Category: Christ In My Life
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Matthew 5:22 Don’t call a foolish person a fool.
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People Do Act Foolishly. A relative and I were talking about how Jesus said not to call anyone a “fool.” We had another family member being foolish, and they had many reasons to justify their behavior. We concluded that sometimes people are truly foolish, and Proverbs lists all kinds of…
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A New Day – A New Year – New Opportunities
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“It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 (KJV) “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”…
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Maturity From Salvation to Sanctification to Surrender
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We have Salvation through the Lamb of God: We are continually sanctified in Christ as we live in a close relationship with God through our Lord Jesus. The more time we spend praying truthfully in the Spirit with Jesus, the more we become like Him. We should reach a point…
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Partnership With God Through the Scriptures
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Does it feel like a Spiritual War is going on in this world, and regardless of what you think or believe, you are caught in the middle of it? Scriptures help us survive and thrive in this world. We need to pray as we read the Scriptures. Allow the Lord…
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Working With God Insures a Worthy Goal
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We humans go through seasons and cycles of change just like the Earth does. When we start a new project or job it is like the beginning of a Spring Season. There is a struggle during the Spring Season as we wait for our new project to take root, but…
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God Means Forever When He Says Forever
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I am only a Christian today, because God means FOREVER when He says forever. Christians raised me, but I held a few things against God and Christians that made me not want to be a Christian. I was skeptical, because I believed Christians were supposed to be perfect. I thought…
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The Search For the Lord and His Understanding
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I was praying and these words came to my mind, “The Search for Spock”. Jesus knows I am a Star Trek fan and I immediately recognized that this was the title of a movie that I had seen almost 40 years ago. I did not remember the movie well enough…
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Does God Enjoy Surprising Us?
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I have noticed that God always answers my prayers in unexpected ways. I believe that God must like to surprise me. I have noticed that God seems to surprise everyone to some degree. Even the Disciples were often surprised by how Jesus worked in their lives. I think Peter was…
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My First Messianic Chavurah Bible Study
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I had a hard time pronouncing the word, Chavurah. I did not know that the C is silent. The Hebrew word Chavurah means fellowship. Many small groups meet in a member’s home, and they fellowship together as they study the Scriptures. Most, if not all of these Bible Studies, also…
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God, I Have So Many Questions!
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There have been times in my life where I was very frustrated because certain types of people kept coming into my life. These people reminded me of someone that I found annoying and difficult to be around, my Mother. I finally got smart and asked God, “What do you want…
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Guilty as Charged
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I had managed to go my whole life without getting any type of traffic ticket. When you get to be a Grandma without getting a traffic ticket, then you think you never will. At least that is what I thought. It was a beautiful sunny day and there was hardly…