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The title of today’s episode: THERE ARE NO WORDS

People sometimes use the phrase, There are no words, when they are surprised or in shock. Events unfold in ways that are beyond our imagination and we cannot find words.

Five days a week, I come to you with words of encouragement. There is so much in the Word of God to discuss and share. But there are times when there are no words. God, at times, touches us on a level that goes beyond words. When all we can do is sit quietly in his presence or softly cry in worship. In those times, there were no words.

How do we tell someone how good God is? There are no words to describe that place in his presence. Surrounded by his peace and love. He is more powerful than powerful. He is more loving and compassionate than we can fathom. His vastness is beyond measure.   

Isaiah 40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

It is hard to imagine being able to hold heaven in the span of your hand. God is amazing. He could do anything, but he chose to make us and be our provider, protector and friend.

There are no words for what he endured on the cross of Calvary.  If you really think about it, it is hard to comprehend what he endured. The modern-day church has watered down the description of what he suffered. They feel it is too gruesome to mention that he was beaten beyond recognition. They display pictures of his perfect, almost porcelain skin with only small trickles of blood from the spikes in his feet and hands. There are even smaller dots of blood around the crown of thorns. They are afraid to preach the truth of how he shed his blood. He was beaten beyond recognition.

Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

The word remission means to cancel a debt. Jesus cancelled our sin debt with is own blood. I think about how he suffered for me and there are no words. It is unimaginable how someone could make a choice to be brutalized in this way, just to save mankind. There are no words for the amazing strength it took for him to not cry out for his father to send angels to stop it.

His love is beyond measure, beyond comprehension; there are truly no words. Take some time today to reflect on all that God has done for you. I am in awe of how much he loves me. I think if you take the time to ponder what I have said today, you will be in awe, too, of his great and compassionate love for us all.

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The title of today’s episode: JESUS GIVES PEACE

Another basic area of our faith foundation is peace. God is the God of peace. The older I get, the more important my peace becomes. Some thrive on drama, our world is full of chaos. Take one look at reality TV, and you will see the agenda of the enemy. Satan wants everyone to believe that life should be about throwing fits and having drama. This doesn’t sound like an abundant life.

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

We are to seek the peaceful route, even with difficult people.  If we don’t walk in peace and holiness, we will not see the Lord. It doesn’t matter what they say or do; we can only control our actions. It is not always easy to take the high road and walk in peace. But finding a balance in life will keep our feet on the right path.

John 14:27 The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Jesus said that we would have tribulations in this world. Tribulation means a time of great trouble, distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution. But he has made a way for us to live in peace.

We have peace; Jesus gave it to us. There is no reason for us to lack peace if we are followers of Christ. With so much happening in our world, sometimes we have to fight for peace.

The enemy would love nothing more than to steal our peace. He will cause all sorts of things to happen. That is when we have to take a deep breath and turn our stress, anxiety and issues over to God. He will give us the peace we need.

There are many things the world does to find peace. Some do deep breathing and meditation. They tell you to look within. But I am telling you to look up. True peace only comes from a relationship with God. He is the giver of peace.  

Is 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Even in troubles and trials, our souls can have peace. We just have to keep our focus on God. When we keep our minds on him and allow him to have our worries and cares, we can walk in peace even when our world is in chaos. The enemy will not win or wear us down, as long as we can surrender our cares to Jesus.

 Phil 4:6-7 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

If we are not anxious about things, but turn them over to God in prayer. He will give us peace in return for our worries. Verse seven says the peace of God goes beyond our understanding and that peace will keep our hearts and minds. Notice it is through Christ.

Phil 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

This verse tells us what we should allow our minds to dwell on. If we can dwell on the good things, it will help us to walk in peace and be thankful for all Jesus has done for us.

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The title of today’s episode: God’s Garments

In the Luke chapter fifteen, we find a parable of the prodigal son. The man had two sons. One asked for his inheritance and went off to live his own way. This is the beginning of trouble. When we start to think we can live however we choose and that there are no consequences. The enemy will do all he can to get us to use our talents and resources for things other than the work of God.

