Now is the time to forgive
Now is the time to repent
Now is the time to obey
Now is the time to trust
Now is the time to love
Now is the time to comfort
Now is the time to do good
BECAUSE
JESUS is coming soon and when He comes there will
be no more opportunity to forgive, repent, obey,
trust, love, comfort or do good.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
What God Is Able To Do
God is able to save them to the uttermost those
who come unto Him through Christ Jesus. Hebrews 7:24
God is able to run to your help whenever you
cry out to Him in times of trial and testing.
Hebrews 2:18 Amplified version
God is able to do exceeding, abundantly above
all that you ask or think according to His power
which works in you. Ephesians 3:20
God is able to make all grace abound toward
you that you may always have all sufficiency
in all things that you may abound in every good
work. 2 Corinthians 9:8
God is able to keep that which you have
committed unto Him until the day of His appearing.
2 Timothy 1:12
God is able to keep you from falling and to present
you faultless before His glorious presence with
exceeding joy! Jude 24
who come unto Him through Christ Jesus. Hebrews 7:24
God is able to run to your help whenever you
cry out to Him in times of trial and testing.
Hebrews 2:18 Amplified version
God is able to do exceeding, abundantly above
all that you ask or think according to His power
which works in you. Ephesians 3:20
God is able to make all grace abound toward
you that you may always have all sufficiency
in all things that you may abound in every good
work. 2 Corinthians 9:8
God is able to keep that which you have
committed unto Him until the day of His appearing.
2 Timothy 1:12
God is able to keep you from falling and to present
you faultless before His glorious presence with
exceeding joy! Jude 24
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Three Small Words
Three small words so important...make such a
difference...open up channels of communication.
Those three words..."I have sinned" spoken to God
..spoken out of a truly broken heart...broken
because I have sinned against God who is Holy.
Why are those words hard to say? Pride needs to bend.
In Psalm 51, David says, "Against you and you only
have I sinned and done this evil in your sight."
The prodigal son acknowledged "I have sinned against
heaven and in your sight." It is not enough to
recognize and admit "I am wrong" but I must realize
that all sin is against God. Only then wilI I be
ready to let Him change me.
Like the father the prodigal son who was waiting
with open arms for his son to return; God is looking
waiting with open arms to forgive and receive all
who truly, humbly acknowledge to Him "I have sinned
against you".
God revealed His heart to forgive when He allowed His
only begotten Son's arms to be opened upon
the cross where He bore our sins.
difference...open up channels of communication.
Those three words..."I have sinned" spoken to God
..spoken out of a truly broken heart...broken
because I have sinned against God who is Holy.
Why are those words hard to say? Pride needs to bend.
In Psalm 51, David says, "Against you and you only
have I sinned and done this evil in your sight."
The prodigal son acknowledged "I have sinned against
heaven and in your sight." It is not enough to
recognize and admit "I am wrong" but I must realize
that all sin is against God. Only then wilI I be
ready to let Him change me.
Like the father the prodigal son who was waiting
with open arms for his son to return; God is looking
waiting with open arms to forgive and receive all
who truly, humbly acknowledge to Him "I have sinned
against you".
God revealed His heart to forgive when He allowed His
only begotten Son's arms to be opened upon
the cross where He bore our sins.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
From Mom's Perspective
Mom was busy in the kitchen for several days. One could smell the
aroma of baked beans, fresh cookies, and stew simmering on the stove.
Dad came into the room just as mom had finished peeling, potatoes
and carrots. Piles of sliced onions and diced celery were on the
cutting board. Dad remarked," Isn't it discouraging to spend so much
time making a meal?" Mom replied, "No, but it would be very
discouraging to put all that time and work into making a meal
if no one would eat that meal".
Our Heavenly Father has provided His Word to "feed our souls".
How do you think He feels when we neglect to come and partake
of this spiritual food?
aroma of baked beans, fresh cookies, and stew simmering on the stove.
Dad came into the room just as mom had finished peeling, potatoes
and carrots. Piles of sliced onions and diced celery were on the
cutting board. Dad remarked," Isn't it discouraging to spend so much
time making a meal?" Mom replied, "No, but it would be very
discouraging to put all that time and work into making a meal
if no one would eat that meal".
Our Heavenly Father has provided His Word to "feed our souls".
How do you think He feels when we neglect to come and partake
of this spiritual food?
Saturday, May 9, 2009
HANDS ...what meaning they have!
