Planting Seeds

But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;
Titus 2:1-2 New King James Version.

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
Remember words are seeds that you plant every time you speak! What seeds are you planting when you speak? God tells us to be sure and watch what we speak, to make sure that what we are speaking is only those things which produce sound doctrine or teaching. To speak only those things which you would want to come to pass in your life. Remember words are seeds that you plant every time you speak. God’s Word and the laws of nature dictate that you will reap what you sow. Every seed planted will produce after it’s own kind. Corn produces corn, beans produce beans, unbelief produces unbelief, hate produces hate, evil produces evil, love produces love, faith produces faith. Make sure what you are planting lines up with the Word of God and is not the doctrines or teachings of men, or demons, or of some other so-called religion but rather put it to the test and ensure that it fully lines up with His Word. If it doesn’t line up with God’s Word don’t speak it, throw it out, it is NOT good seed. Even some so-called churches try to propagate their own doctrine instead of God’s Word. Don’t fall for their doctrines of demons, be sure to rightly discern the Word of God. God tells us we should be schooled in the things that will produce in us temperate lives, people whose strong faith in God, will produce love and patience in our hearts.

MY PRAYER…
Father God, I thank You that You have given us Your Holy Word to follow. Word that produces sound doctrine and sound faith when rightly divided by the Spirit of Truth (Your Holy Spirit). Father, thank You that You have told us through Your Word to beware of those who would deceive us, appearing to be Godly men, but have crept in unawares and bring unsound doctrine and teachings not from Your Word. Help us Father, to be able to discern what is in line with Your Holy Word and what has been tainted by the doctrines of men. Help us Father to be able to discern Your sound doctrine from that of the religious crowd, just as Jesus separated it when He was among men. Father help us to be able to separate the true Godly men from those who try to creep in stealthily. Father help us through Your Holy Spirit to receive only that which truly is from You that it may produce sound doctrine in our hearts. I give You all praise and glory forever. In Jesus name I pray.
Amen

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Watch the kind of talk you talk

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Ephesians 4:29-30 New King James Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
What kind of talk are you spewing forth?
Are you spewing forth polluting, corrupt, worthless weed talk? Don’t speak corrupt or unwholesome talk (the amplified bible says it this way: “foul, polluting language or worthless talk”) to those around you. Do not gossip as it is polluting talk. But, rather speak words that will be a blessing, that will be beneficial to the building of a strong spiritual faith and are fitting for the occasion. Words that are founded on the “Rock”, God’s Holy Word. Because Verse 30 starts with “And” I believe it is a condition tied to verse 29 to remind us that to speak evil or corrupt speech does grieve the Holy Spirit. Certainly we do not want to grieve the Holy Spirit, we want Him at work in our lives at all times.

MY PRAYER…
Heavenly Father, I give You all praise and glory forever. Father, help me to have in me a pure heart, a kind heart, and a heart that is full of Your love, joy, and peace in the Holy Spirit. That way I can speak pure words, kind words, and words of encouragement and love. Father, bring those people across my path today that need encouragement, that I may be a blessing to them and glorify You also. In Jesus name I pray.
Amen

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God loves everyone, even you!

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:9-10 King James Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
No matter who you are or what you have done God loves you! Love as we normally think of it is a verb, it’s an action, it is a doing for others. We can’t say it and make it happen, it must come from the heart (from the spirit) of man. Love must not only be spoken, but must also be shown, felt, and lived. The beginning of love is God, God is love. He showed His love in the most sacrificial of ways so we could know how much we really meant to Him, of what incredible value we are to Him. The price of our adoption as sons and daughters was the emptying of heaven of its greatest treasure, God the Son, our Savior, the only begotten of the Father, Jesus. Jesus, the Word, became a man like us. He laid aside His Deity and all the powers thereof to become a man just like us. He came to be our example, to show us how we must live before God. He came to show us how to use His Holy Spirit in our lives. He came and bore our sins, our poverty, our sickness and disease. He took our place on the cross and bore the punishment that we so justly deserved for our sin. He loved us before we ever loved Him. He exchanged our sins for His righteousness, health, and prosperity, that we might be free. Notice, according to the verse, that we must live through Him, there is no other way!

