Deeds and faith should never replace one another. At salvation, we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. God’s Spirit, living in us, guides, corrects and shapes us as men of faith. However, one big part of our faith as we grow in Christ is works and deeds. God desires us to trust Him in a deep, abiding love and in our responsibilities. …
Disobedience of Safety
Throughout the Bible, God tells us to trust and obey. When we trust the Lord, He can take us and use us in glorious ways! Simply, when we honor and obey Him, we are blessed, and He is glorified! There’s no better example of this than when God took the Israelites from slavery to freedom, from Egypt to the Promised …
Different Tourist – Same Destination
For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. Colossians 1:16 Throughout the Bible, it is clear that God is not only the Creator of all things but also in charge of all things! Within …
A Farmer’s Faith
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the …
Self-Righteousness vs. His Righteousness
Matthew 6:33 – But seek first His kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Who are we desiring to please? Our failure in life before salvation was that everything was about us! We set ourselves up as mini gods. Everything was driven by our fleshly desires. “Self” was at the center of our …
Sovereignty of God –– Revealed in Clouds!
If you ever doubt God is in control, look up! The very clouds above us are His watering system. God doesn’t need to lug around a watering hose or use a sprinkler. He transports water through the clouds. As the sea and ground heat up, water from both is pulled up to the clouds. He then moves His clouds, sometimes …
Salt Needed
The foundation of man’s prosperity lies in the blessing of understanding his assignment. Throughout God’s Word, He tells us that He is in control. “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” Proverbs 19:21 He and only He created the heavens and the earth. He made both man and the garden where man would inhabit. …
Doubt
The first recorded instance of doubt in God’s Word was in the Garden, when Satan asked Eve, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” At that moment, Satan established a pattern of deception he would use in the past and future. Because God can’t lie––He is all truth! (“God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, …
The Supreme Climb
Genesis 22:2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” A person’s character determines how he interprets God’s will (“To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to …
Three Means Complete!
At Adams’s sin, all men at birth inherited their sinful nature and its penalty, which is the separation of a relationship with our Holy Father! So, a sacrifice was needed to take the penalty, which is Jesus His Son. As men, once we face the fact that we are sinners in need of a Savior and ask Christ into our …