The word prodigal, means extravagant, spending resources recklessly. He had gone off and lived like the world in sin. Until he found himself in a place where he didn’t have any friends. Most would leave after the money was gone. There arose a famine and he didn’t have any resources left. He ended up working for a man feeding his pigs.

Often, we have to hit our rock bottom before we realize that there is a better way. He was so hungry he thought about eating the slop of the pigs. Then he remembered that his father’s servants had plenty to eat. He swallowed his pride and returned home. It is sad that human nature will lead us to the place of the pig pen every time. We have to fight against nature and take care of the resources that we have been given by our heavenly father. Our father in heaven expects us to use whatever we have wisely. Whatever the resource, our money or our talents and creativity.

Like the father in this story our God is waiting and watching for us to come to our senses and run to him. This applies to anytime we are in trouble, not just when we have been living a life of sin.

Luke 15:20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Think about it, he had been working with pigs. You know he didn’t smell like roses. But the father didn’t care how he smelled and how dirty he was. He had been watching for him to come home. His father saw him a far off and ran and embraced him. He was excited that his son had returned.

Luke 15:21-22 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. 22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

Jesus puts on us the robe of righteousness. He removes the filthy robe of our righteousness, what we have done and can do with our ability.

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

There is not anything that we can do to earn our salvation. Our best behavior is as filthy rags. Because we must come through the blood of Christ.

The father put shoes on his feet so that he could walk like a son. The ring is the seal of the promise of God. Which we are given when we are born of the Spirit.

Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

He clothes us with garments of salvation, a robe of righteousness. He gives us the garments of praise.

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

We can walk through difficult times that we find ourselves sad and down. It seems that nothing is going right. This is when we have to hold on to the promises of God. We take hold of our garment of praise and wrap it a little tighter around ourselves and begin to praise the Lord. Not because we feel like it, but because he is worthy. He will lift the spirit of heaviness that has tried to take over our souls.

 When we focus on God, it doesn’t matter what is going on in our lives. Grief, sadness, depression, disappointment all can be powerful things. But we have to allow God to carry them for us and help us get through the hard things in life.

Just like the father in this story, Jesus is always watching for us to come to him with our problems.  He will see us through it all.

1Peter 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

An entire book could be written about humility and pride. God’s Spirit within us will make us humble. He gives grace and strength to the humble. He can use the humble because they are willing to give God the glory for the outcome.

We are warned not to be prideful because pride goes before a fall. If we come to God and are willing to allow him to dress us, we will always have on just the right garment.

Don’t forget the whole armor of God, which equips us to be warriors in his army. His armor protects us from the attacks of the enemy.

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The title of today’s episode: BE PREPARED AND VIGILANT

Life can turn on a dime. We do not know what will happen in the course of a day. One moment everything seems to be perfect. Little do you realize that you are a golf ball sitting up on a tee, and then you find yourself 300 yards down life’s road and wondering what just hit you. There is little we can do to prepare for some things that happen. But we should prepare for the things that are inevitable.

For example: Winter storms sometimes leave people without power. Many end up without heat when this happens. It pays to prepare and have an alternative source of heat in an emergency.

Prov 30:25-28  The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; 26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; 27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; 28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.

I have talked about the four creatures listed in Proverbs 30 a time or two before, each has special characteristics that mature Christian’s need to possess.

The ants prepare their food in the summer. Sort of like people used to can food from their garden. It is a lot of work to preserve food, but it is very nice to see the jars in the pantry. However, spiritually speaking we don’t preserve our spiritual food, but our spiritual food preserves us.

The conies are rabbit like creatures that build their houses in the rock. This protects them from predators. Spiritually speaking, if we put on the whole armor of God, only our back is exposed. So to have complete protection, we need to make sure to keep ourselves against the rock who is Christ Jesus. He will protect our vulnerable spots from our predator, the forever loser, satan.

The locust teach us to band together. It is good to have a group of people our church family that we can rely on when life gets tough. Only in unity can we be fully effective in the earth.

