Grace for your spirit
For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and who glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. Philippians 3:18-19
Let's take a quick personal inventory. Do we hold up the cross of Christ, or are we enemies of the cross? If our god is our appetite for worldly things, who is our real God. It should make us weep when people claim to be disciples of the heavenly one, then live like hell. Let's set our minds on heavenly things, and give the glory to God for all we do.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit
Philippians 4:23
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Grace for your spirit November 1, 2011
Grace for your spirit
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1:2-4
When our faith is weak, what do we pray for? Would we be willing to trust the Lord enough to ask for trials and tests that would produce endurance? Do we know God will deliver us, and do we trust Him enough to let endurance have the perfect result in us? Prosperity and good times seldom build our faith. Tests are the best in the long run. When we and our loved ones are backsliding, instead of asking God to make their lives more comfortable, maybe we should ask for adversity instead. If God will afflict the comfortable, then He will also comfort the afflicted. Let's trust and pray
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit
Philippians 4:23
graceforyourspirit.blogspot.com
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1:2-4
When our faith is weak, what do we pray for? Would we be willing to trust the Lord enough to ask for trials and tests that would produce endurance? Do we know God will deliver us, and do we trust Him enough to let endurance have the perfect result in us? Prosperity and good times seldom build our faith. Tests are the best in the long run. When we and our loved ones are backsliding, instead of asking God to make their lives more comfortable, maybe we should ask for adversity instead. If God will afflict the comfortable, then He will also comfort the afflicted. Let's trust and pray
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit
Philippians 4:23
graceforyourspirit.blogspot.com
Monday, October 31, 2011
Grace for your spirit October 31, 2011
Grace for your spirit
Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. Psalm 139:23-24
Suppose someone gave us a jigsaw puzzle in a plastic bag. They just dumped a 1,000 pieces on the table and wanted us to put it together. Where would we start? Well, I would want the box to see the picture I would be working on. That is true with life as well. Life is a bunch of pieces that we need to fit together in the right way for success. If we don't have a picture, it is hard to know which piece goes where. The devil will even slip in a couple of pieces that don't belong. God gives us that perspective in His Word. He has the vision, called Omnipresence, to show us where we came from, where we are, and where we should be going. Let's communicate with Him in Word and prayer. He has the picture we need to put the pieces together.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit
Philippians 4:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. Psalm 139:23-24
Suppose someone gave us a jigsaw puzzle in a plastic bag. They just dumped a 1,000 pieces on the table and wanted us to put it together. Where would we start? Well, I would want the box to see the picture I would be working on. That is true with life as well. Life is a bunch of pieces that we need to fit together in the right way for success. If we don't have a picture, it is hard to know which piece goes where. The devil will even slip in a couple of pieces that don't belong. God gives us that perspective in His Word. He has the vision, called Omnipresence, to show us where we came from, where we are, and where we should be going. Let's communicate with Him in Word and prayer. He has the picture we need to put the pieces together.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit
Philippians 4:23
Friday, October 28, 2011
Grace for your spirit October 28, 2011
Grace for your spirit
Let's consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together. Hebrews 10:24-25
Did you ever go into a restaurant when half of the staff didn't come to work? The other employees suffer trying to do the work. The customers suffer waiting for service, and everyone is unhappy. The same thing happens when half the congregation skips services. The worship suffers and those that need encourage suffer too. Let's think how we are affected our brethren and our visitors when we decide to stay away next time. Let's all be in our places with bright shining faces. This is the way to start the new day.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit
Philippians 4:23
graceforyourspirit.blogspot.com
Let's consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together. Hebrews 10:24-25
Did you ever go into a restaurant when half of the staff didn't come to work? The other employees suffer trying to do the work. The customers suffer waiting for service, and everyone is unhappy. The same thing happens when half the congregation skips services. The worship suffers and those that need encourage suffer too. Let's think how we are affected our brethren and our visitors when we decide to stay away next time. Let's all be in our places with bright shining faces. This is the way to start the new day.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit
Philippians 4:23
graceforyourspirit.blogspot.com
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Grace for your spirit October 27, 2011
Grace for your spirit
