Father God let this really touch someone’s heart today knowing they have the gift you have given called the mind that can make all things right in their life and save their mind, body and soul from disapproval and turn themselves back to You in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
The idea of community comes from the sense of responsibility we have for each other. In the Bible, God encourages us to take care of our brothers and sisters – whether or friends or enemies! We must remember the importance of maintaining the connection with each other and focusing on building a community of love in word and actions.
And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Matthew 5:47
Challenging both culture and human nature, Jesus has commanded His disciples to love their enemies. In doing so, they will be imitating God as sons naturally imitate their fathers. We must remember the importance of maintaining the connection with each other and focusing on building a community of love in word and actions.
It reads in 1 Peter 4:10. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms just as Jesus did.
Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? (Matt 7:16) No one picks grapes or figs from thornbushes. You will know them by what they do. Thorn bushes do not bear grapes, and briers do not bear figs. You will know them by what they produce. “People don’t pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles, do they?
It reads in Matthew 7:15-23.
(True and False Prophets) “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. (True and False Disciples) “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
Matthew 7:15–23 contains a two-sided warning about false believers. A religious leader may appear respectable and wise, but you must look at the fruit of his life in order to know if he truly represents God. In the same way, it’s possible for a person to claim to follow Jesus, referring to Him as “Lord,” when they are not true believers. Only those who do the will of the Father will be allowed into the kingdom of heaven, which Jesus defines as beginning with true belief (It reads in John 6:28–29; Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”). Our good works might fool other people, and might even fool ourselves, but they cannot fool God. Amen.
It reads in Matthew 15:1-20; Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!” Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’ But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’ they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus, you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’” Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.” Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?” He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.” “Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them. “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”
So, in this we should remember that our minds can heal our bodies from sin and the body is just a temporary shield that God has given us. If we don’t take care of our bodies, we will die. There is no way around this situation other than doing right to save our souls. Just saying.
Romans 15:2-3 “We should help others do what is right and build them up in the Lord. For even Christ didn’t live to please himself. As the Scriptures say, “The insults of those who insult you, O God, have fallen on me.”
Just think about Christmas this year. Jesus Asked! He was born on Christmas. He has been with us forever. Looking out for us. Jesus is not ashamed of us, we should not be ashamed of Jesus, and He wants us to turn from sin so we can walk with Him and breathe. Just breathe and feel the real way of life. Getting back to this question Jesus asked. Gave room for thought even in my heart but to summarize it through their traditions, they changed the correct interpretation and application of God’s Law in order to achieve their own selfish purposes. As the Son of God and Messiah, Jesus interpreted the Law correctly and told His accusers the truth about God and God’s Law; He pointed out to them their immoral thoughts that led to their immoral behaviors (which offended them). In response, Jesus asked them why they set their traditions (their accepted practices and rules), above the Law of God and used their interpretations of God’s Law and their traditions to violate the Law of God. After telling his disciples to disregard their displeasure, he traveled to Tyre and Sidon. After arriving, he was met by a woman who cried out to him and begged him to heal her daughter. Jesus commended her for her faith and did as she asked. Afterwards, Jesus and his disciples travelled outside Galilee and stopped in the mountains. Crowds of people came to them daily, and Jesus healed and taught them all. At the end of three days, Jesus spoke to his disciples and commanded them to serve food to the multitudes for they had gone without anything to eat. His disciples answered him and said that all they had with them were seven loaves of bread and a few small fish. So, see Jesus didn’t get discouraged by the selfish people. Jesus went on giving and caring for others. This is where prayer and action make a difference in the believer’s life. God takes care of our prayers, and we keep walking in righteousness. Give God all our problems and move on for all that He has for us in His goodness. I need to do a heart check and be a blessing.
It reads in Matthew 7:1-6; “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way, you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces
No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands. They will not labor in vain, nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the Lord, they and their descendants with them.
Isaiah 65:22-23 NIV
The Lord is always out in front of us. “He knows the thought and the intent of the heart.” Because He wants the best for us, He proceeds to answer many times in advance of our calling. What a Father. What a Savior!
{We must use what God has equipped us with to work together and have fellowship with one another. As a community we must work together to advance God’s kingdom, encourage each other, build each other up, and we must bear each other’s burdens.}
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
Matthew 6:26-28
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 1 Corinthians 12:7 (REV) reads, “Now to each one [each Christian] is given the manifestation of the spirit for the common good.” A “manifestation” is something made visible, apparent, or evident in the sense’s world. Therefore, a manifestation of the spirit is something that is brought into the sense’s world via the gift of holy spirit.
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17
{Let’s Pray}
Lord, thank You for Your Word of truth and the lessons that it teaches all Your children. Help me to walk by faith in Christ and not to depend on my own human worth. Keep me from pride I thank You and praise You that You have provided for our protection, as well as our pardon Help me to Believe and not judge. Help me to ask more questions and to listen more. Living with You, and for You, has a lot of built-in benefits that we can’t afford to be without. Your Presence shall go with me and others all the days of our lives. I thank You that You are always for us. Give others and myself a heart that is humble in spirit and lead all of us in the path of Your righteousness and truth, in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
(Power Verse)
This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him. “John 3:2
If you want Jesus to come into your heart, pray this prayer.
Dear God, I know that I am a sinner and I ask you to please forgive my sins. I believe in my heart that Jesus is your Son; that He died for me on a cross and you raised Him back to life. Jesus, I declare that you are my Lord and I open my heart to you in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
If you prayed this prayer Jesus has come into your life and will never leave or abandon, you.
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