Archive for July 2024
S224P4 – At work within us: patience
Jam. 1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Some people say that the best things are worth waiting for, but she was not one…
Read MoreS224P3 – At work within us: God himself
Php. 2:12-13 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. It was a common scene…
Read MoreS224P2 – At work within us: a mind changed
Eph. 4:20-24 But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,…
Read MoreS224P1 – At work within us: regeneration and renewal
Tit. 3:3-7 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He…
Read MoreThe choices we make
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s2fcg-1660451 When we yield to God’s will and take the steps that He desires, events do not always unfold the way we expect. We might find ourselves on his ordained path wondering why things have turned out the way that they have. We might even question whether, given the choice again, we would make the…
Read MoreS223P7 – Notes on gratitude: a prayer for revelation
Psa. 107:15 Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! She knew him as a generous man but also a quiet man. Although he liked to help and to give, he shied away from being noticed for this. When her shelter sent…
Read MoreS223P6 – Notes on gratitude: a condition of the heart and mind
Rom. 1:21-23 For even though they knew God as the Creator, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks. On the contrary, they became worthless in their thinking, and their foolish heart was darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory and majesty and excellence of the immortal God…
Read MoreS223P5 – Notes on gratitude: just enough hands
Rom. 16:3-4 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their very lives for my life. To them not only do I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. I have helped a lot of people move, and each experience is a little different, but there certainly are…
Read MoreS223P4 – Notes on gratitude: our joy at kingdom expansion
2 Thes. 2:13-14 But we should and are obligated always to give thanks to God for you, believers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and by your faith in the truth. It was to this end that He called you…
Read MoreS223P3 – Notes on gratitude: the opportunities we are given
1 Tim. 1:12-13 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has granted me the needed strength and made me able for this, because He considered me faithful and trustworthy, putting me into service, even though I was formerly a blasphemer of our Lord and a persecutor of His church and a shameful and outrageous and…
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