TREASURE Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be. —Luke 12:34 What do you treasure? Where is your treasure? Are you focusing on the material or the spiritual? Is your focus on those temporary things that will pass away or is it on the eternal that will have eternal impact? Your heart will be where the focus of your treasure is! Again, what do you treasure? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYxJc0PTXiY “And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul?” (Mark 8:36-37). Do you understand how valuable you are to God? If you do not,…

WORRY NOT! Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? And if worry can’t accomplish a little thing like that, what’s the use of worrying over bigger things? —Luke 12:25-26 What are you worrying about? Jesus said that all the things a person worries about cannot “add a single moment to your life.” So why are you worrying? Worry does not accomplish anything positive. If I truly understand that worry does not accomplish anything and that I am safe and secure in Jesus— why should I worry? It is a joy to know that I am in relationship with the One Who created all things and that…

DON’T DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN YOUR OWN EYES In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes. —Judges 21:25 Imagine a people, tribe or nation that is doing what they believe to be right “in their own eyes.” Imagine what that would look like on the roadways with no signs, no rules, no laws and everyone could drive as they desired. Imagine what chaos and destruction that would bring. So to in any area. In the area of abortion there are those who think (I think) they are doing what is right. But that is what they are thinking according…

ONE THING TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT As Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem, they came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. Her sister, Mary, sat at the Lord’s feet, listening to what he taught. But Martha was distracted by the big dinner she was preparing. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, doesn’t it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come and help me.” But the Lord said to her, “My dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these details! There is only…

GO INTO THE LORD’S HARVEST FIELDS AND WORK! The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields. —Luke 10:2 The workers in the harvest fields are few. Who is in charge of the harvest? The Lord is and so therefore we are to ask Him to send more workers into His fields. He is in charge of the harvest. The fields are His. We need to be praying that He will send more workers into His fields to work in the great harvest. Workers that work in the field…

FOLLOW JESUS As they were walking along, someone said to Jesus, “I will follow you wherever you go.” But Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens to live in, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place even to lay his head.” He said to another person, “Come, follow me.” The man agreed, but he said, “Lord, first let me return home and bury my father.” But Jesus told him, “Let the spiritually dead bury their own dead!l Your duty is to go and preach about the Kingdom of God.” Another said, “Yes, Lord, I will follow you, but first let me say good-bye to my family.” But…

LISTEN TO HIM! “This is my Son, my Chosen One. Listen to him.” —Luke 9:35 Listen to Him! It is what He has to say that is important and should be our top priority. This next Sunday is Palm Sunday. We will look at “What would you do if you knew you had one week to live?” Then we are going to look at what Jesus did with His last week before He was crucified. “He went on to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time. At harvest time he sent a servant to the…

THE IMPORTANCE OF LISTENING TO GOD’S WORD “So pay attention to how you hear. To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given. But for those who are not listening, even what they think they understand will be taken away from them.” —Luke 8:18 Dear Father, I want to hear what You have to say. That is what is important. You tell me that if I listen to You, then You will give me more understanding. I am trusting You for that. Oh, that I would truly listen to what You have to say and do so in the power of Your Holy Spirit and in the…

GREAT FORGIVENESS BRINGS GREAT CAPACITY TO LOVE! “I tell you, her sins—and they are many—have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love.” — Luke 7:47 Those who understand that they have been forgiven much will love much. But those who think they have been forgiven little will love little. As followers of the Lord Jesus Christ we need to understand that we have been forgiven an eternal debt— one we could never pay off… never! How grateful should we be? It is truly astounding that Jesus paid that eternal debt for us and now “Everyone who calls…

DISCIPLE! After that generation died, another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the Lord or remember the mighty things he had done for Israel. —Judges 2:10 One generation is all it took for people to “not acknowledge the Lord or remember the mighty things he had done for Israel.” One generation! One generation who acknowledge the Lord and knew what He done apparently did not take the advice to “Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your…