CALL ON HIM!  And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. —Joel 2:32 “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” —Romans 10:13-15              Now here is a simple fact—“And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” No amount of…

BE LOVING, BE JUST AND WAIT ON HIM So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God. —Hosea 12:6             We are to hold fast to love (I Corinthians 13).   We are to hold fast to justice (Micah 6:8). We are to wait continually for God (Psalm 27:14).             Loving God, as we have mentioned before, “is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself”’ (Matthew 22:38-39). Hold fast to loving God. Hold fast to loving people. “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved…

FIRST LOVE But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. —Revelation 2:4-5             Do you love the Lord God Almighty as you did at first? Have you drifted? Are you serving Him out of love like you used to? If not, then this passage of God’s Word says to repent and do what you used to do.             The consequence of not repenting and lovingly serving our Lord will end…

KNOWING HIM, LOVING HIM For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. —Hosea 6:6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9QP-cqwyAw             Our Lord desires our love, not sacrifice.   His desire above all else is for people to love Him. We are told by Jesus in Matthew 22:37-38 to “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.” (Deuteronomy 6:5). “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…

BEWARE! ETERNAL JUDGMENT IS COMING! It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage. —Jude 1:14-16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On-whMoulOM             There will be a generation living that will see the return of our Lord Jesus Christ to this earth. It will not…

JOY! I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. —III John 4             It does bring great joy to know my own physical children or spiritual children are walking in truth. We have four children, grown now and married, but nothing brings greater joy to know they are being faithful to Jesus. So it is true of our seven grand-daughters. It would bring such great joy to know that they all are living for the Lord. Regardless of the careers they have or anything else— the greatest joy is that they would be walking with Jesus. That is true success!             So…

PLEA FOR MERCY As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice. —Daniel 9:13-14  For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. —Daniel 9:18 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so…

BE BLAMELESS! “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”—Daniel 6:5 Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: “Peace is multiplied to you. I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end. He delivers and rescues; he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, he who has saved Daniel from the…

GOD IS SO IMMENSE, WE SO SMALL! All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done? —Daniel 4:35 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, The world, and all who live in it. —Psalm 24:1  Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.   Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough…

GOD REVEALS KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams…. And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.  —Daniel 1:17, 20 Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removes…