Reflections
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...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. The Word says, “You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jer. 29:13) Seeking the Lord is like seeking for gold. A miner digs deep and the desire to go deeper happens when he finds that first nugget. A person who motivated by the love of Christ will begin to seek the Lord in good times and bad times finding “those nuggets” that will give him a greater understanding of His ways. Don’t you want to know who you are following? Don’t you desire to know the One who has the answers to all your q...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. The Word says in I John 2:15-17 “ Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life-is not of the Father but is of the world. The world and its desires are passing away, but the one who does the will of God lives forever.” Many Christians seemed to be completely unaware or unwilling to see that serious dangers threaten the church or the (Body of Christ) from within. We are currently liv...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. We are currently praying for the Christians who are causalities in the mayhem that is going on in Europe, in Africa and the persecuted churches all over the world; however, we must not forget our focus on what is going on here in the United States. Before the plandemic, the Body of Christ was in conflict but now the division is even greater. Just like the conflict overseas there is conflict in the Body of Christ. Conflict in the church is why people sometimes leave a church. We should not be surprised by disagreement in our church or any other church. Con...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. While doing research on the Names of God.. I counted over 21 names. The story of Hagar and Sarah in Genesis Chapter 16 introduces us to The GOD That Sees (EL ROI) Hagar had fled into the wilderness because things had become difficult living with Sarah after she suggested that Abraham conceive a child for her. Hager homeless, pregnant, not knowing what would become of her. She laid down in the wilderness. Have you ever felt this abandoned, sad, just done? An angel appeared to her to give her comfort and to speak of God’s grace and mercy. `Then she ca...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. There is a question we should ask ourselves… to what authority will you submit your heart and life? There a parable in Luke 19 that tells of a nobleman “who went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom….but his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him saying: “ We do not want this man to rule over us.” This is exactly what Adam and Eve said to God. When God told our parents they were forbidden to eat from the knowledge of good and evil. Their disobedience was a rejection and rebellion against God&rsquo...
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