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

Eph 1:5  having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Eph 1:6  to the praise of the glory of his grace

A tiny part of God's word 5/1/15

5/1/15

Why do you think that God choose you before He created anything?

Eph 1:4  even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

Because He said He did!