The consequences of drifting away from the truth that we once knew and held to is beyond contemplation, for if what was delivered through angels held firm, how much more what the Lord Jesus Christ spoke!
The consequences of drifting away from the truth that we once knew and held to is beyond contemplation, for if what was delivered through angels held firm, how much more what the Lord Jesus Christ spoke!
Are the things you are asking for drawing you closer or away from Him? This is the acid test to which we subject all our requests of the Lord.
Is the Lord Jesus the object of our unrelenting focus? Matthew 6:33 demands that His Kingdom and its righteousness must be prioritized over the pursuit of meat, drink and clothing. Maintaining Him as the object of our focus is a manifestation of our confidence that He knows we have need for the other things which He provides even without us asking. And should we have to ask, then consider yet,
2 Timothy 2:1-5 reveals the trio of Satanic love, the mark or identity of earth dwellers, yet Paul was writing to believers! This is the alarm being sounded today that we each examine ourselves. Your acts or walk tell more who you are than your talk.
I am, as well as you are, required to love the Lord God with all our powers and faculties, and that nothing is to be preferred to Him; giving Him my utmost or greatest attention, devotion and attention.
The evidence of God being a God of relationship abounds from the beginning of this creation as recorded from Genesis 1:2 all through the laws, the prophets, the inter-testament days of the Lord, the church age till the end of time.
The Greek words translated redeeming the time in Ephesians 5:16 reads ‘buy up at the market place’; as though time is an opportunity being regarded as a commodity to be recognized and snapped up when it shows up by one who recognizes it as specially appointed by God!
The steward (typed as children of this world) in Luke 16 text failed the test of custodianship but passed the test of laying aside in his perceived end point. Sadly the children of God fail both.
The lesson of the tree not leaving its place or transplanting itself because of the drought it is experiencing is fearfully communicated in Isaiah 50:10-11
Our culture has no shortage of worldly voices and pressures that fill minds and influence behavior. Intentionality demands that we subject ourselves to the tools that God uses in shaping us into the image of His Son, not the children of this world nor yet its princes.
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