tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9302949878888073412011-04-07T23:43:10.198-04:00Christian Creative WritingsInspirational writings and poetry.poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-90028111003995065252011-04-07T23:43:00.000-04:002011-04-07T23:43:10.210-04:002011-04-07T23:43:10.210-04:00Yesterday, Today, And Forever<u><strong style="font-weight: normal;">Joel 2:28</strong></u><br />
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:<br />
<span class="keywordresultextras"></span><u><strong style="font-weight: normal;">Acts 2:17</strong></u><br />
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream, dreams:<br />
<u>Acts 21:9</u><br />
And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.<br />
<u><strong style="font-weight: normal;">1 Cor. 14:5</strong></u><br />
I would that you all spoke with tongues but rather that you prophesied: for greater is he that prophesies than he that speak with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.<br />
<span class="keywordresultextras"></span><u><strong style="font-weight: normal;">1 Cor. 14:12</strong></u><br />
Even so you, for as much as you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edifying of the church. <span class="keywordresultextras"> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-9002811100399506525?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-25535311984807667722011-04-07T23:21:00.003-04:002011-04-07T23:24:23.614-04:002011-04-07T23:24:23.614-04:00Holy Spirit Reproves<u>John 16:8-11 </u><br />
And when the Comforter is come, He will reprove:<br />
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The world of sin,<br />
And of righteousness,<br />
And of judgment:<br />
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Of sin, because they believe not on me;<br />
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no more;<br />
Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-2553531198480766772?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-41022112849048801672011-04-07T21:55:00.000-04:002011-04-07T21:55:34.222-04:002011-04-07T21:55:34.222-04:00The Spoken Word<u>John 15:3</u> Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.<u></u><br />
<u>John 17:13-14</u> And now come I to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.<br />
<u>Eph. 5:26-27</u> That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-4102211284904880167?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-69207115696156942832011-04-07T21:40:00.001-04:002011-04-07T21:57:24.972-04:002011-04-07T21:57:24.972-04:00But you are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which do so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, unless you be wearied and faint in your minds. You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifying the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-6920711569615694283?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-61834303514820146542011-04-06T23:37:00.002-04:002011-04-06T23:42:17.755-04:002011-04-06T23:42:17.755-04:00Faithful Over A Few Things<u>Matt. 25:13-30</u> Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man comes. For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents. And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two. But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money. After a long time the lord of those servants comes, and reckons with them. And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, you delivered unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. His lord said unto him, Well done, you good and faithful servant: you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things: enter you into the joy of your lord. He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, you delivered unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them. His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things: enter you into the joy of your lord. Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew you that you are an hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not strawed: And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the earth: Here, there you have that is yours. His lord answered and said unto him, You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: You ought therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which has ten talents. For unto every one that has shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that has not shall be taken away even that which he have. And cast you the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-6183430351482014654?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-83391678671860617682011-04-06T19:36:00.001-04:002011-04-06T19:37:44.256-04:002011-04-06T19:37:44.256-04:00Holy Ghost Power To Witness<u>Matt 10:1</u> And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.<br />
<u>Luke 9:1</u> Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.<br />
<u>Luke 10:19-20</u> Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.<br />
<u>Luke 24:48-50</u> And you are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry you in the city of Jerusalem, until you be endued with power from on high.<br />
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<u>Acts 1:8</u> 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. <br />
<u>Act 3:12</u> And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, You men of Israel, why marvel you at this? or why look you so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?<br />
<u>Acts 4:7</u> And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have you done this?<br />
<u>Acts 4:33</u> And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-8339167867186061768?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-64639838681631921552011-04-06T18:45:00.000-04:002011-04-06T18:45:59.139-04:002011-04-06T18:45:59.139-04:00God's Household<u>Psa. 127:1</u> Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.<br />
<u>Matt. 24:43</u> But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.<br />
<u>Matt. 23:38</u> Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.<br />
<u>Mark 13:15</u> And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:<u></u><br />
<u>Acts 7:49</u> Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will you build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? <br />
