Posts Tagged ‘ Christ ’
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 3:16, ESV
We no longer own our lives. This can be a comfort when we deal with life’s struggles, and it can be uncomfortable when we strive to die to ourselves, our wants, to serve God.
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
Proverbs 12:25, ESV
Daily life can be hard, and a realization of our sin can weigh heavy on the heart and mind.
An encouraging word can change a bad day to a good day, and the Gospel can free us from shame and fear.
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ
2 Corinthians 10:5, ESV
True wisdom and knowledge come from God, so everything that denies or contradicts God is clearly false.
Christ proved His deity through His death and resurrection, and we therefore focus on Him.
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
John 15:7, ESV
Our Lord wants give us good things, and as we seek His will He answers yes and gives more and more. Especially of those things go that conform us to Jesus.
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
Psalm 139:23-24, ESV
God knows our hearts and minds, yet He still loves us. If we seek Him, He will make us clean and conform us to be like Jesus.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1, ESV
If we do things for the sake of those things or to be better, but not because we love God or to love others, those things are useless and distracting.
Seek God first, and seek to bring others into God’s love, and everything we do will have godly purpose.
And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
Mark 9:23, ESV
Our God is one who can heal and save to the uttermost.
Have faith in Christ, our Savior and healer of our souls.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Romans 12:1, ESV
We are not our own, bought with the blood of Christ. We ought to be laying our lives down to serve others in the love and Name of Christ.
For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”
Isaiah 41:13, ESV
God is with us all the time, but exorcism in our time of need. Trust Him.
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”
Isaiah 12:2, ESV
In Christ, we can move beyond fear and shame to hope and joy, for He has saved us from our sin and God’s wrath.
Does that not make you want to sing for joy?
The joy of the Lord is my strength.
a simple man of God 