Jesus In His Time
The children of Israel were taught to follow after the leadership of their time. The high priests, captain of the temple guard, Jewish council (Sanhedrin), rabbis, the Pharisees and Saducees were the leaders in Jesus’ time. The majority of these men were very religious, but not really connected to the father God. They followed the […]
Being Careful How You Walk
Have you thought seriously about how you are walking before God. What does your life look like? Are you living your life in such a way where you are becoming more and more like Christ, or are you living for the world and what the world says is important? We are to be living for […]
Renewing our minds
Rom 12:2 We are being exhorted to ( not ) fashion ourselves according to the patterns of this world, but instead to have our minds transfigured and renovated by our meditating on God’s word. We will then be able to express through how we live our lives and prove through testing, what is the good […]
Navigating the challenges of life
Philippians 4:13 This is an all encompassing word that’s very comforting! Paul challenges us to be stretched in our faith. To embrace all that we go through from the looking lens of all things being possible. I can do all things through Christ! There is nothing that I can’t handle or do because I am […]
Producing the fruit of goodness
I want to talk about the fruit of goodness, which is a fruit of the Spirit. What is goodness? Dictionary.com states that it’s: the state or quality of being good. moral excellence; virtue. kindly feeling; kindness; generosity; excellence of quality; goodness of workmanship; the best part of anything; essence and strength. Thayers and Strongs Greek […]
How do you handle Stress
Many people live very hectic lives, where stress is all too familiar. We’re stressed at home, we’re stressed at work, and we’re stressed in our relationships. It seems like no matter where we are, we are under stress of some sort.The worse thing that we can do, is to ignore it and act like it’s […]
Joy
God wants you to have joy in your life. We know this, because joy is a fruit of the Spirit of God. Galatians 5:22 To have joy, is a state of mind that can be developed. What is joy? The biblical Greek definition for joy is delight, cheerfulness that is calm, and gladness. How can […]
Challenges
How do you handle the challenges of your life? Do you cringe at the thought of challenges, or do you take them on with faith? We tend to avoid dealing with the challenges of our lives, because they require struggle and change. What we don’t realize, is that in the process of the struggle, we […]
You Are Deeply Loved
All throughout the world, people from all walks of life are seeking to be loved. Many never find the love, that they are seeking. It could be because of an upbringing of continual physical or emotional abuse. They could have been raised in an atmosphere of divorced parents, who shuffle them between each other. Or […]
Faith tested in trials
I was taking time for my daily time of meditation on the word of God, and I believe that God gave me some thoughts that pertain to suffering, trials, tests, and how we can deal with them. my text that I was reading was Jam 1:1-27 When the trial comes upon us, our immediate attitude […]