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Hebrews 6:10
John 15:5
Retired pastor/teacher to inner city homeless/drug/alcohol addicted.
Joined Jan 2021
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Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
— James 3:13-18
Dear Father God, lead me each day to surrender my life and motives to your inspection, search me, correct me and guide me in Your will always, Amen.
Our Lord’s disciples are to be sent to evangelize the world. How are they to do it?
What is the first thing to consider?
You notice what our Lord puts first: It is sanctification:
“Sanctify them, for the work needs to be done in them before it can ever be done in the world.”
There is nothing that appalls me so much as the almost incredible way in which Christian people seem to ignore entirely the teaching of the Scriptures with regard to methods of evangelism.
In the Scriptures from beginning to end, the emphasis is on the messenger, not his external methods.
It is on his character and his being and on his relationship to God.
John 17:18
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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URGENT:
Urgent. Pray right away. I (mom) woke up to find Joshua laying beside me - in the middle of a seizure. His don’t shake. Instead he loses body control and can’t move or talk and his heart races etc. so they are basically silent with zero movement. And dangerous because of his type. Christina rushed to take over care of him while I went and mixed the emergency meds. Time is important.
We have given him his emergency medication. And see some small improvement already. But please pray if you see this.🥺🥺🥺🥺
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Happy Sunday! ❤️ This Sunday morning I'm sat in church in total freedom... a full worship team on stage, the room full of people and the Word is being preached with no restriction. As I'm sat here, I can't help but think of our brothers and sisters around the world today who are totally unable to experience that same freedom. I pray I never become so distracted by my own comfort that my heart forgets to keep them in constant prayer.
This past week, more than a dozen Christians were arrested in China's latest house church raid. Keep the church and its members in your prayers 🙏🏼
https://backtojerusalem.com/house-church-raided-in-china-more-than-dozen-christians-arrested/
The church and the Christian and the gospel are not so much concerned about removing the occasions for sin as removing from man the desire to sin.
“I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil…. Sanctify them” (John 17:15, 17).
Our Lord is saying in effect, “I am not so concerned that You should take the occasion for sin away, but that You should take out of the man the desire to take advantage of the occasion.”
Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The Gospel of Jesus Christ does not so much take the Christian out of the world as take the desires of the world out of the Christian.
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A teenage mom in captivity. She needs our prayers.
https://backtojerusalem.com/a-teenage-mum-in-captivity/
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“These young people in China get it. Despite persecution (real persecution, as in, some of their leaders and peers have been jailed for their Christian faith), they meet secretly in underground discipleship classes. Please pray that these young people will be used to transform society and expand the Kingdom of God in China and beyond” #WithinReachGlobal
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“Precious souls sometimes fight tremendous battles in order to attain to righteousness in trying places. Perhaps the heart has become wrong in some matter where temptation has been allowed to overcome, or at least to turn it aside from its singleness unto God; and the conflict is a terrible one as it seeks to adjust itself and be right with God, and finds itself baffled by its own spiritual foes, and its own helplessness, perplexity and perversity. How dark and dreary the struggle, and how helpless and ineffectual it often seems at such times! It is almost sure to strive in the spirit of the law, and the result always is condemnation and failure.
Every disobedience is met by a blow of wrath, and discouragement, and it well nigh sinks to despair. Oh, if the tempted and struggling one could only understand or remember what perhaps he has learned before, that Christ is our righteousness, and that it is not by law but by grace alone. That is the secret of the whole battle.”
AB Simpson
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Where will you spend eternity? https://youtube.com/watch?v=bnRSd5SdcsE
#followers_of_the_way #hell #heaven #charles #lawson #followers_of_christ #eternity #Bible #Jesus #Gospel #Repentance #Faith #Savior #KJV #spiritual #jesuschrist #christianity #faithful
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Skeptics be taking the opportunity of #Lent, & approaching #GoodFriday and #ResurrectionSunday #Easter to slander against #Jesus and the #Bible, here's our #Christian #apologetics fact-checking on the skeptics with this specific attack: http://bit.ly/34dqN2i
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A beautiful post about the power of intercessory prayer by a dear friend in Christ
https://devotionaltreasure.wordpress.com/2021/03/20/the-purple-shawl/?preview=true
In the gloom a light glimmers and glows.
We have received an invitation.
We are invited to make a pilgrimage—
into the heart and life of God.
The invitation has long been on public record.
You can hardly look anywhere across the human scene and not encounter it.
It is literally “blowing in the wind.”
A door of welcome seems open to everyone without exception.
No person or circumstance other than our own decision can keep us away.
“Whosoever will may come.”
Dallas Willard
What can we wish for more than "to know Christ and to be found in him?"
Jesus fills our conscience till it is at perfect peace;
our judgment with persuasion of the certainty of his teachings;
our memory with recollections of what he has done,
and our imagination with the prospects of what he is yet to do.
Charles Spurgeon
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Another favourite holiness song
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I have been reading Samuel L. Brengle on holiness recently which was on my mind today. Here is my thoughts in today's blog post.
https://devotionaltreasure.wordpress.com/2021/03/19/seeking-holiness/?preview=true
Hebrews 6:10
John 15:5
Retired pastor/teacher to inner city homeless/drug/alcohol addicted.
Joined Jan 2021
