Archives for May 2014

May 12, 2014

MY FRIENDS, HOW GROWN ARE YOU IN GOD’S SIGHT?

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.  1 Corinthians 14:20 (KJV)

Self dying, and life beginning in Christ, is to escalate Christ in your life above everything else. He must be the focal point as our eyes are forever “looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross….” Hebrews 12:2 (NKJV) for our Salvation.

So as we escalate Christ, self-diminishes as we begin to recognize it is not about us. My friends this controversy did not begin at our birth. It started over 6000 years ago in the courts of God’s pure and Holy kingdom when Satan decided “in his heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God”

In addition one third of the heavenly host followed his lead and so the controversy begun to where we are today where man “call’s evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Is. 5:20 (NIV)

But as a child of God like Moses “WHEN HE WAS GROWN UP, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.” Hebrews 11:24-26 (ASV)

My friends that is where I need you to focus today in the words “WHEN HE WAS GROWN UP” because if you are at the age in your life where you can distinguish between right and wrong then you are “GROWN” in the sight of God for He tells us.

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, (or woman) I put away childish things. 1 Cor. 13:11 (KJV) Or have we allowed the god of this world to continues to keep our focus of the childish games of this world that keeps our attention centered on the allurement of this world like a child that witnesses Christmas for the first time with all the pretty wrapped gifts and beautiful colors.

“There is a stage in a child’s life at which it cannot separate the religious from the merely festal character of Christmas or Easter. But of course the time will eventually comes when most children become able to distinguish the spiritual from the ritual and festal aspect of all holidays.”

But what about a child of God what is the cut of point when sin and all of our so called “Socially Acceptable Sins” are no longer tolerated in our life because we have outgrown even the thought of bringing any reproach before God as we die to self daily while completely given it all to our Savior, as we subject our small and insignificant Minds and desires to the greater goal of honoring Christ who gave it all for us on Calvary.

In addition to telling others of the good news of Christ soon return, as we approach the end of this great controversy. Paul tells us in Galatians 2:20 (NKJV) I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

It’s amazing we constantly tell our sons and daughters, will you PLEASE GROW UP and act like a man or woman I am tired of telling you the same thing over and over. So now my friends place God in your position as the parent, we are his children, now imagine his disappointment when we refuse to GROW UP in mind and body and lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, (while not willing to)  run with patience the race (that our Savior has) set before us. Heb. 12:1 (KJV) SO FRIENDS PLEASE GROW UP AND GIVE IT ALL TO CHRIST.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

GOD’S LOVE THE CLOSEST EXAMPLE; SIMPLY PUT, A MOTHER!!

After all the poems, songs, truism, and stories of endurance faith hope and love. I can say without any reservation that the CLOSEST EXAMPLE OF GOD’S LOVE, SIMPLY PUT, A MOTHER. My friends a MOTHER exemplifies what and who God is.

In addition you can define a MOTHER and her love in three words “SELFLESS, SACRIFICIAL, AND UNCONDITIONAL.” As a Child of God I can say this because when I meditate on the goodness and love of God I become speechless at the thought of what and how the plan for my life has been played out for my Salvation in the mind and heart of God and my MOTHER.

So today I can make it personal and I can make it all about me because my God is a personal God and my MOTHER was a personal MOTHER and as you look at your MOTHER or GRANDMOTHER or AUNT or SISTER or whoever represents a MOTHER to you in your life and like I, I hope you can open your mouth in awe of the Omnipresence of a mother who is always there.

The Omniscience of a mother who is always knowing, and friends I can go as far as to say the Omnipotence of a MOTHER because I believe their is nothing most MOTHERS cannot and will not do for their child and one of the greatest attributes of a MOTHER’S love in addition is it’s unchangeable, no matter what situation or circumstances a child goes through in life a mother’s love for that child never changes.

