Category: Abide in Him

Pray…


The problems that we face today are the ones that mankind has created. We are not experiencing “global warming” because of our influence on the natural world, the world is going through these “stages”, if you will, because God has said these things will happen at the end of the age. The problems that mankind has created are our own hubris and our own silly technological ideas that the future is going to be bound up in technology. God’s Word tells us that the “end times” will be populated by wonders and marvels. Those wonders and marvels were fantastic to the writers at the time but they are fairly normal to us today.

If you look at how far we have advanced in the last century it is truly astounding. Just consider the way we get around. In 1910 there were a few cars around but most of the world still got from one place to another on horses or by trains. There were a few telephones but most of our communication was by telegraph or by letters and the newspaper.

Pray for our nation and this world because we are truly coming to the end of the age. The news and all of the problems that we see on it are only going to get worse between now and the day the Church is taken up. I pray that you will seek the Lord as your Savior before that day comes because the problems that we have today will pale in comparison to what will happen during the Tribulation.

Jesus gives us rest


Praise the Lord!!


We are God’s masterpiece


God is compassionate


God’s gift to you


Many times we wake up with pain. Some people say that it proves you’re alive for one more day. The way I’ve come to look at another day is this: be grateful for the gift of waking up because some people didn’t.

God gives each of us a certain number of days before we are born and when those days are used up, He calls us home. Sometimes it seems too early when young people die and are taken from this world but God knows His reason for doing so. Then there are those times when someone is given a long life and their life and the witness they have touched many lives because of the way they live it.

Yesterday is in your past, tomorrow is not here yet so it is a mystery. God has given each of us who are reading this today and it is His gift to us, that is why it is called the present. Use the minutes that you have today and the blessings that He has given you to be a blessing to others. Why? Because you don’t know if today is your last day or not.

If you are redeemed, His spirit is with you


God’s Word sustains us


God’s Word gives us life-sustaining advice and rules to live by. Just like God is speaking to us from His Word, which He does every time you read it. Make it a daily habit in your life to read the Bible so you will have His Word to guide you and keep you in everything that you do.

We are called…


Jesus came to each disciple individually. In their situation and in their life, He came to them where they were. He came in their problems and in their need. We are called to be His followers and live our lives as though He is walking with us and is…every day! People need to know this and see Him in their lives when it is going good and when it is not going well at all.

Jesus loves us and He is with us in every situation. When He called Nathaniel to be His disciple, Nathaniel didn’t know that He was with him in his situation until Jesus told him that He saw him under the fig tree before he came to meet Him.

Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael

43 On the next day He desired to go forth into Galilee. And He finds Philip. And Jesus says to him, “Follow Me.” 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, from the city of Andrew and Peter.

45 Philip Finds Nathanael and says to him, “We have found Him whom Moses wrote of in the Law, also the prophets, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

46 And Nathanael said to him, “Is any good thing able to be out of Nazareth?”

Philip says to him, “Come and see.”

47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and He says concerning him, “Behold, truly an Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

48 Nathanael asks, “From where do You know me?”

Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, you being under the fig tree, I saw you.”

49 Nathanael answered Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are King of Israel.”

God loves us on our good days and our not-so-good days. I pray that anyone who reads this will seek Jesus to be their Savior.

Give Him the Glory!