Saturday, February 26, 2011

WHAT WE WILL WEAR?

Ephesians 4:24 (NIV). 
Put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness....... 
Thoughts on This Verse... 
One of the biggest decisions we face at the beginning of the day is what we will wear. 
Well, no matter what we choose in the way of clothing, let's make sure we choose to put on the new person God re-made us to be when we became Christians. Those are the only clothes that will fit us eternally! 


Thank YOU Holy Spirit for your blessing !!!

Father in heaven please help your children out there now that is raining really hard, please help them out...

Psalm 33:4-5 (New International Version, ©2010)


 4 For the word of the LORD is right and true;
   he is faithful in all he does.
5 The LORD loves righteousness and justice;
   the earth is full of his unfailing love.

Jesus is God's greatest message !!!

Jesus I love YOu with all my heart and I can't live without You !!!

Psalm 33:4-5 (New International Version, ©2010)


 4 For the word of the LORD is right and true;

   he is faithful in all he does.
5 The LORD loves righteousness and justice;
   the earth is full of his unfailing love.

''Why do you seek the living among the dead?''

1 Corinthians 15:20 (NIV). 
But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep....... Thoughts on This Verse... 
''Why do you seek the living among the dead?'' 
These words of the angel to the women who came to Jesus' tomb are also God's words to us. Jesus is risen! Not only that, he is the firstfruits from the dead. He is the guarantee that God's harvest will happen; he is our assurance that we, too, will be raised. 


Death no longer has a hold on us! We are God's eternal children and death cannot separate us from his presence or his love! 

Thursday, February 24, 2011

I am the Lord !!!

Isaiah 41:13 (NIV). For I am the LORD, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you....... 
Thoughts on This Verse... 
Life crashes in and we wish we could be children again and have someone to take care of us and protect us. Into our confused and chaotic world, God's promise comes to us once again. Like a loving parent with a frightened child, God reaches out and takes hold of our hands and comforts us with his precious words:''Don't be afraid. I'm here with you. 
I will help.'' Even when he seems distant, the echo of this thought can remind us that we are never alone or forgotten. (cf. Heb. 13:5-6) 





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Jesus is God's greatest message !!!

John 1:18 (NIV). 
No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known....... 
Thoughts on This Verse... 
Jesus is God's greatest message. 
He not only proclaims and declares God's love, mercy, and grace; he has made it known. Only Jesus can display God to us fully, for he is one with the Father. 
Yet when we ''see'' Jesus ministering in the Gospels, we see God. 
If we want to know how God feels about us, all we have to do is look at how Jesus ministers to others. If we want to know what God would do for us, we can notice what Jesus does to bless others. Jesus is our window to the Father's heart. 
So why not make a commitment to get to know Jesus better by spending more time with him in the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)? If you do, you will better know God! 


Tuesday, February 22, 2011

FIXING OUR EYES IN THE ETERNAL !!!

2 Corinthians 4:17 (NIV). For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal....... 
Thoughts on This Verse... 
Life can be very tough. Eventually, our bodies are going to die. In the process of living, we're going to face some very difficult circumstances and going to experience some awful pain. But, as bad as life's hard realities can be, we are headed for an eternal glory beyond our imagining. 
Life's difficulties simply can't compare to this glory that awaits us. Our pain is temporary. The things that cause our pain are temporary. The treatments, the prescriptions, the therapies, the surgeries, the setbacks are all temporary. 
All these things that we have seen and experienced are passing. 
But our eternal glory, our indescribable bliss, that wonderful future that we cannot yet see, is eternal ... forever ... incorruptible ... and reserved for us, God's precious children! 


Monday, February 21, 2011

He choose me !!


Ephesians 1:4 (New International Version, ©2010)

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love.
PRAYER:
Lord your calling on my life is greater 
than any man can believe. 
I cannot look to others for my self-esteem 
or self-worth. So, Lord, I turn to you. 
In you, I am royalty !!!





HOPE THAT DOES NOT DISAPPOINT !!!---PRAISE GOD !!!

Romans 5:5 (NIV). 
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us....... 
Thoughts on This Verse... 
Hope has become such a''wimpy'' term in modern vocabulary. It hardly qualifies as an adequate translation of the meaning in most New Testament passages. 
Hope is the assurance that what we believe will happen. We could call it spiritual confidence. We have that spiritual confidence because more than just a wish, more than just an emotion, more than just a belief rests in our hearts; God himself lives in us through his Holy Spirit. 
When we become Christians, 
Jesus pours out the Spirit upon us (Titus 3:3-7) 
3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.
as God's gift to us (Acts 2:38; 
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
5:32) 
We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
to cleanse us (1 Cor. 6:11), 
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
make us part of the same Body (1 Cor. 12:12-13), 
2 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[a]one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
and live inside us (1 Cor. 6:19-20). 
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
Paul adds one more thing to that list of blessings from God's presence within us -- God's love. 
We don't just have it; God keeps refreshing it through the Holy Spirit, just as Jesus had promised (John 7:37-39).

37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
RIVERS OF LIVING WATERS !!!

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Those who follow the LORD !!!

Psalm 1:4 (NIV). 
Those who follow the LORD are firmly planted, healthy, and full of life. Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away....... 
Thoughts on This Verse... 
No matter the temporary apparent benefits of wicked schemes and evil power, all these efforts end at the grave.
They are swept away, leaving the wicked with nothing to show for their efforts and no Savior to plead their case as they stand before the righteousness and justice of the one true and holy God. 


Through all generations !!!

Psalm 100:5 (NIV). For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations....... 
Thoughts on This Verse... 
I usually''speed read'' through the''begats'' (you know, through the genealogies in the Bible). But, let's take time today to go back and read Matthew 1:1-17 and be reminded that God's love, mercy, and faithfulness not only continued through all of those generations, but also blessed and nurtured each of those generations. 


As he has done in the past, God will do so even more in the days ahead as we await the glorious return of his Son and our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.