Saturday, January 8, 2022
The Lord Is -- January
Saturday, October 2, 2021
The LORD Is ---- Month of September
Saturday, April 3, 2021
KEY HOLDER
When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead. And He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last [absolute Deity, the Son of God], and the Ever-living One [living in and beyond all time and space]. I died, but see, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of [absolute control and victory over] death and of Hades (the realm of the dead)."
John 11:25
Jesus said to her, “I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in (adheres to, trusts in, relies on) Me [as Savior] will live even if he dies."
Romans 6:9
For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Escapism Isn't
2 Timothy 3:1-5
- But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.
- For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money , boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
- unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,
- traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
- having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
- A prisoner
- A person who is enslaved or dominated
- Made or held prisoner
- Kept in confinement or restraint
- Enslaved by love, beauty, etc.
- To attract and hold the attention thereof
- To enchant
- To capture, to subjugate (to bring under complete control, to master, to conquer; to make subservient, enslave
- Terrible Times will come: difficult days, dangerous days, furious days; days of weakness and reduced strength
- Lovers of Themselves: self-loving, selfish
- Lovers of Money: avaricious, greedy, covetousness
- Boastful: one who gives one's self airs in a loud and flaunting way
- Arrogant: proud, disdainful, haughty
- Abusive: blasphemous, slanderous, evil-speaking
- Disobedient to their parents: who will not be persuaded, contumacious: willfully and obstinately disobedient, stubbornly perverse or rebellious
- Ungrateful: ungraceful, unthankful, unpleasing
- Unholy: wicked, profane
- Unloving: devoid of affection, hardhearted towards kindred
- Unforgiving: without libation (without truce, without covenant); implacable (unable to please or placate, unyielding)
- Slanderous: accusing falsely, unjustly criticizing to malign and condemn, accuser, backbiter; malicious, false, defamatory statement or report; calumny: a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something
- Without self-control: powerless, impotent, lacking self-control, inclined to excess: without self-discipline nor self-restraint; unable to have power over one's self
- Brutal: not tame, fierce, savage
- Without love of good: not loving that which is good; a hater of that which is good; someone who is hostile to the things of God
- Traitorous: betrayer; treacherous: faithlessness, untrustworthy, unreliable; perfidious: deliberately faithless, deceitful
- Reckless: headlong: hasty, without deliberation (careful consideration before decision); impulsive, rash
- Conceited: foolish; having a cloudy (muddled) mindset-moral blindness resulting from poor judgment which brings further loss of spiritual perception; having an exceptionally favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.
- Lovers of pleasure: strong desire, sensuous pleasure that is pleasing only to self, self-gratification; the satiation of bodily desires at the expense of others. Rather then Lovers of God: God-loving, friend of God
- Having a form of godliness but denying Its power: external appearance, resemblance, looks like the real thing but isn't
Saturday, December 26, 2020
The Green Fir Tree
Hosea 14:8
"..... I am like a green fir tree, from Me is your fruit found.'
God is the source of all our blessings and benefits. We are to turn to no other entity in prayer for communion with wood/crystals/metals/nature cannot answer our prayers, cannot speak with us.
God created the universe and everything in it but the universe cannot communicate with us either. Only in God can we find everything our heart desires for He is our desire.
When we grasp hold of His outreached hand and cling to Him, He will take us with Him wherever He goes.
But why does He compare Himself to a green fir tree? The fir/juniper/cypress tree is home to birds, who nest in their branches or use their needles for nest building. It's shadow spreads across the land and covers all who live under it, not just draw near for shelter from the heat of the day.
Psalm 91:1
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Both Israel and the Church are God's extension of Himself to a lost and dying people who need saving, saving on God's terms. We are not here to judge each other's sins, nor to condemn each other for sin. John 3:17
For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
As representatives of Christ we are to be like Christ. God is Judge, we are not. We are the body of Christ: His hands, His feet, His eyes, His heart, etc. With our hands we hold, with our arms we cradle or embrace, with our legs we stand and lift, with our eyes we see what He sees, with our heart we love with His love.
John 13:34
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
Only then will our families, our friends, our strangers and our enemies know that there is, indeed, a God who loves them. We are not to hate each other, for in hate there is no love; therefore the love of God cannot be extended to another when it is not in us in the first place.
1 John 4:20
If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
We cannot love each other properly unless we have the Holy Spirit, for it is only through the power of the Holy Spirit that our love is truly an extension of God's love and mercy towards all of us. Think of Him as being the sap in the fir tree. God is the Gardener: He not only created the Tree, He planted it. Christ is the Trunk. We are the branches.
Thursday, August 6, 2020
Love Notes August 3 thru August 8
AUGUST 3
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Love Notes-July 20 thru Aug 1
STILL IN THE DARK
If we claim to be in the Light and hate someone,
we are still in the dark.
Why? Because Jesus Christ is the Light. And if we are in Christ as we claim to be, we will not hate each other but Love each other..
Why? Because God Is Love and Jesus Christ is God's Love extended to people everywhere in every time. The Son could only do what The Father asked Him to do and only say what The Father asked Him to say.
We need this Light and this Love in our hearts and our lives. Not a little bit, but a whole lot. And not later, but right now.
WRITING TO REMIND
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands--this is the Word of Life.
Ephesians 6:10
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
Friday, July 10, 2020
Love Notes July 6 thru July 11
JULY 6