FAITH is GOD

Faith, is the Substance of the Thing that is Hoped For.

Faith, is the Evidence of the Thing that is Not Seen.

Faith, is the Proof of the Invisible.

Faith, is the Knowing of the Existence.

Faith, without Works, is Dead.

Faith, Comes from Hearing God's Spoken Word.

Faith, is that Living Bread that Came Down from God.

For Without Faith it is impossible to please God,

And now abides Faith, Hope, Charity, these three; but the greatest of these is Charity.

1 Cor. 13:13

For he or she that comes to God, must believe that God is, and that God is a Rewarder to them that Diligently Seek God.

The World Is The Lord's

The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Giving thanks unto the Father, which have made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and have translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.  And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.  For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven.

Psa. 24:1;John 3:16;1 John 2:15-17;John 3:17;Col. 1:12-20

No Racism In God's Church

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined doing. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.So the Lord scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

...for in his days was the earth divided....  These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.

“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.

I know that you are Abraham's seed; but you seek to kill me, because my word have no place in you. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with your father. They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says unto them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill me, a man that have told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. Take heed to yourselves: If your brother trespass against you, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I repent; you shalt forgive him.

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. For God have not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who have also given unto us his Holy Spirit. But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.

So when they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, loves you me more than these? He says unto him, Yea, Lord; you know that I love you. He says unto him, Feed my lambs.

Gen. 11:1-9;Gen. 10:25&32;Gen. 17:4-6;John 8:37-40;Luke 17:1-4;1 Thes. 4:4-8;John 13:35;John 21:15

Overcoming

And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.

Not withstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Mark 16:20;Luke 10:20;1 John 5:5

Jesus Is The Name

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon you liest, to you will I give it, and to your seed;And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in you and in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you in all places where you would go, and will bring you again into this land; for I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken to you of. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

Who have ascended up into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who have bound the waters in a garment? Who have established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and What is his son's name, if you can tell?

And no man have ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

Wherefore he says, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

Jesus says unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;Which also said, You men of Galilee, why stand you gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven.

Gen. 28:12-17;Prov. 30:4;John 3:13;Eph. 4:8-10;John 20:17;Acts 1:8-11

God Will Quicken You

That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and do deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

(As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickens the dead, and calls those things which be not as though they were.

For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; even so the Son quickens whom he will.

It is the Spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

Rom. 10:9;2 Cor. 1:9-10;2 Cor. 3:5;2 Cor. 4:14;Rom. 4:17;John 5:2;John 6:63;Rom. 8:11;2 Cor. 4:7

Comfort Yourselves

Comfort you, comfort you my people, says your God.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds by Christ. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

But he that prophesies speaks unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.  You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also you do.

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure: Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer: Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

Isa. 40:1;2 Cor. 1:3-6;1 Cor. 14:3;1 Thes. 4:13-18;1 Thes. 5:4-11;2 Thes. 1:4-10;John 14:16-18

Can Germs Make You Sick? No.

And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashed hands, they found fault.  For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands often, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables.  And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. If any man has ears to hear, let him hear. And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. And he said unto them, Are you so without understanding also? Do you not perceive, that what so ever thing from without enters into the man, it cannot defile him; Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats? And he said That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings shall you trust: his truth shall be your shield and buckler.

Mark 7:2-4+14-23;Psa. 91:1-4

PESTILENCE. pes'-ti-lens (debher; loimos): Any sudden fatal epidemic is designated by this word, and in its Biblical use it generally indicates that these are divine visitations: A snare of a fowler is a to trap birds, speaking of COVID19.

The Lord's Sheep

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.  Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.  You prepares a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: you anoints my head with oil; my cup runs over.  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.  I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved and shall go in and out, and find pasture.  The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.  I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd give his life for the sheep.  But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf catch them, and scatters the sheep. The hireling flees, because he is an hireling, and cares not for the sheep.  I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.  As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.  Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.  No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.

And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.  From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.  Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will you also go away?  Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal life.  And we believe and are sure that you are that Christ, the Son of the living God.

