Song of the Day #5 “I Look Up” by We Are Messengers We all want to feel like we’re on top at some point in our lives, and those around us need to listen and be obedient to us. Whether that is our kids, our employees, our students, etc. This song woke me up playing in my head. Part of it says, “I want that feeling of being on the mountain top, but when I’m looking down, I’m not looking up.” I think leadership should be one hand towards whomever we want to listen to us, to pull them up Read More
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Day 40 of God’s Love
Day 40 of God’s Love for Us February 8, 2018 “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, “For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through him who loved us” (Romans 8:35-37 NASB ). Satan will give us all of these tests and struggles, including money and comfort because he hates God. Satan does not like you and me or Read More
Day 37 of God’s Love
Day 37 of God’s Love for Us December 22, 2017 Today’s demonstration of God’s love comes from song by Matt Maher called “Hold Us Together.” I believe that God has used Matt and many others to write songs that point to Jesus. In this song, Matt points us directly to Jesus’ two greatest commandments, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. And “The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’” (Matthew 22:37, 39 NASB). Now Matt Maher’s lyrics that touched me to demonstrate Read More
Day 36 of God’s Love
Day 36 of God’s Love for Us December 21, 2017 “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”(2 Corinthians 5:21 NASB). When we trust in Christ, we make an exchange-our sin for his righteousness. God offered to share His freedom and moral principles which are immeasurable, with us- who are broken, immoral, and generally ungrateful. When we acknowledge, believe, and trust in Jesus, we can encourage, help, and strengthen one another. Also, “we can celebrate with each other when we see God’s victorious Read More
Day 33 of God’s Love
Day 33 of God’s Love for Us December 7, 2017 Why did Jesus Christ die on the cross? I think Paul put it it very plainly in his letter to the Galatians, when he wrote, “It was for freedom that Christ set us free (died); therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery”(Galatians 5:1 NASB). There were 613 laws for the Hebrews during Jesus’ time. He narrowed that down to “Love God” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” When He said this, Jesus opened the door for you and I and all the Read More
Day 31 of God’s Love
Day 31 of God’s Love for Us November 30, 2017 We know that love comes from God. “By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgement…There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love”(1 John 4:17-18NASB). Perfected here has the meaning of moral character becoming perfect. Fear comes from the devil and is the opposite of love. If we love God, then we need to love ourselves. God doesn’t hold grudges against those who Read More
Day 30 of God’s Love
Day 30 of God’s Love for Us November 29, 2017 What is love? Is it just an emotion, or is it something more- an action? Love is a choice, and choice is an action. “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God”(1 John 4:7NASB). I heard a pastor say today, “…if you don’t love your neighbor, you don’t love God;” he went on to say, “If you have a problem with someone else (your neighbor), your relationship with God isn’t right.” He derived his statements from Read More