Listen at what E. G. White says about the love of God for his children and compare the same  words to what your MOTHER means to you. “True love is not merely a sentiment or an emotion. It is a living principle, a principle that is manifest in action.

True love, wherever it exists, will control the life. Thus it is with the love of God (A Mother). and in all His (Her) works, in all His (Her) dealings with mankind (there child), His (Her) character is revealed.” (Published in The Union Conference Record, June 1, 1900)

“Years ago, a young mother was making her way across the hills of South Wales, carrying her tiny baby in her arms, when she was overtaken by a blinding blizzard. She never reached her destination and when the blizzard had subsided her body was found by searchers beneath a mound of snow.

But they discovered that before her death, she had taken off all her outer clothing and wrapped it about her baby. When they unwrapped the child, to their great surprise and joy, they found he was alive and well. She had mounded her body over his and given her life for her child, proving the depths of a MOTHER’S love.

Years later that child, David Lloyd George, grown to manhood, became prime minister of Great Britain, and, without doubt, one of England’s greatest statesman. (James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited, Tyndale, 1972, p. 375.)

That story my friends says it all about a MOTHER’S LOVE? “For her worth is far above rubies. The heart of her (CHILD) safely trusts her; so (THEY) will have no lack of gain. She does (THEM) good and not evil All the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax and willingly works with her hands. She is like the merchant ships, she brings her food from afar.

She also rises while it is yet night, and provides food for her household,…….. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness. She watches over the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed. Prov. 31:10-30 (NKJV)

My friends it now becomes personal again because when I enter one of the twelve gates in God’s kingdom that’s made of a substance like pearl from God’s hand and I walk down those streets of pure gold that is like transparent glass, as I walk with all of my love one’s, I will notice my loving Savior reaching over wiping away my mother’s tears from her eyes as angels listen in, he tells my MOMMA no more tears my child, we made the perfect team. He’s here, he’s here!!! HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL MY SPECIAL MOTHERS I LOVE YOU SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU ARE A MOTHER.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

THE GLORIOUS AND THE “FATAL ATTRACTION OF SIN”

For sin, seizing the opportunity and getting a hold on me [by taking its incentive] from the commandment, beguiled and entrapped and cheated me, and using it [as a weapon], killed me.” Romans 7:11(AMP)

THE GLORIOUS AND “FATAL ATTRACTION OF SIN” that causes us to linger until Satan is successful in leading us completely away from the loving arms of Christ as he places us on the road to perdition. “But every person is tempted when he is drawn away, enticed and baited by his own evil desire (lust, passions). Then the evil desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully matured, brings forth death.” James 1:14-15 (AMP)

The grace and mercy of God has limitation that He set’s. If your desire is to remain in the clutches of the abomination of sin, our Savior will not overpower you. He will not take away your freewill or force you to come HOME.

This must be  our choice, and the passion that we must seek for our Salvation, for there must be a willingness on our part, either Life through Christ, or destruction by allowing the things of this world and the forces of evil to control your life.

But our God will also never “leave you or forsake you” like peter when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out,” “LORD SAVE ME!” INSTANTLY Jesus reached out His hand and caught and held him.” Matt. 14:30-31 (NIV)

My friends that is where I need you to focus today on the word “INSTANTLY” not like most of us when we have a chance to serve God we begin to make excuses, well can you wait a few days God, I have another pressing matter to take care of but it want be long, I will get back with you in a few days.

Our God is a INSTANT God “….not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9 (NIV) and receive life eternal “Several years ago Dr. George Sweeting and his family visited Niagara Falls. It was spring, and ice was rushing down the river.

As I viewed the large blocks of ice flowing toward the falls, I could see that there were carcasses of dead fish embedded in the ice. Gulls by the score were riding down the river feeding on the fish. As they came to the brink of the falls, their wings would go out, and they would escape from the falls.

