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Do Not Worry

On October 2, 2014

In Bible Verses, Devotional, Featured, Headline

“Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.- Dietrich Bonhoeffer“

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” – Matthew 6:25-34 New King James Version (NKJV)

Daily Devotional: Having a Servant Heart

By Thor

On September 29, 2014

In Bible Verses, Devotional, Featured, Headline

Having a servant heart should be one of our desires as Christians. Jesus set us the example. In Matthew 20:28, the Bible explicitly teaches us with a profound Word: “even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Our attitude should be the same as our Lord Jesus.

“For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.” – Matthew 20:28
Dr. James R. Miller put it this way: “He came not to be served; if this had been His aim He would never have left heaven’s glory, where He wanted nothing, where angels praised Him and ministered unto Him. He came to serve. He altogether forgot himself. He served all He met who would receive His service. At last He gave His life in serving — gave it to save others, to redeem lost souls. You say you want to be like Christ. You pray to Him to print His own image on your heart. Here, then, is the image! It is no vague dream of perfection that we are to think of when we ask to be like Christ. The old monks thought that they were in the way to become like Christ when they went into the wilderness, away from men, to live in cold cells or on tall columns. But surely that is not the that is not the thought which this picture suggests. “To minister” — that is the Christ-like thing. Instead of fleeing away from men, we are to live among men, to serve them, to live for them, to seek to bless them, to do good, to give our lives. Christ tells us that this is the stairway to the highest reaches of Christian life.”Whosoever of you will be the chiefest shall be servant of all.” To worldly men this seems indeed a strange way of rising. According to this, all men’s scrambling for place and power is really scrambling downward rather than upward. The real heights in human life are the heights of self-forgetfulness and service. We are to use all our redeemed powers in doing good to others in Christ’s name. That is what Christ did with his blessed life, and we are to follow in his steps.“

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10 Bible Verses About Who God is

By Thor

On September 19, 2014

In Bible Verses, Featured, Headline

Who God is? Have you ever had this question before in your life? Here are 10 Bible Verses About God pointing out who God is. It’s not exhaustive nor is limiting. Personally, I believe God is immeasurable, infinite, all powerful, indescribable….

For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes – Deuteronomy 10:17 NIV

For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. -Deuteronomy 4:24 NIV

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? – Numbers 23:19 NIV

For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory – Deuteronomy 20:4 NIV

For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath – Deuteronomy 4:31 NIV

And the heavens proclaim his righteousness, for God himself is judge – Psalms 50:6 NIV

For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. O LORD Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you. – Psalms 84:11-12 NIV

The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. – Psalms 116:5 NIV

‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ ? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” – Matthew 22:32 NIV

God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”- John 4:24 NIV

Watch this video of Chris Tomlin singing How Great is Our God. Be blessed.

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Rock of Ages – Taking Christ into Our Boats on the Stormy Sea

By Thor

On August 16, 2014

In Devotional, Featured, Headline

Rock of Ages – Taking Christ into Our Boats on the Stormy Sea

“If we take Christ into our boats on the stormy sea, we will ride on in safety through earth’s difficulties to heaven’s shore.”

“When Jesus comes to us our trouble ceases. At His command the wildest storm instantly becomes calm. The trouble itself may not leave us but it is no longer troublesome when He is with us. The wind may not stop blowing and beat upon our lives but He makes peace within us. It is far better to have so much grace that our hearts can be calm and quiet in the fiercest storm, than to have the storm itself quieted while our hearts remain restless. Peace within is far better than calm without.

In a gallery in Italy there are two pictures side by side by different artists. One represents a sea tossed by storms. Dark clouds hang over it and the lightning-bolts pierce the sky. The angry waves roll in anger. In the turbulent water a dead human face is seen. The other represents a sea similarly storm tossed; but in the middle of the angry waters is a rock. In the rock a gap, or cleft with green plants and flowers and in the middle of these is a dove quietly sitting on her nest.

These two pictures tell the whole story of human life in this world. The first is the story of life without Christ, unblessed by His presence and peace. There is storm everywhere with no shelter. The other picture paints the peace which Christ gives. Life is just as stormy. The waves roll just as high but now there is peace. The rock represents Christ; it is in the cleft of the rock that the peace is found. It is just like the old hymn states:

“Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee.”

It is in the redemption of Christ alone that we can have peace. If we take Christ into our boats on the stormy sea, we will ride on in safety through earth’s difficulties to heaven’s shore.”

Excepted from Peace In Storm, ” Daily Readings In The Life of Christ” Dr. James R. Miller Devotional

Jesus – The Rock of Ages

Rock of Ages- A Christian hymn composed by Augustus M. Toplady in 1775. Sung in the video by the Antrim Mennonite Choir, from their album ‘Amazing Grace.’

John Maxwell How to Connect with People (Part 3 Christian Leadership)

By Thor

On July 28, 2014

In Featured, Headline, Inspirational

John Maxwell How to Connect with People

Connectors Find Common Grounds – To be effective they have to go where the people are; know what the people know; and participate what the people are doing and understand that they have to find common ground. Then they lead people to higher grounds. Higher grounds means we have taken enough time to know them so well; we learned how to lead and encourage them; and we put them in a position that we look after them, that we respect them, and that we value them. Watch full video below. It’s very enlightening and for sure, you will get great value of watching and making notes out of it.