A heart for God’s use

Passage Amos 7:7-8:

⁷ This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand. ⁸ And the LORD asked me, "What do you see, Amos?"
"A plumb line," I replied.
Then the Lord said, "Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

1. Set your heart to God.

Passage 2 Chronicles 11:16:

^16(A)Those from all the tribes of Israel who set their hearts on seeking the LORD God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem, to sacrifice to the LORD God of their fathers.

Passage Luke 13:14:

¹⁴But ^(A)the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus ^(B)had healed on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd in response, "^(C)There are six days in which work should be done; so come during them and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day."

2. Yield your heart to God.

Passage Joshua 24:23:

²³"Now therefore, put away the foreign gods which are in your midst, and ^(A)incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel."

3. Cleanse your heart for God.

Passage 1 Samuel 7:3-4:

³Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "^(A)If you return to the LORD with all your heart, ^(B)remove the foreign gods and the ^(C)Ashtaroth from among you and ^(D)direct your hearts to the LORD and ^(E)serve Him alone; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines."

⁴So the sons of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth and served the LORD alone.

4. Guard your heart for God.

Passage Proverbs 4:23:

²³Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For ^(A)from it flow the springs of life

Passage Matthew 22:37:

³⁷And He said to him, " '^(A)YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.'

5. Do not harden your heart.

Passage Hebrews 3:8:

^8(A)DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME,
AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,

Passage Ezekiel 11:19-20:

¹⁹"And I will ^(A)give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them And I will take the ^(B)heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a ^(C)heart of flesh,

²⁰that they may ^(D)walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them Then they will be ^(E)My people, and I shall be their God.

Do you want God to bless you? Then give your heart to Jesus the son of God. He is the way, the truth, and the light. No one comes unto the Father except by Jesus.

 

We were not created for time, but for eternity

Passage Ephesians 2:10:
¹⁰For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Passage John 15:16:
¹⁶You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.

Your decisions will have eternal consequences.

The writer is talking to Christians in both of these passages. Once you become a Christian God has many things for you to do. We must surrender our life to Him, become His disciple. That means to study His word, meditate on His word, pray over His word. These are the tools we must use so that we can do His work

We get so caught up in the time we have here on earth forgetting that we were created for eternity. Jesus said, “ I have prepared a place for you.” We must prepare ourselves for eternity by sharing the gospel with others. That is the eternal consequences, how many are you going to take to heaven with you? Don’t set back thinking only about yourself, if you do you will be missing out on God’s blessings for your life here on earth and in heaven.

Read John 15:16 again, wow the creator of all has chosen you!! Did you get that? The creator of all has chosen you!! Make sure your decisions today makes a difference in someone’s life.

God Bless,

 

Change politics?

We as Christians have been working very hard to change the mind set of the American politics for the past several years and have had some victories, however the up hill battle still rages on.

We had put our hope in the Republican party to redeem us from the social ills of our nation: homosexuality, abortion, drugs, divorce, same sex marriage, corporate crime, etc., but they dropped us like a rock.

I was reading in 1John this morning and God’s word told me why this has happened. Read it for yourself.

Passage 1 John 4:4-6:

⁴You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. ⁵They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. ⁶We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit^[a] of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

It is obvious that they did not hear us because they are not children of God. So what should we do now? Evangelize our nation, so that the majority of our citizens are children of God, therefore the love of Christ will overflow into every aspect of our lives.

I leave you with this verse.

Passage 1 John 4:7-11:

God's Love and Ours

⁷Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son^[a] into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for^[b] our sins. ¹¹Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

May God bless you and your family today.

 

THE AUTHORITY OF CHRIST

All of our victory in this life comes through what Christ has already accomplished for us in his death, his resurrection, and his ascension.

The Cross: Cleanses us from sin, removes our old nature, and disarms the demons.

Passage Galatians 2:20:
²⁰I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Passage Colossians 2:13-15:

¹³When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature,^[a] God made you^[b] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, ¹⁴having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.^[c]

The Resurrection: Brings us new life in Christ, a life triumphant, our new nature.

