KEEP FIXED ON JESUS AND DON’T BE DISTRACTED! But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. —Philippians 3:13-25 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. —Philippians 3:20-21            …

JUDGMENT WILL COME! For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. —Isaiah 34:8             This has been true in the past and has not changed.  There are those who think God is done with the nation of Israel.  As I read the Word of God, and not filtering it through some man-made theological system, I cannot agree with that idea.  It surely looks plain to me that our Lord will be working in and through that nation still.             Be sure of this, there is a day coming when our Lord will carry out His vengeance as He has told us—…

LIVE FEARLESSLY, TRUSTING HIM TO FINISH HIS WORK INTENDED FOR YOU! Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the LORD! —Isaiah 31:1 For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us. —Isaiah 33:22 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. —Philippians 1:6 For to me…

LOVE THE YOU GOD HAS MADE YOU TO BE AND MAKING YOU TO BE! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? —Isaiah 29:16             Are you satisfied with who you are?  Do you desire to be like someone else?  Does God make mistakes?  Are you wishing you were somebody else other than yourself?  Why?  Do you know better than God?             God made you!  He made you like you are and who you are.  Of course we have responsibility in decision…

YOU ARE CHILDREN OF LIGHT, NOT DARKNESS Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not become partners with them; for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. —Ephesians 5:6-12  Look carefully then…

REJOICE OVER THE MAJESTY OF OUR LORD! They lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the LORD they shout from the west. —Isaiah 24:14             When I was in Ethiopia there was talk among the followers of Jesus there that they believed there would be a great move of God in the west.  Others have also said this in other countries and also in the U.S.  In the verse above we read that “They lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the LORD they shout from the west.”  Oh, that we would see this in our day.  Yes, Lord may…

HE LOVES YOU! In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. —Ephesians 3:12  And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.  Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus…

TO THE CONFUSED The LORD has mingled within her a spirit of confusion… —Isaiah 19:14             What Isaiah said about Egypt— “The LORD has mingled within her a spirit of confusion” — is surely the case in our nation today.  People are confused over what should be plain and this is a spiritual matter.  Satan is the author of confusion and he is surely working in this nation.  People are confused over what is so obvious.  But we know that “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in…

WHY ME… WHY YOU… He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will… making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose…  In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will. —Ephesians 1:6, 9, 11 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. —Ephesians…

DON’T GIVE UP! And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. —Galatians 6:9 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. —I Corinthians 15:58             Brothers and sisters, dear fellow followers of Jesus— “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out…