Daily Telling Someone about Jesus

“When the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.” [1]

This is such good news! God saved us not because of our righteous deeds, but because of HIS mercy. God’s mercy immense and free saves us. HE saves us by grace. JESUS CHRIST renews us in God’s image by a generous outpouring of HIS Holy Spirit into our lives. HE does the work that only GOD can do. We cannot justify ourselves. GOD justifies us. HE makes us heirs of eternal life based on the merits of CHRIST and not based on our own.

Praise and glory to GOD!

Have we understood the value of this good news?

No other message is more important to us! No other message is as important to the world! My prayer is that we daily tell someone about JESUS!

[1] Titus 3:4-7

Grateful For Answered Prayers

“... He [God] answered their prayers, because they trusted in Him.” [1]

I am grateful God answers prayers. I have leaned on Him for help daily. Daily He has helped me.

I am grateful for the Holy Spirit who leads me and gives me resolve to keep praying. “The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.” [2]

I am grateful for my Lord and Savior JESUS Christ, because I can pray in His Name, and God the Father, receives and hears me based on the merits of His Son, who died for my sins and resurrected for my just standing, “It is by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.” [3]

Glory to God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit!

[1] 1 Chronicles 5:20
[2] Romans 8:26
[3] Acts 4:10

Prayer Verses & Quotes

“I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior. He desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all.” [1]

“Prayer is not getting man’s will done in heaven, but getting God’s will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God’s willingness.” [2]

“What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use — men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer.” [3]

“When man works man works, but when man prays, God works.” [4]

“Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.” [5]

[1] 1 Timothy 2:1-5
[2] Richard C. Trench
[3] E.M. Bounds
[4] Hans Von Staden
[5] Dwight L. Moody

Holiness to the Lord

Holiness to the Lord

קדושה ליהוה

對主的聖潔

Santidad a Yahvé

യഹോവെക്കു വിശുദ്ധം

“For this is the will of God, Your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess His own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.” [1]“Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.” [2]

“Holy Spirit, please grant us the discernment, wisdom, and conviction to shun evil and cling to holiness. In Jesus’ Name I pray.”

“If on my soul a trace of sin remains, if on my hands a stain may yet be seen; if one dark thought a wearied mind retains, oh wash me, Lord, till every part be clean. For I would live that men may see Thyself in me, I would in faith ascend Thy holy hill, and with my thoughts in tune with Thy divinity, would learn how best to do Thy holy will.” [3]

[1] 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7
[2] Psalm 24:3-5
[3] Salvation Army Songbook Chorus #72 (1987 ed.)

Salvation

“The high priest said to Him, ‘I put You under oath by the living God: tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!’ Jesus said to him, ‘It is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.’” [1]

There are many voices in the world vying to have the preeminent place in our lives but let us keep Jesus Christ in the highest place.

“Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

Each of us need to recognize that Jesus Christ is returning as Supreme King over all creation. He will render the final judgment on each of us according to our beliefs. He will approve and save those who trust in His merits for their salvation. He will condemn those who dare to stand before Him in pride of their own righteousness. Salvation requires a Savior. Jesus is the Savior. “There salvation in no other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” [2]

Now, is the time to believe in and confess Christ as your Lord and Savior. Receive Him now. Be saved today. Embrace the righteousness of Christ given for you. Receive Him and receive all He has done for you. You will not be ashamed on the last day. You will have joy unspeakable and full of glory when He returns.

[1] Matthew 26:63-64
[2] Acts 4:12

Cities For Christ

“You became examples to all in Macedonia and Achaia who believe. For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place. Your faith toward God has gone out...”

The Thessalonian Christians were a blessed congregation. They were model believers for others. They shared God’s Word with outsiders. Their faith in Christ inspired others to believe in Him as well. May the Lord Jesus move our churches today to spread God’s Word and inspire entire cities to believe in Christ.

1 Thessalonians 1:7-8

Time to Remove the Trash

A man of God who cried out against the altar of Jeroboam by the word of the Lord. He cried, “O altar, altar! Thus, says the Lord: ‘Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men’s bones shall be burned on you.’” [1]

King Jeroboam’s altar and his priests were his attempts to have God on his own terms.

18 kings of Israel and 300 years later, the Lord fulfilled His Word. King Josiah of Judah desecrated the false altars and monumental tombs of false prophets which Jeroboam started.

But there is more to this story… sadly, the man of God who gave God’s Word to King Jeroboam was soon afterward deceived by a false prophet. [2] God mightily used him at one moment, but he was not careful, and was deceived by the devil in the next. The devil did not come to him as an ugly monster, but us as an angel of light. [3] The false prophet told the young man of God what he wanted to hear, but it was not what God told him. Thus, Jesus taught us to pray, “And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” [4]

Paul warned his followers to beware of false teachers who teach that men must be circumcised to be approved of God. He wrote, “Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation!” [5] He used strong and derogatory words against false teachers because there is NO path to God except by faith in Jesus Christ. Paul told them, “For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.” [6] Saving sinners is God’s work. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no comes to the Father except through Jesus. [7]

Paul went on to say that he counted his former life of self-righteousness as rubbish because he wanted to be found in Christ, not having his own righteousness (self-righteousness), which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith. [8] Faith receives Christ and all that HE has done for our salvation. Christian salvation is based on trust in the merits of Christ and not in our own merits. Trusting in one’s own merits for salvation is self-righteousness and it is rubbish… trash to be thrown out.

Paul described those who trust in their own merits as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction. Their god is their belly. They glory in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things. In contrast to them, true believers their citizenship in heaven. We wait for Christ to transform our lowly bodies into the image of His glorious body, because only Christ is able to subdue all things to Himself. [9]

[1] 1 Kings 13:1-2
[2] 1 Kings 13:18
[3] 2 Corinthians 11:14
[4] Matthew 6:13
[5] Philippians 3:2
[6] Philippians 3:3
[7] John 14:6
[8] Philippians 3:7-9
[9] Philippians 3:18-21