Passage Romans 5:17:
¹⁷For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

Passage Romans 6:5-11:

⁵If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. ⁶For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with,^[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— ⁷because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

⁸Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. ¹⁰The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

¹¹In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

The Ascension: Empowers us with that same authority Jesus Christ has been given- all authority in heaven and on earth.

Passage Matthew 28:18:
¹⁸Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Passage Ephesians 2:4-6:
⁴But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. ⁶And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

This came from the Wild at Heart field manual by John Eldredge. I have been studying it and I had to share this part. What power and authority we have in Christ Jesus, we need to get to work by claiming this power and authority to bring our nation back to the Christian nation it once was. Yes we have freedom of religion, and we must keep that, however to be free is to follow God’s way not man’s way. God’s way is to love one another and man’s way is to get all I can get for myself. Christianity promotes love for one another no matter who you are or where you came from and it is a free gift that can’t be earned, so you don’t have to blow yourself up to get to heaven, you only have to accept the free gift from Jesus and then become a disciple of his and tell other people what he has done for you. By sharing you faith in him, he has given us the responsibility and privilege to share his gospel with the world.

God Bless,

Jeff

COMMUNICATION
 
Research has shown us that a woman speaks 25,000 words per day and a man speaks 10,000 words per day. Do you agree?

Study has also shown that:

Intimate talk increases a man's chances of staying healthy up to 500 percent

It reduces his chance of heart failure and all of the major illnesses.

It increases the effectiveness of his immune system.

It increases his wife's happiness and health.

It increases his wife's sexual responsiveness to him.

WOW, no wonder women live longer that men! We men just don't talk enough to stay healthy and we thought what they were chattering about wasn't important.

Communication is more than just talking. Dr. Gary Smalley talks about the different levels of communicator.
Level 1. Small talk or reflex words. The lowest level of intimacy.
Level 2. Communicating impersonal facts. Simple everyday exchange of external nonpersonal information.
Level 3. Sharing opinions. This is the doorway to the most meaningful and satisfying levels.
Level 4. Sharing deep feelings. For mates to feel safe enough that they freely open up and reveal their deepest feelings to each other.
Level 5. Sharing vital relational needs (physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional). The deepest experience of marital love and satisfaction.
Level 6. Communication your beliefs. The Bible tells us that above all else, we are to guard our heart. Since our heart contains our beliefs, sharing the beliefs with each other is the deepest level of communication.

It is funny how a lot of people can set down and write blogs all day long about how they feel about certain subjects, but they can't go home and communicate with their spouse. Why is that? It is because of selfishness. Just think about it. If someone replies to your blog in a negative way you are offended. Now with blogging you can just fire back, it does not matter if you make them mad, because your mad. Now with you spouse that is a different story, you have to live with that person and the big one your spouse really knows you.
Ok, how to start.
1. Communicate honestly without judgment of the other. Listen to the other's feelings, needs, and beliefs, and openly communicate your own. Don't try to change your mate or pressure him or her to yield to our own preferences. Listen for the heart beneath the words.
2. Place on the table ideas and alternatives, discussing their pros and cons and testing each for acceptability to the other.
3. The you will find solutions that both partners like.

Now we do this everyday at our work place, so why don't we try harder to do this with the love of our life. You can do it.

Passage Matthew 22:37-40:
³⁷Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'^{[a] 38}This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'^{[b] 40}All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Passage Galatians 5:13:

    ¹³You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature^[a]; rather, serve one another in love.

Make the promise to serve one another in Love.

May God bless you and your family today.

How is your marriage?

Let me give you the 220 principle found in Gary Smalley's book "I Promise"

The problem is that we are wired for 220 volts, and we try to plug into 110 volts.

In Galatians 2:20 we find the real source for lasting fulfillment: "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless, I keep on living, but it's not really me any more, but it's Christ living in me.The life that I now live, I live by the faith in the Son of God who love me and gave Himself for me."

The "220 Principle" means allowing Christ and Christ alone to charge us because God designed our internal batteries to be wire to His 220 current, not the 110 current of other people.

Check out Ephesians 3:16-21

Can you be any more filled than full?

