JUDGMENT IS COMING! Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it. For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light. I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless. —Isaiah 13:9-11 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the…

DISCIPLES ARE TO MAKE DISCIPLES! They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. —Isaiah 11:9 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. —Habakkuk 2:14 “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.” —Isaiah 12:2             “The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.”  This is…

STANDING BY FAITH! If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all. —Isaiah 7:9 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined. —Isaiah 9:2; Matthew 4:16 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and…

YOU ARE SENT! And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.” —Isaiah 6:8             When we understand at least some of what the glory of our Lord is, Who He is, then we will have the desire to do His will.  When He wants us to go, we will go and when He wants us to stay, we will stay.  We will be ready to be obedient to His desires because of Who He is, His love for us and our love for Him and people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ODe4sGCKxc             Jesus said, “As…

DON’T BE IN REBELLION AGAINST GOD! Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.” —Isaiah 1:2 If the LORD of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah. —Isaiah 1:9 For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves. —Isaiah 3:9             How painful, how grievous it is when God’s creation, the people He created, are rebellious and against Him. …

STICK TO THE BIBLICAL GOSPEL— THE WORD OF GOD! I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. For am I now…

STAND FOR THE TRUTH OF GOD’S WORD For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. —II Corinthians 13:8             May you and I stand for the truth of God’s Word and do nothing against it.  Oh, that His Word would be what is dearest to us.  That we would listen to what He has to say to us and then be faithful to what He desires us to be and do.             What truth is God speaking to you today?  Are you standing for His Truth or allowing a watered-down version of what He says to infiltrate your life?  How are you being obedient to…

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE BEFORE GOD The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.  For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil. —Ecclesiastes 12:13-14             The duty or responsibility of man is to “fear God and keep his commandments.”  We are not talking about being legalistic.  No, but Jesus said, “Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them” (John 14:21).  A love…

BEWARE OF THE MANIPULATION/DECEPTION OF EVIL MANKIND See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes. —Proverbs 7:29 Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil. —Proverbs 8:11 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good. —Proverbs 9:18 But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive…

YOUR MONEY MOTIVATION He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. —Ecclesiastes 5:10             Money does not bring satisfaction, nor to the one who loves his wealth.  Remember that “the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.  It is sad that there are those whose focus is so much on money that they “have wandered from the faith” and that they also have “pierced themselves with many griefs.”  This is all self-inflicted.             It is interesting…