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!

Morning with God's Word 4/30/15

4/30/15


Q. 24. How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?

A. Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.



You can go online and look at the rest of the Questions and Answers, there are 107 of them altogether. I think it would be good for us to read them at least a couple of times a year. 

Morning with God's Word 4/29/15

4/29/15


Q. 23. What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?

A. Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.

Morning with God's Word 4/28/15

4/28/15


Q. 22. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?

A. Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.

Morning with God's Word 4/27/15

4/27/15


Q. 21. Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?

A. The only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, forever.

Morning with God's Word 4/26/15

4/26/15


Q. 20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?

A. God, having out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.

Morning with God's Word 4/25/15

4/25/15


Q. 19. What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?

A. All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.

Morning with God's Word 4/24/15

4/24/15


Q. 18. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?

A. The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam’s first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.

Morning with God's Word 4/23/15

4/23/15


Q. 17. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?

A. The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.

Morning with God's Word 4/22/15

4/22/15


Q. 16. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?

A. The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.

Morning with God's Word 4/21/15

4/21/15


Q. 15. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?

A. The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.

Morning with God's Word 4/20/15

4/20/15


Q. 14. What is sin?

A. Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.

Morning with God's Word 4/19/15

4/19/15


Q. 13. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?

A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.

Morning with God's Word 4/18/15

4/18/15


Q. 12. What special act of providence did God exercise towards man in the estate wherein he was created?

A. When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon the pain of death.

Morning with God's Word 4/17/15

4/17/15


Q. 11. What are God’s works of providence?

A. God’s works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.

Morning with God's Word 4/16/15

4/16/15


Q. 10. How did God create man?

A. God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.

Morning with God's Word 4/15/15

4/15/15


Q. 9. What is the work of creation?

A. The work of creation is, God’s making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days, and all very good.

Morning with God's Word 4/14/15

4/14/15


Q. 8. How doth God execute his decrees?

A. God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.

Morning with God's Word 4/13/15

4/13/15

Q. 7. What are the decrees of God?

A. The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.

Morning with God's Word 4/12/15

4/12/15

Q. 6. How many persons are there in the Godhead?

A. There are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.

Morning with God's Word 4/11/15

4/11/15

Q. 5. Are there more Gods than one?

A. There is but one only, the living and true God.

Morning with God's Word 4/10/15

4/10/15

Q. 4. What is God?

A. God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

Morning with God's Word 4/9/15

4/9/15

Q. 3. What do the Scriptures principally teach?

A. The Scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.

Morning with God's Word 4/8/15

4/8/15

Q. 2. What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?

A. The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.

Morning with God's Word 4/7/15

4/7/15

Let’s look at some of the;

WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM

Q. 1. What is the chief end of man?

A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

The Westminster Shorter Catechism is a catechism written in 1646 and 1647 by the Westminster Assembly, a synod of English and Scottish theologians and laymen intended to bring the Church of England into greater conformity with the Church of Scotland. The assembly also produced the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Westminster Larger Catechism. A version without Scripture citations was completed on 25 November 1647 and presented to the Long Parliament, and Scripture citations were added on 14 April 1648.

Morning with God's Word 4/6/15

4/6/15

Rev 4:11  "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created."

Nothing exists without the will of god, nothing!

Morning with God's Word 4/5/15

4/5/15

HAPPY EASTER!

Mat 28:1  Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.

Mat 28:2  And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.

Mat 28:3  His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.

Mat 28:4  And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men.

Mat 28:5  But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

Mat 28:6  He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.

Mat 28:7  Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you."

Mat 28:8  So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.

Mat 28:9  And behold, Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.

I pray that you go to church today and give praise to the risen lord and savior.

Morning with God's Word 4/4/15

4/4/15

1Co 15:1  Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,

1Co 15:2  and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

1Co 15:3  For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,

1Co 15:4  that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

1Co 15:5  and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

1Co 15:6  Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.

I would remind you that Christ died for our sins!

Morning with God's Word 4/3/15

4/3/15

2Co 5:14  For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;

2Co 5:15  and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

2Co 5:16  From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.

2Co 5:17  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

2Co 5:18  All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

2Co 5:19  that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

2Co 5:20  Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

2Co 5:21  For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Just take the time to read this one more time, and then take at least a pause and let it go into your heart and touch your soul, know that:

 “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

“the righteousness of God!”

Morning with God's Word 4/2/15

4/2/15

The Apostles’ Creed reads:

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the quick and
the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.²

Tradition says that the apostles themselves wrote this, we don’t really know but no matter it is a wonderful creed and we should know it and say it in our devotional time.

Morning with God's Word 4/1/15

4/1/15

The lord’s prayer!

Luk 11:2-4  And he said to them,

"When you pray, say:”

"Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come.

Give us each day our daily bread,

and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation."

When we pray we seem to have a list for god to hear. we learn that early in life; "god bless mommy, god bless daddy, god bless sissy, god bless baba…” and so on and so on.

But when we pray we should say…