Check out 2Corithians 3:18 

God made male and female to fit togehter to become one, however Eve was not a substitute for God. God should first in all our lives and if He is then all of our lives will be more fullfilled in every way. Take the challenge: Seek God for 30 days and see if your life is different When I say seek Him, go to people you believe to be Godly and talk to them, read God's word, pray, and find a local church to attend during this month. Yes go Sunday morning for class and worship, Sunday night, and Wednesday night. Try it for 30 days and see what happens.
Remember you are not doing this to change your mate ( you can't do that ) rather you are doing this to change you.
God bless you and your family.

UN-BAPTIZED ARM

Romans 12:1

The story goes that Ivan the terrible ( ruler of Russia ) was a single man and the leaders of the country decided that he needed to get married. So they searched the world over for a suitable mate and found one in Greece. She, being a member of the church, could not marry a person who was not a member, so Ivan and 500 hundred of his soldiers went to Greece to become members of the church. One of the rules of the church is that a member could not be a warrior and this was a problem for the soldiers. They came up with a solution to the problem. On the day of Baptism all 500 hundred soldiers and 500 priest went to the water at one time. Each soldier drew his sword and held it up high and as they were baptized they held their arm and sword out above the water. They gave all of their body to the church except their right arm and their sword.

Passage Romans 12:1: Romans 12 Living Sacrifices 1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship. Footnotes: ? Romans 12:1 Or reasonable New International Version (NIV) Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

1. We ought to make an entire surrender because: of the mercies of God.
2. We ought to make an entire surrender because: sacrifice is essential to success.
3. We ought to make an entire surrender because: it is our reasonable service.

Passage Isaiah 53 :

Isaiah 53

¹ Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

² He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

³ He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

⁴ Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.

⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

⁶ We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.

⁸ By oppression ^[a] and judgment he was taken away.
And who can speak of his descendants?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was stricken. ^[b]

⁹ He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰ Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the LORD makes ^[c] his life a guilt offering,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.

¹¹ After the suffering of his soul,
he will see the light of life ^[d] and be satisfied ^[e] ;
by his knowledge ^[f] my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.

¹² Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, ^[g]
and he will divide the spoils with the strong, ^[h]
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.

That is what Jesus did for you and me. He gave his all for us, so we should give our all for Him. He gave an unreasonable amount to us and He only asks us to give a reasonable amount of our lives to Him. We can do that because of His mercy and grace that He gives us in abundance each and every day.

Make your choice today to give your all to Jesus. He will bless you for it.
God Bless

 

 

STOP THE SERMON

Acts 24: 25-27

 

Passage Acts 24:24-25:

    ²⁴Several days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess. He sent for Paul and listened to him as he spoke about faith in Christ Jesus. ²⁵As Paul discoursed on righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and said, "That's enough for now! You may leave. When I find it convenient, I will send for you."

 

 

1. Making excuses. How many excuses do we make in a day to God, saying not now God, I have something else to do right now?  Luke 14: 16-20

Passage Luke 14:16-20:

    ¹⁶Jesus replied: "A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. ¹⁷At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, 'Come, for everything is now ready.'

    ¹⁸"But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, 'I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.'

    ¹⁹"Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.'

    ²⁰"Still another said, 'I just got married, so I can't come.'

 

2. Depending on human goodness: We go about comparing ourselves to others and of course we pick out the ones that we think are in need of help so that we make our own self look good. But we should be comparing ourselves to Jesus. Of course we will never be like Jesus here on earth but one day in heaven we will have a glorified body and Jesus has made a way for everyone to be in heaven.

 

3. Depending upon sincerity: Here again hoping that our human strength will measure up to God’s standard. We want to do the right thing, but in our own strength we always fail. Go to God first with all things and seek His direction.

 

 

4. By our love of sin: Engaging in practices that are not in line with God’s principles.

      Passage John 3:19:
¹⁹This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

 

5. By our procrastination: This is the chief method the devil uses to condemn our souls. The enemy of our hearts is not primarily interested in making us bad people, if he can just get us to say “tomorrow”. No God I will make the decision to accept you as Lord and Savior tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow and then we die never accepting Jesus. What a tragedy!

