Grace for your spirit 8-2-17

Grace for your spirit

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.  Proverbs 3:5-6

As we travel through the life, if we can keep from stumbling, falling, and getting hurt, our journey is much more pleasurable.  God gives us the formula for success, and its really quite simple. Trust in God and His understanding, and put in first in all our thoughts.  The result will be a straight path.  The path to success, happiness, and eternity with Him.

Grace for your spirit 8-1-17

Grace for your spirit

Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled house while this house lies desolate?  Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, "Consider your ways  Haggai 1:4-5

After the captivity of Judah was over, God provided His people with all the resources they needed to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.  Instead of doing that , they used the materials to build their own homes and left the temple in ruins.  Because of those decisions nothing was going right for them.  God said, "Hey, think in over, and consider your ways."  God has blessed all of us with time, talent, and resources.  Are we keeping them all for us own use, or using them for the Lord's work?  It is time for us to consider our ways. 

Grace for your spirit 7-31-17

Grace for your spirit

But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil.  I Thessalonians 5:21-22

What is on our list for today?  Where are we going and what do we plan to do?  As our lives ricochet around the world, let's never forget the top three things that need to be on our list every day.  Examine everything carefully, hold fast to good, stay away from even the appearance of evil. When we do those things right, everything else will be better for us and everyone we meet.  Let's put them on our list right now.

Grace for your spirit 7-28-17

Grace for your spirit

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.   I John 4:7

As Christians we like to proclaim that we are born again and know God. With that close relationship with God we should know the love of God and know how to share it with others.  When we say we love God and don't love our brothers, something is very wrong.  Is it time to reexamine our relationship with God and our brethren?  Perhaps it is.

Grace for your spirit 7-27-17

Grace for your spirit

When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him. Colossians 2:15

Whenever the Romans conquered a town, they removed the leaders and had them parade down the street in chains.  This was a public display to let all the citizens know that there was a new boss in town. When Jesus went to the cross and rose from the dead, the Old Law with its regulations, and priests were nailed to the cross.  As the curtains in the temple were ripped in two, it signaled a New Covenant of Jesus as Lord.  God moved quickly to announce that Jesus was now the way, the truth, and the life.  Let's follow Him.

Grace for your spirit 7-26-17

Grace for your spirit

You have rescued my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.  I shall walk before the Lord in the land of the living. Psalm 116:8-9

When we rescue others, we rescue ourselves.  It begins with allowing God to rescue our soul from death.  With a clear eye and a steady foot, we walk before the Lord. With that walk of God, we will help God rescue others who are perishing.  As we rescue others, we will continue to rescue ourselves from pitfalls of our walk in this world.  Let's continue to be in the rescue business all the days the Lord gives us.

Grace for your spirit 7-25-17

Grace for your spirit

How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping is according to Your word.  Psalm 119:9

Mary had a little lamb, It's fleece was white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go. It followed her to school one day which was against the rules.  It made the children laugh and play to have a lamb at school. And then the rules all changed one day, illegal it became; To bring the Lamb of God to school or even say His name.  Every day got worse and worse, and days turned into years.  Instead of hearing children laugh we heard gunshots and tears.  What must we do to stop the crime in our schools today?  Let the Lamb of God come back to school and teach our kids to pray.