1 Corinthians 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
Charity is love believers receive from God through salvation. It’s distinct from and superior to any other kind of love. Regardless of what we do for Jesus, if it’s not done with the love from God it’s a waste of time.
No matter how beautiful your speech or how brilliant your rhetoric, without love you are simply a clanging cymbal. Have you ever been to a cymbal solo? It’s just noise. Without love, talk is cheap.
Great oratory can move a person's emotions. Great rhetoric can move a person's mind. A great speech can move a person's will, but only great God-like love can move a person's heart. Oratory can move one to tears, but only love can move one to Jesus.
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Do You Love Jesus?
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Our surrender to Jesus should be based on love. How do you prove your love for Jesus? The proof of love is our obedience to Him and His word. That’s why it’s important to prayerfully study the Bible.
Our lips may say we love Jesus, but if we don't obey His Word our lives won't match our lips. Until we obey, we are only deceiving ourselves.
The promise to those who are obedient to the Lord and His will for their lives is that He and the Father will manifest themselves to them, and they will experience power from on high.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey--- John H. Sammis
Our surrender to Jesus should be based on love. How do you prove your love for Jesus? The proof of love is our obedience to Him and His word. That’s why it’s important to prayerfully study the Bible.
Our lips may say we love Jesus, but if we don't obey His Word our lives won't match our lips. Until we obey, we are only deceiving ourselves.
The promise to those who are obedient to the Lord and His will for their lives is that He and the Father will manifest themselves to them, and they will experience power from on high.
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey--- John H. Sammis
Friday, February 12, 2016
The High Calling Of God
Philippians 3:13-14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
The Apostle Paul is taking a personal inventory of his life. How would you describe your Christian life? Is it pleasing to the Lord? Is there something lacking? Is there sin or other things that need to be dealt with?
As born again children of God, we are partakers of a heavenly calling. We should be doing our best to live for the Lord and bring honor to his name. God wants us to grow in holiness until we resemble Him. We are in a race. Sometimes we are ahead and sometimes we’re behind. It often becomes a struggle to be holy.
Hebrews 12:1-2 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us , and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
The Apostle Paul is taking a personal inventory of his life. How would you describe your Christian life? Is it pleasing to the Lord? Is there something lacking? Is there sin or other things that need to be dealt with?
As born again children of God, we are partakers of a heavenly calling. We should be doing our best to live for the Lord and bring honor to his name. God wants us to grow in holiness until we resemble Him. We are in a race. Sometimes we are ahead and sometimes we’re behind. It often becomes a struggle to be holy.
Hebrews 12:1-2 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us , and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Only Believe
Hebrews 11:1-2 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
God’s will is that we live by faith--- not the blind leap of the foolish---not the blank check of the misinformed, but the deep settled assurance that what God has said He would do, He is more than able and willing.
Because of our relationship to Jesus Christ, faith brings the future within the present and makes the invisible seen. Faith is not based on guesswork, peace of heart or wishful thinking. Faith calms our fears, cushions our falls, and confirms our future.
“Lord, regardless of how I feel or what I can’t see, I’m standing on your promises. Hear my prayer and answer it according to your will, and may you be glorified. Amen”
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
God’s will is that we live by faith--- not the blind leap of the foolish---not the blank check of the misinformed, but the deep settled assurance that what God has said He would do, He is more than able and willing.
Because of our relationship to Jesus Christ, faith brings the future within the present and makes the invisible seen. Faith is not based on guesswork, peace of heart or wishful thinking. Faith calms our fears, cushions our falls, and confirms our future.
“Lord, regardless of how I feel or what I can’t see, I’m standing on your promises. Hear my prayer and answer it according to your will, and may you be glorified. Amen”
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