This past couple of weeks God has been stirring up something in me to truly change the way I follow and serve Him. I have been reading this book called Crazy Love by Francis Chan. Chapter 5 truly kicked me in the teeth about the way I selfishly have been using my life to serve myself.



Last night I sort of did this mental purging in my life where one by one I mentally placed everything at the foot of the cross in my life. All material possessions and mental ideas of what I am…

This morning when I awoke, I decided to share a testimony, in my own humble way

 I have been prompted by God’s Holy Spirit to write one today.…

May God send His love like sunshine in His warm and gentle way, To fill each corner of your heart each moment of the day.

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience, Bear with each other and forgive whatever. grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all togather in perfect unitiy.

Christian Friendship Poem (author unknown).



I love you not only for what you are,

But for what I am when I am with you;

I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,

But for what you are making of me;



I love you not for closing your ears to the discords in me,

But for adding to the music in me by worshipful listening;

You have done it without a touch, without a word, without a sign.

You have…

Pushing this flesh into alignment,

guided by The Word most holy and pure,

I'm striving to learn principles

for a sanctified life to endure.



My Lord loves me without hesitation

and allowed a part of Himself to die.

He's calling me homeward without reservation;

by His Spirit, to His side, I'll eventually fly.



Knowing I'm a child of His,

during trying times I find true encouragement.

I'm able to lean on His strength

while in search of…

His blessings upon my life flow -

No matter where I am

or wherever I happen to go.



Overcoming the curse of Mankind,

is a consuming, infinite Love

from the One declared divine.



As I continue inside His Will,

sheltered by Sacrificial grace,

His many promises are fulfilled.



Truly blessed, to be a blessing

is simple for anyone to see -

As I'm fully submerged... in God's covering.

--Joe…

Joyful living requires giving.

Simply by being in your presence, non-Christians ought to be able to tell that you have spent time in God's presence.

Being Humble Before God

True holiness and humility are inseparable.  The nearer the…

Not so quick!  It would be easy to glance at the last chapter of Romans and think, ‘oh, Paul is just greeting a number of folks…we can pass on that.’  There are some great things to note; take a look:

“Before I commend to you our…

Psa 66:12  You caused men to ride over us. You brought us through fire and water, but you led us to abundance.

We should declare unto those that fear God, what he has done for our souls, and how he has heard and answered our prayers, inviting them to join us in prayer and praise; this will turn to our mutual comfort, and to the glory of God. We cannot share these spiritual privileges, if we retain the love of sin in our hearts, though we refrain from the gross practice,…

It seems that Paul has always been a man with a plan.  And as we draw to the close of his letter to the Romans, he makes his plans known.  His calling has been to preach the Gospel where it had not been taught and leave the rest to someone else.  He has a plan for the current space in time, and what comes next.  Paul also values the support of fellow believers, enlisting…

^{Wow! What a fantastic description of the Glory of the Old and New Testaments.}

2 Corinthians 3:7-18

⁷ Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was,…

Revelation Chapter  22 

¹And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 

²In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. …