The Reality of God In Jesus Christ
The passion of my heart is to know God in Jesus Christ. Not to just know about the bible or to know facts about God in Jesus, but to know HIM personally, truly and something that deeply effects everything in my life. Since God is a real person (albeit on a completely different level from all other beings) we can know him in a personal way. I can only know him in the face or person of Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus I am sinful, wicked and separated from God. But through Jesus Christ I am in perfect oneness and harmony with God. My soul is desperate to know him more, to know the reality of his...
Read MorePray for the Power of God To Move On the Scene In Iran
The Iranian saints of God are currently under a huge amount of pressure from the government. There is a college student who is going to trial shortly, there is a pastor in Karaj who in prison for another 5 months, of course, you all know about brother Youcef under the death sentence and awaiting re-examination of his case and there are other pastors who are being threatened by the secret police. Many others are being interviewed and pressured by various other means because of their faith. This persecution is not happening by mistake. It is pre-planned and ordained by God for a purpose....
Read MoreOvercoming Power
Paul teaches us in Romans 7:13-25 that unconverted people in their mind, conscience and will desire to do good, but are slaves to the sinful nature. Unconverted people want to do good, but end up doing evil because of the nature that is in us all when we are born. Who will deliver us from this nature that causes us to sin? Thanks be to God that we can be delivered from it through our Lord Jesus Christ’s death on the cross for our sins. What the law could not do in that it was weak because of our sinful flesh, God did for us by sending his Son (Romans 8:3) in the likeness of sinful...
Read MoreHusbands Love Your Wives
In Ephesians 5:25 Paul commands us in the epistle to the Ephesians to love our wives as Christ loves the church. This is a command that each of us as men must take very seriously. For Christ loved us to the point of death even death on the cross. He gave his life up for his wife that she would be washed, cleansed and presented perfect and holy to God. How does this apply to us as husbands? In Matthew 10:37 we are commanded to love God first and foremost before our children, parents and even our own selves. If we do not put God first then we are incapable of truly loving those we are in a...
Read MoreWhy Memorize the Scriptures?
Is it an important thing to do to memorize portions of Scripture? Does the Scripture itself teach us to memorize? First and foremost God commands us to meditate on the scriptures day and night. Psalm 1:2, “but his delight is in the law of the LORD and on his law he meditates day and night.” God also commanded Joshua to meditate on the Law. “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have...
Read MoreAre You Willing To Pay the Price To Walk Closely With God?
I hope that all of us are truly longing and thirsting for more of God. It should be our constant desire to be in His presence and experience more of His reality and power. We aren’t just obeying a religion that our family follows. We are following an Almighty God who is real and desires to fellowship with us and reveal himself to us. He is so real that he wants to walk with us and be in us and be our God. That means that He wants to speak to us and wants us to speak to Him. That means that our wonderful God will act on our behalf, that is, speak by his Holy Spirit to us and through us...
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