Message For The Month
January 2010
2010 HAS JUST BEGUN!
We need to take stock of our lives and how we live for God this upcoming year,
2010
We have to ask these questions to ourselves!
How is it between You and me, God?
Well another year has come and gone.
What have we accomplished for the Kingdom of God?
Have you talked to God on a regular basis or even lately?
Has He been calling you to a deeper walk?
Are you a mirror image of Jesus?
Would Jesus be with you in the things you have done?
Do people see you in a Godly way?
What have you been doing to help people that have been put in your path get closer to Jesus and God?
Are you meeting the needs of those that would not ordinarily get to church or even grace the doors of one?
Are we Christians reaching anyone or are we looking to get something from God such as wealth or personal gain?
Is God asking, are you are reaching the poor and those that are down trodden? Are you doing God’s will?
This is a new year with time to start afresh, will you?
Be Partakers.
Growing in the knowledge of God
2 Peter 1:3-13
As we know Jesus better, his power gives us everything we need for living a Godly life. He has called us to receive His own glory and goodness! And by that same mighty power, He has given us all His rich and wonderful promises. He has promised that you will escape the decadence all around you caused by the evil desires and you will share in His divine nature.
So, make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then, your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to Godliness. Godliness leads to the love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone. The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
What to do next?
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
John 13:17
Be determined to know more than others about what God’s will is for your life and do what He has asked. If you don’t cut the line that binds you to the dock; you will not do anything until God brings a storm to severe for the dock and send you into the deep on a great swelling tide to get you to do his purpose and you still will do his will. And He still will be glorified.
Obedience or independence
Our Lord insists on our obedience. He stresses very definitely what we ought to do, but He never forces us to do it. Our independence can prevent us from doing what is right. It is the dependence that we have in Him that shows us what to do and when to do it. We need to make up our minds and do it sooner rather than later.
Emanuel, God is with us. He has promised in His word that He will never leave or forsake us. As God created Adam, the first man, (and with all He created); He said it was good, to validate what He had done. So, when you hear that you are not good enough to be something for God; remember, that is a lie. The Bible says that Satan is the father of all lies. We have choices to make every day to do it the right or wrong way. Let us continue to do it God’s way. The whole world is in trouble. People are running amuck. There are crimes being committed to everyone in the name of one god or another. The economy is falling down hill where no one is safe from losing everything they worked for, for years. Seniors, who thought that they would have a good life when they retired, are now going back to work just to pay their doctor bills. Banks are closing; auto companies are going bankrupt. Stores are closing, manufacturing companies are closing because they cannot borrow money to pay their employees, cities are spending more money than they take in. States are trying to borrow money to survive, countries owe their nations to their creditors, nations are going to war. There is more. Food prices are going through the roof. My friends, we are in trouble. What we need in the Christian community is spiritual renewal. We need all the believers to go back to the basics. Remember, renewal is for the Christian community and is to bring us back & closer to Christ. Do you want to get closer to Jesus; then, go to the Word of Life, God’s word, His Bible! In the Bible there is everything you need to grow in faith and holiness. The Word will draw you closer to Jesus so you can become more like Him, a mirror image of Jesus, spreading His holiness, love and grace to all you meet.
Is Jesus really the center of your life or is the world and the things of this world the center of your life? Many of the Christians I have met are more in the world than some non-believers are. We need to unite as one body, to hold us strongly together so the evil one will not be able to divide us from Jesus and keep us from being strong with the power of God. You see, if we are divided, the devil has won the war; but united we have conquered sin and have the power to help others along the way.
My questions are to all of us, who do you want to serve today? Do you want the true power of God to help deliver those that have fallen, and help win them back to Jesus? Then, let us truly unite into one body in the name of Jesus and use His whole power together. Let us become the body of believers that Jesus wanted us to be. Let us Love one another as Jesus loves us.
Pastor Bruce
Pastors Bruce and Bonnie
Word of Life Christian Church and Ministries
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