Reflections
Greetings and blessings to all of you and a Happy New Year. Christmas Day has come and gone…but how has the whole ordeal left you? I mean the everlasting fantastic Gift that has been given to us? What are we to do with what has taken place? In Luke 2:8-20 to paraphrase…That night in the field the shepherds were shocked to see and hear angels saying to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people. The Savior the Messiah the Lord has been born today in the city of Bethlehem, the city of David. After the initial shock wore off th...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all. We sing our favorite Christmas song each year Immanuel because the Bible says, “therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” Isaiah 7:14. This prophet told of the mighty God which was going to be born into human life. “for unto us a child is borne unto us a son is given.” Isaiah 9:6 That child was the Son of God who came and was incarnated in human flesh in the womb of Mary. During our final days of the Advent ...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. This is the advent season or the coming of Christ. This week will focus on JOY. The first two weeks were HOPE and LOVE. And the last week is PEACE. In James 1:2 the Word says, “Consider it all joy my brothers when you encounter various trials. And in John 15:11 the Word says, “I have told you these things that you can have the same joy I have. I want your joy to be the fullest joy. Jesus said this when he was on his way to be crucified! But as James said (think about it). Jesus did not get stuck in the moment. He is our example when it comes t...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. “Godliness with Contentment is Great Gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we carry nothing out. If we have food and clothing, we shall be content with these things, but those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all evil. While coveting money some have strayed from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” (I Tim. 6-10) The right perspective on your circumstan...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. Gratitude Day has come and gone. Christmas is coming soon. But are we to forget about being Grateful. I say No. When you are grateful and thankful you will manifest contentment. The Apostle Paul was content and he wants us to learn to be content. Even in his time believers were struggling with comparison, covetousness and complaining. Saints, everything in life creates opportunities for contentment or discontentment. Human tendency is always to want more, better, or different. Are you living in a state of peace and contentment, or are you living in a stat...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. This week we will be celebrating GRATITUDE DAY or Thanksgiving Day. Because all things work together for our good that we may be transformed and conformed to the image of Christ (Rom. 8:28-29), God has told us “in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” The operative word is “In”. It did not say FOR ….it said IN. The Bible has always challenged us “to change”. The change in us will honor God. You may ask after reading the above verse how in the world can God ...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. In I Peter 1:17 it says, “And remember that your heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites when he judges. He will judge you with perfect justice for everything you do: so act in reverent fear of him from now on until you get to heaven.” What is “reverent fear”? Does that mean we should be afraid of God? I even read that God has not given us a spirit of fear? The kind of fear that God speaks of in the verse above is not the same as being worried about the future, or watching a scary movie...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. Christianity is the opposite of all world religions which teach that salvation is DO DO DO. Christianity teaches that it is Done Done Done!! In James 2:10 God says, “For whoever shall keep the whole law and yet stumble in one point he is guilty of all”. There are some of us that are trying to “work” for their salvation. They are forgetting that Jesus did it all. Our salvation is by GRACE alone. Eph 2:8-9 “for by grace you have been saved through faith and this is not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works that...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. In Jeremiah 17:5 God wants us to know “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength and whose heart departs from the Lord. For he will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when good comes but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness in a slat land and not inhabited.” Trusting in yourself (man) is displeasing to God. You cannot trust in yourself because in Jeremiah 17:9-10, God says, “the heart is more deceitful than all things desperately wicked who can understand it? I the Lord search th...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. In Hebrews 4:12-13 it says,
“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two edge sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.”
I was wondering since God’s Word is true and He knows and sees everything are we still playing hide and seek like Adam and Eve in the Garden? &nbs...
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