Sunday, December 15, 2024
Good morning Church
“By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us.” 1 John 3:16a
We, the ones who recognize and acknowledge that we have been bought at an extravagant price, are the ones who truly comprehend genuine love – God’s love. It is not for us to keep it bottled up and stashed away. We have been handpicked by God for this epic assignment of representing Him – representing Love – to a hurting world.
The footnotes for V17 says, “Love is demonstrated, not only in a heroic deed of self-sacrifice but in a daily life of compassion.”
Verse 18 goes on to say, “Beloved children, our love can’t be an abstract theory we only talk about, but a way of life demonstrated through our loving deeds.” (TPT)
Jesus walked that daily life of compassion and He outwardly demonstrated it in loving deeds while He walked the earth ...until He passed the baton.
Now, we’re it! Let’s walk with open eyes and open hearts, and let His compassion direct us until we have fulfilled our epic assignment!
See you at church!
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Good morning Church
In the book of Nehemiah, we read that when it was told to him that the wall of Jerusalem was broken down and its gates were burned with fire, Nehemiah wept and mourned for many days.
The news tugged at Nehemiah’s heart because he knew the promise of God…that Jerusalem was the place God had chosen as the dwelling place for His Name; the place where God said he would meet with man here on the earth. And it lay in ruin and unprotected.
Nehemiah became passionate both in his prayers and in his efforts of restoration, enduring multiple hardships along the way…but never quitting.
The heart of man is the place today where God has chosen to dwell; the place where His Holy Spirit wants to make His home, where His Name rules and reigns.
Are we willing to be as passionate and diligent as Nehemiah, to pray tirelessly and endure hardships in an effort to restore those who have gone astray…those that are drifting unprotected and out of fellowship with their heavenly Father?
May the lost always tug at our hearts and may we never quit on them!
See you at church.
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Good morning Church
Likely every one of us has struggled at one time or another with feeling unworthy of our heavenly Father’s love. And truthfully, in and of ourselves, we would be unworthy...but Jesus!
From the beginning, God always had a plan, even while we were yet sinners; in fact, even before the foundations of the earth. The plan was completely intentional, perfectly designed, and flawlessly executed. Jesus’ shed blood made the way for us to access and partake of the immeasurable, incomparable, inexhaustible, and unconditional love of God.
Romans 8:38-39 TPT
So now I live with the confidence that there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. I’m convinced that His love will triumph over death, life’s troubles, fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing in our present or future circumstances that can weaken His love. There is no power above us or beneath us—no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One!
What a gift...unearned and undeserved, but freely given. That is something to rejoice over!
See you at church!