BE MOTIVATED BY LOVING RELATIONSHIP I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary. 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 2:2-5            …

KNOWING GOD For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. —Hosea 6:6             Jesus said that the greatest command was 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” (Matthew 22:37).  Yes, God desires a steadfast loving relationship with Him.  Knowing God, being in relationship with Him, is the highest priority that can be known.  Works are secondary.  They are a result of a relationship with Him— “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance…

NO GREATER JOY! I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. —III John 1:4             What a joy to have my own biological children walking in the truth— Jeremy, Becca, Hannah and we are praying that Ben will soon walk in the truth as well (would you pray for Ben right now?).  Above all things, this is what is most important.  Yes, to know they are walking in the truth and are headed for eternity with Jesus is what is most important and then for their children and then their children after them, prayerfully right down to the end of the age. …

ABIDE IN THE GREAT LOVE AND MERCY OF GOD! For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. —Daniel 9:18 And he said, “O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage.” —Daniel 10:19 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. —II John 1:9             First, fellow followers of Jesus, know that you are greatly loved.  How do we know that we are greatly loved?  “In this the love of…

KNOW THIS! But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever. —Daniel 7:18 As I looked, this horn made war with the saints and prevailed over them, until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom. —Daniel 7:21-22 As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings. He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the…

ONLY ONE SOVEREIGN! 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 power of the lions.” —Daniel 6:26-27             There were those who hated Daniel because of the king desiring to promote him to a high leadership position.  Daniel was distinguished above all the other presidents and satraps and King Darius planned to set him over…

 FALL OF THE POWERFUL — PRIDE Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 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.  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.” Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than…

THE WORK IS DONE 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 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. —I John 2:17             This is truly astounding— Jesus not only “is the propitiation for our sins… but also for the sins of the whole world.”  Jesus satisfied the wrath of God against us and now “Whoever calls on the Name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:13) from God’s judgment. “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes…

HUNTER BIDEN PARDON IS THE PINNACLE OF HUMAN FAVORITISM AND DISCRIMINATION IN A TWO-TIERED LEGAL SYSTEM— GOD SHOWS NO SUCH FAVORITISM If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.  My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.  He…

WE TURN BACK OR ARE BEING TRANSFORMED 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 It is…