Year: 2020

1 TIMOTHY 6:12 “FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH. TAKE HOLD OF ETERNAL LIFE TO WHICH YOU WERE CALLED WHEN YOU MADE A GOOD CONFESSION IN THE PRESENCE OF MANY WITNESSES.” To keep our faith is always a battle. Every discouragement, whether illness, loss of a friend, loss of a job is a set back. Read More

1 JOHN 3:17-8 “IF ANYONE HAS MATERIAL POSSESSIONS AND SEES A BROTHER OR SISTER IN NEED BUT HAS NO PITY ON THEM, HOW CAN THE LOVE OF GOD BE IN THAT PERSON? DEAR CHILDREN, LET US NOT LOVE WITH WORDS OR SPEECH BUT WITH ACTIONS AND TRUTH.” A hallmark of Godly love is COMPASSION. And Read More

PROVERS 1917 “WHOEVER IS KIND TO THE POOR LENDS TO THE LORD, AND HE WILL REWARD THEM FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.” COMPASSION is a hugh part of Christian Agape Love. Before Jesus coming, one way to recommend COMPASSION was to stress the REWARD that accrues to those who love. Jesus displayed a whole new Read More

JOHN 15:3 “GREATER LOVE HAS NO ONE THAN THIS: TO LAY DOWN ONE’S LIFE FOR ONE’S FRIENDS.” Do you have a friend you’d give up your life for? Fortunate if you do and blessed if you have the SACRIFICIAL LOVE such a deed requires. I’d like to think many of us would be willing to Read More

PROVERBS 4:23 “ABOVE ALL ELSE, GUARD YOUR HEART, FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO FLOWS FROM IT.” Essential advice for living. Regularly meditate on the motives for our actions. The HEART here is figuratively the seat of our motivation and EMOTIONS. Think about WHY we do what we do. There is always a selfish component in there Read More

HEBREWS 13:5 “KEEP YOUR LIVES FREE FROM THE LOVE OF MONEY AND BE CONTENT WITH WHAT YOU HAVE, BECAUSE GOD HAS SAID, ‘NEVER WILL I LEAVE YOU;NEVER WILL I FORSAKE YOU.’” One of the most marvelous gifts God’s Spirit will give to all believers is the gift of CONTENTMENT. We do our part as best Read More

EXODUS 33;18-9 “THEN MOSES SAID ‘SHOW ME YOUR GLORY.”‘THEN THE LORD SAID, ‘I WILL CAUSE MY GOODNESS TO PASS IN FRONT OF YOU, AND I WILL PROCLAIM MY NAME, THE LORD, IN YOUR PRESENCE. I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I WILL HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I WILL HAVE COMPASSION. Read More

NEHEMIAH 9:6 “YOU ALONE ARE THE LORD. YOU MADE THE HEAVENS, EVEN THE HIGHEST HEAVENS, AND ALL THEIR STARY HOST, THE EARTH AND ALL THAT IS ON IT, THe SEAS AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM. YOU GAVE LIFE TO EVERYTHING AND THE MULTITUDE OF HEAVEN WORSHIP YOU.” Once Nehemiah was asked to complete a Read More

PSALM 3:3-4 “YOU, LORD, ARE A SHIELD AROUND ME, MY GLORY, THE ONE WHO LIFTS MY HEAD HIGH. I CALL OUT TO THE LORD AND HE ANSWERS FROM HIS HIGH MOUNTAIN.” From ancient times, God’s servants intuitively knew how important a healthy SELF-ESTEEM is. The writer realizes how fulfilling it is to be associated with Read More

2 CORINTHIANS 4:7-9 “THIS ALL SURPASSING POWER IS FROM GOD AND NOT FROM US. WE ARE HARD PRESSED ON EVERY SIDE, BUT NOT CRUSHED; PERPLEXED, BUT NOT IN DESPAIR; PERSECUTED, BUT NOT ABANDONED; STRUCK DOWN BUT NOT DESTROYED.” At times we look back and wonder, “How did I ever get through that?! Our bodies, minds Read More