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If They Say, "Come With Us"SJL, Thank you for your time in response. Mine was not a wolf in sheep's clothing but my own father, who knew the real Truth. Yet, I am still...
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If They Say, "Come With Us"Jim, thank you for reading and for responding and for sharing your thoughts on this subject. It would take a book to share it all with you, and...
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If They Say, "Come With Us"Dear Christsfreeservant, Thank you for sharing your spiritual insight. Your topic is very timely, personally speaking, as I have struggled with...
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Learn to EndureYou are loved by God and nothing will change that. There will be more in the future. Jesus knows all of it, yet loves you with an eternal heart...
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However the reader perceives this chart, I hope that they sense the assurance
of knowing the Scriptures are true and mutually affirming:
Lord, your mercies are new every morning. I must therefore continue to discover anew, for the best orientation of my heart toward You, how this is so. I mustn’t take for granted what You grant.
Proven before, I must admit that your mercies many times feel like a new ship aft and fore, in...
Matthew 18:20 (NKJV)
For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them
Why the emphasis on “I am there”? Isn’t the Spirit of Jesus already resident in the individual believer? Yes, but two is the beginning of the vision of the Body of Christ on earth, its...
The “Reformers” once contended with errant teachings that diluted the Biblical narrative about Jesus being the sole mediator between God and man.
There’s a new aberration being presented, that needs to be refuted by the Church, that attempts to take “Cast all your cares upon the Lord” to “Just...
Divide asunder,^
so to my cares, Your Spirit-wonders
speak as the signposts I need for faith
to coax me to obedience,
by choice and conviction.
How You loved us first!^^
Continue Your work,
Jesus, Living Word!^^^
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^ Hebrews 4:12; 1 Peter 5:6-7
^^ 1 John 4:19
^^^ Jesus, Living Word
1 John 3:1-2 (KJV)
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath given unto us, that we should called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that when he shall...
"So heavenly minded you're no earthly good". The phrase sounds wise. Yet, it is not.
Consider Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV):
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
To be directed by the...
Do we respect God’s Heaven? We cannot say “Yes” if we flippantly refer to the opposite place, to where those who do not love Him till the end of their lives are consigned for eternity.
The latest fad of uttering “Hell” at a whim, most notably by politicians that U.S. conservatives—even...
Matthew 20:30-31,34^
30 And behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, “Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!”
31 Then the multitude warned them that they should be quiet; but they cried out all the more, saying, “Have mercy on us...
“They are not walking by faith”. The phrase, lately a common catch-all to describe non-conformity to certain teachings about “prosperity”, the exercise of specific spiritual gifts, “divine health”—even political activism of a given slant, is cast about with staggering ease.
The mindset has...
The schemes of the enemy of our souls are indeed "devices", among them the
sensory seduction that occurs when communications methods are beheld in an uncritical and naive manner. A lackadaisical viewing of these devices opens the mind that is supposed to "take every thought captive" and renders...
Consider Ephesians 2:1. When the described in this verse happens, the inner or spirit man becomes alive in Christ. The curse of the Law is broken, freeing and empowering us to obey Christ.
Yet, It is being actively taught by some, “Obey your spirit man.”
Rather, we must obey Christ the...
If we ask the children
about Bethlehem,
and signal them to tell us why
Christmas comes again.
If they’ve heard the Gospel
of Jesus’ love for them,
they will say “It’s running
to see what angels said!”^
They will see the Christchild
among travelled men,
be all the wiser for it,
about mercy come...
To ponder the Nativity is to enter into The Longing, in which a felicitation in our hearts of Jesus’ Incarnation turns to questions like “When , Oh Lord, will you come for your Bride?”—“Then, when will You and your Banqueting Table retinue of Heaven come to earth to commence the Millennial Reign...
Luke 2:13-15 (NLT)
13 Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others—the armies of heaven—praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in highest heaven,
and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased.”
15 When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other...
Titus 1:1-3 (NKJV--bold is mine)
Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect
and the acknowledgment of the truth which accords with godliness, 2 in hope of eternal life
which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began, 3 but has in due...
Part of 1 Timothy 2:7 reads, in the NKJV: "...for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am speaking the truth in Christ and not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.".
The part of the translation above that I put in bold--I mean, really, how many principal...
Matthew 18:20 (NKJV): “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there in the midst of them”.
Whene’er we meet
is Christ’s promise kept,
His Spirit in each,
with Jesus-manifest.
“In us”, moreso
He in our midst,
baptism of Presence,
bond of peace, gift.
This supper...
Thou loving Father, so kind and good, who through thy blessed Son calls out, “Brethren!”, why darest Thou in thy sovereign grace to work through wills yet perfected, through empowerment entrusted?
Who calls to prayer, but Man of this Hour, seated on high, true Mediator?
When did we e’er deserve...