Thought For The Day

In the Lord's prayer, He added lead us not into temptation.  Matthew 6:13 And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Being tested and tried when confronted with temptation, is a good thing.   It reveals where we are with our walk in the Lord. How else would we ever know the hidden desires of our heart?  Being tempted will reveal how strong or weak we are in the Lord. Yes, we are lead to be tempted and tested, when we see our true hearts desires, then we can allow the Holy Spirit to change them, so that we become more like Jesus. God never tempts us, but he does test us.  We are tempted when we are drawn away with our own desires, and we have taken our eyes off of Jesus. Self-centered. God the Holy Spirit is revealing those areas in our life that caused us to be miserable and steal our peace and joy. They seemed good at the time, but later on will turned on us. James 1:13-16 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted of God." for God can...

What is a fervent prayer, that James reminds us of.  A fervent prayer is a passionate sincere calling out to God.  It can be for repentance, or for thanksgiving, or any situation you find yourself facing. James 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Sometimes there are no words to express what we feel about what is happening.  Thank God the Holy Spirit will intercede for us. Romans 8 :26-28 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses.  For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that ALL things work together for good to those who love God , to those who are the called according to His purpose...

 Prayer is fellowship with our creator.  We enter His presence with thanksgiving, we praise Him for all that He is in our life. P raise Him, R epent, A sk, Y ield, E xpecting, R efreshing. We thank Him for mercy, forgiveness, and His guidance. His presence carries life. Luke 18:1 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men ought to pray and not lose heart. (18-1-8 read it all.) There are different types of prayers, a few are verbal, speaking out loud,  Meditating prayers as He knows our thoughts,  and just calling out to Jesus. When we just talk to the Lord in our day, that is prayer.  Jesus loves us to come to Him and include Him in our day. He has already planned our day, but for us to acknowledge Him is a worship to Him. Jesus said, we think we are heard by many words. Keep it short. Matthew 6:6-8 "But when you pray, go into your room, (Shut the world out) and when you have shut the door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees ...

If we really love Jesus, we will obey whatever He has said. Luke   6:46 "But why do you call Me Lord, Lord; and not do the things I say? Romans 1:5-6 Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for His name, among who you also are the called of Jesus Christ. Some believers, say because they are under God's grace, that obedience can be set aside, put off for now. WRONG! If you love Jesus, you will obey His word. It is God's grace that gives you the strength to obey His word. Beloved, we have all the fullness of God living in us through the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 3:19 (Part of a prayer Paul prayed for the believers) to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with the fullness of God. The fullness of God is in the love of God. Do you realize how much God loves you? Fullness refers to the totality of divine powers. It is all in Jesus, as He paid for it on the cross. After the resurrection of Ch...

Beloved, a New Year is another season   of our life to reflect the character and nature of our Lord.   Sharing all His goodness. His grace, mercy and compassion, salvation to those who are lost or wounded. Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Share that good news this year with someone that needs to hear it. For those who receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, not just so that they will feel better, but for their eternal soul. We have a new year to walk in truth, the truth of God's word. That is unless Jesus comes this year. It's a matter of our heart, not our mind. We must renew our mind daily in God's word.  That's when the deep truths of God's word, go from our head to our heart, then it carries life. As the world gets darker, we will become lighter, brighter to those that are perishing without Jesus. Remember bel...