 

Jesus loves us very much and He has prepared a place for us in heaven. By accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior you may receive that free gift of heaven.

I delight greatly in the Lord: my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations. ( Isaiah 61: 10 – 11 )

Read the first 9 verses of Isaiah 61 and you will see what God expects of born again Christians.

To preach the good news to the poor

To bind up the brokenhearted

To proclaim freedom for the captives by releasing them from the darkness

To proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor

To proclaim the day of vengeance for our God

To comfort all who mourn

I see a rising up of Christians in America using their economic and voting power to bring America back to her roots, a Christian nation. This is good for all Americans for Christians have been the back bone of charity in America and throughout the world. Christians have been working for our fellow man in a common goal of freedom for all and a government for the people, by the people. I’m glad Christians have finally woke up to the fact that Christianity does not stay behind the church walls. Your Christianity must be in all parts of our lives: work, play, family, and politics. But let us not forget Isaiah 61. We are to preach the gospel to all people, for anyone to obtain true freedom he or she must be born again.

Born again: Is to accept Jesus as your savior, that by faith you accept that Jesus was born of the virgin Mary, was crucified on the cross, died, three days later rose from the grave, and then ascended to heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father today. By Jesus doing this your past, present, and future sins are forgiven. That one day He is coming back for us. Sending this message out to all will be the best way to bring America back to her roots. So you see, as much as we Christians would like to blame other groups of people for the mess our nation is in, we can’t. It is our responsibility to reach out to all people by meeting their needs and sharing the saving grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. When we do this we will see a change in America.

PERSPECTIVE -  A view or vista
a. The ability to perceive things in their actual interrelations or comparative importance.
b. The subjective evaluation of relative significance, a point of view.

Jesus asked, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?" They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
"But what about you?" he asked, "Who do you say I am?"

Why did the people say he was John the Baptist, or Elijah, or Jeremiah? These were all prophets telling the Israel nation to repent and turn to God and since Jesus was telling them to repent and turn to Him, they thought He was another prophet. The question is why did people think that? It is because of their perspective of the coming Messiah. They were following the "point of view or world view" of the religious leaders instead of their hearts. The religious leaders of that day had a different point of view than what the scriptures taught because they were distracted by their own desires instead of being obedient to God's word. 
Then Jesus asked, "Who do you say I am?" Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Wow a much different answer! Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man," but by my Father in heaven. Wow again!

You see now why Peter knew the answer. He was basing his answer on the word of God. Now the religious leaders had the word of God and knew it quite well. But they were distracted by their own desires of power and greed and pride.

So we have to answer the question, what is distracting me, what is my "point of view?" Am I following God's will for my life or am I distracted by selfish motives? We make decisions from our perspective of life or most commonly called today our "world view." From what side of the issue are you making your decisions? For instance; Homosexual marriage, "Is it ok or not ok?" You decide based on your "world view." Now since you have the freedom to decide, "Is any decision you make right?" It is sad to say that the general census to that answer is yes, but the fact is that the answer is no. Just because you want something to go your way doesn't mean it is the right way. Let's go back to the religious leaders of that day when Jesus asked his disciples the question. The religious leaders and the people thought they were right even though they were wrong because of their "world view or perspective." Jesus is the messiah and scripture had clearly predicted His coming, only the leaders were blinded by their own desires. Scripture had said in Malachi 4 that Elijah would return before Jesus and proclaim the coming of the messiah and he did. John the Baptist was Elijah. Had the people of that day been tuned into God's word they would have clearly seen that Jesus was the messiah. Just as it is very clear in God's word that marriage between one man and one woman is the only acceptable marriage to God. You can twist it all you want to, but the fact is God is the ultimate authority and He says is it wrong.  
I pray that all Christians would seek God's word so they will know the right answer to the questions of life. May we all have a Biblical World View.

