Tag: Eternal

By micoots
30/01/2017 0

Keeping Your Assurance

“Keep close to God in the duty of reading the Word often. By often reading the Word, you will often meet with promises and supports for your comforts. That is the reason men lessen in comforts, because they do not frequently read the Word; you cannot read a Chapter, but you will find there a prop for faith, and a prop for assurance. Keeping constant to the Word, that is the way to keep your assurance. “These things have I written to you that believe, that you might know that you have eternal lif..

By micoots
30/01/2017 0

Thought for the evening of Mon January 30, 2017

Verse”In whom also we have obtained an inheritance.” — eph 1:11
ThoughtWhen Jesus gave himself for us, he gave us all the rights and privileges which went with himself; so that now, although as eternal God, he has essential rights to which no creature may venture to pretend, yet as Jesus, the Mediator, the federal head of the covenant of grace, he has no heritage apart from us. All the glorious consequences of his obedience unto death are the joint riches of all who are in him, and on whose beha..

By micoots
30/01/2017 0

Blaspheming the Holy Spirit (Jan 30th)

Verse[Jesus said,] “Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”
He said this because they [the teachers of the law] were saying, “He has an impure spirit.”
— Mark 3:28-30 NIV
ThoughtThis verse strikes fear in some folks because they sometimes are afraid they may be guilty of this sin. However, in this context, blasphemy of the Holy Spirit means deny..

By micoots
30/01/2017 0

Thirty Seconds Alone with God

Our Twitter and Facebook habits make praying harder than ever.

But before we look at the stats, let’s take a moment to appreciate the magic of conscious life, the capacity to focus on one thing, like this article and this unfolding sentence, following it along until it ends with a little dot. No doubt, as a reader, you’re fighting the chronic digital urge to skim.

We give our attention because we have attention to give. With our attention we can attend to one thing and avert from another t..

By micoots
29/01/2017 0

The Parable of the Good Deplorable

The Parable of the Good Deplorable, by Jason Micheli
In front of a crowd of 70 (Or 140, who’s to say how big the crowd really was?) this lawyer tries to trap Jesus by turning the scriptures against him:
“Who is my neighbor?” he presses.
It’s the kind of bible question they could’ve debated for weeks.
Read one part of Leviticus and God’s policy is Israel First; your neighbor is just your fellow Jew.
Read another part of Leviticus and your neighbor includes the illegal immigrants and refugees in y..

By micoots
29/01/2017 0

Sing Like Men

I’ve never seen a counterfeit penny.

I suspect this is because the amount of effort required to generate a replica, and the severity of the consequences for being discovered, are far greater than any financial gain the counterfeiter could expect to achieve. Instead, counterfeiters tend toward highly prized items: the big bills, the expensive gems, the famous painting. When you find something imitated regularly, you can expect it to be valuable.

Biblical masculinity has many faux varieties a..

By micoots
28/01/2017 0

January 28

As your days, so shall your strength be.
Deuteronomy 33:25
Morning
As your days, so shall your strength be.

When they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditate what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. § Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

The God of Israel is He who gives strength and power to His people..

By micoots
28/01/2017 0

The Message Of The New Testament

Mankind has a fatal defect, which manifests as selfishness.

There is a cure — but only one which is effective permanently.

The cure requires injection of new life into your inner being.
This life is called eternal life, because it is the life that
God, the Eternal One, has.

The cure is free, but the only way to obtain it is to receive
and acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord.

Freedom from this defect requires two things. First, the gift
of eternal life, which can be obtained now by receiving th..

By micoots
27/01/2017 0

January 27

You know that He was manifested to take away
our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
1 John 3:5
Morning
You know that He was manifested to take away
our sins, and in Him there is no sin.

God … has in these last days spoken to us by His Son … who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. § He made Him who knew no sin to be sin..

By micoots
27/01/2017 0

Today Is My Birthday Because My Mom Chose Life

Today is the 44th annual March for Life. It’s also my birthday. In a grand irony, the two coincide this year.

My birthday is a bittersweet day. I was born out of wedlock to a poor teenager in Eastern Europe. The terrified young woman who gave me life is my hero. She made a courageous choice to be my mother, even if it meant she could only remain in the role for a few days. The only tie she will ever have to me is her blood and her genes.

Another woman, equally heroic, stepped into my life. She..