Reflections
Greetings and blessings to all of you. I love reading and visualizing the Word of God? I love all of its authentic stories. I love the way God never holds back anything. Like in Ezekiel 5 when he passes judgement on Jerusalem. Read it. You may be taken aback by God’s action and cringe. I love when God loves on us by showing that He is very sincere in wanting us to be OBEDIENT. God tells us exactly how to do it. Gal. 5:16 “So I say walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the lust of the flesh.” God’s chief goal in our lives is to make us in the image of Himself know...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. Do you desire to grow and mature in the Christian faith? Do you want to be able to minister to or evangelize to others? Do you have the desire to respond to others who have concerns and questions or may even attack you because of the myths about our Christian faith? To what and to whom do you turn to when you are facing deep sorrow and negative feelings coming from financial losses, a health issue, or an unexpected loss of a relationship? We usually turn to the horizontal reason of man (Humanism). But that will only help you and I to a certain degree. It ...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. David wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in Psalm 19:7-14 which says, “The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right- rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever…. Those verses counter the teaching of those who believe we must augment God’s Word with beliefs gleaned from modern psychology. That is not to denigrate the importance of spiritually ...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. We as Holy Spirit filled followers of Christ believe the Bible is fully inspired by God and is without error in the original manuscripts. We also believe that the Bible is God’s final, complete and authoritative revelation to man. It is our guide for living life, the standard by which we measure our behavior. We believe when the Bible speaks God speaks. In our society(culture) you can believe whatever you like no matter how absurd and contradictory. Every point of view since it arrives from one’s own feelings is just as valid as another and th...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! What are you asking God for in 2023? During His time on earth Jesus met many people who longed for new beginnings. He gave physical healings to the blind and the lame. He gave spiritual healing to the Samaritan woman at the well. To Nicodemus the religious leader he explained to him how to be Born- Again. To the disciples’ students of His Word; Jesus offered them a new identity. All of us who are saved and a True follower of Christ have been given “new beginnings”. Because Christ died for our sins and conquered the grav...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. IT IS CHRISTMAS DAY. The day that most followers of Christ celebrate the coming of the Lord as a babe in the manger. Christmas is a busy time of the year…shopping, baking, cooking, preparing for family and friends and much more. The first time God came the people were busy also. The people were mostly farmers, textile workers, homemakers, farmers. and shepherds and let’s don’t forget the politicians and tax collectors. When Jesus (God) arrived, the angels announced it to the shepherds. They stopped what they were doing and ran to see th...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. In Matthew 1:21 “she will bear a Son and you shall call His name Jesus for He will save His people from their sins.” Jehovah means “will save.” Jesus came with an assignment. An old show Mission Impossible which was about government operatives choosing to go on extremely nearly impossible missions for or against the enemy. Jesus came to us (an impossible mission) to show us who God is (teachings) and was and to give us not only salvation but eternal life(by dying). I do hope we understand that so we can be like Simeon who stayed in...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. All of us like to give; some more than others. Some give their time, some give their money, some give loads of presents especially during the Holiday season. However, as maturing Christians we have learned what giving is. We have heard the passage about the three types of givers that the Bible describes in 2 Cor. 9:6-8. Are you the reluctant giver, or the “have to” giver or are you the cheerful giver? Our giving as a growing Christian should have a spiritual merit to it. Why? If nothing else “giving” makes you consider the people i...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. When Jesus came the first time, the people were not looking for Him. Why? They were all too busy. The religious leaders and their followers (under Roman’s dictatorship) were religiously going to the temple, giving alms and sacrifices while the common folk(shepherds) worked in the field. All of them heard He was coming; however, they had a preconceived idea how He would come…certainly not as a babe born in a manger. And like us when years have passed and the possibility of Him coming grows remote and other concerns in life gradually take over&...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. Are you looking forward to the coming of Christ? All thru out the Word of God the prophets declared that there would be a day when history would reach its climax in the judgement of God and in the return of the Messiah. The Bible indicates that when Christ returns the world will not be looking for him. The Bible says, “as it was in the days of (Noah), so shall it be also in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood c...
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