God's Words of Wisdom

"Greetings in the Name of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for 27 November 2012, from Cindi, a Daughter of the King of kings and Lord of lords."

Today is Commandment Number 3 from God's Ten Commandments

Commandment Number 3: Exodus 20:7 "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain."

The word "vain" here reflects the Hebrew term that is written in the absence of a distant vowel sound.  It means "emptiness" "vanity." The name of the Lord, "YAHWEH" occurs 6,828 times in the Old Testament.  This is the personal name of Israel's God.  It is NEVER used of a pagan deity.

God's name conveys His uniqueness; the very essence of who He is.  We are never to speak of the Lord or use His name as if it were unreal or unimportant.  We are to speak of Him with respect, as the One who has absolute priority in our lives.

Use of God's name in vain involved: (1) trivializing His name by regarding it as insignificant (2) trying to us  it to advance evil purposes by coaxing God to violate His character and purposes (much like the priest of false religions often used the name's of their false god's) and (3) using it in worship thoughtlessly.

We as Christians are to Honor, Worship, Glorify, and Praise His Holy Name.  We are to call upon the Name of the Living, True, and Almighty God with Dignity and Respect.  We are to stand in awe of His matchless Love and Grace and Thank Him Day and Night for what He does and will continue to do in our lives.  We need to Sing Songs of Thanksgiving to the Lord God as we stand in His Presence, and some day we all will be singing Songs of Joy all the day as we worship the One True God.

Click on this link www.cindidavis.blogspot.com for a Blog Writing from Hosea 11 which is Titled: "God's Continuing Love For Israel."

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, relational, 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 22 November 2012, from Cindi, a daughter of the King of kings and Lord of lords."

Today is Commandment Number Two of God's Ten Commandments.

Commandment Number Two: Exodus 20:4-6 "You shall make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them.  For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of their fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those that hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments."

God is a Spirit, so making any image for us in worship would corrupt our grasp of His nature as YAHWEH.  God's jealously in verse 5, reflects a passionate concern for us to know and worship Him as he really is.

In verse 6, the Lord's mercy would extend even more to the descendants of righteous people. The phrase "third and fourth" with thousands demonstrates God's Mercy is greater than His wrath.  The lingering effects of righteousness will last longer than the lingering effects of wickedness.  If we know and worship God in His Spiritual nature, we protect our descendants from the sins and punishments that will happen wherever men and women fail to know and Love the Lord.

Click on this link www.cindidavis.blogspot.com for a Blogg Writing from Hosea 10 which is Titled: "Israel's Sin and Captivity."

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, relational, 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 all of you.

Your Sister in Christ,
Cindi
 
 

God's Words of Wisdom

"Greetings in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for 20 November 2012, from    Cindi, a daughter of the King of kings and Lord of lords."

The Holy Spirit has been leading to do a review of the Ten Commandments and for the next ten writings it will be on the Ten Commandments that were written by the Finger of our Almighty God to Moses.

Today's Bible Verse: Commandment Number One of the Ten Commandments: Exodus 20:3 "You shall have no other god's before Me.'

"No other god's" means that God must be given absolute priority.  The commandment is key to the rest of the Commandments.  Unless we commit ourselves to God, and to God alone, our hearts will be drawn away from the righteousness that the Ten Commandments command and demand.  For ancient Israel "other god's" were pagan idols.  For us today "other god's" may be the pursuit of wealth or pleasure.  If our commitment to the Lord is complete, keeping the rest of the Ten Commandments will follow naturally.

God was not viewed as one God among many, nor the best of the gods.  He was and still is the Only, Living, and True God.  He and He alone, is to be worshiped, obeyed, and adored by the Israelites then, just as we are to worship, obey, and adore Him today as Christians and as believers.

Click on this link www.cindidavis.blogspot.com for a Blog Writing from Hosea 9 which is Titled: "Judgment of Israel's Sins."

Have  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, relational, 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 8 November 2012"

Today's Bible Verse: Deuteronomy 6:4-5 "Hear, O Israel, The LORD our God, the Lord is one!  You shall Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength."

Moses repeatedly stressed to the Israelites to respond to God's love with devotion.  In this context, the word "love" may mean "to take ones choice in."  God commanded His people to choose Him with all their hearts, soul's and strength, and in that to deny all other supposed deities.

The Scriptures basic principles are laid out here.  Parents are to love God themselves, and take His words to their hearts.  In verses 6-8, they are told to talk about His words in the living of their daily life, and so make them real to their boys and girls.

In Mark 12:28-30, one of the Jewish scribes listening to Jesus speak, asked him, "Which is first commandment of all?"  Jesus responded to this question with today's Scripture Reading from Deuteronomy and then also added, "and the second, like it, is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" There is is no other greater commandment than these.

