God is Watching You!
Have you ever made the Lord a promise—a promise that with all your heart you intended to keep?
Maybe you said to Him, “Lord that’s it I’m going to quit smoking or drinking or looking at pornography.”
Or maybe you said, “Lord, things are going to be different between us, I’m going to start getting up earlier so I can spend some time with You in prayer before I start my day.”
Or “I’m going to stop watching so much T.V. and spend that time in the Word.”
Or maybe you purposed to start being more of a verbal and visible witness for the Lord at work or some other place.
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Hark the Herald Angels Sing…
I don’t know about you, but the older I get the more nostalgic I become. I think it’s because of all the changes that are taking place in our country; changes that are moving us from a spiritual nation—a nation founded by God and lived under God—to a secular nation where more and more people no longer believe in the God of the Bible which has caused many to abandon traditional values and do whatever seems right in their own eyes. Since I find myself longing for the proverbial “good old days”—a time when everything seemed simpler and clearer.
A time when peoples’ thinking wasn’t so morally confused; when everyone knew right from wrong instinctively and when speaking out against evil didn’t brand you a ‘phobe’ of any kind. A time when patriotism and the love of country was assumed and not assailed; and when everyone this time of year went around saying, “Merry Christmas” and no one even thought to be offended. Of course all of that has changed.
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Filled With The Spirit
In Ephesians 5:18 Paul admonished believers to be “filled with the Holy Spirit” as an essential element of our walk with and work for the Lord. But what exactly does it mean to be “filled with the Spirit”?
Well the Greek scholar Kenneth Wuest gives four things that come through in the Greek that will help us to understand what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
1. “Be filled with the Spirit” is a command (imperative in the Greek) that God expects us to obey.
It’s a command that is plural in the Greek which means it applies to all Christians—not just to a select few like missionaries, pastors and evangelists. It’s a command because we can’t begin to do the work God has called us to do without the power that comes from being filled with the Holy Spirit. (Luke 24:49)
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The Greatest Event in History
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Jesus Our Immanuel
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Thankful
(Originally published 11/8/11)
In a couple of weeks we will celebrate one of our greatest national holidays—Thanksgiving Day, a day that we have set aside as a nation to thank the Lord for all His goodness and blessings which He has so richly given to us. It is well-known that the first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated by our Pilgrim Fathers in 1621 to give thanks for their first winter in the New World. Two years later William Bradford, the governor of Plymouth Colony, issued this proclamation—
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