Notes of reflections and discussions that touch on matters of the heart.
TEMPTATION 2 –Proving a Point Matthew 4:5-7 “If you are the son of God throw yourself down…” Must we do certain things for people to believe who we are? Many times we are deceived to think we are what we do before men; that is performance. There is that inner battle to prove to people …
Thoughts 2Cor 10: 5 “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ…” Where does disobedience come from? What makes it difficult for children of God to obey God? Whereas we have been regenerated, our sins forgiven and …
A LITTLE LEAVEN Joshua 7:10-12 I sometimes just like making pastries. The first time I made doughnut, I thought I had added too much of yeast. Although I didn’t use the normal measurement of flour, I had much dough to fry. Since I had much dough I began to cut into big sizes, which of …
INNER TROUBLES 2 Ps 39:1-3 “My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue” Many times we are apt to break our resolutions. Like the Psalmist, we are not able to tolerate evil men when we encounter them. David had determined to keep his mouth …
INNER TROUBLES 1 NUMBERS 20:6-12 The instruction given to Moses by God was simple and clear. God said, “Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes…” Somehow, it became a difficult instruction for Moses to carry out. As Christians, it …
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Rom 4:21 God is not limited in power, He reigns over all, he calls things that do not exist as though they were. When He called forth the lights, the stars and the earth and everything that now is to …
Ex 24:12 NIV The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commands I have written for their instruction.” “He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of …
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Phil 2:12-13 KJV …because God is always …
Phil 1:11 KJV Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. Here the Apostle Paul draws our attention to one of the fruits that will be produced by the relationship between the Vine and the branch. The only part of the tree or vine …
Jn 15:4 “Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me.” In order to enjoy the blessings of “I in you,” I as a branch of the true Vine, must abide in Him- Christ. …