Don't forget to vote today! I found myself telling everyone I saw, remember if you don't vote then you can't complain about your elected officials. That always get a different look on someone's face. I even called my grown children and asked did you vote? One said no and admitted she was very irresponsible for not voting. I sternly said you are right so go and vote next time. 
Elections are very important and they remind me of a news cast I saw last year after the elections in Iraq. They were interviewing several people and came to a couple. Their statement was that they had children so they each went to the voting pole alone just incase one of them were killed so the other could care for the children. STOP and think about that statement. They were willing to risk their very own life to vote!! One of my coworkers came back to work this afternoon and was asked did you vote, he said no because the line was to long. What a contrast!! One willing to risk his life to vote in Iraq and another did not have time to wait in line to vote in America. And we wonder why we have so many problems in America. We are no longer willing to sacrifice for what we believe in. It is kind of like today people are complaining about how much gas cost ( and we are at war ) but during  WW II gas was rationed and people did not complain, but rather they were glad to sacrifice their comforts to make sure our military had what they needed to win the war.
We just don't get.
 Jesus said, " Put others before yourself "

God Bless America, Please!
Jeff

Jesus made this statement in Matthew 19:30.

What is he saying?

Why did he say it?

You will find the answer in the parables that follow (Matt. 20:1 - 21:46)

The first (Jews - God's chosen people) will be last because they rejected Jesus. The last (gentiles) will be first because the received Jesus. 

What is it that they are receiving? Salvation by faith not works so that no man can boast. We are in the need of a savior, if we could work or earn our way to heaven Jesus would have never had to die on the cross for our sins. 
So humble yourself and repent of your sins and believe on the name of Jesus and you shall be saved.
Amen
Jeff 

Halloween night

We had trunk or treat at our church last night for halloween. There were several children that came by our neighborhood church all dressed up in nice costumes and not so nice costumes all begging for candy.
I had mixed feelings about even acknowledging halloween because of its evil over tones and I am a Christian. Should our church be a part of such a night of evil? As the night went on I realized it was the perfect opportunity to meet some families that need Christ in their lives. We handed out Bible verses on small pieces of paper to every child asking for candy. God's word says His word will not go out void, so that means His word was spread throughout the neighborhood last night.
Why did they come to our church last night, it was a safe haven for their children. The parents new that Christians ( unlike some other religions ) have a strong history of helping people and Christian churches being a safe haven for all to come to, so their children would be in no danger to receive candy from Christians.
I remember in the 60's when I was a child we could go from door to door to get store bought candy and even home made candy and never had to worry about being in any danger at all. But then our nation was a Christian nation meaning even if you did not go to church you still held Christian values. No longer is this true, it is a sad day in America.
I pray for our people to get on our knees before a Holy God and repent of our ways so that He may bless our nation one again.
God Bless,
Jeff

How do we join with God in an everlasting covenant?

You first have to answer what is God's covenant with us. He promises us that if we believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and rose three days later and ascended to heaven and sits at the right of God today and since Jesus did that our sins ( [past, present, future sins] are forgiven forever. By the blood shed of Christ this has been made possible. 
 
My part of that covenant is to do five basic things.
1. Read God's Holy word, my Bible.
2. Pray to my Holy Father.
3. Be a involved member of a Bible believeing church.
4. Tithe to my local church (must do this) and other ministries if I can.
5. Witness to others ( simple share what Christ has done in my life through His word, prayer, being a member of a local church, and tithing.

That is it!
Wonderful isn't it!!!!

May God Bless us all today.
Jeff

Do you ever get angry at the world?? Why is that?? I'm crusing along in life and everything seems to be going ok then I hit a pot hole. Ok, I can deal with that, then another problem comes along, then another. What is going on I ask myself, why aren't things going my way? I work hard, I go to church, I treat my family ok, I think everyone is against me.
You ever feel that way?
 (I) think (I) know the problem; yes it is (I).
I get so focused on myself and all the things I want to acomplish and I forget about others and most of all I forget that I need to be obedient to God's way not the world's. It is so easy for me to follow the crowd and it always gets me in trouble. God's way is perfect and always relevant to the times. His way is never old fashion or before it's time. I find that absolutly amazing. Try trusting God's way instead of the world's way and see what happens.


Bad choice results in bad consiquences.
Good choice results in good consiquences.

Yes, I am responsible for my choices.

I pray that I will seek God's direction from now on. How can I know God's direction? Read His word (Bible) and pray daily with Him.