As he is, So Am I.

When hard times happen, we may wonder where God is through it all. We can fall into focusing on the pain of our struggle and believing we are alone. Regardless of how we may feel, God never leaves our side. He still speaks to us even when we’re at the lowest point of our lives.  “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you;  he will never leave you nor forsake you .” Deuteronomy 31:6 NIV God knows how to encourage us when we feel down and out . But we can be so focused on our difficulty that we can’t hear Him clearly. Here are some steps you can take to  unclog the spiritual atmosphere around you,  so you can start hearing God for your situation and get moving in the right direction! Remember that you are highly favored When we go through hard times, we can get so caught up in the day-to-day survival mode that we forget or ignore our physical, emotional and ...

In him...you...were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance, until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. Ephesians 1:13-14 KJV . God’s great desire for his people is that we feel secure in his love and in his power. Everything else in life may be unstable—our health, our family, our job, our education, our society, our world. At any of these levels you may feel as if you are out on a ledge forty stories up in an unpredictable wind. You feel yourself losing balance and falling, and every brick you grab pulls out of its mortar. Since God does all things for the praise of his glory, and since believing his Word magnifi...

Being “in Christ Jesus” is a stupendous reality. It is breathtaking what it means to be in Christ. United to Christ. Bound to Christ. If you are “in Christ” listen to what it means for you: 1. In Christ Jesus you were given grace before the world was created. [2 Timothy 1:9], “He gave us grace in Christ Jesus before the ages began.” 2. In Christ Jesus you were chosen by God before creation. [Ephesians 1:4], “God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world.” 3. In Christ Jesus you are loved  by God with an inseparable love. [Romans 8:38–39], “I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” 4. In Christ Jesus you were redeemed and forgiven for all your sins. [Ephesians 1:7], “In Christ we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our tr...

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. [Romans 8:2 KJV] In Romans 8:2 we see the two spiritual laws of life and death in operation. The following charts show each law and it's results. As you can see, they are complete opposites. The boundary line between them was crossed only one time-when Jesus offered Himself as the Supreme sacrifice to purchase our freedom from every part of the curse. SATAN                                             JESUS           The law of sin                           The law of the and death                                  Spirit of life (the curse)          ...

From past Three months, it has struck me—in view of Paul’s warning that those who desire to be rich plunge into ruin and destruction—how strange it is how many Christian people still pursue wealth. (1 Timothy 6:9-10)   But Paul means what he says—desiring to be rich is deadly. And there is more. The key that unlocks this text is in  (1 Timothy 6:6) "Godliness with contentment is grea t gain.” Now  what is the protection against these deadly effects of money ? Answer : a heart that is content in God.  Are you deeply satisfied in God, so that this satisfaction, this contentment, doesn’t collapse when God ordains that you have much or little ? Having little can destroy contentment in God by making us feel he is stingy or uncaring or powerless. And having much can destroy our contentment in God by making us feel that God is superfluous, or quite secondary as a helper and treasure. It is no small thing to learn in life how not to lose our contentment i...

We have seen the assurance of our salvation, that is, how we know that we are saved. We have also seen the security of our salvation, that is, how we can never lose our salvation.  But is that sufficient? Unfortunately, many Christians are content to go only this far-------having salvation, but having little joy or enjoyment of that salvation, Our friend with millions in the bank may have the assurance that He is rich, and He may have the security of knowing that His deposit is safe. But if He never spends a dime and is content to live a pauper's life, we can hardly say He has the enjoyment of those riches. Objectively speaking He is rich, but in His practical experience He has nothing. This is the condition of many Christians today.  They are saved,but in there daily life they have little experience of the unsearchable Riches of Christ (Eph 3:8) However, God's intention is that we not only have Christ, but that we Enjoy Him, even to the uttermost (John.10:10;P...

A chair was a forbidden piece of furniture inside the Jewish tabernacle and later in the temple. Why? Imagine for a moment that you’re an average citizen of Israel. You enter the temple on the Day of Atonement and are greeted by a priest lounging in  a La-Z-Boy. What would this communicate to you? He must have nothing left to do! To avoid this false impression, God didn’t allow such a scene to take place. He forbade Levitical priests to sit down on the job, so that the image of unfinished business would be imprinted on their consciences. Hebrews contrasts the constant standing and ongoing religious performances of Old priests with our seated High Priest, who will never again offer another sacrifice for sins: “Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest [Jesus] had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of Go...