2 Thessalonians 3:4’May God direct your hearts toward the love of God and the patient endurance of Christ.’Oh God’s love, perfect and boundless. Love pure divine and true. These here are the major ingredients of a mature Christian life that honors God.God’s love will keep you forgiving, free from the tarnish of malice, anger, bitterness
Read MoreProverbs 6:16’There are six things the Lord hates. . . ‘I guess its safe to say that we’re all seeking the big revelations from God and wanting to be used mightily by Him. But here is where it all starts: knowing what the Lord desires!Intimacy is built on knowing what your partner likes and doesn’t
Read MoreLeviticus 19:18’Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as your self. I am the Lord.’My focus today is on the ‘love your neighbor as yourself part’. Humans are known generally to be a really selfish and self seeking lot. We’d instinctively do almost anything to make ourselves
Read MoreLuke 6:46-49’Why do you call me Lord and will not do as I say?’Are you submitted to the God you talk about?Hearing the Word won’t necessarily build your life, especially if you’re not going to do anything with it. You must do what you hear.Doing is like digging – there isn’t any shortcut. It’s the
Read MoreProverbs 13:4Laziness is defined as resistance to work or exertion. Proverbs 10:4 says lazy hands make for poverty. Hands that refuse or resist all manner of work, effort or exertion cannot have abundance.Isn’t it interesting that prosperity and abundance are the results of work and effort?The lazy man’s appetite is never satisfied, never filled, never
Read MoreJames 2:22’Prove that your faith is real by what you do.’We please God by what we do, not just by what we say and believe. Its important we take our faith further, not only believing, but also saying and doing!Its true that without faith, its impossible to please God, but its also true that the
Read MoreMathew 5:8’Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.’I’ve thought quite a bit about this pure heart matter. I sure do want the benefits of a pure heart- a deeper and more intimate relationship with God (for they will see God), and higher quality of relationships and connections (will have kings as
Read MoreMark 6: 30-44This is the story of the little boy with 5 loaves and 2 fish. When my daughter was younger, she had a rather interesting version of the story. ‘Jesus fed 5 thousand million people with 5 breads and 2 fishes’. Whatever darling, at least we agree He fed a whole lot of people,
Read MoreJohn 6:12,39′. . . let nothing be wasted.’ verse 12b God is not wasteful, not even in the least bit so. God is prudent and pays attention to detail. He is neither porous nor careless.Imagine this, He made the whole world yet He knows every single creature by name and detail. He is still able to
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