The spider takes hold with her hands. Sometimes we have to take hold of what we need to get us where we want to go. It is what comes out of the spider that gets them where they are going. We have to be determined to allow what is inside to come out of us. Show our faith, hope and determination to do what we need to do.

When I think about being prepared I think about the parable of the five wise and the five foolish virgins. All of them were good people. All of them had a lamp. But not all of them had oil. Our light will not shine without the anointing of the Holy Ghost. It is not enough to say I am a Christian. We have to shine our light into the darkness.

Before the bridegroom comes, we need to make sure that people are prepared and have oil in their vessels. There is room for everyone to grow and learn in the Lord.

How do we prepare for the things life throws at us. Start now by building a closer relationship to our Lord Jesus Christ. The closer we can back up into the rock the safer we will be, and the less things will catch us off guard. 

1 Pet. 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

This doesn’t say he will have the power to devour us. He is searching for someone who is weak and not prepared. If you are a child of God, the devil cannot devour you without your permission. So do not give him permission to cause havoc in your life by speaking negatively. If we keep our God Focus, he will only be allowed to go so far, before God stops him.

In the days in which we are living, it pays us to be vigilant and draw closer to God each and every day.

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The title of today’s episode: WHY EXPECT LESS?

Yesterday, my scripture writing was to write the fourteenth chapter of Matthew. One of the portions of that chapter is the story of the miracle feeding of five thousand. With five loaves of bread and two fish, he fed about five thousand men, not counting women and children. I would say that most of those men had wives, and people back then had large families. I am guessing it was probably closer to ten to twelve thousand. Either way, by human standards, it would be hard to feed a few people with two fish and 5 loaves of bread. And still, Jesus fed a large number of people and had food left over that it filled twelve baskets.

People often use this to show that if we give God what little we have, He will multiply it, use it, and give us back more than we had at the start. This is one of God’s principles throughout his word. We cannot outgive God. He will bless it and break it and create more than was there to start with once everyone is satisfied.

Why should we expect less today? Why do we act like God cannot provide for our needs? Why do we walk in fear and worry about tomorrow when God is already there and will take care of his people.

Then, the next section is about the disciples crossing the sea to the other side and Peter walking on the water. Anytime we try to make a crossing to get away from the large multitude, we will face a storm. The word tells us to be set apart from the people of this world. Because we are not of this world when we become children of God. We are travelers passing through. Those who choose to walk in darkness are of this world.

But even in the middle of our worst storms. Jesus is there to protect us from serious consequences. Peter was more in the storm than those who sat in the boat. He was the one stepping out, trying to get closer to Jesus. His faith was increased because of his brief moment of walking on the water.  But Jesus protected them all. None of them were harmed by the storm.

Why should we expect less?

Jesus has promised to go with us and to be our provider, protector and safe place. There are many examples in the bible of how God looked out for his people. I feel it is safe to say, we should not expect less.

I used to wonder what I would do if put to the ultimate test, like Daniel or the three Hebrew men. Bow to this false God or die. But every day, we are put to that test in smaller ways. I feel sure that if it ever came to the ultimate test, the Spirit of God would rise up in us and we would stand strong.

Some people say they don’t want to serve God now, that they will be saved during the Great Tribulation. That is a lie of the enemy they have chosen to believe for two reasons. One, unless you are Jewish, you will not have a right to be saved. But the one that came to my mind first when I heard it was, what makes them think they can defy the anti-christ and stand against the evil then, when they cannot stand against it now. Because it will be even harder to survive in those days.

Many people down through time have been blessed, healed, delivered and set free by our Lord and our Savior. Every promise in that Bible belongs to his children. Why should we worry, fear and be down trodden. God will save, heal, provide for whatever we need and deliver us from our storms. He has never failed his people. Why should we expect less?

Have faith, stay strong, be encouraged Jesus is coming soon for his bride. We need to make sure we are ready. Many say that it is just a story. That Jesus will not return. Some say, people have been saying that for over two thousand years and it has not happened. But you can be sure, Jesus said it, it will happen. Why should we expect less?

