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It is surprising how God can use you. Your desire to please God is translated as the openness and God will bring needy people to you. Obedience results in special blessings.
(more…)Proverbs 16:9
In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.
John 9:4
As long as it is day, we must do the works of Him who sent me. night is coming, when no one can work.
We disciples of Christ push forward to give glory to God. Sometimes we feel that our plans fail due to our lack of character. A common misconception we go through.
God asks us to try. Plant a seed and allow God to do the rest.
Jeremiah 17:8-9: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
(more…)Genesis 37:17b to 24
17b “So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. 18 But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him. 23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing— 24 and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.”
(more…)Shechem literally means “appointed place”. God sends his people to appointed places. The testing grounds for the righteous and the not so righteous. Maybe a meeting with God is scheduled for you?
Here’s how my tests started.
(more…)Matthew 18:5
“And if you tenderly care for this little one on my behalf, you are tenderly caring for me.” Matthew 18:10
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.”
Parents what would you do to protect your children?
(more…)Luke 10: 1 & 2.
1 After this, Jesus chose another 72 disciples. He sent them out two by two, to every town and village that he would visit soon. 2 Before they went, he said to them, ‘Many people are ready to believe God’s message. They are like crops in a field at harvest time. But there are very few workers to bring in the crops. So pray to God to send out workers. The field and the plants belong to him.
(more…)1 Corinthians 9:24-27
24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. 26 Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. 27 No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
(more…)2 Peter 3:17, 18
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen”
I would like to write for you an article regarding one of my forefathers. Brantley York was his name. He is not well known, Yet he impacted American society. Something that still rings true today.
(more…)Genesis 12: 2 & 3.
I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Have you ever thought about how your life would have been if you didn’t make some bad decisions in your life?
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