God's Words of Wisdom

"Greetings in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for 27 October 2012"

Today's Bible Verse: Psalm 29:1-2 'Give unto the LORD, O you mighty ones, Give unto the LORD glory and strength.  Give unto the LORD the glory due His name, Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness."

A thunder storm is viewed in this psalm, not as a phenomenon of impersonal nature, but as an act of divine intervention arousing David's praise and sparkling the realization that ts the Lord who is enthroned in nature.  So great is our God to bless David then, just as He does us even today.

We as believers are to worship God in the beauty of holiness.  All true beauty reflects the power of the "GREAT I AM."  God is continually working His way in us.  God is the divine artist creating loveliness within each of us.

The work of the Holy Spirit, is to clear out the debris and clutter in our lives, and make room for Him to take total control and total possession of our lives.  We as believers need to work with God in this effort, by being willing to "let go of anything and everything" that God chooses to take away.  Our Abba Father knows what we need, and He has promised to provide all of that "abundantly."  Our sense of security must not rest in our materialist possessions or "things going our way."

The Holy Spirit is training us to depend on God alone, and always finding fulfillment in His Presence.  This my Brothers and Sisters in Christ means, "being justified with much or little and accepting either as God's Will for the moment."  Instead of grasping and controlling, we need to learn to release and receive, and to cultivate our spiritual ground by Trusting our Abba Father in EVERY situation. 

Click on this link www.cindidavis.blogspot.com for a Blog Writing from Hosea 3 which is Titled: "Hosea and the Adulteress."

Have a God Filled and Spirit Led Day. Go in Peace and Serve the Lord our God with Gladness. Love God More Today. Always remember that when you have a spiritual, emotional, physical, or financial dilemma in your life, and you yell out, I CAN'T," GOD Whispers to you, "BUT I CAN."

JESUS REIGNS!!!  May God's Love, Peace, Strength, and Grace be with you all.

Your Sister in Christ,
Cindi

 

God's Words of Wisdom

"Greetings in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for 25 October 2012"

Today's Bible Verse: Psalm 15:1 "LORD who may abide in Your tabernacle?  Who may dwell in Your holy hill?"

Psalm 15, is titled, "The Character of Those Who May Dwell with the Lord."  It is a wisdom psalm but its principle focus is on the proper approach to the worship of God.  Although all of the psalms were used in the worship of God, this poem, is a worship poem, because of its special focus on the subject of worship. 

The psalm asks the question, "Who is righteous enough to approach God?"  Certainly no one is except Jesus, the Messiah.  But there have always been those who stand before God forgiven sinners, whose righteousness comes as gift from God.  We who are in Christ, learn to come boldly into the Presence of the Father, because we come on the authority of His Son (Hebrews 4:16).

Jesus makes us feel at home in the Presence of the Father.  David, who wrote this poem, has it written in a question and answer format: (1) the question of who may approach God (verse1) (2) the response (verses 2-4) (3) The Blessing (verse 5).  The promise of God for the righteous is for this life and the life to come.  The Lord is a righteous persons sure foundation.

Click on this link www.cinddavis.blogspot.com for a Blog Writing from Hosea 2 which is Titled: "God's Unfaithful People."

Have a God Filled and Spirit Led Day. Go in Peace and Serve the Lord our God with Gladness. Love God More Today.  When you have a spiritual, emotional, physical, or financial issue in your life and you yell out, "I CAN'T," GOD Whispers to you, "BUT I CAN."

JESUS REIGNS!!!  May God's Love, Peace, Strength, and Grace be with you all.

Your Sister in Christ,
Cindi

God's Words of Wisdom

"Greetings in the Name of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for 23 October 2012"

Today's Bible Verse: Exodus 3:5 "Then He said, "Do not draw near this place.  Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground."

We see here in this verse, that God appears to Moses in a burning bush, to announce to the new reluctant hero, that he is to go to Pharaoh, "to bring My people out of the land of Egypt."  The flame of fire was an extraordinary sight, particularly since the bush was not consumed by the fire.  God tells Moses to take of his shoes, for the place whee Moses was standing was Holy ground and was set apart by His divine Presence.  Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look upon God.

We as Christians need to listen to God even when we aer listening to other people.  We need the help of the Holy Spirit to respond appropriately.  Ask the Holy Spirit to think through you, live through you, and love through you.

God's own Presence is alive within us through the indwelling power and Presence of the Holy Spirit.  If we respond to others needs through their own unaided thought processes, we offer them dry crumbs.  When the Holy Spirit empowers our listening and speaking, the river of Living Water flows through us to those that are around us.

Click on this link www.cindidavis.blogspot.com for a Blog Writing from Hosea 1 which is Titled: "Hosea's Unfaithful Wife." 

