Posts Tagged ‘ Lord ’
If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9, CSB
When we believe and confess the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ, we are saved. We must believe in His divinity and humanity as well as His atoning sacrifice for our sins.
My soul, bless the Lord, and do not forget all his benefits.
Psalm 103:2, CSB
Jesus is our life and power, giving us all we need for this life and the next through His life, death, and resurrection by the power of the Holy Spirit. Live for Him.
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of eternal life to which you were called and about which you have made a good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:12, CSB
God has called us to rest, and our ultimate rest is found in Christ. We now honor that call by leading others to confess Christ as Lord and Savior.
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
Matthew 22:37, ESV
God has given us peace through Christ by revealing His love through the cross, so we find this peace when we love God with our whole being.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:5, ESV
Trust God. He loves you, so show your love for Him by obeying Him with your emotions, your thoughts, and your actions, even when it’s difficult or counter-cultural.
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:15, ESV
We are saved in Christ alone, and we must confess this truth to be saved. We will also live in such a way as to show we belong to Him.
He is the Lord our God;
Psalm 105:7, CSB
his judgments govern the whole earth.
God is worthy of all praise, for He is our wise Creator and sovereign King of all things. Trust in the Lord of all Creation, praising His name.
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
Luke 6:36, NIV
We were made in the image of God, so may we treat others with the same mercy He has shown us, being patient and withholding judgment. May we love others like our Lord.
A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.“
Isaiah 40:3, ESV
Did shows His greatness by Declaring John the Baptist’s arrival 700 years prior, and now He calls us to do the same for Christ’s second coming. John declared Priest who saves at His first coming, now we declare the King who judges at His second.
I don’t normally make a big deal about this particular day of the year. I prefer to dwell on January 9, the day I became a believer in Jesus as my Savior.
What is special of this day?
Well, on October 26, 1983, I was born.
As I turn two score years old, it occurred to me that this year I will have spent two and half times longer as a Christian than not as a Christian. I was 16 years in the spiritual wilderness when I first bent my knee and confessed Jesus as Lord. This coming year, I celebrate 24 years walking as a disciple of Jesus in the Promise.
I may have completed 40 revolutions about our Sun, but I await eternity wrapped in the love of The Son.
And I am thankful for our God’s love and grace, for all the gifts He has given, especially for eternal life. (And a loving, God-fearing wife who helps me grow and stay on the straight-and-narrow. And I await greeting my mother once more in His presence.)
yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
Habakkuk 3:18, ESV
a simple man of God 