RUN TODAY’S RACE AND DON’T WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW’S  Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. –Matthew 6:34              Where is your focus?  Are you focusing on living today?  Is your focus on what MIGHT happen tomorrow?  Are you already writing a script for tomorrow as to what MIGHT happen?  Is tomorrow and what MIGHT happen controlling your life today?  Are you being anxious over what MIGHT be going on tomorrow?             Hey, live life today!  Be faithful to our Lord today.  The Lord that we serve is not only Lord over today, but He is…

REPENTANCE  Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. —Matthew 3:8  From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” —Matthew 4:17  I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance. —Acts 26:20              Repentance— deep sorrow for our sin and a desire to turn from our own ways and follow God’s ways. If that truly has happened then there will be fruit in our lives that reveal we are now children of God. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23).   “The fruit of the…

IMITATORS, DECEIVERS, DESTROYERS USE FALSE COMMUNICATION  “Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him.” —Matthew 2:8  And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.  Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” —Matthew 2:12-13  Then Herod, when he saw that he…

HE KNOWS THE FUTURE BETTER THAN WE REMEMBERING THE PAST!  Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing: “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the LORD his God…

TAKE COURAGE— BE ENCOURAGED AND NOT DISCOURAGED!  “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him, for there are more with us than with him. With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. —II Chronicles 32:7-8              What are you facing? “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed” regardless of what You are facing.   Do you not know “with us is the LORD our God,…

REVIVAL  And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because God had prepared for the people, for the thing came about suddenly. —II Chronicles 29:36  The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the LORD. —II Chronicles 30:12  Oh, may God be preparing our hearts for revival. Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name. —Psalm 80:18 Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? —Psalm 85:6 For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who…

TRUST HIS POWER TO HELP! For God has power to help or to cast down. —II Chronicles 25:8              What is your situation? Does God have the power to help you in the situation and through the situation? As we look at situations in the world, does God have power to help in those situations or to cast down in those situations?   Of course He does. He who created all things has the power to do whatever He desires to do. Surely, whatever situation you are in or will be in He is able to help you.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfiYWaeAcRw                Are you looking to Him for help? Are you depending…

HOW OTHERS THINK ABOUT US  And he departed with no one’s regret. —II Chronicles 21:20   This was said of Jehoram who was the king of Judah. “He did evil in the eyes of the Lord” (II Chronicles 21:6).   It is amazing how in just one generation a king goes bad. Jehoram married a daughter of king Ahab of Israel. That was a wicked household itself and really says speaks loudly about Jehoram’s character. His dad, Jehoshaphat was a good king of Judah and yet his son lived for evil. He killed all his brothers and some of the officials who served with his father! He was a wicked man! This…

GOD IS IN CONTROL!  But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.” And the battle continued that day, and the king of Israel was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians until evening. Then at sunset he died. —II Chronicles 18:33-34   “O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able…

SEEK THE LORD IN SICKNESS OR IN HEALTH!  For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless. —II Chronicles 16:9  In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but sought help from physicians. —II Chronicles 16:12             Where do we turn to first in sickness or in health?   Is it not true that our Lord gives “strong support to those whose heart is blameless?” Where do we turn first when we are having…