Have a God Filled and Spirit Led Day. Go in Peace and Serve the Lord our God with Gladness. Love God More Today. Always remember that when you have a spiritual, emotional, physical, or financial dilemma in your life and you yell out, "I CAN'T," GOD Whispers to you , BUT I CAN." 

Your Sister in Christ,
Cindi

God's Words of Wisdom

"Greetings in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for 11 October 2012"

Today's Bible Verses: James 4:1-17
Today's Key Verse: James 4:6 "But he gives more grace.  Therefore He says: "God resists the proud.  But gives grace to the humble."

James in this chapter looks at more problems for the person committed to living a life of faith.  Faith's lifestyle demands that the believer submit to God, despite the presence of warped desires stimulated by the flesh, the world, and Satan.  The conflicts that are within us, is between our sinful desires for pleasure and the desire for God's Will, an attitude that the Holy Spirit has placed within us.  The source of conflict among believers is often material.  James her attributes fighting, murder, and war to materialism.  John also in 1st John 2:15-16 also warmed believers of lusting after "the things of the world."

We as believers also struggle against the temptation to usurp (to take or assume) God's place as a judge, rather than accept our rightful place as mere citizen's in God's kingdom.  Envy in verses 4 and 5 is God's longing for our love.  God is truly disturbed when we abandon our friendship with Him and chase after the things of the world, and He is disturbed for our sake.  But how does God respond?  Not with punishment, but with "more Grace" to lead us back into His arms.  Only our pride can keep us from responding to His Grace.  We as Christians need to turn our backs on the world and experience the UNENDING Blessings and Love of our Almighty God.

However powerful Satan is, if we set ourselves against him, he is unable to prevail against us, and he then will flee, for he, as will as his demons, all tremble and bow at the Name of Jesus (Praise God).

Verses 7-10 contain 10 sharp commands that call for immediate action.  In essence they tell us how to humble ourselves before God, so that we can experience His Grace.  The 10 commands are (1) and (2) submit and resist in verse 7, (3) (4) (5) come near, wash and purify in verse 8, (6) (7) (8) and (9) grieve, mourn, wail, change in verse 9, and (10) humble in verse 10.  Together these verses picture a complex reversal of the attitudes that shape the spiritually immature and unfaithful. 

Click on this link www.cindidavis.blogspot.com for a Blog Writing from Hosea which is Titled: "Introduction to the Book of Hosea."

Have a God Filled and Spirit Led Day. Go in Peace and Serve the Lord our God with Gladness. Love God More Today. Always remember that when you have a spiritual, emotional, physical, or financial dilemma in you life, and you yell out, "I CAN'T," GOD Whispers to you, "BUT I CAN."

JESUS REIGNS!!!  May God's Love, Peace, Strength, and Grace be with you all.

Your Sister in Christ,
Cindi


 

God's Words of Wisdom

"Greetings in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for 10 October 2012"

Today's Bible Verse: John 10:27-30 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give then eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of my hand.  My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them from my Father's hands.  I and My Father are One."

Wow!!! What a statement by our Lord confirming His deity that He and the Father are One.  In these verses, Jesus describes the three characteristics of His sheep: (1) They hear His voice (2) He knows them and (3) They follow Him.  The following of sheep is a metaphor for "FAITH."  Other metaphors for Faith in John's Gospel include: (1) drinking water (John 4:14), (2) eating bread (John 6:50-51), and (3) eating flesh and drinking blood (John 6:54).  Our eternal life as Christians can NEVER be taken away.  The Father's hand is more powerful than any enemy.

Verse 28, teaches us as Christians, that through God, we have eternal security in which God is able to complete the good work of eternal life, that He has began in every believer.  The eternal security of the believer is guaranteed, by the person and work of God.  He is true and just, and cannot deny Himself.  Therefore anyone who has eternal life, has it forever (Amen).  God promises that no one or no thing can ever separate us from His love (Romans 8:38-39).

The Christian is saved and secured by "Faith" but in love and gratitude to Christ will seek to faithfully serve Him.  In verse 30, Said, "I and the Father are One."  Jesus is God.  This was a clear claim of Jesus of His deity.   The Jewish religious leaders understood exactly what He meant, and they were ready to stone Him for "blasphemy."

Are you like me, longing for the second Coming of Christ?  Are you like me, saying alone with John in Revelation 22:20, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus?"  If you are reading this writing, and you are not saved, you can be saved.  The Gift of Eternal Life and the Free Gift of Salvation comes through Jesus Christ and His shed blood.  All that you have to do is confess your sins to God. and Him Him to come into your life and save you, we are told in God's word that, "He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1st John 1:9).    God's Words says that if you do this, that Jesus will send to you the Indwelling Power of the Holy Spirit to guide you and teach you as you pick up your Cross and follow in the footsteps of Jesus.  You will also and most importantly, become a son or daughter of the King of kings, and Lord of lords, where you will spend all eternity basking in God's Love, Mercy, and Grace.

