Reflections
Greetings and blessings to all of you. Memorial Day is tomorrow. What does this mean to the Body of Christ (you and me)? While God wants us to remember our fallen soldiers and the soldiers that continue to stand for our country God want us to realize that we are part of this country (we are the soldiers of Christ) even though the powers that be want to place us on the margin. God said, “remember the days of old consider the generations long past…” Deut. 32:7 We as Christians are supposed to have a powerful influence over this country wherever God has placed us because we are...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. Paul told the believers at Corinth “I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning… your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.” Earlier Paul told them to note that “we demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. We are told “for our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of the dark worl...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. In Eph. 2:8-9 For it is by Grace you have been saved, through faith and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works -so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” The church is “sanctified in Christ” being composed of the “called saints” who have been called out of the satanic world. The church is related with all the saints who call upon the name of the Lord in every place around the globe. We are united b...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. Grieving can be the most difficult time for people. Trying to balance the feelings of pain and loss while going forward with your everyday life can be overwhelming. But like Hannah we can get through this. Sister Hannah gives us insight on how to do this. First of all, Hannah knew The Lord. Do you know the Lord? Hannah knew that sometimes God will place us in a waiting room…a place where she had no control over her circumstances. Hannah saw what patience looked like when she saw her husband Elkanah “go up year by year from this city to worshi...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. When the Church “goes to Church” things take place. The Body of Christ is bigger than the local church/us. Meaning… the gospel is spread through the strength and wisdom of Jesus Christ. He has chosen to use the Body of Believers united by the Holy Spirt “to prepare God’s people for works of service so that the Body of Christ may be built up until we reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” The Word of God goes on to say,...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. Resurrection Sunday has not passed. We who are followers of Christ has risen. Let me explain. As Christ was denounced as a political menace and finally crucified, so his church has been crucified (figuratively speaking) by the persecuting rulers. But like her Lord she has risen again. The life of Christ within her renders her indestructible. In Matt. 16:18 it says, “and I tell you on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Not pestilence, not apostasy (an act of refusing to continue to follow or ob...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. This is Resurrection Sunday. In John 19:17-18 the Bible reads, “Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (Golgotha in Aramaic). Here they crucified him, and with him two others one on each side and Jesus in the middle)." The Passover began as an instrument of deliverance for Gods’ people of the OT the children of Israel. Nine plagues have been afflicted upon the Egyptians in an attempt to convince them to let Israel go. The tenth plague was to kill the first born. That night the Lord inflicted this upon the Egyptians;...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. This is Palm Sunday. As believers in Christ, we are assured of our salvation. We need not fear eternity, because we know we will dwell with the heavenly Father forever in paradise. We have blessed assurance. Why? Because God our Father sent His only Son to die for you and me (John 3:16). God planned it from the beginning in Gen 3:14-19 “and I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers he will crush your head and you will strike his heel.” On this special day Jesus had a ‘Triumphal entry into Jerusalem&r...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. Jesus promised that he would send the Holy Spirit? Why did He promise that? The Word says… to convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgement (John 16:8). The Holy Spirt must accomplish this painful work in men’s hearts. The work of the Holy Spirit is threefold:
CONVICTION OF SIN: Men do not believe because they are sinners.
Jer. 7: 9-10 “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure who can understand it? I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind to reward a man according to what his d...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. Have you after a period of time in your Christian walk experienced a “spiritual setback” or a “moral fall” of some kind? We start off so strong then we suffer a “faith” failure. Why is that? One of the reasons is that we have drifted away from the very principles we learned at our beginning with our relationship with Christ. Another one is we take the Word of God for granted; we no longer take the truth of God’s Word to heart as diligently and eagerly as we did at first. But the true reason is we have a tendency t...
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