Seen on a church sign:
“Prayer-the worlds best wireless connection”
1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing.
Archive for April, 2016
Prayer
April 20, 2016My Hope
April 19, 2016My hope is built on nothing lessThan Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.
Refrain
On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
Refrain
His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.
Refrain
When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
Refrain
This wonderful old hymn is so true. Jesus is everything to the Christian. In Him we put all our hope. He is our rock and our salvation.
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
The Church
April 18, 2016Jesus did not die so that we would go to church; He died so that we would become the church.
1 Corinthians 12:18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
What’s New?
April 17, 2016Sunday begins a new week, it is a new day, an opportunity to start a new life in Jesus for those who have never had their sins forgiven. God gives us a new heart when we accept Jesus as our Savior. He turns darkness to light, sadness to joy, and sinner to Saint.
Everyday is a new day to draw closer to God and be more like Him. Are we perfect? No, but we are forgiven.
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Colossians 3:10
Repentance
April 16, 2016“Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.” Franklin Graham
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Creator
April 15, 2016Our bodies are fearfully and wonderfully made by the Great Creator, God himself. As I sit by the bedside of my very ill spouse I can view with wonder how our bodies react to heal themselves. The doctors have even given God the Glory for the resilience in the body. We have seen many small miracles.
Just think, when you cut your finger or maybe break a bone in your arm or leg then a few weeks later everything is back to normal. You may have a scar from the cut or a slight limp from the break but you are back to being able to function normally.
Sin is like that. When we sin and ask forgiveness, God forgives completely, however, there may be a “scar”. A broken marriage leaves children with only one parent in the home, theft may bring jail time, drinking may cause illness or death and on it goes. Are we forgiven? Absolutely! God not only created our wonderful body He made a way to be forgiven of all our sins through trusting in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
Wednesday Witnessing
April 14, 2016This past week a young lady named Marci came to our table at Plant City. I asked her if she knew if she were to die today if she would go to heaven and she did not know but wanted to know. I introduce her to Ramona and she shared the gospel with her. When Ramona read the example prayer we have on our tract, the lady “at that moment” prayed that very prayer and called on the Lord. Ramona asked her, “Did you just pray that prayer?” and she smiled and said yes! They both rejoiced!
This is a salvation story from Randy and Romona Thomas, missionaries of SOS Events ministry. The Plant City Flea Market is every Wednesday and hundreds of people are saved each year at this event. To God be the Glory for His faithfulness. When we go to witness God brings the results for He is not willing that anyone perish.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Live for Jesus
April 13, 2016“We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.” Adrian Rogers
2 Corinthians 5:15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
God is Good
April 12, 2016God is good all the time is an expression that is heard many times by Christians. Do we just say things that are popular or do we really mean what we say?
A personal note today. Can we say God is good when admitted to the hospital for the 4th time in six months, when a wound will not heal and the body is weak? Tom Curtis is in the hospital again and his exact quote, “God brings me closer and He brings sunshine into my day. It gives me time to pray for others.”
May we as Christians realize that God IS good and will not give us more than we can handle. Tom will also use this time to witness to nurses and caregivers as this is where his heart is.
Psalms 73:1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
God Is
April 11, 2016All knowing John 16:30 Now are we sure that thou knowest all things
All powerful Luke 9:43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God.
Always present Psalm 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Always truthful Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Always the same Malachi 3:6 For I am the Lord, I change not;
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