I am astounded at how many people cannot be objective and Biblical about their assessment of people. Many people are idolizing famous people without knowing them personally. They hear what they think are good things but have not seen those things for themselves.
The best thing to do is stop idolizing people who are famous merely because of what others write about them.
Psalm 146:2-4 …2I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save. 4When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish."
I see people defending people because of articles about them alone. They have no personal experience with those famous people.
I am convinced 90% of what is written on the internet about famous people is totally fabricated by those who want to have someone to worship.
Jeremiah 17:5 "This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD."
Look to the Lord Jesus Christ and you will not be fooled by fame. It has been my experience that the more popular a person is the less likely they are to be godly. The world loves fame and will pretend things that are not true.
Friday, March 20, 2026
Praying in God's Will not Our Own
When you become weary at praying for the same things all the time for years on end, remember all your past prayers have been heard.
If we never uttered another prayer for the same person or the same things, the past prayers still count.
We are told to pray without ceasing, this does not mean we must pray the same things over and over again, it means that we are in constant communication with God all day long about everything.
Pray without ceasing means we are continually focused on God in an attitude of gratitude and wisdom from Him. We rejoice as we see Him work and we rejoice with others who have been blessed by God in some way. We weep with those who weep, upholding them as we walk through life with our brothers and sisters in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 "16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."
Philippians 4:4 "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!"
Romans 12:12 "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer."
Psalm 32:11 "Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart."
Prayer is communication with God continually; it is not begging God for the same things until we wear Him down to do our will.
Sometimes God says no to us, as He did with Paul when he asked God three times to remove the thorn from his flesh. Paul stopped praying for his problem when He knew God had already answered, and the answer was that Paul would have to live with his infirmity for the rest of his life to keep him humble.
2 Corinthians 12:7-9 "7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.…"
When someone tells you to never stop praying for the same things until you get what you want, they are not speaking biblically. Christ in us will tell us when to stop and when to continue.
God told Jeremiah to stop praying for the nation, He even told him He would not hear his prayers because God's will for the nation was discipline.
We must remember to pray in God's will, and often His will is not what we want.
Matthew 6:9-10 "Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done. On earth as it is in heaven".
If we never uttered another prayer for the same person or the same things, the past prayers still count.
We are told to pray without ceasing, this does not mean we must pray the same things over and over again, it means that we are in constant communication with God all day long about everything.
Pray without ceasing means we are continually focused on God in an attitude of gratitude and wisdom from Him. We rejoice as we see Him work and we rejoice with others who have been blessed by God in some way. We weep with those who weep, upholding them as we walk through life with our brothers and sisters in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 "16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."
Philippians 4:4 "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!"
Romans 12:12 "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer."
Psalm 32:11 "Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart."
Prayer is communication with God continually; it is not begging God for the same things until we wear Him down to do our will.
Sometimes God says no to us, as He did with Paul when he asked God three times to remove the thorn from his flesh. Paul stopped praying for his problem when He knew God had already answered, and the answer was that Paul would have to live with his infirmity for the rest of his life to keep him humble.
2 Corinthians 12:7-9 "7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.…"
When someone tells you to never stop praying for the same things until you get what you want, they are not speaking biblically. Christ in us will tell us when to stop and when to continue.
God told Jeremiah to stop praying for the nation, He even told him He would not hear his prayers because God's will for the nation was discipline.
We must remember to pray in God's will, and often His will is not what we want.
Matthew 6:9-10 "Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done. On earth as it is in heaven".
Biblical Gatherings Differ Greatly from the Man Made System
I am convinced, after watching some of these building projects emerge, intended to grow congregations, that they come from pride.
Rather than holding small gatherings in homes, which would spread across communities and influence the neighborhoods, they have people in the church building invite their friends to that place.
Rather than edifying the believers, they pander to the unsaved to keep them coming. It makes the believers lazy about sharing the gospel themselves; it then becomes the job of the paid pastor. It is backward from what God commanded in His word.
1 Corinthians 14:26 "What is the outcome then, brothers and sisters? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. All things are to be done for edification."
Ephesians 5:19 "Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,"
Colossians 3:16 "Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God."
God never intended for one person to preach for an hour while all the others sit in the pews completely silent.
Romans 12:6-8 "We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith; / if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; / if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully."
All born-again believers have gifts God gave them and jobs to do that enhance the working of the congregation within the gathering and also in the community.
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Believers are to attend the gathering to edify one another, equipping each one to live out their calling in the community. And, yes, every believer has a calling.
