Jason Hayward @Jhayward@dingdash.com
My church-related writings are available at www.jason.church. I recently posted a new book 📕 on Christ in the Apostle Paul at www.jason.church.
Joined Jun 2020
We don’t look at people as they are. We look at them as they should be. We look at them as they could be. And we look at them in Christ Jesus, that in Christ, they are complete, and they are whole [1 Timothy 2:4-6, 2 Peter 3:9]. And that is the way we look at them [Matthew 9:36]. That is how we treat them. We treat them with dignity, with honor, and with respect [Galatians 3:28, 1 Peter 2:17]. And we choose our words so that they reflect honor and respect regardless of what I see coming from them or through them [Romans 2:10-11]. I will speak evil of no man [Titus 3:2]. I will speak good [Matthew 12:34] as God has spoken about us and blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places [Ephesians 1:3]. I will bless all men [Numbers 6:24-26, Romans 12:14, Luke 6:27-28]. I will speak well. I will speak the blessings of God [James 3:10]. I will treat them as I would treat Christ [Matthew 25:40].
“And David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn.”
2 Samuel 6:14-15 ESV
https://www.bible.com/59/2sa.6.14-15.esv
There were days when the church could club men into obedience by preaching hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it. And men are discovering there is only one way and that is the Jesus way. Jesus did not come with a club, but with the great loving heart of the Son of God. He was “moved with compassion”. -JGL
Psalm 103. All of it. So good!
Deuteronomy 30:19-20
“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.””
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 ESV
https://www.bible.com/59/deu.30.19-20.esv
@bethany It looks like my youngest daughter's going to be going to college in England starting in September so she'll be in your neck of the woods. Are you in London?
Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next. -E. Elliot
'Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth… that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. '
Philippians 2:9-10,15-16
But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him [1 Corinthians 6]…
Be filled with the Spirit…the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. [Ephesians 5]
"God’s purposes come to pass when our heart and mind get the real God-cry, when the real God-prayer comes into our hearts and the real God-yearning gets hold of our nature. Something is going to happen then." -JGL
As Christians, we lift up the immortal Jesus and His resurrection life, His grace, His compassion, His generosity
“Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.”
Psalm 119:88-93 KJV
https://www.bible.com/1/psa.119.88-93.kjv
The same messages have been resonating with me: https://www.christianpost.com/news/francis-chan-criticizes-western-church-for-lack-of-unity.html?uid=bf45503a25
Jn 14:6Jesus said to him, I am the way and the reality and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.
“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.”
Psalm 91:1-3 ESV
https://www.bible.com/59/psa.91.1-3.esv
“For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:2 ESV
https://www.bible.com/59/rom.8.2.esv
He is risen!! “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”
1 Peter 3:18 KJV
https://www.bible.com/1/1pe.3.18.kjv
Our God is amazing. Jesus wept for his friend Lazarus and the situation. Then he said a few words and raised him from the dead. Compassion, tenderness, authority, victory.
My church-related writings are available at www.jason.church. I recently posted a new book 📕 on Christ in the Apostle Paul at www.jason.church.
Joined Jun 2020
