When I Say Jesus

Love this one. I just feel this little devotional was written  for such a time as this. 
His name is above every name and every thing that goes against His kingdom. 
So, the problem, we see, isn't with His name, but with the lack of being used in any given time or circumstances.
Come on saints, arise and begin to declare the glory of His name for there is power that goes forth when we do.
God Bless.

"When I say Jesus, the very mention shatters the darkness and calms my soul."
When we call upon Jesus, we’re not just stringing together words or names. There is true power in the name of Jesus.
In the name of Jesus, we find salvation. We are told to pray in the name of Jesus because it is through Him that we have a relationship with God. The Apostle Paul says in his letter to the church in Philippi that “at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.”
If the forces of evil in the world must bow at the mere mention of His name, then when we, as followers of the living God, call upon His name our very fears, anxieties, addictions, and sicknesses must bow to Him. There is freedom in the name of Jesus.

-Author Unknown

God Hears Your Prayers

Thank God, He likes the sound of our voices and we should start using them and begin a real conversation with Him about anything and everything, He longs for it.

God Bless.


God loves the sound of your voice—always!  God never places you on hold or tells you to call again later.  He doesn’t hide when you call.  He hears your prayers.  For that reason “be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God” (Philippians 4:6).
With this verse the apostle calls us to take action against anxiety.  We tell God exactly what we want.  We pray the particulars of our problems.  What Jesus said to the blind man, he says to us: “What do you want me to do for you” (Luke 18:41)?  One would think the answer would be obvious.  When a sightless man requests Jesus’ help, isn’t it apparent what he needs?  Yet Jesus wanted to hear the man articulate his specific requests.  He wants the same from us.  “Let your requests be made known to God!”

-Max Lucado Devotional

A New Way To Look

A new way of looking at the greatest man to ever walk the earth, then died, then rose from the dead.

Enjoy and be encouraged while putting your hopes in the One who will never leave you or forsake you.

God Bless.

There are a trillion ways that Jesus is not like us. The Nicene Creed, the old Christian confession from the fourth century, is only a sketch of what this looks like. There are vast, glorious truths of Jesus that make him so unique. We can hardly put them in words.

Jesus Is Different

Jesus is the Lord. From everlasting to everlasting, he is God — very God of very God. He is the second person of the holy Trinity, whose person is never blended into the Godhead and whose essence is never divided from it. He is irrevocably sovereign, utterly independent, forever sourceless and satisfied. We’ll never know what that’s like for ourselves.

Jesus has eternally existed; he was not made. He dwelled eyes wide open in the Father’s unapproachable light before time. Through him came everything that exists. Everything. He is the uncreated Creator, and we are what he spoke into reality. He said it, and it came to be. Only he can do that.

And more, Jesus came down from heaven for our salvation. He is the definitive showcase of God’s eternal purpose in the universe, and of God’s love for this people. All of God’s intentions to glorify his name by creating humans, saving them, and living in fellowship with them forever, is all centered on Jesus. From the very beginning, before there was a beginning, Jesus has been the one.

Still more, Jesus is the King of the nations, the king who owns the ends of the earth, whose dominion explodes our best metrics. He’s kind enough to warn all rulers of his power, fierce enough to kindle wrath in an instance, and good enough to be a refuge for those who hope in him. His enemies will be his footstool. He will judge the living and the dead. He has all authority in heaven and on earth, and his kingdom will never end. Without doubt, he is the King of kings. In a trillion ways, Jesus is different.

Jesus Became Like Us

Jesus is indissolubly, inconceivably, unquantifiably different, until the King of kings laid thus in lowly manger — until the fullness of time had come and he was born of a woman, born under the law, until he became a great high priest who can sympathize with our weaknesses, a friend in our trials, a redeemer who understands. Jesus came to earth as a human like us. He breathed the same air we do. His feet touched the same ground as ours and he walked the same paths. He was tempted like us in every way. In every way that sin has crouched at our door, in every way that iniquity has whispered bad promises in our ear, Jesus knows all about it. He experienced it. He was there — yet he never sinned. Jesus knows our need, our weakness is no stranger.

And this is how he died for us, knowing all about us. The wrath he suffered in our place was for sins he resisted in perfect faithfulness. He felt the Father’s fury against him for transgressions that he found repulsive, transgression he himself never committed. Not only did Jesus become like us, but he took our place and bore our sins as if they were his. Of all the ways that Jesus is different from us, it’s here, when he became most like us, that the greatest love in the world was revealed.

Our Grateful Chorus

This is what Christmas is all about. Jesus, incomparably glorious and so different from us, became like us to the uttermost. And what can we do but sweet hymns of joy raise? Let all within us praise his holy name. Christ is the Lord!

His power and glory evermore proclaim! His power and glory evermore proclaim!

-Author Unknown 

Sins

We all those secret sins that creep into our lives and begin to effect other parts of it and the one day your life goes haywire and you wonder how you got to this point.

And when you start to look back over past events you can tie everything to that secret sin you allowed in and never confessed and that makes you feel even worse. 

We have all had those moments, and if you say you haven't well, add lying to the list of sins, but the good news is, if your breathing, it's not to late for you to take back control of your life and put it in the hands of the Man who created it.

Sin bad...Jesus good...

God Bless.

You know that gross feeling you get when you know you’re in sin or you haven’t confessed a hidden sin from your past?

