Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The result of apostasy is divine discipline, whether it be toward the individual or… the nation. Pray for your nation, daily, fervently. The faithfulness of a nation to the laws of God’s divine establishment and the dedication of believers to the doctrines of the Bible are the…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Life is a bummer of a blessing. Life is a repeat of wrong choices, bad and good decisions. With bad decisions there is a price to be paid; with good decisions, a reward is made. We have given our full confidence to Christ. We have believed His…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Death terminates the necessities and accessories of life. In death’s grip, life disintegrates, but in Christ’s hand, death has no power, no sting, we’re a passing thing or we are naught. Looking up from beneath the trees, one is enthralled in the shimmers of happy glimmers –…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… When there is no concept of personal responsibility, there is no reason to seek the Lord, no reason for transformation. As a nation, our blindness to the truth will cause our destruction. We must understand that our human nature is the problem. We all must contend. We…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Christ became our nature (human), that we might partake of His divine nature. Christ was and is full of grace and truth – the two great things that fallen man stands in need of. He was full of grace, and therefore qualified to intercede for us; and…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The simple words of John’s Gospel excel in the depths of expressing God’s wisdom and God’s mysteries. John uses simple words to define the depths of deeper meanings. We can know the most profound wisdom of God in simple terms, simple vocabulary. This is how we know…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Am I building God up… or myself? The storytellers of Scripture are more than storytellers, they are messengers of God. The classroom is in the stillness of the soul as the Holy Spirit speaks, teaches, convicts, and assures the believer of eternal things. Truth is not a…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… As believers in the Church Age, we have the responsibility to carry on the Christian legacy – Christ’s legacy. Even though sin has a hold on us, Christ, by the indwelling Holy Spirit, has a stronger hold. Praise be to the Lord for that. We do not…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Material success is not the measure by which we gauge spiritual maturity. Affluence does not equal godliness. It is not the exterior but the interior of a person’s soul that must be covered with Christ – bathed daily in His righteousness, His Word. “He restores my soul….
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Consciousness is eternal. Negative volition and ego are the only hindrances to spiritual maturity. There can be no such utopia of man, such as “the brotherhood of man,” or “the dignity of man,” or “the equality of man.” There is only “the depravity of man.” Most Christians…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… God offers liberty to the captive, freedom to the prisoner, calm for the troubled soul, comfort to those who mourn, peace where there is only despair. We as believers are made righteous trees, ones planted by God. Our purpose is to glorify God in ambassadorship (Isaiah 61:3c)….
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Life is fleeting, like the wind and evaporation – short-lived and quickly passing. We search for truth and knowledge, but are never filled – that is what eternity is all about. Time is lived for filling, eternity for fullness. Life should be a humbling experience as we…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… All the things we cherish cannot be provided by any government, but by the individual citizen, each doing their part by being responsible and productive citizens. Disintegration of American jurisprudence; our liberties are being eroded in increments. Compromise is a sell-out. Philosophical differences can become clarifying –…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… God is in control. There has never been, nor will there ever be, a time when the Lord’s will is not done. God’s plan for creation is never-failing. God is never surprised. If the Lord wills, it will. The true believer enters into the tears of Christ;…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Understand this – human viewpoint supplants divine establishment. Panaceas captivate the ignorant. Religion is anti-Christ. The entire world is being gathered and prepared for dictatorship. It is the sin nature that tempts us to commit sin. This inherent distorter of human life continually opposes God’s plan for…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Equality cancels freedom – think about this. It restricts intellectual growth and financial independence. Equality enforced destroys individual freedom. Individual freedom is what a republic/democracy is all about. Equality seems so right but it neutralizes freedom of the individual and the corporation. God is the power of…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Ill-defined terms and ambiguous statements are linguistic devices, ones employed by political propagandists in the art of persuasion and suggestion, and usually arouse emotional appeal that directs the people’s attitudes and decisions, usually to their own detriment. Social media has mastered the art of propaganda so that…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… The blinding flash of Justice, the thunderous tones of Judgment… … so it was on the cross when Christ died. The ultimate state of salvation is glorification. Then, Christ ascended into Glory. No sacrifice is too great for the soul that has grasped the concept of genuine…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Singing praises to the Lord about what we have done is not praise! Singing praises about all that God has done through Christ by the Holy Spirit is the only acceptable praise. “The war between Christ and satan, which was waged on Calvary’s hill, involves issues and…
Thoughts to Ponder in Your Walk with the Lord READ, LINGER, PROCESS… Paul welcomed exhaustion, suffering, poverty, dangers, and death because they helped him to grow into the image of Christ. The important task before each of us is to be truthful to ourselves first, so we can be truthful with God. We need to be the person God…