If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, and the light around me will be night," Even the darkness is not dark to You, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You. Psalm 139:11-12
People with evil deeds love the darkness rather than the light. We think the darkness covers our sins so people and God cannot see them. Like cockroaches in a dark room, we scatter when the light comes on. The world did just that when the true light, Jesus, came into the world. All that time we spend looking for darkness to cover our sins from God is a complete waste of time. Darkness and light are the same to God. We might as well come out of the darkness and into the light. That is His invitation for our salvation, plus the darkness isn't helping us anyway.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit
Phlippians 4:23
graceforyourspirit.blogspot.com
If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, and the light around me will be night," Even the darkness is not dark to You, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You. Psalm 139:11-12
People with evil deeds love the darkness rather than the light. We think the darkness covers our sins so people and God cannot see them. Like cockroaches in a dark room, we scatter when the light comes on. The world did just that when the true light, Jesus, came into the world. All that time we spend looking for darkness to cover our sins from God is a complete waste of time. Darkness and light are the same to God. We might as well come out of the darkness and into the light. That is His invitation for our salvation, plus the darkness isn't helping us anyway.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit
Phlippians 4:23
graceforyourspirit.blogspot.com
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Grace for your spirit October 26, 2011
Grace for your spirit
They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. Genesis 11:4
This is the Biblical event commonly known as the Tower of Babel. Just barely off the ark, the sons of Noah would multiply into seventy nations. God stopped them from building by giving them different languages and scattering them all over the earth. God didn't want earthly towers and earthly gods, nor did He want man to give themselves credit for what they did. This project failed, but it set a standard in that part of the world for building such towers. Much later, the Babylonians built cities with towers called ziggurats. The were towers reaching toward their gods. We know that ziggurats can be hazardous to our health. When we build to gods, faith dies and we die. Let's tear down our idols, our high places, and our desire to make a name for ourselves. Let's throw those ziggurats away, and focus on God to praise His name.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit
Philippians 4:23
graceforyourspirit.blogspot.com
They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. Genesis 11:4
This is the Biblical event commonly known as the Tower of Babel. Just barely off the ark, the sons of Noah would multiply into seventy nations. God stopped them from building by giving them different languages and scattering them all over the earth. God didn't want earthly towers and earthly gods, nor did He want man to give themselves credit for what they did. This project failed, but it set a standard in that part of the world for building such towers. Much later, the Babylonians built cities with towers called ziggurats. The were towers reaching toward their gods. We know that ziggurats can be hazardous to our health. When we build to gods, faith dies and we die. Let's tear down our idols, our high places, and our desire to make a name for ourselves. Let's throw those ziggurats away, and focus on God to praise His name.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit
Philippians 4:23
graceforyourspirit.blogspot.com
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Grace for your spirit October 25, 2011
Grace for your spirit
For we know that if the earthy tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. II Corinthians5:1
The other day I walked up to a lunch counter and said to the lady, "What'ya know?" She responded, "I know we never went to the moon." It seems she had a great conviction on this subject, and just couldn't hold it in. How many times do people ask us the same question? "What'ya know?" We know we are God's creation. We know Jesus died for our sins. We know there is a way of salvation in Christ. We know we have a home in heaven when we die, and a whole lot more if we think about it. We should have such a conviction on the subject that we just can't hold it in either. Yet, the next time someone asks us what we know, will we say, "Nothin' much"? Think about it..
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit
Philippians 4:23
For we know that if the earthy tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. II Corinthians5:1
The other day I walked up to a lunch counter and said to the lady, "What'ya know?" She responded, "I know we never went to the moon." It seems she had a great conviction on this subject, and just couldn't hold it in. How many times do people ask us the same question? "What'ya know?" We know we are God's creation. We know Jesus died for our sins. We know there is a way of salvation in Christ. We know we have a home in heaven when we die, and a whole lot more if we think about it. We should have such a conviction on the subject that we just can't hold it in either. Yet, the next time someone asks us what we know, will we say, "Nothin' much"? Think about it..
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit
Philippians 4:23
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