Keep Your Eyes On Him

     Jesus said, "If you hold to My teaching, you are really My disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free (John 8:31-32)."      Truth is Jesus. Truth is the living Word of God. The question is, do you believe this truth? Does your life show that you believe this truth? Jesus clearly said, if you hold  or cling to His teaching, then you are truly His disciple.  Apart from Jesus, truth would not exist. He is the One who holds all things together.       Many people want to make truth whatever they believe, not basing it on God's word, but on something they have heard, seen or read. This has happened throughout history. In Judges 21:25, we read, "In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit." Do you see what is wrong here? It is what is happening today. Everyone thinks they are right in their own eyes and does what "they" think is right...Proverbs tells us, "Do you see a man wise in...

     "The thief comes only  to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." John 10:10      You have an enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy your testimony, ruin your relationships and cause confusion and chaos in your life.       I want you to understand the background of satan. It is important that you know who your enemy is. satan is not what movies and cartoons make him out to be. You need to know what God's word says about him. satan was once "annointed as a guardian cherub and on the holy mount of God (Ezekiel 28:14)." He was the model of perfection~full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. He was adorned with many beautiful precious stones (Ezekiel 28:12-13). Because of his beauty, his heart became proud and filled with violence. He said "I will ascend to heaven , I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights...

         "On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lord in the presence of Israel: "O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon."      So the sun stood still, and the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar.      The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the Lord listened to a man."      Joshua 10:12-14      When I read these verses, I thought, I want to have sun stand still prayers like Joshua! What is it about Joshua, that caused the Lord to listen like He did? Joshua was a man of great faith and He obeyed the Lord. Not too long before, the walls of Jericho had fallen because Joshua did as the Lord commanded him to do. Did it make sense? In human terms, no, not at all. However, like Joshua, we must look ...

“Therefore, anyone who hears these words of Mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” Matthew 7:24 “Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him.” John 14:21      As followers of Christ, we are to be doers of the Word, not merely hearers. James tells us that if we only listen to the Word, we actually deceive ourselves. He compares those who only listen to the word as one who looks at his face in the mirror, but forgets what he looks like after walking away (1:22-23). It is not simply going to church once a week on Sunday. Rather, it is spending every day in God’s presence letting Him transform you making you more like Christ.     Anyone can go to church on Sunday and put on a good front. The question is, how are you living the rest of the week? What do you do when no one else is looki...

     Jesus answered, "I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6      Jesus did not say I am one of many ways, but I am the  way. Friend, no matter what you have heard, or what you have read, Jesus is the only  way to the Father. Any  religion that preaches a different gospel is a false religion. Unfortunately, there are many that have been deceived by thinking they can get into heaven by good works, by praying, by reading their Bible or by trying to be good. We could never be good enough and could never do enough good works to get into heaven. "There is no one righteous, not even one" (Romans 3:10). Our hearts are desperately wicked. "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9). Apart from Jesus, there is nothing in us that is good. Sure, you may do good things at times and love certain people in your life, but without Christ, yo...

     "To You O Lord, I lift up my soul; in You I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. No one whose hope is in You will ever be put to shame , but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse." Psalm 25:1-3      God is a God of hope! Before the beginning of time to the present, as long as you have the Lord God, you have hope. This hope we have is not found in worldly things. It is not found in others. It is found only in Christ Jesus. Hebrews 6:19 tells us that this hope is an anchor for our souls. An anchor is something that a ship uses to keep stable. As the anchor holds, so does the ship. In Christ, you are the ship and He is the anchor that keeps you.You may be going through some tumultuous times in your life right now. Everything around you may be falling apart, but friend, as long as you have Jesus, He will hold you steady. Because of Him, you can face anything in this world and know that ...