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A Christian devotional dedicated to the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ
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Wednesday Nov 21, 2018
Wednesday Nov 14, 2018
Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
#39|3 Important Things to Young People: Having a Relationship With God
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
Wednesday Oct 03, 2018
Sunday Jul 08, 2018
#36|Miracles of Transformation & Expansion
Sunday Jul 08, 2018
Sunday Jul 08, 2018
“Why did Jesus perform miracles?”
John 6:1-13
We need God to push us into new parameters.
- See the multitude and the impact they had on Jesus
- Jesus was moved with compassion
- Jesus knew the cost of being lost
- Jesus knew the multitude were people that were hurting
- Jesus knew there were skeptics in the crowd
- See the meaning of this miracle
- This miracle was expanded not transformed
- A transformation miracle is one that changes something from one thing to another (i.e. water to wine, blind man to sighted man, etc)
- An expanded miracle makes more of what you give
- See the message of the miracle.
- The boy told his mom all about what he saw that day
- He saw THE man who asked him for his lunch and He expanded his lunch to feed the multitude
- When you put it in the hands of Jesus, He’ll always give you more
- You can’t out give God
I Chronicles 4:10
Ask God and He will expand our lives.
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
35|Share The Gospel
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
“Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.” Proverbs 22:28
Things have changed from the past…good things and bad. We need bold preaching, not watered down messages. Preachers need to be bold and crying out about sin.
We need dedicated Christians…who aren’t afraid to get their toes stepped on.
3 Areas in which we need bold preaching:
- Sin
- Man calls it an accident, God calls it an abomination
- As Christians, we need to preach and pray as Jesus being the Savior of our lives.
- Hell
- Jesus Christ talked twice as much about Hell than he did about Heaven because He didn’t want us to go there.
- The plan of Salvation contains some very bad news at the beginning…about Hell. Goodness does not get us to Heaven.
- Sacrifice
- Jesus majored on Sacrifice. When the disciples came to Jesus and said they would follow Him everywhere, He told them He was calling them for sacrifice.
- Serving requires sacrifice.
Christians need to get seriously sold out for their church. Christians need to serve the Lord. You’ve got the power of God on your side!
Sunday Nov 24, 2013
#34|Prayer, pt.4 - Consolation in Confession
Sunday Nov 24, 2013
Sunday Nov 24, 2013
Psalms 32
Psalms 51
- There is a certain consoling in getting things out into the light.
- Confession relieves the weight of guilt. It generally results in insecurities and self-hatred. It requires a lot of emotional energy.
- Confessing negates the need for expenditure of energy.
Psalms 51:1-13
1 (To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.) Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be
4 justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
- Confessing is not going to the pastor.
- There are times that this happens but we are to go to God with our confessions.
- If you have offended someone, you do need to go to them, confess and ask for forgiveness.
- There is one mediator between us and God and that is Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 3:16
- Sin is our problem.
- We are sinners…every one of us.
- The Bible says to preach the whole word of God.
- Our sin is the result of selfish and rebellious choices.
- James says “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good and do it not, to him it is sin”.
- Sin violates God’s righteous standard.
Psalms 32:1 (A Psalm of David, Maschil.) Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
- God is righteous. There is only one person who walked on this earth who was sinless and that was Jesus Christ.
- Sin stems from our old nature which is perverse.
- Romans 3:10 states that there is none righteous, no not one.
Psalms 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
- Iniquity implies twistedness or perversity.
- There is something devious or crooked about sin.
- Imputeth means to credit to or lay upon. God does not lay upon iniquity.
- Sin violates God’s righteous standard. Guile refers to treachery or deceit.
Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
- Sin will mess us up.
- It is deceitful.
- Many people are deceived by sin and it will destroy you.
- Ephesus was an example of this.
- Ephesus was once a booming metropolis.
- Silt was the reason for its downfall.
- Little particles of silt slowly filled up the harbor from the sea traders.
- Little acts of disobediences act the same way.
- They may seem harmless but let them accumulate and it will destroy us.
- In Hebrews, James says the attractive pleasures of sin are really a mask covering death.
- The little sins go to a bigger sin and another sin and another sin.
- We tolerate sin in our lives.
- It starts out slow but leads to heartache.
- When we sin, something has to die.
- In Psalms 32:1b, “whose sin is covered”
- This goes back to Deuteronomy 23 when God told the Israelites that all their refuge needs to be buried.
- God used our human waste to symbolize our sin to symbolize the filthiness of our sins.
- We can’t bury our spiritual refuge out of God’s sight.
- It must be taken away and only the blood of Christ can do that.
- His blood cleanses all our sin.
- Blessed means happy. Note twice that the man who gets right with God is to be blessed.
- The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
- What a happy state to be a sinner forgiven!
- Once someone realizes that their sins can be forgiven, it is as far as the east is from the west, buried in the sea of forgetfulness to be remembered no more.
- We like to play games with God to justify sin but we aren’t happy nor blessed.
- However, God will bless your life and mold you if you allow Him.
- If you have unconfessed sin in your life, confess them to God and be forgiven.
Sunday Nov 17, 2013
#33|Prayer, pt.3 - Waiting
Sunday Nov 17, 2013
Sunday Nov 17, 2013
- We have a hard time waiting because we have an instant gratification society.
- We have a hard time especially in our spiritual life waiting on prayer. Even some people in the Bible didn’t like to wait.
- Habakkuk had been praying for a long time for there to be a revival in Israel.
Habakkuk 1:2 - O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
- He waited and waited so long. God answered the prophet’s prayer but not in the way that he wanted.
- Has God ever answered your prayer in a way that you might not want?
- His first answer from God was a long time coming so he digs in for another long haul.
- He questions God on how long he will have to pray.
- This is a good example for us.
Habakkuk 2:1 - I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
- Habakkuk had 2 questions:
- Why does God often seem indifferent in the face of evil?
- Why do evil people seem to go unpunished?
- 3 Elements of waiting on prayer:
- Commitment to perseverance
- Commitment to watch
- Commitment to act
- There were no instruments to detect advancement of the enemy.
- They had men standing on the wall watching and listening for enemies to advance no matter the elements around them.
- Habakkuk was prepared and determined to stand ready and wait with spiritual eyes and ears open to listen to experience prayer with God.
- A commentary written about Habakkuk says the watch tower is the consecrated openness of the prophet for a divine word.
- The application for us is our relationship to prayer. We feel that we should not have to wait on God to answer prayer.
- God answers our prayers in one of three ways:
- yes, no, and wait.
- The answer may be delayed. It may include spiritual warfare.
- (David) Prayer involves divine purpose.
- (Abraham and Sarah) We need to learn to wait upon the Lord and it is a hard things to do.
- Our prayer may be delayed also because of our daily walk with God.
- We need to go about our daily routine knowing that God is working.
- We need to stay in the right fellowship with our Lord.
- Habakkuk said that he couldn’t see it happening but he trusted that it was.
- We need to trust God whatever comes.
- The prophet made a commitment to look for his answer (staying alert).
- He was open to whatever God had to say and not what he necessarily wanted to hear.
- Are we willing to hear what God says even if it’s not what we wanted? We have to be willing to listen to what God answers.
- Habakkuk is a prophet of God and he has not been thrilled by the answers of his prayers.
- The application for us is that we be willing to act on His answers.
- We have to say that we are going to do what God wants us to do.