MY PRAYER…
Loving Father, thank You for adopting me into Your family, Thank You for loving me before I ever loved You. I can never thank You enough or ever repay You for Your kindness, but I can offer my self a living sacrifice unto You. Please receive the service of my life from today forward as thanksgiving for Your grace (Your unmerited favor) and my small way of trying to share the love You have given me. Through my Brother, my Ransom, and my Saviour, I pray.
Amen

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God’s Love

This is love: not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:10 New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
God loves you regardless of whether you love Him or not PERIOD! God loved us first! He offered his Son to save us regardless of our decision to believe in Him or to ignore His grace. Regardless of our condition or state or how bad of a sinner we were. Remember, ‘For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God,’ because of Adam’s sin in the Garden. Regardless of whether we loved Him or not. His love was, is and always will be ‘Unconditional Love.’ We are given the ability to accept or reject the death of His Son as the sacrifice for our sins and the proof of His Love for us. It’s our choice either way. But, what we need to understand, as 1 John 2:1-2 emphasizes, is that He died for everyone else in the world too, and that now we must tell them of HIS sacrifice of love for them!

MY PRAYER…
Precious Father, Almighty God, why You should love me and send Jesus to die for me I will never fully understand. But I thank You for Your love, Your mercy, and especially Your grace (unmerited favor) and I receive Your love. Thank You for Your sacrifice for my sins. Thank You, Jesus, for coming to save me and to show me the way. I pray in Jesus’ name and by His intercession at the Father’s right hand for me.
Amen

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Desires       

[God] has showed you, O man, what is good.  And what does the Lord require of you?  To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8         New International Version  

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…        

God’s desires for us are not hard to discern, His Word is full of His desires and promises for His people.  But, you must read and meditate His Word to know His desires. Then you must make His desires your desires.     He wants to bless us with salvation (the full meal deal not just eternal life).  The incredible gift of His Son is powerful testimony to this truth.  But salvation from sin and death is not something He wants to happen in our lives only once and then be forgotten.  He wants our lives to reflect daily fellowship with Him apart from the world around us.  He wants us to step into His throne room, speak with Him, and to meet Him in that secret place for fellowship.  He wants us to separate ourselves from the world, and unto Him only.  We should always embrace and pursue His fellowship and His mercy in our relationships, and honor Him with our worship from a humble heart.  

MY PRAYER…   

Almighty and compassionate Father, as I embrace Your fellowship, help open the eyes of my heart so that I may see what Your heart sees.  Teach me to hate sin, not the person, but to be merciful to the one who is repentant.  Teach me to know the truth and to act fairly.  Help me, Oh Lord, to discern between Your ways and the world’s ways, that I might unveil the wiles of the devil and make known his temptations.  Through Your Holy Spirit, stir me to repentance and change my heart oh Lord, that I might become a vessel worthy of the Master’s use daily.   In Jesus name,  I pray.  Amen    

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Sifted Out

A wise king sifts out the wicked, And brings the threshing wheel over them.
Proverbs 20:26 New King James Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
Are you one whom a wise King will sift out and remove? Will you be sifted out?
Now apply this to God’s teaching concerning all authority. This includes God’s Word about tithing and offerings too! Ouch! If you are not subject to the authority it says that a wise king (those in authority) will sift out the wicked (will remove those who do not place themselves subject to the God given authority.) and run the threshing wheel over them, in other words he will crush them. And these authorities, in the real world, have God’s Word backing them to do it! But also, God will do the same in His Kingdom. For those of you too young or from the city, a threshing wheel was/is a very large heavy device used to separate the grain from the chaff. You say, but what if those in authority are the wicked ones? God will sift them out in His own time, won’t He. Remember king Saul. Did not God eventually remove him? Are you weed seed or good seed,,,, what do your words plant?

MY PRAYER…
Father God, I thank You that I am free in You and that You have and are giving me wisdom and revelation knowledge of Your Word. I thank You that You are quickening in my heart the meaning of Your Holy Word and how it applies in everyday life. Lord help me to understand who those are that You have given authority over me so that I may walk accordingly. Lord help us to know how to pray for those in authority so that your will be done through them. In Jesus’ name I pray.
Amen

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Seeing God

God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:17 New International Version

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE(s)…
How do you view/see God? Do you see Him as someone looking for a way to condemn you? Do you see Him as an out-of-touch old man who doesn’t really know what it’s like in our modern world? Do you see Him as too holy to soil himself with the concerns of mere mortals and so has left it up to us to work everything out for ourselves? Do you see Him as a wrathful judgmental & punishment wielding God just waiting for you to mess up? I pray that your answers were No, No, NO & NO!
No, God is a loving Father, who is Love in it’s finest form! God chose to enter our world and experience it from the side of mortality. He chose to experience everything that we would, so that He could be our example of how to deal with the circumstances. God chose to enter our world, not to condemn us, or it, but to redeem us and it. Jesus is the great reminder that it is God’s desire that we all be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth in Him. God doesn’t have to judge us, we were judged already in Jesus. Thank God for God! Thank God for Jesus who was and is God with us, the Word made flesh. Thank God that Jesus (God made flesh) came and paid the price for ALL of humanity’s sin once for ALL!