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The title of today’s episode: THE CONCLUSION

The word of God seems like an endless book. Every time I pick it up to read the word enlightens me in some way that I never saw before. People say it is living and breathing, because the word changes the reader. We are transformed by the word according to the situations we are currently walking through.

We know that God is love, but each time we walk through something, and God shows up to be our strength and help, we understand His love in a different way. The very basic idea is that love is a flowery feeling. But God’s love is so much more than a feeling. It is an expression of his greatest gift, a right to become his child. We were orphans, lost without hope, but Jesus died to give us the right to be adopted. We can continue to learn about His love a lifetime and still not figure it all out, because his ways are beyond us ever understanding fully.

The writer of Ecclesiastes summed up our duties as children of God as:

Eccl 12:13-14 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

The summary of everything is to Fear God and keep his commandments. It is the complete duty of man. Because this is a serious conclusion, it is not to be taken lightly. We must learn to love God. If we love God, we will want to keep his commandments and walk in his will.

We are not born knowing how to love God. This lesson was taught to me many years ago by my four-year-old nephew. His parents had been teaching him to say that children’s prayer at the dinner table, God is great, God is good… he was sitting at the table and has said that but continued to sit quietly with his head down. My mom finally asked him if he was finished, then he said some profound words… “Help me Love God, amen.”

I pondered those words for a week or more before I wrote a newsletter article about it. That is the conclusion of the whole matter, help me love God. Because the more we love him the more we will want to please him. The more we will want to do for him. The more we will desire to read the word so he can talk to us. The more we will want to pray and sit in his presence, the more we will pray and sit in his presence.

It is so elementary, but still so hard to obtain. We walk through times we feel like he has left us all alone, and we do not feel his presence. But to remind you when walking through times like this, love is not a feeling. God is faithful and consistent. He will always be there, even when we cannot feel him. Because he promised to never leave us.

Heb 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Jesus summed up everything to his disciples as:
Matt 22:34-40 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Jesus was saying if we love God, we will not desire to commit sin. If we can keep our God focus, we will not allow our flesh to give into temptation. If we love our neighbor as ourselves, we will treat them with respect and make sure that we do right by them.

Although, we think we know what these verses mean, everyday is an opportunity to learn a little more about what it means to walk in God’s love. It is a lifetime journey. We will never know all there is to know, because just as God’s mercies are renewed every day, so are the lessons for us to learn.

God wants us to be a sponge and openly embrace the journey. Spending time with him and learning to lean on him for everything we need. Life is a journey and every step we take will teach us a lesson for the next day. But the greatest lesson we can learn is how to love God and one another.

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There is a phrase that says, I’ve lost all hope or they’ve lost all hope. What does it mean to lose hope? First, we have to understand what having hope means. Hope is having an expectation that things will work out for our good and we will have a happy outcome to our situations.

We have all been walking through some crazy things since Covid hit. We can tell when an event makes an impact because we say before Covid or after Covid, just like the events of 911. Almost everyone can remember where they were when the news came that there had been a plane crash into the towers. It was like time stood still. For a couple of days, we were in shock, but then America rallied and found hope.

We are in another time that it seems like hope is hard to come by, but as a Christian we can always have hope. When we have Jesus, we can get through the highs and lows of life, because we are not alone. We place our hope in Jesus and, not in our abilities, politicians or anything else. When we put our hope in man, we will be disappointed.

Finding hope in Jesus, means that we know without a doubt, he is the one that will go before us. In our highs and lows, our happy times or our worst days, we have hope that he will work everything out.

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

It is hard to understand circumstances sometimes. It is even harder to believe that loss and grief can be for our good. It is hard to walk through sickness and pain, wondering how it is for our good. In other situations I have walked through, I questioned how it could be for my good. But God knows what he is doing and will use even the dark times to strengthen us and help us grow closer to him.

This life is all about growing fruit an winning souls for the kingdom of God. Our purpose in life is to be a light and help to all that we come in contact with in this life.