<u>Acts 11:14</u> Who shall tell you words, where by you and all your house shall be saved.<br />
<u>Acts 16:31</u> And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, and your house.<br />
<u>Matt. 7:24-25</u> Therefore who so ever hears these sayings of mine, and do them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. <br />
<u>1 Cor 16:19</u> The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.<br />
<u>Eph 2:19</u> Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-6463983868163192155?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-80137753245091492462011-04-06T15:43:00.002-04:002011-04-06T15:47:23.320-04:002011-04-06T15:47:23.320-04:00Sierra (See and Saw) Sarah<u>Gen. 17:16-17</u> And I will bless her, and give you a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her. Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? <br />
<u>Gen. 18:11-14</u> Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.<br />
<u>Gen. 21:1-3</u> And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.<br />
<u>Gen. 21:5-12</u> And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age. And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the lad, and because of your bondwoman; in all that Sarah has said unto you, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall your seed be called.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-8013775324509149246?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-83635944482122059982011-04-05T17:37:00.004-04:002011-04-06T01:00:26.211-04:002011-04-06T01:00:26.211-04:00Beauty For Ashes...All things work together for good to them that love God and to them that are the called according to his purpose. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding, abundantly, above all, that we ask or think according to the power that works within us. His sheep know his voice and a stranger shall they not follow but shall flee from them for they know not the voice of strangers. The natural mind cannot receive the things of the Spirit for it's foolishness to the natural mind, neither can it know the things of God because they are spiritually discerned. But the Spirit of God freely reveals these things to us through Christ. The Holy Spirit will bring everything that Jesus said to your remembrance, which will comfort you.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-8363594448212205998?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-65238332789779719902011-04-04T18:08:00.003-04:002011-04-06T23:04:17.637-04:002011-04-06T23:04:17.637-04:00Assembling Yourselves<u>Eccl. 4:9-10+12</u> 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.<br />
<u>Matt. 18:16</u> 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.<br />
<u>Matt. 18:19</u> Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.<br />
<u>Matt. 18:20</u> For where two or three are <b>gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.</b><br />
<u>Heb. 3:13</u> But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; unless any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.<br />
<u>Heb. 10:25</u> 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.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-6523833278977971990?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-82237998005824077742011-04-04T15:45:00.002-04:002011-04-04T18:41:21.958-04:002011-04-04T18:41:21.958-04:00If God Be For Us?<u>Isaiah 54:14-17</u> In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you. Behold, <b>they shall surely gather together, but not by me: who so ever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake.</b> Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that bring forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-8223799800582407774?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-66745233460858630002011-04-04T15:30:00.004-04:002011-04-04T15:48:12.139-04:002011-04-04T15:48:12.139-04:00If God Be For Us?<u>Rom. 8:26-39</u> Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searches the hearts know what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did preordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did preordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For Jesus sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-6674523346085863000?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-1920438944315549582011-04-02T23:44:00.009-04:002011-04-04T16:23:38.573-04:002011-04-04T16:23:38.573-04:00Marriage is a Covenant RelationshipMarriage is Two of the Opposite Sex,<br />
Marriage is a Commitment between Two not One,<br />
Marriage is Honorable and Sacred,<br />
Marriage is a Friendship not Abusive,<br />
Marriage is Known to All Family and Friends,<br />
Marriage is Not a Secret Relationship.<br />
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"I DO" must be said and meant, to have a pure relationship.<br />
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<u>Heb. 13:4</u> Marriage is honorable in all and the bed is undefiled, but whore-mongers and adulterers God will judge.<br />
<u>1 Cor. 7:1-40</u> Now concerning the things where of you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due charitableness: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.<br />
<u>Rev. 2:20-23</u> Notwithstanding, I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, which call herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-192043894431554958?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-13126317780804571972011-04-02T13:16:00.007-04:002011-04-04T16:20:48.756-04:002011-04-04T16:20:48.756-04:00Are Some Of Us Eunuchs?<u>Matt. 19:3-12</u> The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have you not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder. They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He said unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Who so ever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery: and who so married her which is put away do commit adultery. His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it. <br />