I watched one gull which seemed to delay and wondered when it would leave. It was engrossed in the carcass of a fish, and when it finally came to the brink of the falls, out went its powerful wings. The bird flapped and flapped and even lifted the ice out of the water, and I thought it would escape.

But it had delayed too long so that its claws had frozen into the ice. The weight of the ice was too great, and the gull plunged into the abyss. Oh, the danger of delay!” (Dr. George Sweeting) My friends the “cost of becoming too attracted to this world” and the inducement of sin that the god of this world has placed before a child of God as he tells us “Ye shall not surely die:

“For (even) God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God,…” Gen 3:4-5 (ASV) But according to God’s word it tells us that “the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23 (ASV)

For some it will probably take an all night encounter with God like Jacob who wrestled with God all night before you can completely free yourself from the desires of this world, so don’t let “the weight become too great, and you plunged into the abyss”

God’s hand is a long hand, it can reach as far as needed to rescue a lost sheep. Remember Only after Jacob wrestles with God all night was he ready to complete his journey home and to Bethel, the place where he  first encountered God. Not long my friends so FOCUS on the finish line and ENDURE until you cross it for Christ waits.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

MY FRIENDS WE ARE LIVING IN “THE LAST DAYS”

Boko Haram “Western education is a sin.” Armed group claims responsibility for kidnapping 276 girls in Nigeria and threatens to “sell them in the marketplace.” Evan as a child of God we have become immune to the abominations of the world we live in.

But today I need you to focus on the sobering reality of  seven words that we need to repeat each day and they are, WE ARE LIVING IN “THE LAST DAYS.” At one time in my life I think I could have said with some assurance, Peace will come because “God has laid His hands on the situation and now the storm has moved away.”

But today my friends as I move from headline to headline I can see our God has begun to separate the “wheat from the tares” for “perilous times (has) come. Men (are now) lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: 2 Tim 3:1-6 (KJV)

To continue I believe it’s safe to say without any reservation WE ARE LIVING IN “THE LAST DAYS.” Throughout God’s word since the fall of man God has pointed to the end of this controversy between one class who studies the Savior’s life as they seek His presence and allow the Spirit’s transforming power to change there Character to be like the character of Christ.

And the wicked who has “allowed iniquity to abound”, and their “love to wax cold.” But our God gives His faithful a promise  that if you shall endure unto the end, you will be saved.” Matt. 24:12-13 (NKJV) This warning is not sobering for those who seek the coming of Christ for the second time because prophecy ending and God’s kingdom is closer than ever before and I hope you seek that day as I do.

Also never before has there been a time as now where getting the good news to a dying world is more urgent. The controversy that begin in heaven when Satan “said in his heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;

and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. Is. 14:13-14 (ASV) to the fall of mankind, to “such a time as this” that the bible calls “THE LAST DAYS” are now at the threshold.

God’s tolerance and cup is full over evil and soon all mankind good and bad will recognize that Gods way has always been the right way from the beginning. God’s  prophecy also tells us that Babylon will fall.

Its  forces of evil will fall, the powerful economic systems that have degraded the poor will fall, the strongly entrenched and popular religions, who did not follow God’s precepts in His word will fall, the extremists who have influenced the masses against their Creator and His people will fall.

Paul says In 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 (NKJV) “But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.”

God had a plan and that plan was Calvary “Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death that is, the devil” Heb. 2:14 (NKJV)

Oh what hope in that promise. His death for My life. The battle to resist the god of this world is being fought daily in our hearts and minds. God’s command my friends is to have faith and endure as you come out of Babylon and that departure from Babylon tells me I will live throughout Eternity in the presence of my Savior. So today please give it all to the Master BECAUSE WE ARE LIVING IN “THE LAST DAYS”

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

May 7, 2014

“HOW LONG WILL YOU FALTER BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS?

