I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father. —II John 1:4             There is not greater joy to know that your own children, and the children of others you know, are walking in the truth.  The flip side of that is also true as well.  There is no greater sadness to know that your children, and the children of others you know, are not walking in the truth.  We, like the father of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-22), watchfully wait for our child to return home, to truly find their home with their Heavenly Father.  Our heart…

FAITH IN JESUS OVERCOMES THE WORLD HELD IN SWAY BY SATAN Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of…

OUR LOVING GOD And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.  So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. —I John 4:14-16             Have you come to the point of believing that God truly loves you?  He loves you!  How exciting is that?  How wonderful is that?  The Creator and Sustainer of all things knows all about you and…

OUR GOD IS SOVEREIGN OVER ALL If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.” —Daniel 3:17-18  Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants, who trusted in him, and set aside the king’s command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their…

SHARE WITH OTHERS WHAT GOD HAS SHARED WITH US! But as for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind. —Daniel 2:30 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. —I John 2:2 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is…

GOD’S WORD ALWAYS PREVAILS AND COMES TO PASS!  COUNT ON THAT! Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and…

ONE’S TRUE NATURE WILL BE REVEALED For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.” —II Peter 2:20-22             A dog is a…

GROW IN GRACE OR STAGNANT IN SIGHTLESSNESS Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from…

THE HUMBLE RECEIVE HIS FAVOR Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. —I Peter 5:5-7             Pride has the “I” in the center of the word just like pride in a person is all about them being the center of attention.  Sentences often start with “I” when the prideful are communicating.  It’s all about them.  They are center…

YOU RECEIVED GOD’S GIFT TO SERVE OTHERS FOR HIS GLORY As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. —I Peter 4:10-11 Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good. —I Peter 4:19             What is the gift or gifts that God has given you?  Do you know?  Why is it you do not know?  How long have…