<u>1 Cor. 7:1-40</u> Now concerning the things where of you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due charitableness: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife has not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud you not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan don't tempt you for your incontinency.<span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"> </span></span>But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they stay even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she be pleased to live with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which has an husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to lives with her, let her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace. For what know you, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how know you, O man, whether you shall save your wife? Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. Are you bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. But and if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she have not sinned. Never the less such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction. The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. But she is happier if she so stay, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God. And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away.<br />
<u>Eph. 5:21-33</u> Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourished and cherished it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Never the less let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-1312631778080457197?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-75617200476902588552011-04-02T00:27:00.001-04:002011-04-02T00:27:54.411-04:002011-04-02T00:27:54.411-04:00Can Germs Make You Sick? No.<u>Mark 7:2-4+14-23</u> 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, brasen 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 have 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, <b>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.</b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-7561720047690258855?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-72921545606098725692011-03-31T21:45:00.002-04:002011-03-31T21:45:53.864-04:002011-03-31T21:45:53.864-04:00The World Is In God's Hands<div style="text-align: center;">Without a VISION, the people perish.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AtOOtmEgM0g/TZUmlUJQ8JI/AAAAAAAAACE/Yy0WqY5c9Zg/s1600/walking-with-orion.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AtOOtmEgM0g/TZUmlUJQ8JI/AAAAAAAAACE/Yy0WqY5c9Zg/s320/walking-with-orion.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Looking unto Jesus the Author </div><div style="text-align: center;">And Finisher of Your Faith.</div><div style="text-align: center;">God so loved the World, he gave his only</div><div style="text-align: center;">Begotten Son that who so ever believe in Jesus</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shall not perish but have everlasting life.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-7292154560609872569?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-68572277683770407802011-03-30T17:53:00.001-04:002011-04-03T22:57:08.360-04:002011-04-03T22:57:08.360-04:00Discipline Of The Heart<u></u><br />
<u>Luke 14:26-27</u> If any man come to me, hate not his father, mother, wife, children, brethren, sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And who so ever do not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.<u></u><br />
<u>Luke 9:23-24</u> And Jesus<a class=" twitter-hashtag" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23Jesus" rel="nofollow" title="#Jesus"></a> said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For who so ever will save his life shall lose it: but who so ever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.<br />
<u>Luke 16:13</u> No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-6857227768377040780?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-9519113497325379102011-03-30T17:38:00.000-04:002011-03-30T17:38:00.954-04:002011-03-30T17:38:00.954-04:00Husbandman<u>2 Timothy 2:16</u> The <b>husbandman</b> that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.<br />
<u>John 15:1</u> I am the true vine, and my Father is the <b>husbandman</b>. Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.<br />
<u>Galatians 5:22-23</u> But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.<br />
<u>James 5:7</u> Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the <b>husbandman</b> waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.<br />
<u>Isaiah 54:5</u> For your Maker is your <b>husband</b>; the LORD of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-951911349732537910?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-22104910786138127562011-03-30T17:07:00.001-04:002011-03-30T17:08:28.142-04:002011-03-30T17:08:28.142-04:00Do These ThingsAccording as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, <br />
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Add to your Faith, Virtue;<br />
Add to Virtue, Knowledge; <br />
Add to Knowledge, Temperance;<br />
Add to Temperance, Patience;<br />
Add to Patience, Godliness; <br />
Add to Godliness, Brotherly Kindness;<br />
Add to Brotherly Kindness, Charity.<br />
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<b>For if these things be in you, and abound</b>, <b>they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacks these things is blind, a</b><b>nd cannot see afar off, </b><b>and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.</b> Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: <b>for if you do these things, you shall never fall:</b> <b>For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.</b> Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-2210491078613812756?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-41002071319178290212011-03-29T23:54:00.001-04:002011-03-29T23:57:19.656-04:002011-03-29T23:57:19.656-04:00God's Holy Spirit<u>John 4:10</u> Jesus answered and said unto her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.<br />
<u>John 4:13-14</u> Jesus answered and said unto her, Who so ever drink of this water shall thirst again: But who so ever drink of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.<br />
<u>John 4:22-24</u> You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seek such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.<br />
