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…

KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD WILL FILL THE EARTH! 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 “The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.”  This is a fact that is mentioned by both Isaiah and Habakkuk.  What a joy that will be when it is fulfilled and it will be. Brothers and…

 STAND FIRM IN FAITH If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all. —Isaiah 7:9 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. —Hebrews 11:6             We need to be firm in faith because Jesus said, “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father” (John 14:12).  Isn’t that amazing!  If we are firm in our faith in our Lord…

CALLING EVIL GOOD AND GOOD EVIL Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.  Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. —Isaiah 5:20-21 Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them. —Proverbs 26:12 Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. —Proverbs 18:1             Isolated thinkers “seeks his own desire.”  They don’t listen to others.  They are “wise in their own eyes” and…