We are Saved so that we can Love God and Love Each Other
We come to Christ for salvation so that we can love God and love others. The essential outworking of our faith is love.
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The Urgent Imperative of Ministry: Stop Stalling, Start Serving
You have the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has equipped you. the Holy Spirit is ready to move. Let’s go!
Too many believers spend their whole lives figuring out their gift. Debating, pondering, considering, but never actually employing their gift/s in ministry to the brethren/church.
Holy Hospitality
The opportunity to help, to minister, to bless others, in any way, should always be welcomed. Welcomed because we want so much to serve God. But, in so many aspects of life, we prefer to serve only who, and when, and how we want. And, thus, we don’t really serve at all, no matter what we decide to do.
No Lust, No Sin, No Problem
As long as we try to tackle sinfulness by focusing solely on the sinful acts, rather than the lusts that produce them, we will live in frustration. The only way to stop a weed from sprouting is to kill it at the root. God provided us with the best (and only) sin killer available to man: His Word. God’s Word of truth will transform us inwardly so that our very desires will change. And when the root of a sin is gone, the sin goes with it: No root no sin, no problem.
NO Middle-Ground: We LIVE in the LIGHT or DIE in the DARKNESS
Fellowship with God requires a total commitment to exclusivity in the Believer/Disciple/Worshipper. Fellowship with God requires, demands, absolute purity of heart and mind, absolute purity of one’s being. There is no possibility of fellowshipping with God if there is any trace of sin in my heart (my emotions), my mind (my thinking) or my attitude (my approach).
Be wary of modern-day “prophets”
Despite all the prophets God sent, the Israelites were not saved, because they rejected God. Prophets/prophecies do not save us. Only God’s grace by faith of Jesus Christ can save us.
Life Under Cover
God the Father has provided a structure for how husbands relate to their wives. Moreover, He models this structure through His own relationship with Christ the Son. The structured relationship between God the Father and Christ the Son did not diminish Christ; rather, through it Christ gained mankind’s salvation and was exalted. Similarly, the structured relationship between husband and wife does not diminish the wife. Rather, in it she is her most productive, and by it she glorifies God, and is herself exalted.
Suffering: The Forgotten Gift
…the Believer who is completing his course of suffering for Christ’s sake is completing the process of ceasing from sin. In other words, suffering for Christ’s sake transforms the Believer from sin-FULL to sin-LESS; suffering for Christ’s sake perfects Believers.
Faithfulness: Foremost for Followers
It is our faithful obedience to God, in the face of monotony and/or adversity, that reveals the true condition of our character.
Anger Management
…Anger management takes practice and deliberate effort. However, we should always remember that God is on OUR side. As we develop the habit of constantly communicating with Him, as we practice seeking His will in everything, as we learn to live within His hedge of protection, we will gradually learn how to draw strength from Him when we are sorely aggravated. We CAN win the battle…
Reflections in The WORD 