Tag Archives: Religion and Spirituality

2013/08/25

Our God Is Always With Us

By Phillip

Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. (Isaiah 41:10 NLT)

- Say thank you to him for each attribute of his divine nature. 

- Focus our hearts on him. 

- Thank him for his many gracious gifts to us. 

- Thank him for our relationship with him.

Exult in his holy name; rejoice, you who worship the Lord. Search for the Lord and for his strength; continually seek him.

English: Dead Sea Scroll – part of Isaiah Scroll (Isa 57:17 – 59:9), 1QIsa b (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

(Psalms 105:3, 4 NLT)

Daily Verse

I have not departed from his commands, but have treasured his words more than daily food. (Job 23:12 NLT)

But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.* (Isaiah 40:31 NLT)*

Daily Prayer

Dear Lord, teach us to wait upon You, that we may know Your strength.

Phillip,

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. (Proverbs 27:17 NLT)

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2013/08/18

Bring it to the foot of the Cross…

By Phillip

Foot of the Cross

We should not be so arrogant, that we forget to pray for one another and use our skills glorify God with our lives…

All of us have special skills. God wants to fill us with his Spirit so we will use those skills for his glory.

Pray for tribulations you hear in the media and news, for the people and the children…

I lavish unfailing love to a thousand generations. I forgive iniquity, rebellion, and sin. But I do not excuse the guilty. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children and grandchildren; the entire family is affected— even children in the third and fourth generations.” (Exodus 34:7 NLT)

“Honor your father and mother, as the Lord your God commanded you. Then you will live a long, full life in the land the Lord your God is giving you. (Deuteronomy 5:16 NLT)

Something I think the church community needs to share with all Christians of all faiths…

“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? He requires only that you fear the Lord your God, and live in a way that pleases him, and love him and serve him with all your heart and soul. (Deuteronomy 10:12 NLT)

Here are the essentials:

Fear God;
Live in a way that pleases him;
Love him;
Serve him with all your heart and soul; and
Obey his commands.

Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it. (James 4:17 NLT)

I need to strengthen my walk with more prayer…

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (Romans 8:18 NKJV)

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. (Matthew 7:21 NKJV)

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; (I Peter 3:15 NKJV)

I need to bring it all to the foot of the Cross everyday…

Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Acts 2:38 NKJV)

Daily Verse:

“For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.” (Galatians 1:10 NKJV)

Daily Prayer:

Father, help me to go beyond the afflictions and tribulations of our age, and to look toward the inheritance reserved for us in heaven.

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2013/04/14

Our Hallway…

By Phillip

I share with you a passage from the Preface of C.S. Lewis’s “Mere Christianity”.

“When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.”

Walking in the Spirit, we read the defining character traits from the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22 – “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, KINDNESS, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

I pray everyday that we ask ourself and self evaluate honestly. Am I caring and understanding toward everyone I meet?

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