Goals

On October 27, 2015   /   Christian Basics, Christian Values, Endurance, Eternal, Faith, Kingdom, Victory  

Things Above Thoughts
TAT #19
GOALS

What goals do you have for your life? Love, family, home, good job, money, retirement?
Check out these goals straight from the lips of our Lord:

Thus says the LORD of hosts, “If you will walk in My ways and if you will perform My service, then you will also govern My house and also have charge of My courts, and I will grant you free access among these who are standing here.” (Zechariah 3:7)

The above goals might add a little clarity to Matthew 6:20–21:

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;  for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

If we are not living for eternity we are not Living.

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Discipleship

On October 27, 2015   /   Christian Basics, Christian Values, Eternal, Victory  

Things Above Thought
TAT #16
Discipleship

Just read Oswald Chambers and once again he nails it.

Is your discipleship to Jesus Christ for His glory or is it all about the earthly blessings you can gather from obedience? Or, is sharing in His holiness enough good for you?

For they, our earthly fathers, disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.  (Hebrews 12:10 clarification added)

The true Good that our heavenly Father has for us is His eternal holiness.

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Eternal Light

On October 27, 2015   /   Christian Basics, Christian Values, Endurance, Eternal, Faith, Victory  

Things Above Thought
TAT #15
Eternal Light

Look at your life in the light of today and you will see your sin;
Look at your life in the light of eternity and you will see your glory—His eternal glory:

If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.
(1 Corinthians 15:19)

Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready. It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. (Revelation 19:7–8)

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Our Country

On November 6, 2014   /   Bible, Christian Basics, Christian Values, Darkness & Light, Eternal, Faith, God, God's Will, God's Will for Me, Kingdom, Satan  

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Heavenly Citizen

I’m glad we have a day to remember those who have given the ultimate sacrifice so that we might live free in this country.

We should be proud of our country and be good citizens and hopefully our parents are proud of us for this:

But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them. (Hebrews 11:16)

Let us remember the – One – who gave the ultimate sacrifice so that we might be free from Satan’s rule. And may our desire for our – heavenly country – make the Father proud of us.

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Impact Heaven?!

On October 30, 2014   /   Bible, Christian Basics, Christian Values, Endurance, Eternal, Faith, God's Will, God's Will for Me, Heavenly Witness, Victory  

I use to think I had no impact on heaven but then I read:

I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents. (Luke 15:10)

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven . . . (Matthew 6:20)

I’m glad I repented of the thought that I have no impact on heaven.
I wonder what else can I do this week to impact heaven?

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Lips or Life?

On October 29, 2014   /   Bible, Christian Basics, Christian Values, Endurance, Faith, God's Will for Me, Victory  

We talk with our lips. We talk to people, the people in front of us, the people behind us, the people on the phone, the people in our family, to friends, to strangers, we even talk to our enemies.

We project our feelings with our lips; we even reveal our minds and what we think of ourselves.
And with our lips we also lie to ourselves, to the rest of the world, and create conflict.

But it is our daily lives that scream out our character, our goals, and our God – or our gods. Therefore remember:

make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands,  (1 Thessalonians 4:1)

I (the Lord) deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done. (Jeremiah 17:10 NET)

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Spiritual Values

On October 28, 2014   /   Bible, Christian Basics, Christian Values, Endurance, Faith, God's Will, Heavenly Witness, Suffering, Trials  

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Spiritual Values

Have you ever considered what God thought about Job?

When Job was rich and had a wonderful family and was “the greatest lf all the men of the east” God thought:

“There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.” (1:9)

When Job was dirt poor, with no family and probably the least of all the men of the east God thought:

“There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil.” (2:3)

After Job had verbally rebuffed his friends and spoken about his confusion with how God had dealt with him God thought:

Job was His servant and had spoken what was right about God! (42:7–8)

No where in the book of Job does God think any less of Job because of his physical situation or his mental confusion and honest examination of God. God only thinks about Job’s righteousness.

What do you think about? What does God think about you?

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