Click on this link www.cindidavis.blogspot.com for a Blog Writing from 2nd John which is Titled: "The Commandment of Love."

Have a God Filled and Spirit Led Day. Go in Peace and Serve the Lord our God with Gladness. Love God More Today. Always remember that when you have a spiritual, emotional, physical, or financial dilemma in your life, and you yell out, "I CAN'T," GOD Whispers to you, "BUT I CAN." 

JESUS REIGNS!!!  May God's Love, Peace, Strength, and Grace be with you all.

Your Sister In Christ,
Cindi

 

Gods Words of Wisdom

"Greetings in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for 4 October 2012"

Today's Bible Verse: 1 Corinthians 11:24-25 "And when He had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "take eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: do this in remembrance of Me."  In the same matter, He took the cup after supper saying, "This cup is the New Covenant in my blood, this do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." 

The Lord's Supper is the distinctive symbol of Christian worship instituted by the Lord on the eve of His death, being the spiritual partaking of bread and the fruits of the vine.  These elements are presented as a thankful expression of the sacrifice of Jesus, taken in fellowship with Him and one another.  It is a memorial conducted in remembrance of atoning death of Christ and the anticipation of His return to earth.

The two symbols of this ordinance are the bread, representing the broken body of Christ, and the cup, representing His shed blood.  Christians are divided as to whether the table should be "opened" or "closed."  The chief argument supporting open communion is that is the Lord's Supper, not a ceremony of a particular religious denomination. Those who believe that the table should be restricted, argue that the church should not allow a person to eat unworthily or bring judgment on his own head.

The pastor before the start of the Lord's Supper reminds everyone of the need for self-evaluation.  After this instruction, the pastor then leaves the decision to participate up to the individual.  The Lord's Supper is a unique, holy occasion for the gathered church to sense the participation of every member with Jesus in His death.

In the Lord's Supper, we are present at the Cross and testify to it.  As Christians, we should approach the Lord's Supper with awe and proper self examination with his or her own spiritual progress, and attitudes, before partaking of the Lord's Supper.

Today's Biblical Truth: "Through our union with Christ, our bodies have become His, temples in which the Holy Spirit dwells.  Whatever we do or say in these temporary bodies, must always honor Christ, for He is present in us."

Have a God Filled and Spirit Led Day. Go in Peace and Serve the Lord our God with Gladness. Love God More Today. Always remember that when you have a spiritual, emotional, physical, or financial issue in your life, and you yell out, "I CAN'T," GOD Whispers to you, "BUT I CAN."   

JESUS REIGNS!!!  May God's Love, Peace, Strength, and Grace be with you all.

Your Sister in Christ,
Cindi

 

Gods Words of Wisdom

"Greetings in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for 2 October 2012"

Today's Bible Verses:

Psalm 48:9 "We have thought, O God on your loving kindness, In the midst of Your temple."
Psalm 37:4 "Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart."

These two verses are telling us a Christians, that if we delight in serving God, and spend time "soaking" in His Presence, we will be energized and enlightened.  Through prayer and supplication, we can transfer our heavy burdens to God's Strong and Able Shoulders.  By focusing on Jesus, we gain His perspective on our lives.

Quite Time with God, is where you can spend time alone with Him, and is very essential for unscrambling our thoughts and smoothing out the day that we embark on daily.  We need to be willing to "fight" for this precious Quite Time with God.  Opposition will come in many forms: our desire to linger in bed, Satan's determination to distract us from our "Quite Time" with God; the pressure of family and friends, and our own inner circle wanting us to spend more time with them, and less time with God.

We as Christians, need to grow and have a strong desire to please God above all else. By doing so we will gain strength to resist the opponents who seek to have focus not on God, but on the things of this world.  We as Christians, need to delight ourselves in God, for God should, and always be, the deepest desire of our hearts, in every situation and activity in our lives.

Click on this link www.cindidavis.blogspot.com for a Blog Writing from 1st John and is Titled: "Ending Summary of 1st John (Part 2)."

Have a God Filled and Spirit Led Day. Go in Peace and Serve the Lord our God with Gladness. Love God More Today. Always remember that when you have a spiritual, emotional, physical, or financial dilemma in your life, and you yell out, "I CAN'T," GOD Whispers to you, "BUT I CAN."

JESUS REIGNS!!!  May God's Love, Peace, Strength, and Grace be with you all.

Your Sister in Christ,
Cindi