IN QUIETNESS AND CONFIDENCE

Isaiah 30:15

15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in

(quietness and in confidence shall be your strength):

and ye would not.

The urge to just do something overwhelms the conclusion that in “rest” you will be saved.

Like choosing to drive on moving side streets instead of sitting in traffic on a highway…

Some feel like just doing something is better than doing nothing…

That may apply at work but could be disastrous (Life Wise)

Waiting on God is More Prosperous than Doing it Yourself!

*Better to be Two Steps Behind God than One Step in Front…

Let Quietness and Confidence Be Your “Strength”

Wheres “Activity” Be Your Downfall…

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Expiration Dates

Daniel 4:3

3 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! (his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom), and his dominion is from generation to generation.

In this world all things existing have an “Expiration Date”

⁃ As the Ages Have Passed

⁃ Millenniums have blinked

⁃ Kingdoms and Empires have come and gone

⁃ Kings and Conquerors are but dust in the wind

The American  Dream and the Experiment called Democracy

Will one day pass and Expire-

But One Kingdom that is Without End,

Is the Kingdom of God…

And Jesus Will Remain King of Kings Forever…

Time will hold no power on His Kingdom for Time is but an instrument in His Hand!

Expiration Date? There is None…

Every Man Must Choose

Which Kingdom to Invest In…

A Divine or a Temporal?

An Eternal or Temporary?

Expiring or Everlasting?

The Choice is Yours…

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God Never Forgets Unrepented Sin

Revelation 16:19 (KJV)

19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

Many many Centuries have passed, yea even world powers and entire civilizations have come, conquered and then disappeared from the face of the earth!

And yet here in the book of Revelations, God- “Remembers”

and is Calling Their “Sin” to the Judgment to be Judged!

You May Do Many Good Works and Accomplish Great Things for Good-

But if You Never “Repent” ask for Forgiveness and (stop and make a 180 degree turn)

Nothing will really Matter…

⁃ Accept Christ

⁃ Believe on Him

⁃ Quote Scripture

⁃ Live Better

⁃ Talk Sweeter

But If You Never “Repent” of Your Sins

Then it is all for Nothing…

Because God Cannot be Bribed or Bargained with-

He First Requires (Repent)…

God Never Forgets Sin

Until It is Repented of…

Remember because God Will!

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New Year’s Day

2 Corinthians 5:17

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; (behold, all things are become) *new.

New Year’s Day signifies the beginning of a New Year on its first Day… thus New Year’s Day!

Why does it seem sometimes like nothing is really (New) but the same old thing?

It is Because we are constantly dragging (Old) things from the Last year into the New Year!

We Bring Baggage-

So the New Year Becomes (Accessorized) with not only last year’s stuff but the accumulation of many years…

The “Only” way to truly put out the old and bring in the New is done (Supernaturally) not Traditionally…

The (New Birth) experience really does mean-

“Out with the Old and in with the New”

But this is not (Naturally) done! You only fool yourself…

This is a “God Thing” (Supernatural)…

Evan after you have been (Born Again) there is a “renewing” called (repentance) of sins committed, where the (Advocate) of our souls makes mediation for us all!

Then…. Communion and Foot Washing-

Communion which re establishes our (Commonality)-communing with- and Commitment with Christ…

Foot Washing-

washing away again, all the attached grime from where we have walked through our life this year…

And proving our (obedience) and (humility) by the Act of “Doing” and “Allowing”

“New” Year or a Day or even Life, is a choice only you can make-

Resulting from your Declaration!

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PRIORITY

Luke 14:26

26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Luke 14:26 has nothing to do with salvation but rather Prioritizing!

THE WORD (HATE)- means to (love less) not to despise!

The “Priority” of what’s important in your life matters…

Many are content with just having All Things God and Life on their list-

But God is Interested in How you Prioritize that List!

Even in the Old Testament Commandments God Prioritized the Ten…

The Greatest was “Love the Lord thy God with all your heart...” and then Jesus even enumerates in Importance by saying-

The (Second) is like unto it- “Love thy neighbor as thyself”

Don’t be smug with the fact that your list is complete!

The “Order” or “Prioritizing” placement may be messed up! Or (Out of Order).

God doesn’t care that you Love some things and or People-

But that He is at the top of the List!

Trumping (Everything Else) that is on that List…

What is (Second) in Importance should never come before number One…

A Person’s Priorities are clearly seen-

Not by what they say, but rather by what they do….

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Seven Miles from Jerusalem…

Luke 24:13 (KJV)

13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.

A Road of despair…

-The journey of Hopelessness

-Where Clouds rule the day

Enough so that your perception is clouded from the shining sun just beyond the Dark Clouds…

*Hope Is At The End of The Road…

When No Matter What is Said-

it just doesn’t resonate!

The Road of Emmaus is through The Valley of The Shadow of Death…

(Where is Your Emmaus)?

Somewhere Between Jerusalem and Emmaus, Jesus shows up…

Somewhere between (where God kissed the earth)

And the place of soon revealing where the disciples were gathering,

there is utter darkness and despair-

*Jesus shows up to help you make it all the way there…

Seven miles from Jerusalem can be a long journey…

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The Greatest Need- is a Heart change

Psalms 78:9 (KJV)

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

A legend from India tells about a mouse who was terrified of cats until a magician agreed to transform him into a cat.

That resolved his fear … until he met a dog, so the magician changed him into a dog.

The mouse-turned-cat-turned-dog was content until he met a tiger—

so, once again, the magician changed him into what he feared.

But when the tiger came complaining that he had met a hunter, the magician refused to help.

“I will make you into a mouse again, for though you have the body of a tiger, you still have the heart of a mouse.”

God has never been impressed with the outside of a man or what he processed, but God is Interested in Hearts…

Just ask David-

⁃ It wasn’t his prowess

⁃ It wasn’t his sword

⁃ It wasn’t his crown

⁃ It wasn’t his throne

It Was Heart…

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