Grace for your spirit 10-11-17

Grace for your spirit

Commit your works to the Lord and your plans will be established.  Proverbs 16:3

If we are starting a business or building something, our plans must be submitted and approved by the authorities. If our plans don't line up with theirs, nothing happens,  How about our life decisions?  Are we willing to submit our plans to the Lord for approval ?  As we look down the road of life, do we see any place or any time that our plans intersect with the plans of God ?  We need to make it so, then our plans will be successful.

Grace for your spirit 10-10-17

Grace for your spirit

To open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.   Acts 26:18

When Jesus appeared to Saul on the road to Damascus, He was there to appoint Saul a minister and a witness to those who did not know God.  To preach the good news and turn the people from darkness, Satan, and sin.   We may not see Jesus on a road with a bright light, but our commission and direction is still exactly the same.  We all have an appointment to spread the good news of Jesus.

Grace for your spirit 10-9-17

Grace for your spirit

Jesus said, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.  John 14:23

What greater promise than the promise of the Godhead moving in with us.  When we love Jesus, and keep His word, what happens?  God loves us, and Our Father, Son, and Holy Spirit come home with us.  Then what happens?  We walk securely with them.  God has decided. What have we decided ?

Grace for your spirit 10-6-17

Grace for your spirit

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  

I Corinthians 1:18

When we know Jesus died for our sins, rose for our justification, ascended to heaven to be our mediator, and will come again to take us home, the word of the cross is victory over everything.   It is not surprising that those who walk in darkness without hope will think that the word of the cross can't change everything, but it can.  The cross of Christ is the central point of all the past and future.  If we think it is foolishness, beware.

Grace for your spirit 10-5-17

Grace for your spirit

So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.  Isaiah 55:11

When rain comes down from heaven, it does not return without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout.  It the same way, when we spread the word of God, it always accomplishing what God desires.  We may not see immediate results, but they will come in due time.  Let's continue to spread His word, and expect great results.

Grace for your spirit 10-4-17

Grace for your spirit

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside.  I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.  Psalm 84:10

What a great testimony this is for being close to God.  Just give me one day with God, and it surpasses a thousand days elsewhere.  Just a place in God's doorway is greater than a big tent in the world.  People long for riches, power, and love, but this one yearned for the presence of God.  Imagine how our lives would change for the better if we  yearned to be close to God, and in His presence.

Grace for your spirit 10-3-17

Grace for your spirit

Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons.  Deuteronomy 4:9

This message from Moses to the children of Israel is as relevant today as it was then.  We need grow spiritually, and put into practice the things that we have learned, seen, and heard.  Keep them close so they never go away.  Then pass all of it on to our family, friends, and those we meet.  This is God's plan for us today.  Have we fallen down and failed in our mission to please God?  Let's backtrack, get it right, and pass it on.