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But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. Jude 1:20-21 Sometimes my internet browser...

Prosper

Prosper

Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. 3 John 1:2 When our soul prospers all else matters little in comparison. This is where joy in life originates. So, John the beloved apostle...

The Joy of Walking in the Truth

The Joy of Walking in the Truth

I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment to do from the Father. 2 John 4 One of the great joys of getting older is to see the people that are walking in the truth of God and in obedience to...

Playing Risk

Playing Risk

Little children, guard yourselves from idols. 1 John 5:21 My brothers and I, and now, my children and I love to play board games like “Risk”. God has given us His Word, His Spirit, and one another as great assets to live this life in a...

Flow River Flow

Flow River Flow

We love, because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19 God initiated! It was He who made the first move in this relationship. Left to my own devices, I would have been lost and lacking in every way. The Bible says that I love because the love of God has...

Open Hearts

Open Hearts

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? 1 John 3:17 Our hearts are wired up by God to respond to the needs of others. To do otherwise requires a...

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. 1 John 2:25 Jesus promised that we will live with Him forever! What an amazing Christmas Day message. Simple, yet profound. Do I have this life? Yes, for me, eternal life began some 30...

Light is Love

Light is Love

This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk...

Grace Dispenser

Grace Dispenser

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. 2 Peter 3:18 The Bible says I am to grow in grace and knowledge of Jesus. The more I live within His unmerited...

Tempted by the Fruit?

Tempted by the Fruit?

The Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. 2 Peter 2:9-10 Temptations come...

Diligent

Diligent

Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness...

Motivated

Motivated

Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory...

How to Submit to God

How to Submit to God

Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be...

The Source of Wisdom

The Source of Wisdom

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. James 3:17 The Bible says there is earthly wisdom and wisdom from above. Earthly wisdom relies upon what is...

Go the Distance

Go the Distance

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 2-4 The...

Elsewhere

Elsewhere

Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU. Hebrews 13:5 The Bible says that contentment comes from the realization...

Am I an Alien?

Am I an Alien?

But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not shamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them. Hebrews 11:16 People of faith may love their country so much they would lay down their...

Forgiven and Free

Forgiven and Free

“THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS UPON THEIR HEART, AND ON THEIR MIND I WILL WRITE THEM,” He then says, “AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE.” Now where...

Fountainhead

Fountainhead

For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding. He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity, Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones. Then you...

She Shouts!

She Shouts!

Wisdom shouts in the street, she lifts her voice in the square; At the head of the noisy streets she cries out; At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings. Proverbs 1:20-21 Many people are foolish and naive. I know because at...

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