Devotions For My Church (c:

Well, we are indeed not here in order to be pleased, ourselves. We are here so we can become pleasing to our Father, like how Jesus is so pleasing to our Heavenly Father. So, in case anyone thinks he or she is the central reason for Heaven, yes he or she is indeed fooled. And in case one...

"Therefore submit to God. " (in James 4:7) Now . . . how You have us submitting to you, submissive the way You mean for us to be submissive, not how we can get ourselves to feel and think we are submitting to You, O God our Father. Thank You so much :prayer::pray: We discover how we become...

Do what it is worth dying to do. Do what God has us doing in His love. "Let all that you do be done with love." (1 Corinthians 16:14) "'He who loves his life will lose it; but he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.'" (John 12:25) So, it looks like Jesus here is...

"Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you." (James 4:7) To submit to God > God wants us to submit to Him. So, yes our Heavenly Father of our Lord Jesus is so great and better than we are, but He does want us to submit to Him. While we submit to God, He changes our...

Or are we? During our Wednesday evening prayer and Bible group, we were talking about if every child of God is a saint. Well, our Apostle Paul did call the Ephesians "saints". It does not seem he was talking to only certain Christians. Ephesians 1:1. There are different meanings for the word...

Hi :) God bless you :) "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control." (in Galatians 5:21-22) I think this is something deeper than words, which we need for the Holy Spirit to produce in us. And then we discover how...

I just listened to a sermon by our assistant pastor, about grace. I tend to mainly evaluate what someone says, instead of first submitting to God and how He has me understand and do what He has someone preach or write to us. I can first be too quick to deal with grace as something to explain...

"Test all things; hold fast what is good." (1 Thessalonians 5:21) I see here that God wants us to test everything for what is good and what is not good. And I understand that God wants us to pray and test things with Him; so this would be in submission to how God has us testing, and we are...

I think of how Jesus says, "'Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.'" (Matthew 24:44, Luke 12:40) So, what does Jesus mean by "ready"? I have some things; you are welcome to share, here, too. One thing I get is that if you are packing for a...

"for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world...

The way is Jesus in His peace in us. There are things which are impossible for us to handle because God does not want us to handle them :) There are things which God does not want us to even be thinking about. And there are things which are a trick to get us away from God, and tangled and...

"'Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.'" (Luke 8:14) So, cares and riches and pleasures can choke us from how we could be loving. How, by the way, can pleasures...

Good morning, here in Massachusetts :) God bless us :) Thank You, God our Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ Your Son and our Lord and Savior and soon-coming Groom. I keep hearing and reading how God loves us and therefore He will do us good and take care of us and solve our problems...

There are things that do not work out, simply because God is not committed to doing those things with us. Or, we have not gotten the correction and preparation which God wants us to get before we do something . . . or have a certain relationship. So, we can trust You, O God our Heavenly...

Luke 10:38-42 > Jesus visited a home where a woman named Martha received Him. Then Martha was taking care of the hospitality things, while her sister Mary stayed at the feet of Jesus and listened to what He had to say. Then Martha actually tried to interfere with that! She tried to tell Jesus...

Be prayerful. We are not only getting our own selves taken care of. Jesus is the Lord of all; He's got it all. Yet, He is not concerned only about Himself :) So, yes we need to submit to God and get ourselves taken care of, but then we get into caring about any and all others, seeking all...

peace gentleness self-control We have peace with God and therefore we are trusting Him; so we are gentle with people, depending on God to take care of us, and not trying to control people for what we want and not using people > love does not have us trying to only use anyone; so this is in...

"Test all things; hold fast what is good." (1 Thessalonians 5:21) So, God wants us to test every thing. Pray and make sure with God about everything. Test each thing for what God wants to do with it, for His love purposes. Something might come to test us, but we can test it, for how God...

"And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma." (Ephesians 5:2) So, even while Jesus was so suffering and being hated, on the cross, Jesus was sweet-smelling to our Father. And so, yes . . . as Jesus grows...

"For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin." (Hebrews 4:15) So, Jesus our High Priest has gone through things of this life so that now Jesus as our Groom can feel for us while we go through things. And...