MY PRAYER…
Holy and Heavenly Father, thank You that You live with those who are contrite and repentant and who long for Your presence. You know we are only mortal, but You love us. You know that we are flawed, but You redeemed us through Jesus. You know that we are not perfect, but You sent Jesus as the perfect sacrifice to not only save us, but to provide for all that we would ever require. Thank You that Jesus bore not only my sins, but my sickness, my disease, my poverty, my bondage, my fear, and all else that was not of You. I thank You that I have been made the righteousness of God, not because of me, but through Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Through my Lord and Savior I offer my sincerest gratitude and praise and I offer myself a living sacrifice unto You.
Amen

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In God’s Image

Here is something to ponder and meditate on.
This is a very interesting analogy of the refining fire of God and I thought it worthy of passing along.

“The SILVERSMITH”
Author Unknown

Malachi 3:3 says: “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.” He being of course God Himself.

This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.

That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work and talk with him about the process. She didn’t mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining Silver. As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest so as to burn away all the impurities.

The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: “He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.” She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined.

The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.

The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, “How do you know when the silver is fully refined?”

He smiled at her and answered, “Oh, that’s easy — when I see my image reflected in it.”

Does God see His image in you?

If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image reflected in you. When His image is reflected in you then you are a true Christian, one of His very own children.

Amen

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Angels of God   

  And he said to me, “O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you.” While he was speaking this word to me, I stood trembling, Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words. Daniel 10:11-12        New King James Version  

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSES…   The angels of God have been sent to you also!       Daniel was in great distress and being held by the king and had been drained of all his strength and was short of breath even. But, because he had set his heart on God and humbled himself to the point of asking God for help, God sent His angel to strengthen him. Not only did God send an angel, He sent Michael, the greatest Archangel, one of the greatest of all the angels. Do you need God’s angels at work for you?  All we have to do is Believe and ask, then command them – no other proof needed!  

MY PRAYER…      Precious Father, thank You for giving your angels charge over me. Thank you Lord for instructing them to harken unto your spoken Word and to be ministers (servants) un to those of us who are heirs to your Kingdom through our faith and believe in ?Jesus, Your Son.  Thanks Abba Daddy for giving me that which I was not worthy to receive.  That which I could in no way earn You lovingly gave to me as a free gift, if only I would receive it.  Father, I exercise my faith and I accept that which I was not worthy to have, but that which You have freely given.  Thank You Lord for sending me Jesus to show me the way, the only way!  In Jesus’ name I pray.  Amen

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God Created You

“What we have seen and [ourselves] heard we are also telling you, so that you too may realize and enjoy fellowship as partners and partakers with us. And [this] fellowship that we have (which is a distinguishing mark of Christians) is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ, the Messiah.”
1 John 1:3 The Amplified Bible

THOUGHTS ABOUT TODAY’S VERSE…
Why did God create Mankind? Some people get the idea that God made man so He’d have someone to dominate and control, some one to beat up on. But God is not a dominator. In fact if you will read Genesis 1:26 you find that God made man to be the dominator. No, God is LOVE and love needs to give to someone. That’s why God made man. He made man (mankind male and female) so He could give His love to them. He made man something really special. God made us in the very image and likeness of Himself. He made us to have fellowship with Himself, for God loves our fellowship more than anything else.
God could have given His love to the angels, and He did that too. But giving to angels didn’t provide Him with total fulfillment. Why? Because the angels aren’t made in His image and likeness, but we are! Angels were created beings to serve a purpose, we were created to be sons and daughters of the ‘Most High God’. Enjoy that fact and fellowship with the Father God, The Son Jesus, and with the Holy Spirit!

MY PRAYER…
Abba Father, I will never understand how You could love me so much that You would create me in Your image. Or why You would chose to fellowship with me over the angels of heaven. But one thing I do know, and that is You love me beyond compare. Please help me to love others as You have loved me. Help me Lord to be what You would have me to be. In Jesus name, I pray.
Amen

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