Posts Tagged ‘ Die to self ’
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:9, ESV
We show we love God when we love others, and we do that by sacrificially living out the gospel as an example for others and for the glory of God by power of the Holy Spirit.
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 7:12, ESV
We love God by loving others, and we love others the same way God loves us: by grace, forgiveness, and sacrificing our own wants and needs for others.
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.
Mark 8:35, ESV
We want to cling to our life, but the truth is we can only save it by giving it completely over to Christ in faith.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Romans 15:13, ESV
We may struggle in this life – whether from our own sin and mistakes or the way this world works – but in Christ the Father has given us His hope and peace through the Holy Spirit.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Selah
Psalm 68:19, ESV
We fail. Often.
But when we get over ourselves and trust in and praise our God, He gives us rest and helps us to be faithful.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:7, ESV
While we often fall short, as we follow the light of Christ we will sin less and less. We already are redeemed of all sin, so let us thank our Lord and God.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
Galatians 5:25, ESV
We so often wish to do our own thing, but the Holy Spirit directs us and transforms us to think and act like Christ to the glory of the Father. May we choose to follow.
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13, ESV
We can be childish in our reactions to problems and our own sinfulness. Instead, we should take responsibility for our own sin and trust God to handle our forgiveness and problems we face, eing ready to stand for and proclaim truth.
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 3:10-11, ESV
We can get in our own way too often. If we mortify the flesh (crucify our flesh, die to self, do away with our sinful desires) and seek to make Him known to this lost world, we shall join in Christ’s death and resurrection and inherit eternal glory.
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
1 Corinthians 9:25, ESV
The Holy Spirit helps give us self-control, for we know that to be like Christ is the greatest prize. Wouldn’t we want to be as much like our Creator and Savior as possible?
a simple man of God 