<u>Luke 11:13</u> If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-4100207131917829021?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-84790980527321842712011-03-28T21:54:00.004-04:002011-03-30T17:40:01.996-04:002011-03-30T17:40:01.996-04:00Women of God<div style="text-align: left;"><u>John 4:27-30+42</u> And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seek you? or, Why talk you with her? The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of your saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u></u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>John 20:17-18</u> Jesus saith 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. Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the LORD, and that he had spoken these things unto her.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Luke 24:10-11</u> It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Mark 16:9+14</u> Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared <b>first</b> to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept. And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not. Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-8479098052732184271?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-44200949879972408052011-03-21T21:03:00.001-04:002011-03-27T18:45:01.586-04:002011-03-27T18:45:01.586-04:00God And Giving<u>Matt. 7:6</u> <b>Give not</b> that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before <b>swine</b>, unless they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.<br />
<u>Matt. 10:8</u> Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: <b>freely you have </b><b>received, </b><b>freely give. </b><br />
<u>Luke 6:38</u> <b>Give, and it shall be given unto you</b>; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you meet withal it shall be measured to you again.<br />
<u>Acts 3:6</u> Then Peter said, <b>Silver</b> and <b>gold</b> have I none; <b>but such as I have give I you:</b> In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.<u></u><br />
<u>1 Cor 2:12</u> Now we have <b>received</b>, <b>not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.</b><br />
<u>2 Cor.</u><u> 8:12-15</u> For if there be first a willing mind, <b>it is accepted</b> <b>according to that a man have, and not according to that he have not. For I mean not that other men be eased, and you burdened:</b> But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality: As it is written, <b>He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.</b><br />
<u>2 Cor. 9:7</u> Every man <b>according as he purpose in his heart, so let him give</b>; <b>not grudgingly,</b> <b>or of necessity</b>: for God loves a cheerful giver.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-4420094987997240805?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-78814537303204728262011-03-21T20:46:00.000-04:002011-03-27T17:37:54.916-04:002011-03-27T17:37:54.916-04:00God And Money<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Matt. 22:17-21</u> Tell us therefore, What think you? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt you me, you hypocrites? Show me the tribute <b>money</b>. And they brought unto him a penny. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, <b>Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Matt.17:24-17</u> And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute <b>money</b> came to Peter, and said, Do not your master pay tribute? He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What think you, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free. Not withstanding, <b>unless we should offend them</b>, go you to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first comes up; and when you have opened his mouth, you shall find a <b>piece of money</b>: that take, and give unto them for me and you.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Acts 8:18-23</u><b> </b>And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them <b>money</b>, Saying, Give me also this power, that on whom so ever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said unto him, <b>Your money perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. You have neither part nor lot in this matter: for your heart is not right in the sight of God. </b>Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. For I perceive that you are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-7881453730320472826?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-77987648102779126082011-03-21T20:39:00.000-04:002011-03-27T17:40:08.709-04:002011-03-27T17:40:08.709-04:00The Lord's Sheep<u>Psalms 23:1-6</u> 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 thou art 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 for ever.<br />
<u>John 10:7-18</u> 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. <br />
<u>John 10:27-30</u> 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.<br />
<u>John 6:65-69</u> 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.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-7798764810277912608?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930294987888807341.post-51298210792021358372011-03-21T17:08:00.000-04:002011-03-27T17:38:16.061-04:002011-03-27T17:38:16.061-04:00God And Tithing<div style="text-align: left;"><u>Mal. 3:7-11</u> Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. <b>You are cursed with a curse:</b> for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.<br />
<u>Gal. 3:10</u> For as many as are of the <b>works of the law are under the curse</b>: for it is written, <b>Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.</b><br />
<u>Gal. 3:13</u> Christ has redeemed us from the <b>curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree:</b><br />
<u>Gal. 2:14-16</u> 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, <b>why compel you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?</b> 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, <b>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.</b></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/930294987888807341-5129821079202135837?l=poetdeerfield.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>poetdeerfieldnoreply@blogger.com