I do not hide the fact that I went through a period in my late twenties when depression was my companion. I had lost all hope. It seemed like everything I ever wanted was slipping through my fingers. The harder I tried the worse things seemed. I pray that you never have to experience that smothering darkness of lost hope. As long as we can hold onto our peace and hope, we will not fall into depression.

Prov 13:12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

The word deferred means to postpone or put off. When hope is postponed, it is easy to become hopeless and fall into depression. If you are in a state of depression, it is impossible to just snap out of it. I had someone tell me that one time. It is not that easy, but it requires a change of attitude. You need to find a reason to have hope again.

Jesus is the light that can shine into our darkness and give us a ray of hope. Once we find that hope again, we need to hold onto it with every ounce of strength we have in us. I pray I can always hold onto hope in every situation that I will face.

Once we have walked through a few situations in life, it is easier to cling to hope. Because God brought us through our fiery trials in the past, we can use that to strengthen our hope that he will do it again. We may not see how He will see us through, but He will.

Lam 3:18-21And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: 19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

Anytime we face a situation that tries to cause us to lose hope, we have to remember where God has brought us from and the promise of where we are going. It will strengthen our hope in the Lord.

Many stories in the bible will help to encourage us and strengthen our hope. God is the God of the impossible situations. He can take the bad and turn it around for good.

I want to leave you today with one final verse:

Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

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KEEPING FOCUS AND COURAGE

How many battles were lost in the last minutes because one side slowed down? When in a sports competition, many games are lost in the last few minutes because one side either got cocky and lost focus or the team was sure of defeat and lost courage. Focus and courage is what it is going to take for us to win our battle against our enemy.

We cannot feel like since things appear to be turning our way, that we can let down. We cannot lose courage that things will turn out in the favor of our enemy. Now is the time to double down and make sure our courage doesn’t fail.

We need to stop and take a deep breath every now and then. We need to check our lives to make sure we are on track. The word says we need to meditate on God’s word. I know I say it often, but we are to hide his word in our hearts. The more of the word we have inside of us, the less likely we are to fall into sin. If we keep our focus on God, we will get where we are supposed to be.

Psalm 119:11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

It is the job of the enemy to distract and destroy. If he can distract us from our focus on God he has won half the battle. Knowing the tactics of the enemy will help us to avoid his traps. He is good at reading us, then we say things out of our mouth that is negative. Satan will take the negative talk and help it to become a reality in our lives. He may notice our flesh struggling with something; he will do all he can to turn up the pressure to get us to fall into sin.

Look at Samson, he was drawn to Delilah. The enemy noticed how he was taken with her and used her to bring him down. He didn’t tell her where his strength came from the first time she asked. But she kept working on him, manipulating and sweet talking to him until he surrendered.

We are no different, satan keeps coming at us like a spider. When a bug is caught in the web of a spider, it goes to it and bites it. But it doesn’t kill it’s prey all at once, it goes to it a few times and bites it, until it dies.  Satan is the same way, if he would approach you head on full force, we would resist. But he comes a little at a time. “That little thing will not matter” how many times have we thought or said those words.

PROV 4:18-22 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

The word tells us to not let God’s sayings, or his word depart from our eyes and to keep them in our hearts. The words written in the Bible are life both spiritually and physically to us.

 Prov 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Diligence means careful, persistent effort. We are to keep our heart with a careful, persistent effort to stay on the right path. It is my firm belief that if we can learn to keep our “God Focus” he will lead us the right way. If we all can learn to let him lead, all the denominational boundaries will fall away. But first, we have to all learn how to focus on God. Put him in the center of our lives where he belongs. We have made things too complicated.

Prov 4:24-27 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. 27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Notice verse twenty-five says don’t look right or left. Then the next verse says that we need to think about the path of our feet. This is when we take time to slow down and check our focus. The next verse says to not turn right or left to remover our foot from evil.

It all starts with where we look and focus on, then we ponder, then we stick our foot into sin. We can save ourselves a lot of grief if we can just learn to keep our focus on God.

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