“And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.” 1 King 18:29

My friends I need you to read 1 kings 16,17,18 and FOCUS on the main players in this Story in God’s WORD. And they are; Elijah, King Ahab, Jezebel, Baal and Jehovah. The bible also tells us “Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.” 1 king 16:33 (NKJV)

His wife is Jezebel a heathen and a worshiper of Baal. So now through the influence of Satan Baal is introduced as the god of choice to Israel instead of the I AM OF THE UNIVERSE. Now “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.” James 5:17 (KJV)

Oh my friends the power of prayer and let’s never forget we have access to this same power through God’s Spirit. But such a drastic punishment for God’s chosen. Sometimes God has to use drastic measures so that His Children can focus on Him and find our way back home.

Oh but how far our God will reach to save us. The showdown is “Mount Carmel a symbol of beauty and fertility. To be given the “splendor of Carmel” was to be blessed indeed. Is. 35:2 (NKJV) Today God  will show Israel through Elijah that He is the only true God.

As the 400 prophets of Baal were embarrassed and destroyed all in one day. “Now when all the people saw God’s awesome power, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!” 1 kings 18:39 (NKJV)

My friends where I need you to FOCUS on today is, when the Holy Spirit transforms your life into the image of God can your friends, family, love ones, co-workers, neighbor’s, and the world recognize a sharp contrast between you and the world.

Are the fruit Of God’s Spirit firmly embedded into your life, which are the fruits of LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS,FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS,AND SELF CONTROL. “ Do you Exhibit more KINDNESS and FAITHFULNESS then the MORMONS? More SELF CONTROL then your MUSLIM friends? More PEACE than the BUDDHISTS? And more JOY then the ATHEISTS?

Remember we worship the ONLY TRUE GOD. So where do we stand as a Child of God when the world see’s us. Do they marvel at the vast difference and say “YOUR LORD, HE IS GOD” or do we blend in with our surroundings.

But when everyone around you can see Christ in all you do, then you will know that self has died and only Christ and His Spirit lives in you. Remember often times our Journey takes us into many valleys along the way. God’s blessings and the fact that we still praise God in spite of our everyday challenges, let’s each of us know that our life is now all about God.

And one day his faithful will be rewarded for our ENDURANCE and FAITH for no “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Cor 2:9

So my friends today look back over your life and see where God has brought you from in each situation and circumstances. And like Elijah whose heartfelt prayers and supplication brought fire from heaven our continued faith in God’s promises each day and His response to us through His Spirit is our fire from heaven experience.

So today ask yourself “HOW LONG WILL YOU FALTER BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS?” we have many Baals we worship each day. But today my friends just stop and let God and His Spirit take full Control and “lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

MAY 6, 2014

CAN WE MAKE THE ENEMY’S STRONGHOLD OBSOLETE?

“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy STRONGHOLDS. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ” 2Cor. 10:3-5 (KJV)

As a Child of God our top priority must be to remove Satan’s “STRONGHOLD” because this is the fortress that the god of this world occupies within our lives which gives us the propensity towards evil.

Remember there is a Warfare going on and a “STRONGHOLD” set up where Satan and the forces of evil occupy in our lives and if we allow them to remain our lives would be void of any victory through Jesus Christ and His Spirit.

In addition the longer that stronghold remains the less will be our chance on life eternal in the earth made new. But my friends its all about the battle scares you are willing to obtain to completely destroy Satan’s “STRONGHOLD” Paul uses the word “STRONGHOLD” to define the spiritual fortresses wherein Satan has set up from within.

A restricted and designated area where his forces hide. These fortresses exist in our mind and bodies they are the ideas that govern each individual’s way of thinking. So before victory can be claimed, these strongholds where “the rulers, and authorities, and powers of the dark world, spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Eph. 6:12 (NIV) must be eliminated and replaced with a whole new way of think that is only centered on Christ.

But it’s our choice, our decision and how SERIOUS we are about our SALVATION and allowing the mighty weapons of God Word and Spirit to take full control. James tells us to “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” James 4:7 (KJV)

“Nothing that is valuable is achieved without effort. Fritz Kreisler, the famous violinist, testified to this point when he said, “Narrow is the road that leads to the life of a violinist. Hour after hour, day after day and week after week, for years, I lived with my violin.