Psa. 23:1-6;John 10:7-18;John 10:27-30;John 6:65-69

The Curse Of The Law

Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree:

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, lives after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compel you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Mal. 3:17;Gal. 3:10;Gal. 3:13;Gal. 2:14-16

Maturity

For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have a need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have to need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that uses milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a baby. But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect comes, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us, therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Heb. 5:12-14;1 Cor. 13:9-12;Phi. 3:12-15

God's Elect Sake

I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut asunder the bars of iron: And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the LORD, which call you by your name, am the God of Israel.  For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.

Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. And you shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name: That he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from mine eyes.

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he have chosen, he hath shortened the days.

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.

Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Isa. 45:2-4;Isa. 65:14-16;John 15:16;Mark 13:19-21;Rom. 11:28;2 Tim. 2:10

Search For The Kingdom

But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Ask, and it shall be given you;

Seek, and you shall find;

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

For every one that asks receives;

And he that seeks finds;

And to him, that knocks it shall be opened.

And whosoever shall compel you to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not you away.

(Patience/Seeking) Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needs.

Matt. 6:33;Luke 11:9-10+8;Matt. 5:41-42;

The Truth Of God's Word

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.

It is the spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

As he spoke these words, many believed in him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If you continue in my word, then are you, my disciples, indeed; And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Isa. 28:10;Matt. 13:52;John 6:63;John 8:30-32;John 16:13;2 Pet. 1:20;2 Cor. 13:1;2 Tim. 2:15

The Lord's Voice

And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire, a still small voice.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.  Hereby know you the spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if you will, let us make here three tabernacles; one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear you him.

1 Kings 19:11-12;1 John 4:1-3;Matt. 17:4-5 

Lord God Is Your Confidence

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.

Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord(Christ); and in his law(Christ) do he meditate day and night and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he do shall prosper. (The law was finished in Christ Jesus so meditate on Christ (The New Testament)).

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Blessed is that man that makes the Lord his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Don't give that which is holy unto dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, unless they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

For the Lord shall be your confidence, and shall keep your foot from being taken.

But the anointing which you have received of him stays in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall stay in him.

Trust not in a friend, put not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

Isa. 26:3;Psa. 1:1-3;Rom. 12:1-2;Psa. 40:4;Matt. 7:6;Prov. 3:26;1John 2:27;Mic. 7:5;Psa. 118:8;Psa. 146:3

The Law Of Christ

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

And he said, Woe unto you also, you lawyers! for you lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and you yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted. Bear you one another burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden.

Gal. 6:1-5;Matt. 23:4;Luke 11:46

Don't Promise Anything

But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. Neither shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; No, no: for whatsoever is more than these comes of evil.

Go to now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. For that you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

Matt. 5:34-37;James 4:13-16

Swearing is when you want someone to believe you seriously.  You don't have to use curse words to identify your pain to people.  God knows your downsitting and your uprising, your thoughts afar off. God sees your pain and will deliver, trust God.  See many things, but don't observe these things.

Take no thought for tomorrow, for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself, it is enough things happening in the "today".  Take one day at a time, this is when your faith is at its fullness.  Stop, know and recognize, that the Lord is God, even us who believe in Christ for our Savior and Deliverer, should know, that who can know the hour and the day of the Lord, anyway, only God the Father.  So take one day at a time.  I was in the midst of believing God to help me and He reminded me to take one day at a time and I  made it through again, and again by faith.

Honestly, Let's Be Honest

For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior.

But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it have taught you, you shall abide in him.

Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teaches in all good things.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord but also in the sight of men.

Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that you should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that you may have lack of nothing.

For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

Isa. 63:8;Luke 8:15;1 John 2:27;Gal. 6:6;Rom. 12:17;Rom. 13:13;2 Cor. 8:21;2 Cor. 13:7;Phil. 4:8;1 Thes. 4:12;1 Tim. 2:2;Heb. 13:18

Bearing Witness Unto The Truth

Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

These six things does the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:...A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.

He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness: but a false witness, deceit.

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me bears witness of me.

Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days. And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answer you nothing? what is it which these witness against you?

Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smite you me?

Pilate therefore said unto him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered You say that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.

The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

Behold, what manner of love the Father have bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither know him: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.