It’s a slimy feeling in your gut that no matter how hard you try, you can’t get rid of. It’s always there, just under the surface of your skin, keeping you from feeling pure, from having a clear conscience. It’s a severe mercy of God called conviction of sin. While it may be uncomfortable at times, conviction of sin is a kindness of the Holy Spirit—leading us back to God in repentance and faith, reminding us that God is not finished with us yet. He has plans for our future, and they are good. There is only one way to get rid of that feeling, of that grossness: confession. What are we told to do in order to be forgiven?  The Greek word for confess in 1 John 1:9 means to declare openly, acknowledging and agreeing with God that what you are doing or what you did was wrong.

1 God says if we confess our sins and turn from them, He’ll forgive us and bring us back into right relationship with Him. We confess in order to be right with God. Sometimes God also tells us to confess to one another. When we confess before the Lord, whom our sins are always primarily against, He forgives us and cleanses us. When we confess to one another, we are healed. And that word “healed” carries a meaning of being made whole. How? How does confessing to someone cause healing and wholeness? This passage in James refers to the power of intercessory prayer in accountability as we love one another enough to fight for the holiness of our brothers and sisters and the intimacy of their relationships with Christ. As scholar Ralph P. Martin says, “The author [of this passage] is showing that the prayer, not the person, ... is the channel through which God’s power to heal is conveyed.”2 In confession of sin to one another, we bring our brothers and sisters before God in prayer, asking Him to heal them.  The grossness only goes away when we confess and choose to walk in the light, no matter how scary, no matter the consequences. Nothing, no hidden sin or fear of exposure or awful outcome, is worth compromising the freedom you have when your conscience is clear and your heart is pure before the Lord.

 1. “Homologeo,” Strong’s G3670, Blue Letter Bible. Available at www.blueletterbible.org. 2. Ralph P. Martin, James, Word Biblical Commentary 48 (Dallas: Word, 1990), 211.

Seek Your City's Good

People are worth it. The are in which you live is worth saving. You were born for such a time as this for the place in which you live.

Hopefully this little devotional will give you some insight in just that. Take back your town, take back your city, take back your country for it will be worth it when people being to see the glory of who He is!

God Bless.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. . . . But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.” (Jeremiah 29:4–5, 7)

If that was true for God’s exiles in Babylon, it would seem to be even more true for Christian exiles in this very “Babylon-like” world. What, then, shall we do?

We should do the ordinary things that need to be done: build houses; live in them; plant gardens. This does not contaminate you if you do it all for the real King and not just for eye service as men-pleasers.

Seek the welfare of the place where God has sent you. Think of yourself as sent there by God for his glory. Because you are.

Pray to the Lord on behalf of your city. Ask for great and good things to happen for the city. Ask that they happen by God’s power and for his glory. Never lose sight of the ultimate good that the city needs a thousand times more than it needs material prosperity. Christians care about all suffering — especially eternal suffering. That’s the greatest danger every city faces.

But neither God nor his people are indifferent to the health and safety and prosperity and freedom of the city. We all want these things, and Jesus said, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39). In fact, the Lord says in Jeremiah that loving your city is a way of loving yourself: “In its welfare you will find your welfare.”

This does not mean we give up our exile orientation. Peter says that Christians are “sojourners and exiles” (1 Peter 2:11) and Paul says “our citizenship is in heaven” (Philippians 3:20). In fact, we will do most good for this world by keeping a steadfast freedom from its beguiling attractions. We will serve our city best by getting our values from “the city that is to come” (Hebrews 13:14). We will do our city most good by calling as many of its citizens as we can to be citizens of “the Jerusalem above” (Galatians 4:26).

So, let’s live — let’s do so much good (1 Peter 2:12) — that the natives will want to meet our King.

-John Piper Devotional 

True Freedom

There is nothing like freedom. How we choose to live and walk in it is where the true issue lies.

We cannot allow are freedom to go to the wayside so rise up and fight the good fight for not only for your self but for those around you but mostly fight for His glory to be seen throughout the nation and spill into this world.

God Bless.

Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31–32)

What is true freedom? Are you free? Here are four things that need to be true if we are going to be fully free. If you don’t have the desire to do a thing, you are not fully free to do it. Oh, you may muster the willpower to do what you don’t want to do, but nobody calls that full freedom. It’s not the way we want to live. There is a constraint and pressure on us that we don’t want. 

 And if you have the desire to do something, but no ability to do it, you are not free to do it. And if you have the desire and the ability to do something, but no opportunity to do it, you are not free to do it. And if you have the desire to do something, and the ability to do it, and the opportunity to do it, but it destroys you in the end, you are not fully free — not free indeed — when you do it. To be fully free, we must have the desire, the ability, and the opportunity to do what will make us happy forever. No regrets. And only Jesus, the Son of God who died and rose for us, can make that possible. If the Son shall set you free, you shall be free indeed (John 8:36).

-Aufhor Unknown 

Quote Of The Day - Because God Is With You

Amen!

Nothing is to big for you.and Your God! Start believing it, then live it, so that others might see and do it too!

God Bless

Quote of the Day -Joyce Meyer
“Because God is with you, that makes you greater than any problem you have.”
-Joyce Meyer, Love Out Loud: 365 Devotions for Loving God, Loving Yourself and Others