Click on this link www.cindidavis.blogspot.com for a Blog Writing from Hosea 6 which is Titled: "A Call To Repentance." 

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, relational, 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.

Your Sister in Christ,
Cindi

 

God's Words of Wisdom

"Greetings in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for 6 November 2012"

Today's Bible Verse: Mark 10:14-16 "But when Jesus saw it, He was greatly displeased and said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and do not forbid them; for such is the kingdom of God.  Assuredly, I say to you, whosoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.  And He took them in His arms, laid His hands on them, and blessed them."

"Wow"  Since I am a child of God, I am looking forward to His taking me in His arms, laying His hands upon me, gazing into His loving eyes, hear Him talk and listening to His laughter and having Him say to me, "Well done My child, and welcome to the kingdom that I have prepared for you."

When the disciples of Jesus "rebuked" parents who tried to bring their children to Jesus, He became "indignant."  Please note that the Pharisees have easy access to Jesus!!  How foolish when we place our emphasis on the important people of this world, and ignore the children, who are much more important to the Lord.

Children exhibit sincerity, eagerness, a trusting attitude, and total dependence on their parents.  Thus child likeness is a fitting comparison for the qualities that we a God's children should have.  Mark, often stresses the strong feelings of Jesus as he did in today's Bible Verses.  "suffer" in verse 14, means "allow."  Every parent knows that no child is perfect.  But Jesus sees in their refreshing openness to new things, their eagerness to learn and follow, a welcome contrast to adult self-dependence and cynicism.

Click on this link www.cindidavis.blogspot.com for a Blog Writing from Hosea 5, which is Titled: "Impending Judgment on Israel and Judah."

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, relational, 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 3 November 2012"

Today's Bible Verse: John 17:4-5 "I have glorified You on the earth.  I have finished the work which you have given to Me.  And now, O Father, glorify Me now together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was."

In verse 4, Jesus says, "I have glorified You."  Jesus here makes known the Father by completing the work that God gave Him to do.  Jesus in verse 5, looked to the Father to restore Him to the glory He had in heaven, before he left.  This is another indication of the pre-existence and deity of Jesus.

The celestial glory that Jesus had from the beginning was temporarily hidden, during his earthly life.  At the ascension of Christ, Jesus was both glorified and transfigured.  Please note the contrast between the post-resurrection appearances of Christ with the post ascension.  In the post resurrection appearances of Jesus, he often concealed His glory to the point that he was snot recognized, such as the disciples at Emmaus Luke 24:16, 31, or by Mary Magdalene in John 20:14, when she thought that He was gardener.

The post-ascension of Jesus, involved His radiant appearance.  The difference between John's meeting with Jesus in John 21, and in Revelation 1, was that of seeing the resurrected body (not glorified and of later seeing the transformed and celestial (glorified) body of Jesus.  Someday we as Christians will be glorified together with Christ, where we will spend all eternity with Him.

Clink on this link www.cindidavis.blogspot.com for a Blog Writing from Hosea 4 which is Titled: "God's Charges Against Israel" 

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 1 November 2012"

Today's Bible Verse: Psalm 89:15 "Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound!  They walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance."

Psalm 89, begins with praise and ends as a psalm of lament.  It celebrates God's covenant with David, and then laments on how David's descendants had not remained faithful to the provisions of the covenant.  Yet even in the face of unfaithfulness, this psalm reaffirms God's faithfulness to His covenant and its ultimate fulfillment in David's greater Son, the Messiah.  This psalm has: (1) Praise to the Lord (2) A celebration of God who established His covenant with David (3) A review of the Covenant with David (4) A consternation at a time of national distress (5) Complaint to the Lord to provoke him to remember His covenant and (6) to restore the fortunes to His people.

As Christians, and as believers, there is a better way.  Whenever we face a problem, and it starts to overshadow our thoughts, we need to humbly approach the Throne Room of Grace, through Jesus Christ, His Son, and bring the matter to our Abba Father.  God loves when we talk with Him about our problems and desires, and to have us look at it in the Light of His Strong and Loving Presence.

When we approach God, we receive some much needed space between us and our worries and concerns, which then will enable us to see from God's perspective. You will be surprised at the results that this will bring, and it will strenghten your Confidence, your Faith, and your Trust in the Lord.

Sometimes, we may even laugh at ourselves for being so serious about something that was so insignificant.  Jesus told us that while we lived here upon this our temporary home, in these our temporary bodies, that we would face trials and tribulations, and that He would help us through them for He would Never Leave nor Forsake us if we but come to Him for help. 

We need to ALWAYS remember that Jesus is our BEST FRIEND and our ADVOCATE before God the Father.  What a victory is to know that Jesus is the best DEFENSE attorney in the entire universe and that He is the same Yesterday, Today, and Forever.  May we each day Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow.

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