A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold is as pictures of silver.(Prov.25:11) It is so important to speak the right words to people at the right time to produce the right results. When you think of apples of gold in pictures of silver, then you are thinking of wealth and excellence. When we speak wisdom into the lives of others we are making them wealthy. Therefore we must seek God for He is the source of all wisdom and He will give us just the right words needed at the right time.
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#If a man says I love God and hateth his brother, he is a liar for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 1 John 4:20
It is impossible to love God when you hate your brother. If you say you love God whom you have not seen while you hate your brother whom you have seen, then you are a liar. No liar has eternal life, so you need to repent of this sin, and pray to God to create in me a clean heart, and renew a steadfast spirit in thee. God is love and if you have been born again then you will love just as God loves us, and sent His Son as our substitute to die on the cross for our sins. It is time to end the hate and love your brother by doing good to him. So if your brother is in need and you have what he needs, then give it to him for those things that he needs. Christ came into this world to save us from our sins by His death on the cross, was buried, and rose from the dead the third day for our justification. Tell the truth, for the truth, will set you free.
#We love Him because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19
We love God because He first loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Now we are accepted in the beloved and have that agape love one for another. As we prepare to celebrate Resurrection Sunday let us seek to lift our brothers and sisters in this coronavirus pandemic. It has been over a year that we have been isolated from our loved ones and with the United States vaccinating most of its citizens, it is only a matter of time before we can get herd immunity. We pray that we can come out of isolation and fellowship face to face again as love demands.
#Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, the King cometh unto thee, meek and sitting upon an ass and the colt the foal of an ass. Matt. 21:5
As we celebrate Palm Sunday we read in the King James Version, Sion, which is the people of Jerusalem and the nomenclature ass, is a donkey, fulfilling Zachariah 9:9 which foretold the Messiah would come meek and lowly having salvation riding the foal of a donkey. Thank God that the Highest humbled himself to become the lowest to die the death on the cross to save mankind from their sins. If you believe this report, then your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life. I pray that you will share this scripture with your children so they too can shout Hossana in the Highest.
#There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
This is the first day of astronomical Spring and many fear the tornadic weather patterns that developed this time of year. However, God is love, and perfect love cast out fear, so no reason to torment over the weather because God causes the Sun to shine on the righteous and unrighteous, as well as the rain to fall on the just as well as the unjust. So if you are going to be made perfect in love, stop the fear and trust God who is good all the time. Meteorology has come along way and the Dobbler radar can predict tornadoes better than they could in the past. So just enjoy the weather and the Spring allergy season.
#Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world. 1 John 4:17
We will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ as Christians. so herein is our love made perfect, so that we may have boldness in the day of judgment. It is time to stop the hate, and racism that has compounded in this coronavirus pandemic. Love is the fulfillment of the law and we must love all our brothers and sisters. Jesus said we must love our friends and enemies by living on the Sermon on the Mount. Unbelievers will stand before the Great White Throne Judgment and will be judged by their works since they rejected the grace of God in Jesus Christ. Knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade all men to repent and turn to Jesus Christ.
#And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love and He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him. 1 John 4:16
Beloved if you believe in the love that God hath to us, then the love of God dwells in you; for God is love and whosoever loves is born of God. Stop the hate against Asians, for they are not the blame for the coronavirus pandemic. Love them as your brothers and sisters in Christ. It is impossible to say that you love God and hate your brother. We are all children of God by virtue of our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Mental illness is not an excuse to hate and kill your Asians, for they are the body of Christ and if you hate a member of the body of Christ then you hate Jesus and no eternal life dwells in you. Heaven is a place where all cultures of people will gather around the throne of God praising Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. So love Asians as you love all the children of God.
#Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him and he in God. 1 John 4:15
Beloved, when you confess that Jesus is the Son of God, then God dwells in you and you are saved, sanctified, and soon to be glorified. When Jesus comes in the clouds to call His children home we will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. We will see Him as He is and as we have borne the image of the earthly, we will bear the image of the heavenly. We shall forever be with the Lord Jesus Christ to rule and reign through all of eternity in the Kingdom of God.
#And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 1 John 4:14
God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son into the world to be the Savior of all and we do testify to this truth. What a blessing to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and you will have the promise of eternal life. The apostles were eyewitnesses to this fact and we are the benefactors of this truth by faith. Faith is our victory over this world and we walk by faith, not by sight. So if you want to have faith in Jesus, then faith comes by hearing the word of God and the more you hear the word of God the more faith you will have. So take time to read the word of God every day and meditate on the promises of scripture. In this pandemic, many people are afraid of death and once you place your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you have the promise that absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Now we no longer have to fear death, but we must still take the vaccines to be safe. It is appointed unto man once to die, then after that the judgment. So, accept Jesus as your Savior today so that you will have confidence when you stand before Him at the Judgment Seat of Christ
#Hereby know we that we dwell in Him and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit. 1 John 4:13
When we dwell in Christ, God gives us the Holy Spirit and this is the proof that we are born again and dwelling in Jesus Christ the Lord. If you do not have the Spirit then you are none of His and you are walking in darkness. Does this mean that we must speak in tongues as the evidence that we have been baptized of the Spirit? No all do not speak in tongues who have been born again, but all will bear the fruits of the Spirit. Galatians 5:22 tells us the nine manifestations of the fruits of the Spirit. We must bear at least one fruit and some more than one as evidence that the Spirit has been given to us. Tongues started on the day of Pentecost and as Paul taught in I Cor. 13 that tongues would cease. Herein is the Father glorified that we bear more fruits and He will prune us to maximize our fruit-bearing.
#No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us and His love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:12
Thank God for Jesus for He is our Mediator before the Father and though we have not seen God by the power of the Holy Spirit we are being perfected by His love in us. So give thanks unto God for all of the love of God being poured out in our lives as we worship Him and give all the glory to God. I thank God for allowing me to spend time with my grandchildren and my daughters. It is a blessing to see the Lord bless your children and your children's children. A blessing to see my wife and though we are still separated God is good in blessing our children whom we raised to love the Lord. God is blessing us for training up our children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. So no matter what you are going through, the joy of the Lord is our strength so give God all the glory for His great redemption story.