Remember if you are mean to the Brethren, you might be hearing this:
Matthew 25:40-41 "40 And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’ 41 Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.…"
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Which Will You Be
A peacekeeper just wants to be liked by everyone!
A peacemaker wants everything to be made right!
A peacemaker wants everything to be made right!
Peacemaker vs Peacekeeper
A peacemaker is far different from a peacekeeper. A peacemaker gets to the root of the problem to cut out the rot for someone to be made new. The peacekeeper merely place a bandage on a gaping wound to avoid the difficult responses that might ensue.
His Shed Blood for Us
Christ showed the greatest love. Speaking truth that others might trust in Him and be saved. It cost Him His life!
The Greater Love
The greater love is in telling the truth knowing that if they listen it will be a lifelong blessing to them.
The Marriage of Faith and Humility
Francis Frangipane Said This:
The Marriage of Faith and Humility
We cannot advance spiritually without the virtues of faith and humility walking together. When either is isolated from the other, our walk becomes unbalanced. Faith without humility degrades into presumption, while humility isolated from faith can become oppressive. We need both.
Scriptures tell us that without faith it is impossible to please God and that whatever is done without faith is sin (Heb. 11:6; Rom. 14:23). God gives promises, and it is faith that possesses them. Yet what faith possesses, humility surrenders.
Consider Christ: there will be a time when every knee will bow and tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord (Phil. 2:10-11). The kingdoms of this world will finally become the kingdom of our Lord (Rev. 11:15). However, Christ's reaction to subduing the world is that He then "hands over the kingdom to the . . . Father" (1 Cor. 15:24). This is the humility of Christ: what He conquers, He then surrenders.
In America we want faith to conquer, but we're not sure we want the second part, giving it back to God. Yet this is the pattern of those who have followed God: Abraham has faith and believes God and, in time, the promised son is born. Yet at the command of God, Abraham, in worshipful surrender, takes Isaac to a mountain and there actually surrenders him back to God. David conquers Jerusalem then dedicates it to the Lord, calling it the "city of God." Or consider Hannah who was barren, who bears a child, Samuel, but then surrenders Samuel to God (1 Sam. 1). I pray for my city, not so I can possess it, but so I can give it back to God. Whatever we gain by faith, to grow into maturity, we must surrender as an offering back to God.
This is the great mystery, one that I believe holds within itself a key to the power of God working in our lives: what we give over to God, He takes over. He multiplies the loaves and fish. so He will multiply our resources as we surrender our treasures to God, where neither moth not dust corrupts (Matt. 6:20).
You see, our goal is not only to create a better life here for ourselves but, through faith and humility, to extend the Kingdom of God into our world (Matt. 6:10). Faith brings Heaven's provisions to Earth; our surrender brings God's presence into those provisions, multiplies them, and makes them a blessing to many.
The Marriage of Faith and Humility
We cannot advance spiritually without the virtues of faith and humility walking together. When either is isolated from the other, our walk becomes unbalanced. Faith without humility degrades into presumption, while humility isolated from faith can become oppressive. We need both.
Scriptures tell us that without faith it is impossible to please God and that whatever is done without faith is sin (Heb. 11:6; Rom. 14:23). God gives promises, and it is faith that possesses them. Yet what faith possesses, humility surrenders.
Consider Christ: there will be a time when every knee will bow and tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord (Phil. 2:10-11). The kingdoms of this world will finally become the kingdom of our Lord (Rev. 11:15). However, Christ's reaction to subduing the world is that He then "hands over the kingdom to the . . . Father" (1 Cor. 15:24). This is the humility of Christ: what He conquers, He then surrenders.
In America we want faith to conquer, but we're not sure we want the second part, giving it back to God. Yet this is the pattern of those who have followed God: Abraham has faith and believes God and, in time, the promised son is born. Yet at the command of God, Abraham, in worshipful surrender, takes Isaac to a mountain and there actually surrenders him back to God. David conquers Jerusalem then dedicates it to the Lord, calling it the "city of God." Or consider Hannah who was barren, who bears a child, Samuel, but then surrenders Samuel to God (1 Sam. 1). I pray for my city, not so I can possess it, but so I can give it back to God. Whatever we gain by faith, to grow into maturity, we must surrender as an offering back to God.
This is the great mystery, one that I believe holds within itself a key to the power of God working in our lives: what we give over to God, He takes over. He multiplies the loaves and fish. so He will multiply our resources as we surrender our treasures to God, where neither moth not dust corrupts (Matt. 6:20).
You see, our goal is not only to create a better life here for ourselves but, through faith and humility, to extend the Kingdom of God into our world (Matt. 6:10). Faith brings Heaven's provisions to Earth; our surrender brings God's presence into those provisions, multiplies them, and makes them a blessing to many.
Our Response to Correction Tells on Us!
It is not the trials in our life that are the problem, but rather it is our response to them that makes all the difference.
Trials show us what is inside, if our response is rage and revenge, then the Lord still has more work to do.
A snotty response to correction is rage and it is revenge to act superior to the one who brings correction and rebuke.
2 Timothy 4:2-3 " 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.…"
Those who are too arrogant to listen to correction or rebuke, are walking in pride and rebellion against truth. When the truth is taken from the Scripture, those that buck against it are like wild stallions raging against good sense.
Trials show us what is inside, if our response is rage and revenge, then the Lord still has more work to do.
A snotty response to correction is rage and it is revenge to act superior to the one who brings correction and rebuke.
2 Timothy 4:2-3 " 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.…"
Those who are too arrogant to listen to correction or rebuke, are walking in pride and rebellion against truth. When the truth is taken from the Scripture, those that buck against it are like wild stallions raging against good sense.
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