Giv Me Jesus

“For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.” Hebrews 9:24-28 (ESV) Christmas, there is a song that says "it's the most wonderful time of the year." The hustle and bustle of Christmas is the joy of the holiday season. Gift giving and getting is the center of all attention during this month of December...

Walking in the Spirit, what does it mean and how can we do it? Well it does not mean walking in a literal sense, it is a walking of your heart with God in solitude, or as Genesis says, “…in the cool of the day…” and even when the world around you gets hectic, you can still be walking with God. The world cannot always be quiet. We need to be always praying and asking God for guidance in the slightest and most drastic areas in life, whether it’s deciding what shirt to wear or whether it’s deciding what you’re going to do to cut energy costs. Walking with God means looking to him for ALL of your needs, even if they’re not very big ones. It matters to God to have his Children talking to him about anything and everything. R. Kent Hughes used this analogy in his book ‘Disciplines of a Godly Man’ That Prayer is like a boat. We do not pull God’s will in our lives to what we want, just as a boat does not pull the shore to itself. Rather, we need to align our will with that of the Father’s, as ...

                We live in a nearsighted world. Meaning, in our human nature we only see and care about what is right in front of us. The believers need to be up front and show God to this world.                 The world has its ideas that it tries to get people to focus on. It can be any form of anything, food & drink, sports, arts & media, people, relationships, social networking.  Those things aren’t necessarily bad, but they’re used by the world to distract us from what we need to focus on.                 The biggest problem with these distractions is that they make us focus on us, not on God or others like we should. The world tells us to look inward at what we want. But God is telling us to look to Him for sustenance in our lives.        ...

Luke 19:10   " For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. " As we learn and grow we should desire to become more like Christ. Christ had a desire to see the lost get saved, and so should we. I believe that, upon conversion the first and foremost desire of the new believer should be to delve into knowing his/her God and savior on a deeper and more personal level. The second desire of the new believer should be to begin having a desire to see the lost saved. Likewise, an “older” believer should be doing the same things. Sadly, the fire that new believers get, to save the lost, dies away the longer they believe. This should not be so! The opposite should be the order of operation! The longer we believe the stronger and bigger, the desire should be within us. Now, it’s not wrong that the new believers have such a passion. The older believers may even still have the fire burning strongly inside them, but they’ve grown numb, apathetic, and tired of fu...

            Deuteronomy 31:6 " Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."             What is courage? Courage can be defined as The strength that God gives to us, so that we can endure any trouble or difficulty that we encounter. Courage is such an under-appreciated concept. Many would consider courage a character trait, I would rather think of it as a gift from our loving God.             Whether you're a believer in Jesus Christ, or not, no one can deny that, in short, this life is hard. Thousands of discouragements come up daily, we have the constant temptation to just give into the weakness that is inevitable. We, as humans, don't like weakness; we want to be strong and noticed by all. But when the issues of lif...

            What is forgiveness? Forgiveness is responding to offenders so that the power of God’s love through me can heal them.  Therefore, in order for God’s love to heal them through us, we need to be full of God’s loving forgiveness right?             Now, the title of this post may seem a little weird to you, because, well, everyone forgives people don’t they? Well, sort of. People will say, “I forgive you” but often times that’s as deep as it goes, and they just hold the grudge for as long as is convenient for them. Forgiving someone means that you let your anger towards them slip out of your mind. I use the analogy of a business card for a reason. First of all, it seems that you never run out of business cards, likewise we should never “run out” of forgiveness. Secondly, a business card is different for every business so the Christians, by forgiving, truly forgiving, are giving a bu...

There are so many ways to communicate. In this day and age there is no limit to the possibilities of who we can talk to, and influence. Likewise, there is no shortage of ways to glorify God.  First off, I'd like to define some of the words that I'll use: 1. Glorify - to honor with praise, admiration, or worship 2. Insult - to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront. 3. Help - to make easier or less difficult; contribute to 4. Build Up - a process of growth; strengthening; development          I've found that there are three major ways in our life that we affect others: 1. Our Actions 2. Our Words 3. Our Thoughts             Our actions are one of the most powerful ways to affect others. Not only can you affect them physically with your body, but you can also, by the way you act or "carry yourself," set an example to everyone we cross paths with...