Galations 1

Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: 3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: 5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Gal 1:1-5 (KJV)

I read this recently and loved the wording that Paul used in his greeting. Got 2 go I hope I can write more often.

I am

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.

57 The Jews therefore said unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was born, I am.

59 They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

John 8:56-59

 

the bible says I am (referring to God ) over 200+ times.

and i just thought that was cool. around 50 of them were I Am the Lord thy God.

I hope you pray when you read this and ask God that He will really be the Lord of your Life! 

Pray and Serve

God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you

the good and the right way: 24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart:

for consider how great things he hath done for you. 25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye

shall be consumed, both ye and your king.

1 Sam 12:23-25 (KJV)

 

God Forbid that i should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you. Samuel considered

it a sin against God to stop praying. How many times do we think that way, that to stop

praying for God’s people is a sin. …Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your

heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.  God has truly done great things,

more than we can imagine

Remember

And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. 18 Then answered the

Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? 19 Jesus answered and

said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was

this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21 But he spake of the temple of his body. 22 When

therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the

scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

John 2:16-22 (KJV)

When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the

scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. We need to not just remember God’s word after the fact, but we need to

constantly wash our brains with it.

Devos 3-26-10

The Lord seems to be really feeding my soul with the verses about betrayal. I have in the last few months have experienced hurt that I cannot even begin to describe and maybe that is why passages dealing with the subject are crossing my path. I read the other day in Psalms 41:9 "mine own familiar friend" and how that person betrayed him.
Today in Psalm 55:12-14 "For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: but it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company."
We cannot control where hurt comes from. Sometimes the people you would least expect to hurt you do. Sometimes people turn on you.
All you can do is keep your eyes on Christ. He will never let you down. He will never hurt you. He will never disappoint.
He is the one that has the balm of Gilead to heal our wounded and broken hearts. We must stay close to him. We must depend upon him. We must rest wholly upon him for everything. He must become our everything.

Devos 3-25-10

Sorry that it is a day late.
Sometimes there are verses or passages of Scripture that feed me for more than one day. I find that the next day I read the same passage again and my thoughts are just focused on them.
I went back to Psalm 41. I gave verse 9 in the last post. It talks about how his familiar friend had turned on him. You can get the sense of the pain that has been caused by this so called friend.
I noticed in verse 10 that the Psalmist asks for the Lord to raise him up that he might 'requite' him. That confused me and still does to some degree. If vengeance is the Lord's, how could a man after God's own heart pray that way. I began to think of how many of the psalmists prayers were for the downfall of his enemies. I wondered how could these things be.
Then I realized that David's enemies were God's enemies. Not because God decided that whoever was an enemy of David was an enemy of His. But rather, David was so in tune with God-his 'be level' was so great that God's enemies were David's enemies.
Oh, that I would walk close to God. That I would be a man after God's own heart. That I might hear His very heartbeat.

Money

He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much.

What we so is what we will reap if we faithfully do good or evil that is what we will be characterized by.

 
 

11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

If you do not searve God with the money that you have now why would He let you control much more?

 
 

12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?

Do you think that someone will give you what you deserve if you've cheated them?

 
 

13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

You can only fully serve one God and the God/god will become notceable.

 
 

14 And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.

We need to pray that we do not scoff wisdom.

 
 

15 And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

God said that they made an exuce for their sin, but He knows our hearts, and everything that we could do or lift up on this earth is worse that a dirty rag in God's sight.

Luke 16:10-15