1 Corinthians 12:12-27 One Body with Many Members
"12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
19 If all were a single member, where would the body be?
20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it."
No one should be thought of as higher than anyone else and no one is paid to carry out their calling. Their calling is not given to them by a hierarchy system, but only by the Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit.
May each born-again believer never be discouraged by systems that make their own rules. May each one lean completely on the Holy Spirit for their function in the body of Christ.
Rather than holding small gatherings in homes, which would spread across communities and influence the neighborhoods, they have people in the church building invite their friends to that place.
Rather than edifying the believers, they pander to the unsaved to keep them coming. It makes the believers lazy about sharing the gospel themselves; it then becomes the job of the paid pastor. It is backward from what God commanded in His word.
1 Corinthians 14:26 "What is the outcome then, brothers and sisters? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. All things are to be done for edification."
Ephesians 5:19 "Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,"
Colossians 3:16 "Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God."
God never intended for one person to preach for an hour while all the others sit in the pews completely silent.
Romans 12:6-8 "We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith; / if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; / if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully."
All born-again believers have gifts God gave them and jobs to do that enhance the working of the congregation within the gathering and also in the community.
,
Believers are to attend the gathering to edify one another, equipping each one to live out their calling in the community. And, yes, every believer has a calling.
1 Corinthians 12:12-27 One Body with Many Members
"12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
19 If all were a single member, where would the body be?
20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it."
No one should be thought of as higher than anyone else and no one is paid to carry out their calling. Their calling is not given to them by a hierarchy system, but only by the Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit.
May each born-again believer never be discouraged by systems that make their own rules. May each one lean completely on the Holy Spirit for their function in the body of Christ.
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Good Works by Christ or by Flesh
Good works done by unregenerate hearts cannot be acceptable because they are done to glorify the self. Any work done in the flesh does not satisfy God.
When we do good works as motivated by the Holy Spirit are acceptable because they glorify God.
1 Corinthians 10:31 "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Matthew 5:16 "In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven."
Psalm 115:1 "Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!"
When we do good works as motivated by the Holy Spirit are acceptable because they glorify God.
1 Corinthians 10:31 "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Matthew 5:16 "In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven."
Psalm 115:1 "Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!"
Monday, March 16, 2026
Conservative is not Equal to Salvation
We cannot expect unbelievers, no matter how conservative, to understand and follow the ways of God.
1 Corinthians 2:14 "But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned."
Conservatism is not equal to salvation or Christ. Sadly, many people who say they are Christians are basing their opinions of leaders on the things those leaders give them that make them feel safe, not on the spiritual direction of a nation.
Our government as a whole does not follow Christ; it follows "the will of the people", mostly unsaved people who are willful and self-absorbed.
2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…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. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."
1 Timothy 4:1-2 "Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron."
Titus 1:10-11 "For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision, who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not."
This is the state of the last days apostate churches in full bloom:
Acts 20:29-30 "I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them."
Knowing all this does not have to grieve us deeply because we know it is prophsied and that we can live at this time remaining faithful to Christ, even surrounded by most who do not. Their choices do not have to affect our walk with Him.
Those who persist in tormenting us with rejection do not have to be in our lives; we are allowed to choose friends who love Christ as much as we do and avoid those who do not love Him.
Matthew 7:15-20 "You Will Know Them by Their Fruits
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them."
What is the fruit of the Spirit of Christ!?
Galatians 5:22-23 "22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
Keep looking up and walk in the peace and joy of the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:14 "But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned."
Conservatism is not equal to salvation or Christ. Sadly, many people who say they are Christians are basing their opinions of leaders on the things those leaders give them that make them feel safe, not on the spiritual direction of a nation.
Our government as a whole does not follow Christ; it follows "the will of the people", mostly unsaved people who are willful and self-absorbed.
2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…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. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."
1 Timothy 4:1-2 "Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron."
Titus 1:10-11 "For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision, who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not."
This is the state of the last days apostate churches in full bloom:
Acts 20:29-30 "I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them."
Knowing all this does not have to grieve us deeply because we know it is prophsied and that we can live at this time remaining faithful to Christ, even surrounded by most who do not. Their choices do not have to affect our walk with Him.
Those who persist in tormenting us with rejection do not have to be in our lives; we are allowed to choose friends who love Christ as much as we do and avoid those who do not love Him.
Matthew 7:15-20 "You Will Know Them by Their Fruits
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them."
What is the fruit of the Spirit of Christ!?
Galatians 5:22-23 "22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
Keep looking up and walk in the peace and joy of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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