Dear Friends,
First of all, please know our thoughts, love and prayers go up to God on your behalf, even as I write this from around the world to you, know that God has put it on our hearts to pray for you. Jesus loves you. Jesus teaches us when we go through terrible things, to recall, IT IS WRITTEN in John 14:1, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” May the God of all Comfort and the Father of all Mercies, even the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, by a comfort to you in all your troubles, SO THAT you can be a comfort to others by the same comfort you yourselves have received …It is written for you and me to know and believe in the love God has for us!
So, HOW do you Survive in this world after the Miracle of believing? The answer is always through JESUS!
The Verse of Today is written in John 10:11 King James Version (KJV)
“I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.”
As you prepare your mind to receive Today’s Devotion to God’s Holy Word, I pray that the life in HIS SPIRIT stirs up & rises up your spirit UP to JESUS, in the power and authority of God’s Holy Word, which is going beyond your feelings; going beyond what you see, and to believe by faith in WHOM GOD IS, like the faith of Abraham who believed God …
Let us read from Romans 4
Verse 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb:
20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
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Daily Devotion to God’s Holy Word.
But Should we Continue in Sin? No, By Karen Rowe
Is this verse saying that we all have sinned in the past? We all have sinned in the present? We all have sinned in the future?
What is Christ telling the world?
If I still have sin, why quit sin?
The Bible asks the question, Shall we continue in sin? And, answers, “God forbid.” For God only forgives us sin, if we repent. It is a burden on our heart to enlighten the word repent, so that all will go well with you.
But how can I handle this, if I still believe I have sin?
If we still had it (sin), God would not tell us to do what we cannot do.
In Christ, Should we continue to steal, kill, treat people badly … God forbid, because we are new creatures in Christ.
What is the real meaning of Repentance?
This is a lot, but will you come along with me on this journey of Revelation Knowledge of what is God really saying to us in His Word about Whom God is and who still has sin. We, who believe and follow Jesus, aren’t we the one’s who are supposed to be different? Do not be conformed the the world, but be ye transformed into the image of God’s Son. It is written.
… to get a greater understanding of the life Jesus died and rose again to give us … Will you read more and more of God’s Word that is written for you to come to know and believe in the love God has for you? The same POWER that rose Jesus from the grave, is the same power of God whom lives in you … when you 1st believe!
Romans 3:23 King James Version (KJV)
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; … Read on …
Is ‘HAVE’ past tense to the sinful life; when we COME to BELIEVE IN THE Glory of God? Is ‘HAVE past tense, as before we are saved, and come short of the glory of God, as we were before we believe and are saved by Grace in the Glory of God? Is ‘HAVE’ present tense, that we still “have sin?” Is ‘HAVE’ future tense that we will continue in Christ to ‘have’ and continue to sin? God forbid. Christ Jesus come to set us free from the law of sin death. But how can we know?
Romans 10:14-15 New Living Translation (NLT)
14 But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? 15 And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!”
Friends, when you receive this, you will never be the same!
Where, O Death, is Your Victory?
…55“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 56The sting of death is sin,and the power of sin is the Law. 57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!…
Do you define sin as you have sin? Or, you have NOT sin? Is this verse defining Present sin / Past sin / Future sin …? Do we all have it (sin) now that we have been converted? Or, we all had it (sin) in the past? Which one would you say? Is this verse talking about the past-tense, present-tense or future-tense of we all have sinned?
Repenting?
What does Repenting Mean? To have become Godly sorrow of your sin (what you have done wrong in your past) that moves you to be transformed … you make a complete turn around from sinning / that you won’t do it any more. That sin will have no more control over you. You have become Godly Sorrow of your sin.
How do you read this verse now?
For all HAVE sinned, and COME SHORT OF THE glory of God;
Romans 3:23 KJV ……read before and after this verse
Invest some time in hearing God’s Word tell the Story of Jesus for you. It is Written for us to come to know & believe in the love God has for us.
No longer a SINNER, I am saved by Grace, AND I still need Jesus every day of my life, because my human nature is being transformed and God teaches us through our mistakes. But that is the conviction to change our mind to come to agree with God’s Mind.
Roll your works upon the LORD [commit and trust them wholly to HIM] He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable with His Will and thus your plans will be established and succeed. Proverbs ___.
Jesus is not about condemnation (John 3:17); rather He gave us His body so that we can come to BLOOM in Salvation! He gave us His Spirit so that we can have God as our very helper who lives in us & God cannot sin.
BUT, in this life, our human nature still has tendencies to be 100 % human, when we are also born AGAIN (through and by Jesus) to be 100% in God …but how much do we believe Christ died for us to come to live IN the Glory of God?
10%? 60% 75% or 100%? There is a carnal nature that dies, but a spiritual nature that is of God that we can take on … so that all will go well with us through and by Jesus.
I am grateful to learn … I pray also this is a blessing to you as well. My prayer for you is found written in Ephesians 1:16 & 17. Will you pray also for others this prayer?
Ephesians 1:16-17
“I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.”
What happens when the Word of God is neglected or ignored? Or shortened to fit a man-centered world? We need to get what God is really saying to us in His Word that is for us & a gift to us so that we can truly live this life Jesus died to give us.
Only using the first part of the verses? Well, lets first look at Proverbs 29:18. This is how most Christians read this verse: Where there is no vision, the people perish. That’s it! But whatever happened to the other half of this verse? How come nobody reads this part: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he?
How about Hosea 4:6? Here’s how many Christians read this: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, again, that’s all! What about the rest of this verse: BECAUSE THOU HAST REJECTED KNOWLEDGE, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children?
God gave us Pastors & teachers and the Church to gather together to better learn & GAIN understanding what God is really saying to us in His Word.
This, what I am writing to you Today, is for you Today. Today is the day for you to come to Jesus!
~to be no longer sinners (no longer a slave to sin), but to God be the Glory, A Child of God, saved by Grace, to the Glory of God.
justification by grace, through faith. …
Ephesians 2:8-9 King James Version (KJV)
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
The word REQUIREMENT stood off the page this morning.
The requirement of God is Jesus!
Believe! Believe God’s Testimony about His son! Jesus said, “It is Finished.”
Holy Spirit, help us … Love and prayers my friends.
1 Corinthians 4:2-4 King James Version (KJV)
2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Love in Christ,
Karen Rowe
“WRITING THE STORY OF MY LIFE WITH EVERY CHOICE JESUS HELPS ME TO MAKE AND LEARNING HOW TO BE BLESSED AND LIVE LIFE LARGE, HAPPY AND FREE. I CARE.”
Personal Motto: “I don’t have it all figured out, BUT GOD DOES … Follow JESUS!”
Personal Revelation Life Verse: And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him (1 John 4:16 HCSB)
Thank you Jesus!
Holy Spirit you are welcome here!
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