Archives for March 2015

MY FRIENDS, DO WE CARE IF WE ARE DESCENDANTS OF GOD ENTITLED TO ALL HE HAS?

“The steps of a good man [or woman] are ordered by the Lord, And He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the Lord upholds him with His hand. I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread. He is ever merciful, and lends; And his descendants are blessed. Psalm 37:23-26 (NKJV)

Now my friend, we must now focus on who is Gods descendants? And do they walk among us each day?  Well Paul tells us in Romans 8:15-17 (NKJV) “For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.”

My friends that text tells you and I that we are offspring’s to the Father. “created in Him image” ”But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13 (NKJV)

Now that should put a smile on all of our faces, that is why He tells us, He will never leave nor forsake us” because we are His children His descendants, heirs to all He has. But what takes us from being His descendants, to life eternal in His kingdom, which is not accepted by everyone but if you do accept that challenge, the requirements is faith, endurance, dedication and a passion to serve Christ. The text also tells us we must “suffer with Him if we are to be glorified with Him”

Christ also tells us Himself in Luke 14:27 (NKJV) “And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.” Yes my friends we are descendants of God and heirs of all He has but “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ [And my Friends the saddest words we will ever here will be] And then I will declare to them, “I never knew you;” depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.” Matt 7:21-24 (NKJV)

Now Christ, because of His grace, mercy and love towards us, allows us to choose our on destination that is why he follows up what He tells us in Matt. 17:24-27 (NKJV) with “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell and great was its fall.” My friends our savior has allowed us to make our own decisions about our salvation.

So, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” Matt 7:!3-14 (NKJV) what is your decision today time is running out.

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

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MY FRIENDS, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR BODIES IS IT A SIN?

Ezekiel 16:49-50 declares, “Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, [and] overfed…..” But as Christians we attempt to explain away the biblical condemnations of one sin over another.

The area where Sodom and Gomorrah was, is now uninhabited wasteland. Sodom and Gomorrah serves as a vigorous example of how God feels about sin in general. Satan would like for us to think, one sin in Sodom, was greater than the other.

Prov. 15:26 (KJV) tells us even “The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the Lord.” In our rapid moving society that functions at a rate, which seems at times faster than the speed of sound, high tech, got to have it right now society, faster is much better.

Take for instant our fast food industry which has quickly been adopted as the no.1 food of choice, as advertisements have premiered daily on billboards throughout our neighborhoods, schools, and of course the billion dollar business of television ads costing in the billions.

Burger king promotes its famous whopper and McDonalds its Big Mac. Each item on the menu for decades has defined the expected American diet no matter how much data the food and drug administration (FDA) in our government puts out about the detrimental effects of its over the top consumption.

But my friends, we must remember that the corporate goal is to make these American fast food chains much more of a household name in our homes than the word of God. The media takeover in our communities takes control of our mind, mouth and stomachs.

In addition, their success comes from taking advantage of the fast pace mostly low income parents or single parents in the home, working fifty and sixty hour work weeks with no time for the togetherness of family dinners.

So they offer consumers a quick, cheap, convenient meal Thus, our delicate bodies become deteriorated by improper eating habits which is Satan’s objective, a deteriorated mind and body by the constant consumption of improper eating habits.

Consistent with this, fast food is all too often high in fat, salt content and low in fiber and calcium and the most detrimental of them all, obesity which leads us away from one of God’s precepts that states whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Cor, 10:32 (ESV)

Friends remember it is Satan who seeks all of Gods glory, it was he who said “I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” Is 14:14 (NIV) So if our goal is to be like Christ we must ask God daily in everything we do will it increase or deteriorate our focus on this Journey Christ has placed us on to the promise land.

As I see it, it will be the small things that seems insignificant to us but in the sight of God is an abomination to Him. So each habit that will deteriorate this wonderful body Crist has given us must be eliminated. Paul tells us “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? 1 Cor. 6:9-10 (NKJV) which is everyone “who sins and has fallen short of the glory of God” Rom 3:23 (NIV) with no remorse.

Jerimiah also says “Your words were found, and I ate them and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;” Jer. 15:16 (NKJV) God’s word my friends is what we must have a daily supply of  so that we will “lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, [as we] run with endurance the race that is set before us.”

And one day soon we are going to be able to “lay down our cross, and all it took to get over as we enter God’s kingdom, if we could just lay it all at the feet of the Master today and say with passion and all of our heart  “not my will, by thou will be done.”

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