God personally, I think all your Family members need to laugh, smile and express joy more often. Help us appropiate all that You have for us. We also need Your wisdom so that we (I for one..) don't rate high on our hearer's irritation scale in any locale. Don't want to rate on it at all really. Just want to impart what You want, and get Your Message through. Live through us. What a blessing to have real friends in your Family. Do want to see Your Church grow today. Please make each of us a real blessing to Your Church and to the pastors we meet as well. We are so grateful for the ones who are alive, spiritual, balanced and working hard. Please wake up, directly minister to, comfort, fully equip, biblically revive, direct, exhort, challenge, and use Your Church. Yes, make your local churches blessings in their respective communities as well..to the glory of Jesus Christ. Help us properly represent You and Your holy character ..with JOY and even a smile in this dark world that's lacking both ..sure, while we have opportunity to, Lord. Amen.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Are you blessed and a blessing for God's Church? Then smile.
God personally, I think all your Family members need to laugh, smile and express joy more often. Help us appropiate all that You have for us. We also need Your wisdom so that we (I for one..) don't rate high on our hearer's irritation scale in any locale. Don't want to rate on it at all really. Just want to impart what You want, and get Your Message through. Live through us. What a blessing to have real friends in your Family. Do want to see Your Church grow today. Please make each of us a real blessing to Your Church and to the pastors we meet as well. We are so grateful for the ones who are alive, spiritual, balanced and working hard. Please wake up, directly minister to, comfort, fully equip, biblically revive, direct, exhort, challenge, and use Your Church. Yes, make your local churches blessings in their respective communities as well..to the glory of Jesus Christ. Help us properly represent You and Your holy character ..with JOY and even a smile in this dark world that's lacking both ..sure, while we have opportunity to, Lord. Amen.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
News Flash: The Lord is greater and way bigger than all those problems that have preoccupied your mind!
Able to build you up every single day of the week..and every year..by His grace!
Sunday, February 23, 2014
They're tellin' me Easter is just around the corner. Have you yet applied the benefits of the Cross?
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Believer, Jesus your soul-winning Lord, is training you...
..to be a tenacious intercessor, a faith-filled overcomer, a patient seed planter, and a gentle reaper.
Why? Because He cares about all the peoples of the nations and world as much as He cares about you.
Remember when He by His Spirit directed someone to kindly approach, share Scriptures, explain the Gospel, patiently tell you all about Jesus Christ as well as His finish work on the cross?
"I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth." - Paul, see the context of 1 Corinthians 3:6 www.facebook.com/shareJesus
Friday, February 14, 2014
Want the fire to fall?... which kind?
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Was it once so nicely arranged n delicately put together?...
Has the lovely dream been shattered or turned to dirty ashes in your fingers? Listen, He's gentle, loves you deeply, is way better than the dream, and He can give beauty for ashes.
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My load is light.” Matthew 11:28-30
"Remember the word to Thy servant, In which Thou hast made me hope. This is my comfort…" Psalm 119:49-50
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress… in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us." Romans 8:35-37
Sure you remember, believer.. God says to you, "Do not fear, for I am with you…" Isaiah 41:10. The date and the day of the week has changed, but He hasn’t. Dare ya.. go read and prayerfully meditate upon Romans 8 today. facebook.com/shareJesus BTW: Just had a friend ask me for my personal bio and thought someone else might want to see it too.
Sunday, February 9, 2014
No detaunt or white flags.
Onward; Christian soldiers marching, as to war; with the Cross of Jesus going on before. Christ, the royal Master leads against the foe, forward into battle, see His banners go!
Perhaps our nation, the church (with more teachers and bigger now), and the family are more under siege today than they were at the time when Sabine Bearing-Gould penned these fitting words. Fight on.. in the good fight of faith.
"Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." 2 Timothy 2:3
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Up or down ..and how?
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
How can any believer be a winsome effective witness without the J O Y of Jesus inside?
For years as an unbeliever I loved to see and wanted to have JOY. Some called themselves Christians and just didn't seem to have any. Were those the prayerless, carnally minded, selfishly inverted, worldly, and disobedient believers?
Now, God is my exceeding joy! But sometimes I too have put it off (prayer and the Word), got distracted, forgot, blew it, and have lost my joy. Hate that.
Doesn't have to be that way. Joy can be restored. Just stop the sinning, re-prioritize, turn, repent and reenter the Lord's rest. By faith nestle rather than strive n uber-wrestle.
O just to be near Him. Man, what beats that? Nothin’! He listens, feels for, and sees. It’s not the presence or absence of a storm or any trials that determine my joy-level. Nope. It’s drawin' near to the Lord that determines it.
Have you taken time to steal away (slip out the door, or into a closet of some sort..) from all and clamor of the crowd to go spend some time with the Lord today?
Please don't forget your time with Jesus. So important. Go for it. #HisPresenceRocks
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
In subtle ways and in not so subtle but audacious ways, many proud saints and sinners do it publically. But how about you? Who or what do you brag on?
It should be the primary purpose of every Bible-believing local church.. to worship and magnify Jesus Christ. The Bible says, "Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen" (Ephesians 3:21). And I will go further than that by saying that magnifying Christ, instead of self or band or pastor or athlete etc, ought to be the purpose of every born-again believer. Let the lost people say what they will, why try to reform them? Give them the Gospel lovingly, tell them all about what Jesus has done in your life, but let's magnify the Lord today. The Apostle Paul said, "If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord." And first-off, know the Lord. 2 Corinthians 10:17
Sunday, February 2, 2014
What to do when you realize your horse is cold and dead.. dismount and go board a strong healthy one headed in the right direction.
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Have there been times in your life where you felt ditched? Have you ever felt totally forsaken?
Reading, "As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?" See Psalm 42 and 43. It's like.. When shall I see you God and have your presence?
"My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, "Where is your God?" (vv. 1–3).
The union of the Trinity was never broken. The Father heard the Son. And God the Father puts us ..at times.. in situations and places where He knows that we can no longer lean on those things that have kinda become symbols of our faith.. and we have somehow started religiously putting our security in em ..but they are not God Himself who is far better. So that type of thing just won't do. It's cuz God loves us so much, and He wants all of us ..wants us closer and better off. He wants us to be real practical of course, but also to lean on Christ as our Lord alone. Jesus is our ultimate security. Question: Is Christ your security.. or is He Lord in theory only for you? You know that when Jesus is truly Savior and Lord over all in your life.. you know, I mean Lord in our daily practice etc.. you and I will have so much Joy and blessing that we just want to go and tell others about Him. Then His Kingdom is expanded by our living it and telling It (the Gospel). God is so glorified when we have Him first and obey His Great Commission ..His way rather than our way. Have you been weary in well doing, or faithearted? I can relate, been there, but don't stay that way. Pray earnestly without ceasing no matter what you feel like today.