Etched in my memory is the way that my baby's fingers grasped
tightly around my little finger.. a sense of belonging. When
my toddler reached out his hand to hold in mine while we crossed
a busy street....a sense of trust. When my kindergarten child
waved good-bye as she stepped into the school bus...a sense of
letting her go. When the first little signs of a plant break
through the ground from the seeds that my children planted....a
sense of the awesomeness of God's creation......When my son
would not lift the cover to take a cookie out of the cookie jar
without first asking me....a sense of honesty. When the football
came crashing through the kitchen window where I was washing
dishes...a sense of forgiveness. When I tasted a piece of the
delicious cake which my daughter baked without using a recipe
...a sense of creativenss. When my oldest daughter's hands took
hold of the steering wheel of our Toyota for the first time....a
sense of responsibility. When hand written letters came in the mail
from daughters who were at college far away....a sense of lonliness.
When I watched the wedding ring being tenderly slipped unto her and
his fingers...a sense of giving them to one another.When my hands
held my precious grandchild for the first time....a sense of great
joy.
I think now about the hands of my Creator from whom all these
blessings flow,I think of the hands of my Savior:
Who beckoned for men to leave their fishing nets and follow Him,
Who held the little child,
Who put forth his hand and touched a leper, making him clean,
Who spoke to the man with the withered hand and his hand was made whole,
Who took the little maid by the hand and she was alive from the dead,
Who laid his hands on the woman who was bent over and she was made straight,
Who stretched out his hands on the cross that we might have eternal life.
tightly around my little finger.. a sense of belonging. When
my toddler reached out his hand to hold in mine while we crossed
a busy street....a sense of trust. When my kindergarten child
waved good-bye as she stepped into the school bus...a sense of
letting her go. When the first little signs of a plant break
through the ground from the seeds that my children planted....a
sense of the awesomeness of God's creation......When my son
would not lift the cover to take a cookie out of the cookie jar
without first asking me....a sense of honesty. When the football
came crashing through the kitchen window where I was washing
dishes...a sense of forgiveness. When I tasted a piece of the
delicious cake which my daughter baked without using a recipe
...a sense of creativenss. When my oldest daughter's hands took
hold of the steering wheel of our Toyota for the first time....a
sense of responsibility. When hand written letters came in the mail
from daughters who were at college far away....a sense of lonliness.
When I watched the wedding ring being tenderly slipped unto her and
his fingers...a sense of giving them to one another.When my hands
held my precious grandchild for the first time....a sense of great
joy.
I think now about the hands of my Creator from whom all these
blessings flow,I think of the hands of my Savior:
Who beckoned for men to leave their fishing nets and follow Him,
Who held the little child,
Who put forth his hand and touched a leper, making him clean,
Who spoke to the man with the withered hand and his hand was made whole,
Who took the little maid by the hand and she was alive from the dead,
Who laid his hands on the woman who was bent over and she was made straight,
Who stretched out his hands on the cross that we might have eternal life.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Blessings in Christ Jesus
If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Saviour from sin all
of the blessings that are found in the following Scripture are
yours!
1. You are blessed
2. You are chosen
3. You are predestinated
4. You are adopted
5. You are accepted
6. You are redeemed
7. You are forgiven
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed
us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ, according
as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we
should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated
us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according
to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his
grace, wherein he has made us accepted in the beloved, in whom we
have redemption through his blood , even the forgiveness of sins
according to the riches of his grace." Ephesians 1:3-7
Rejoice today, in all of your blessings.
of the blessings that are found in the following Scripture are
yours!
1. You are blessed
2. You are chosen
3. You are predestinated
4. You are adopted
5. You are accepted
6. You are redeemed
7. You are forgiven
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed
us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ, according
as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we
should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated
us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according
to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his
grace, wherein he has made us accepted in the beloved, in whom we
have redemption through his blood , even the forgiveness of sins
according to the riches of his grace." Ephesians 1:3-7
Rejoice today, in all of your blessings.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Questions to ponder
1. If God be for us, who can be against us?
2. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
3. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?
4. Who is he that condemns?
5. Who shall separate us from the love of God?
6. Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine or
nakedness, or peril , or sword separate us from the love of
God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord?
ANSWER; "No, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that
neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able
to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord". Romans 8:37-39
Do you know Him? Is He your LORD?
2. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
3. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?
4. Who is he that condemns?
5. Who shall separate us from the love of God?
6. Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine or
nakedness, or peril , or sword separate us from the love of
God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord?
ANSWER; "No, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that
neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able
to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord". Romans 8:37-39
Do you know Him? Is He your LORD?
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