Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the equipment of the Gospel of peace; above all taking the SHIELD of FAITH, with which you can quench all the flaming darts of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the WORD of GOD. Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.
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I don’t have time to……..
I’ll make time to…….
I’ll take time to…..
Just a minute, I’ll……
Hurry I only have a minute…..
Timing is of the essence…..
Time-Time- Time, it seems that everything revolves around “Time.” It is my take, that, if we really want to……., we will find the “Time” to do what we want.
Everybody has the same amount of time during the day and you can either spend your time or invest your time and that is what we need to understand. It’s how we allocate our time . We all have 24 hours in the same day and it comes down to WANT to do.
If you want to play video games and watch TV and do all those other things, you’re going to get beat out by the ones that are doing the little things that are going to make the difference in being successful or failing.
When we look at investing in ourselves, we are challenged to understand that every action has consequences to it. They can be positive or they can be negative. If at the end of the day, you want to work for someone else or own your own company, you have a say in what happens.
Take “TIME” today to stop and “Smell The Roses.”
Have a good day all!!!
SMILE God loves YOU.
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in Heaven and on Earth is named, that according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through FAITH; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the Saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now before FAITH came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until FAITH should be revealed. So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by FAITH. But now that FAITH has come, we are no longer under a custodian; for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through FAITH. For as many of you as were BAPTIZED into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by FAITH in the Son of God, who loved me and gave His life for me. I do not nullify the Grace of God; for if justification were through the law, then Christ died to no purpose.
Have a good day all!!
So we are always of good courage; we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT. We are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please Him. For we must all appear before the Judgement seat of Christ, so that each one may receive good or evil, according to what he has done in the body.
Live in God, not in the world. Live with God, not with the world.
Have a good day all!!
Paul’s words to the Church in Corinth and to us:
When I come to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling; and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and power, that your FAITH might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Have a good day all!!
Today I want to share a thought on “Walls.”
A wall is nothing more than a separation from something else.
Examples:
The “Great Wall of China.” The wall that separated East and West Berlin.
The walls in our home.
The wall in the back yard or around a piece of property.
The wall around Jerico
The wall we build in our own lives
I think to some extent all of us have some type of wall that we have created, whether great or small, in our lives. There are different reasons for us to build a wall.
Examples:
Sexual abuse
Physical abuse
Mental abuse
Been hurt by someone
Lied to
Lost trust–and the list goes on!!
Brick by brick by brick walls are built. They are built over time and sometimes they are hard to bring down. It doesn’t happen over night. However, brick by brick by brick we can destroy them.
The best example I can think of on how to get rid of a wall is to remember the wall of Jericho. The Lord told Joshua to march around the city once a day for six days and on the seventh day march around seven times, blow the horn, and the people will shout and the wall will come down. Joshua did as he was told and the wall was destroyed.
We are told several times in the Bible to give God all of our troubles, fears, cares, stresses, and He will take care of them. We have a plan of attack given to us by God just like Joshua had.
When life gives us a “Brick” to add to our wall, give it to God and take one from the wall that is already built and give that one to God also. Not over night, but over time, we can destroy the walls we have built in our lives.
SMILE God loves YOU!!
Have a good day all.
Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Him we have obtained access to his grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
For I am not ashamed of the Gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For it is the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith, as it is written. “He who through is righteous shall live.”
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