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His Life/Your Life #10
Matthew 16:25 “For whoever wishes to save his life [in this world] will [eventually] lose it [through death], but whoever loses his life in this world for My sake will find it (that is, life with Me for all eternity).” Christians are commanded to lose their lives. This means that we ought to deliberately release our lives to God and His kingdom. One of the biggest hindrances to doing this, is our view of what constitutes our view of…
His Life/Your Life #9
Phil. 3:13 “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have made it my own yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead.” The world will tell you that the dominating influence in your life is your past. If you came from a difficult home life, that will determine the direction of your life. If your culture was treated unfairly, that will dictate the condition of your life today. If you were hurt or…
His Life/Your Life #8
1 Thess. 5:24 “Faithful and absolutely trustworthy is He who is calling you to Himself for your salvation, and He will do it (He will fulfill His call by making you holy, guarding you, watching over you, and protecting you as His own).” God never call us to do anything without faithfully keeping His word and enabling us to do it. We are not always faithful to do what God tells us to do. In spite of that, God remains faithful…
His Life/Your Life #7
Exodus 3:6 “ Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.” God always speaks to us in the context of what He as done in the lives of those who have gone on before us. When God encountered Moses, He did not give Moses an assignment independent of what He had done through…
His Life/Your Life #6
Isaiah 40:31 “But those who wait for the Lord (who expect, look for, and hope in Him) will gain new strength and renew their power; They will lift up their wings (and rise up close to God) like eagles (rising toward the sun); they will run and not become weary, they will walk and not grow tired.” At times you may feel so worn out and stressed that you are not sure you can take another step. You may…
His Life/Your Life #5
Isaiah 40:31 “But those who wait for the Lord (who expect, look for, and hope in Him) will gain new strength and renew their power; They will lift up their wings (and rise up close to God) like eagles (rising toward the sun); they will run and not become weary, they will walk and not grow tired.” At times you may feel so worn out and stressed that you are not sure you can take another step. You may…
His Life/Your Life #4
1 Samuel 26:8 “Then Abishai said to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand this day; now then, please let me strike him with the spear driving it to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.” Sometimes we are tempted to take shortcuts to our destinations in life. David faced this temptation several times before he was crowned king. Samuel, God’s prophet, anointed David and prophesied that David would be the next…
His Life/Your Life #3
1 Timothy 1:12 “I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has granted me [the needed] strength and made me able for this, because He considered me faithful and trustworthy, putting me into service for this ministry.” From our human perspective, the apostle Paul’s record as a zealous persecutor of Christians should have kept him from being in God’s service. Paul was known as the chief of sinners, as a blasphemer, and as a very violent aggressor (1 Tim 13-15).…
His Life/Your Life #2
Colossians 2:15 “When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities (those supernatural forces of evil operating against us), He made a public example of them, having triumphed over them through the cross.” Believers are not called on to defeat the enemy! Of course, we know that the enemy is Satan, listen, we are not called on to defeat Satan, God has already done that in Christ! It is not our mandate to “bind” Satan. Jesus was already set limits on…
His Life/Your Life #1
Ephesians 6:12 “ For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens.” In a battle, it is important to know who your enemy is. If you do not know who the enemy is then you are vulnerable. The apostle Paul had many enemies. Some of them resented him, some of them hated him, and others wanted to kill him. Some of them…
Prayer Life #28
Because of Jesus’s prayer life and His obedience to what He learned, a watching world came to know and experience the wonders and the truths of the father. In John 14:9-10 Jesus proclaims, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father” and “the Father who dwells in Me does the works.” When Jesus spoke these word He went on to makes this surprising statement to His disciples in John 14:12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes…
Prayer Life #27
From Jesus’s times of prayer with the Father, followed by His obedience to the Father’s will as revealed in those times, Jesus did not fail in anything God gave Him to do. Because He always listened to His Father’s agenda and was always obedient, the Father was free to fully accomplish His eternal purposes through the Son. Jesus knew that the Father had eternity in mind each time He prayed. This is revealed at the most crucial moment for…