There were so many things that I wanted to do that I had to leave undone; there were so many places I wanted to go that I had to miss if I was to master the violin. The road that I traveled was a narrow road and the way was hard.” (Guideposts)

The same my friends must be said about the life of God’s chosen vessel at this point in our life and the closer we get to Christ second coming. Seeking Salvation, must be a total commitment because  there are going to be things of this world we are just not going to be able to accomplish if it is not all about Christ.

Some things we want be able to buy and places we want be able to get to because it will take resources and time away from God. Today God is seeking soldiers that are willing to give it all up for their Salvation and too serve Him.

Often the STRONGHOLD of Satan centers around our mind and what we are willing to give up for Christ. “Jesus said, Truly I tell you, there is no one who has given up and left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for My sake and for the Gospel’s.

Who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions and in the age to come, eternal life.” Mark 10:29-30 (AMP)

The battle to conquer Satan’s “STRONGHOLD”  is fought daily in our hearts and minds, but in Eph. 6:11 (NIV) it tells us to ” Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.”

So Destroying Satan’s STRONGHOLD we will need “the shield of FAITH, the SWORD of the SPIRIT, which is the WORD of GOD. PRAYING without CEASING, and ENDURANCE TO FINISH THE COURSE.” But friends God will not make our Choices for us. We must believe in His promises, as we ask ourselves HOW BAD DO YOU WANT LIFE ETERNAL.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

MY FRIENDS HOW BAD DO YOU NEED THE CROSS AND SALVATION?

“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Gal 2:20 (ESV)

My friends how bad do you need the CROSS and SALVATION? As you ponder the question today let me first tell you there is no either, or, you cannot have one without the other because seeking the CROSS of Christ and CARRYING it, is a prerequisite for SALVATION

“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” Matt. 16:24 (NKJV) There’s a story about a proud young man who comes to a Prophet and asked “O great prophet, I come to you for “THE CROSS AND SALVATION.”

The Prophet recognized someone who did not have a clue what it meant to CARRY THE CROSS OF CHRIST so he led the young man to the sea, and chest deep into water. Then he asked, “What do you want?” “THE CROSS AND SALVATION O wise Prophet.”

The Prophet put his strong hands on the man’s shoulders and pushed him under. Thirty seconds later the Prophet let him up. “What do you want?” he asked again. “SALVATION” the young man sputtered,” “The Prophet crunched him under again.

Thirty seconds passed, thirty-five. Forty. The Prophet let him up. The man was gasping. “What do you want, young man?” Between heavy, heaving breaths the fellow wheezed, “THE CROSS, O wise and wonderful Prophet.” The Prophet jammed him under again Forty seconds passed. Fifty. “What do you want?”

“Air!” the young man screeched. “I need air!” “When you want THE CROSS AND SALVATION as you have just wanted air, then you will have it.” My friends HOW BAD DO YOU SEEK THE CROSS AND SALVATION? Do you want it as bad as the air you breathe?

Well as a Child of God I have decided that is just how Bad I will seek it because if you live long enough, you have been pushed under water so deep and held for so long, at this point in time you are gasping for air “between heavy, heaving breaths of death all around, trials, Tribulation, heartache, pain, misery, and financial problems.

In addition the only place we are able to find SALVATION from drowning  is in the loving arms of our Savior Jesus Christ. “The cells in our bodies require a continual supply of oxygen to survive. The air we breathe provides this oxygen to our lungs to replenish the oxygen our blood circulation needs to flow properly.

So it is with a Child of God who seeks SALVATION. We all need a continual supply of our Savior Jesus Christ for our Christian experience to function properly because with Christ comes LOVE, REPENTANCE, FORGIVENESS, GRACE, MERCY, HOPE, FAITH, HIS WORD, PATIENCE, HUMILITY ENDURANCE, and finally the SPIRIT OF GOD to maintain each of those attribute that gives us proper living conditions.

