Perfection Not Required
What God looks for is someone who is willing, someone who leans on His strength, and does things His way.
What God looks for is someone who is willing, someone who leans on His strength, and does things His way.
“Out of control”, “monster”, “destructive” were stuck to him every day… but none of them was his name.
For the last 2,000 years, the uncompromising truth of Jesus as the only way to God has caused men and women to lay down their lives to bring others to Christ.
What should we be telling someone when God is moving upon them to move them to salvation?
As we move toward Him, awkward and faltering, He exuberantly reaches out to us with His arms wide open and an enormous smile of joyous welcome.
We all have our own lens through which we look. They are assumptions, reactions,
and judgments that influence how we see the world and its people.
When God’s love truly dwells within, we will find it easier to extend grace to those
who don’t think like us, worship like us, pray like us, or vote like us — even within the Church.
I hope you haven’t, but this afternoon that is exactly what I visualized as it felt like my peace, vision, and even breath was being sucked out of my head.
Here I’ll continue to take a look at the differences between the rapture and the second coming,
this time by heading to Matthew 24:40-41, a section that is often attributed to being the rapture of the church.
Our relational walk with the three-in-one God results in a three-in-one journey.
When we seek God’s Holy and Secret Place…we will find a refreshment and a renewal and a place of safety that cannot be found anywhere on Earth.
They came like a river to confess the Lordship of Jesus over their souls.
If Jesus sat down with us for some one-on-one time, what would we ask Him? More importantly, how would we respond to His questions?
There was a moment when the world passed from the idyllic and perfect, to the ironic and tragic.
Kingdom rule is with the open heart. This is why you must love your enemies. It is also why you must stay close.
Jesus invites everyone to spend eternity with Him in Heaven and sacrificed His life to make that possible. Yet, He leaves the choice to each individual.
It’s amazing how much we can trust the Lord…
especially when we are put in the position where we have to totally depend on Him.
Those who have acknowledged their need of God, their need for forgiveness, those who have repented; these we call believers.
The second coming is the one we have yet to experience.
We anticipate the time when Our Lord will come in all His glory to set everything right.
We live between the early and latter rains in this Advent season of the world,
waiting for the fulfillment of what was begun at Christmas.
When the opportunity arises to lead someone to Christ, the first thing that happens for most of us is that we immediately get nervous and feel uneasy.
Drink deeply from the well of salvation and call on God from a heart that is full of confidence―because of the mighty Christmas Gift.
Man and woman, serving the Lord together, was demonstrated so beautifully at Jesus’s presentation in the temple.
When scripture speaks into the life of a person, it cuts in like a surgeon’s scalpel, in order to bring healing and life to the person in need.