What Is Your Will In Christ?

Thinking about getting married?                                  ...There's a lot to think about. As a follower of Christ considering the prospect of making that holy, lifelong covenant before Him, think about the order of your priorities and how they compare with Father God's. What would He say as your Father? Would He approve? Would He be able to bless your choices and priorities? If you care at all about your future path, you'd better to be able to say yes... We make a lot of decisions and choices in life, but few are more core with the potential to have lifelong impact than the decision to join together as one with another human being. One of the quickest ways to create serious challenges for ourselves is to bind ourselves to someone that doesn't share our convictions and beliefs about Christ. There's nothing more core and central to our existence as our belief in our Father God and Christ H...

Lord, Though I love my wife with great measure as a husband, let that love truly exist and be seen by her as something far greater. As I serve her in the manner that you've ordained, let the truth be and be recognized as it truly is...                                          ... that I serve You. By my serving You in obedience to Your word, You're serving her through me as the loving Father that You are - the one who dotes on His daughter. Through my obedience to You, my arms then become the loving arms of her Father to hold her, my hands the gentle touch of her creator...                                            ... as I serve You By my connection with Your heart, it becomes Your heart, through the means of this man, to warm hers and bring her joy. It becomes Y...

When I've lost true compassion for my fellow man, when I look at him in his rags and no longer recognize and have reverence for the value of a beloved child of the Most High God, I've lost my way. When I've become so brazen and fearless that just thinking about the God who created the universe and holds the power of life and death doesn't have the power to bring me to my knees, I've lost my way. When my gains in life in power, position or possessions become so valuable to me that I couldn't give them up in an instant to obey the God who made them possible in the first place, I've lost my way. When my own desires lead me down a path that knowingly conflicts with what the Judge Of The World has declared to be righteous, I've chosen to become willingly disobedient and defiant, so I've lost my way. When anything has more meaning, becomes more important, more valuable, seemingly more powerful - when I allow anything to come in conflict with conne...

Habakkuk 3:2 (NLT) "I have heard all about you, LORD . I am filled with awe by your amazing works. In this time of our deep need, help us again as you did in years gone by. And in your anger, remember your mercy." I've been occupied with a thought for some time that was magnified even greater by a message I heard from our pastor recently, and it troubles me for those who don't share it. We see things as we've become accustomed and not necessarily as they are. We exist in a state of "normalcy" in this world that doesn't seem to understand just how corrupt and broken that it really is. The world's standard for comparison to determine it's current state is based on a moving and ever changing platform of acceptable ideas, values and practices,...           ...but the standard that will judge the world has never changed. Even those who work to follow Christ are susceptible to an outlook that's flawed if the standard that they view a...

We encounter life's challenges one at a time. Sometimes they come at us slowly and sometimes it seems, in rapid succession. We conquer them... or sometimes we don't. But I don't think that it's our win / loss record in dealing with those challenges that the Lord is looking at. At every point in our lives, we make decisions and at every point of decision the truth of our heart's intention is exposed to the God who's watching. Deception, greed, lust, anger, drunkenness and many more are readily accessible options that the enemy makes available on the table for consideration at the moment of decision. The Lord's given us instruction to choose from His own table of options and yet we're also free to choose as we will. But make no mistake, choosing from the enemy's table of options comes at a price... Romans 1:28-32 (NLT) 28 "Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do thin...

What's come against me in life I once sometimes mourned and even resented- not recognizing it to be a potential treasure. But I eventually came to realize that most every opportunity for worldly struggle was in truth an experience that had the possible opportunity to bring me closer to the heart of my Creator if I looked up in an effort to glean what I could from a higher perspective. It was a view that I once did not see... As creatures far lesser than our Sovereign Creator and encased in sensitive, passing flesh, our focus may often be tempted to be shortsighted and more concerned with our own sensitivity. But in every experience, if we attempt to look at it with different eyes, there's often something to be gleaned from every passing experience that could bring us closer to a heart far greater than our own. If we find it, it's always worth the effort. For example, thinking about the joys we might experience, the concerns and the pains, as a mother or father doting ...