Rom. 2:15;Prov. 6:16&19;Prov. 12:17;Prov. 14:5;2 Cor. 13:1;John 8:18;John 10:25;John 15:27;Matt. 26:59-62;John 18:23;John 18:37;Rom. 8:16;Rom. 9:1;Heb. 2:4;1 John 1:2;1 John 5:6&8;1 John 3:1;John 14:17;John 16:13-14.

Don't Desire Your Brother's Things

And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you? And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.

Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.

Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it with simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs.

You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet.

You lust and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not. You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your lusts.

Delight yourself also in the Lord: and he shall give you the desires of your heart.

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.

Luke 12:13-15;2 Cor. 9:7;Rom. 12:8;Eph. 4:28;Exo. 20:17;Rom. 7:7;James 4:1-3;Psa. 37:4;John 15:7

It Is Finished

When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he says unto his mother, Woman, behold your son! Then says he to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, says, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God have before ordained that we should walk in them.

Father, I will that they also, whom you have given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which you have given me: for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who have blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he have chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abides a priest continually.

John 19:28-30;Eph. 2:10;John 17:24;Eph. 1:3-6;Gal. 1:15-16;Heb. 7:3

This Is That Faith

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

But seek you first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no more;

Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

Heb. 6:11;Matt. 6:33;John 16:10;John 14:19;1 Cor. 10:14

God is invisible, it takes faith to call upon Him, this is the true faith, that Christ has given us, that we see him no more. Without faith, it is impossible to please God, for them that come to God must believe that He exist and that God is a rewarder when you diligently seek Him..this is that faith.

God Is More Important, God Created You

So he departed there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yokes of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray you to kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.  And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to you?

And another also said, Lord, I will follow you; but let me first go bid them farewell, which is at home at my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knows right well. My substance was not hidden from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

1 Kings 19:19-20;Luke 9:61-62;Psalm 139:14-16; Matt. 23:9

Elijah knew that he was not God to tell Elisha to not go back to kiss his father and mother, goodbye..but Jesus, is God, God is His Word, the Creator, the Lord of Glory, forsake all and follow him, not looking back, for all that is back there is all about God, not man. God created you. You were created by God in the lowest parts of the earth which is the womb of a woman, God called you by your name, you are His..the commandment came to honor your mother and father: Why do you do this? because you love God and keep His commandments, as you were a child, you understood as a child and you thought like a child, children obey your parents in the Lord, which is right..but when you became an adult, you put away those childish things, pick up your cross and follow Christ, for you must forsake everything you think you know and follow your Creator, God.

The Heavens Are Opened Unto Christ.

The greatest offering is to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, which is your reasonable service. Christ fulfills what the law could not do, and all the law was fulfilled in Christ, walking in the Spirit is fulfilling everything that God requires in righteousness. There is a curse in involving the law, tithes is under the law. Be careful to stay abiding in Christ, to bear fruits, because whatever you ask, shall be done if you ask in Jesus name, there is no law, no curse. The Old Testament says, "Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not OPEN YOU THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN, and POUR YOU OUT A BLESSING, THAT THERE SHALL NOT BE ROOM ENOUGH TO RECEIVE IT". The New Testament says, "And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the HEAVENS WERE OPENED UNTO HIM, and HE SAW THE SPIRIT OF GOD DESCENDING LIKE A DOVE AND LIGHTING UPON HIM: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Malachi 3:1-18;Matt. 3:15-17

Thank God, God is well pleased with us, that we have the Holy Spirit and heaven is opened to us in Christ Jesus, Thank God we received the greatest offering, Christ Jesus.

The Cursed And Lowest Creature

And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because you hast done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon your belly shalt you go, and dust shalt you eat all the days of your life: And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head, and you shalt bruise his heel.

And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

Gen. 3:14-15;Rom. 16:20

Everlasting victory in Jesus...Amen. (The Amen, the faithful and true witness)

There Is A Reward To The Righteous

Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet you say, What have we spoken so much against you? You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him. Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Nevertheless, the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his.  And let everyone that names the name of Christ depart from inquity.

1 Cor. 15:58;2 Tim. 2:19;Mal. 3:13-18

Gathering In His Name

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.  For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he fall; for he has not another to help him up. And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

But if he will not hear you, then take with you one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

But exhort one another daily, while it is called today; unless any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.

Eccl. 4:9-10+12;Matt. 18:16;Matt 18:19-20;Heb. 3:13;Heb. 10:25