GOD JUDGES! So I will send a fire… —Amos 1:4 So I will send a fire… —Amos 1:10 So I will send a fire… —Amos 1:12  So I will kindle a fire… —Amos 1:14 So I will send a fire… —Amos 2:2 …therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. —Amos 3:2 Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it? —Amos 3:6             You think God doesn’t judge a people?  His Word is filled with warnings and examples of people crossing a line where His patience runs out.  I am sure if I were living in other countries I would be saying a similar thing,…

OUR CREATOR AND SUSTAINER OF ALL  “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” —Revelation 4:11             Yes, Lord, You are to receive all glory.  You are to receive all honor.  You are to receive all power.  As we look at creation it declares your glory (Psalm 19:1-6).  Nobody can excuse away Your existence.  Your creation is very plain that You, the Creator, exists.  Men ought to always to honor You.  Instead, men suppress the Truth by their wickedness.  They deny Your power and understanding by promoting delusionary lies, being…

JESUS FOLLOWER— BE WISE, UNDERSTANDING AND DISCERNING! Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them. —Hosea 14:9             The ways of the Lord are right and the wise will understand them and walk in them.  The one who is discerning will know them.  So, the wise and discerning will be seeking to be obedient to the Word of God.  But the same Word of God that the wise hear, so also transgressors hear, but instead of walking in them they stumble in them.            …

RETURN TO YOUR 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             Have you abandoned the love you had at first for our Lord Jesus?  You had a desire to serve Him in whatever capacity He asked of you.  Do you still have that desire, that love for Him?  If not, if your love has grown cool or cold, then you need to repent and do…

FELLOW FOLLOWER OF JESUS— YOU ARE A PRIEST OF GOD TO PROCLAIM HIS GOODNESS! To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. —Revelation 1:5-6             Such great news.  Jesus has: Freed us from our sins Done this through shedding His blood for us Made us a kingdom Made us priests to His God and Father All glory All dominion This is forever and ever Wow! Brother and sister, fellow follower of Jesus, this is incredible!  Our sins no longer have a hold on…

THE OBVIOUS UNGODLY— WARN THEM! 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.  But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers,…

SAFE IN JESUS! “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever. But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of…

I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father. —II John 1:4             There is not greater joy to know that your own children, and the children of others you know, are walking in the truth.  The flip side of that is also true as well.  There is no greater sadness to know that your children, and the children of others you know, are not walking in the truth.  We, like the father of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-22), watchfully wait for our child to return home, to truly find their home with their Heavenly Father.  Our heart…

FAITH IN JESUS OVERCOMES THE WORLD HELD IN SWAY BY SATAN Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of…

OUR LOVING GOD And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.  So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. —I John 4:14-16             Have you come to the point of believing that God truly loves you?  He loves you!  How exciting is that?  How wonderful is that?  The Creator and Sustainer of all things knows all about you and…