Paul tells us in Ephesians 3:17-19 (NKJV) So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Paul also tells us in Romans 5:3-5 (NKJV) More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

“Friends we do serve a risen Savior because He Lives in our life today and we only live because He lives in each of us no matter what men may say and we know He lives inside of us , because we see His hand of mercy grace and love as we begin to truly LIVE, and feel God and His Word, while allowing our faith to grow in His grace daily” AS WE SEEK THE CROSS AND SALVATION.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY

May 4, 2014

MY FRIENDS IT IS TIME WE BEGIN TO “PRAY WITHOUT CEASING”

My pray today is that each Adopted child of the king will “PRAY WITHOUT CEASING” as we search the Scriptures  “for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. John 5:39 (NKJV)

As God’s chosen Generation in the last days of this life’s history it is our responsibility to “PRAY WITHOUT CEASING” 1 Thess. 5:17 (NKJV) as we seek God’s Spirit daily. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:11 (ESV) ” For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God?”

That my friends is where I need you to focus today “For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person.” Which tells me we must “PRAY WITHOUT CEASING” to receive God’s Spirit as we give it all to the Master.

In addition we begin to recognize how unworthy we are because of the sins we allow to lay dormant within us. “In his book Why Prayers are Unanswered, John Lavender retells a story about Norman Vincent Peale.

When Peale was a boy, he found a big, black cigar, slipped into an alley, and lit up. It didn’t taste good, but it made him feel very grown up. . . until he saw his father coming. Quickly he put the cigar behind his back and tried to be casual.

Desperate to divert his father’s attention, Norman pointed to a billboard advertising the circus. “Can I go, Dad? Please, let’s go when it comes to town.” His father’s reply taught Norman a lesson he never forgot. “Son, he answered quietly but firmly, “never make a petition while at the same time trying to hide a smoldering disobedience.”

My friends we know to well the difference between right and wrong. Do we think somehow God does not know as his angels records each sin to be placed before each of us one day. “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.” 2 Cor. 5:10 (NIV)

As Children of God we cannot lose sight of  the fact that FAITH, PRAYER, REPENTANCE, FORGIVENESS, GOD’S WORD AND SALVATION can not be Separated. We must pray that our focus will be centered on Jesus Christ and Him Crucified and not on the things of this world as “the love of many (continue) to wax cold and the world loses sight of Christ saving grace.

As Christians we must never  fall into Satan’s trap, while trying to convince ourselves, “Christ second coming has been delayed.” So we begin to PRAY AND STUDY less, while sinning more. Evan if it is only our favorite “SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE SINS.” Those sins Satan has allow to become so blurred in our thought process that we begin not necessarily not knowing they are sins, but just ignoring the fact that they are still an abomination to God.

Case in point our constant watching of TV or the CONSTANT STEALING OF GOD”S TIME at the expense of our service and commitment to Christ and the STUDY OF HIS WORD Paul tells us in 2 Timothy 2:15 (NKJV) to “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Remember my Friends every Scripture in God’s word testifies about our Savior and what must be done to be saved, and receive Eternal life. Our daily Prayers must be.

“Dear Heavenly Father, we come before you today in our hour of need, to ask for Your forgiveness and to seek Your Grace, mercy, and guidance. We know in your Word it says, in Isaiah 5:20 “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;…” and as your Child we know we have lost sight of our “spiritual compass,” and have Focused our values, toward the values of the god of this world. But today we ask  for your forgiveness, and pray that once again our focus will be placed on our Savior and His will for us. And through your WORD AND SPIRIT Our eyes will forever remain on Thee as we “PRAY WITHOUT CEASING” and ENDURE THIS RACE to the FINISH LINE AMEN

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY