“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:”
Ephesians 1:3-4 KJV
Ephesians 1:3-4 KJV
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Forwarded from Handfuls On Purpose❤️ *See Ruth chapter 2 (Scott Metcalf)
There is a moment tucked away in 2 Kings 13:20–21 that feels almost too quiet for how explosive it is. Elisha, the prophet of God, has died. Israel buries him. The story should end there. But instead, Scripture tells us that during a raid, a dead man is hastily thrown into Elisha’s tomb. The moment the body touches the prophet’s bones, the man comes back to life and stands on his feet. No prayer. No ceremony. No striving. Just contact. Life flows from a place marked by death.
This is not a random miracle. It is a revelation. God is preaching the gospel centuries before the cross. The message is simple and stunning. Death cannot survive in the presence of resurrection life. Even in the Old Covenant, even through the bones of a fallen prophet, God shows us that His life is stronger than the grave. What was lifeless does not stay lifeless when it comes into contact with what God has touched.
Now pause and consider what this means for us in light of Jesus. If life flowed from the bones of Elisha, how much more from the risen Christ. Elisha stayed in the grave. Jesus walked out of it. Elisha’s bones carried residual power. Jesus carries eternal life itself. Scripture tells us that Jesus was raised by the glory of the Father and that the same Spirit who raised Him from the dead now dwells in us. The resurrection is not just something we believe in. It is something we are connected to.
Many believers live as if resurrection power is fragile. As if fear, worry, anxiety, or doubt can cancel what Christ accomplished. But this story reminds us that death did not overpower life. Life overpowered death. The man in the tomb did not try to come back to life. He did not fight his way out. He simply came into contact with resurrection power and life did what life always does. It revived. It restored. It stood him back up.
This is how grace works in your life today. You do not resurrect yourself. You do not reason your way out of fear. You do not discipline your way into peace. You come into contact with Jesus. You rest in what He has already done. Fear loses its grip not because you are strong, but because He is alive. Worry loosens when you remember that the cross settled your future and the resurrection secured it.
The Father is for you because of Jesus and the cross. Not because you are doing well. Not because you have perfect faith. Not because you are fearless. Scripture tells us that God did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all. That is the proof. If God went that far for you while you were still dead in sin, He is not against you now that you are alive in Christ. The cross settled God’s posture toward you forever.
Here is how this applies practically. When fear rises, you do not argue with it. You return to the truth that you are joined to a risen Savior. When worry shows up, you remind your heart that resurrection power lives in you, not condemnation. When doubt whispers that things will never change, you remember that the grave was not the end for Jesus, and it is not the end of your story either.
Today, let the Father grace you down with His love. You are not carrying your faith alone. You are carried by Christ. You are not trying to survive. You are connected to life itself. Resurrection is not waiting for heaven. It is already at work in you. Death could not remain in the tomb then, and fear does not get to rule your heart now.
This is not a random miracle. It is a revelation. God is preaching the gospel centuries before the cross. The message is simple and stunning. Death cannot survive in the presence of resurrection life. Even in the Old Covenant, even through the bones of a fallen prophet, God shows us that His life is stronger than the grave. What was lifeless does not stay lifeless when it comes into contact with what God has touched.
Now pause and consider what this means for us in light of Jesus. If life flowed from the bones of Elisha, how much more from the risen Christ. Elisha stayed in the grave. Jesus walked out of it. Elisha’s bones carried residual power. Jesus carries eternal life itself. Scripture tells us that Jesus was raised by the glory of the Father and that the same Spirit who raised Him from the dead now dwells in us. The resurrection is not just something we believe in. It is something we are connected to.
Many believers live as if resurrection power is fragile. As if fear, worry, anxiety, or doubt can cancel what Christ accomplished. But this story reminds us that death did not overpower life. Life overpowered death. The man in the tomb did not try to come back to life. He did not fight his way out. He simply came into contact with resurrection power and life did what life always does. It revived. It restored. It stood him back up.
This is how grace works in your life today. You do not resurrect yourself. You do not reason your way out of fear. You do not discipline your way into peace. You come into contact with Jesus. You rest in what He has already done. Fear loses its grip not because you are strong, but because He is alive. Worry loosens when you remember that the cross settled your future and the resurrection secured it.
The Father is for you because of Jesus and the cross. Not because you are doing well. Not because you have perfect faith. Not because you are fearless. Scripture tells us that God did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all. That is the proof. If God went that far for you while you were still dead in sin, He is not against you now that you are alive in Christ. The cross settled God’s posture toward you forever.
Here is how this applies practically. When fear rises, you do not argue with it. You return to the truth that you are joined to a risen Savior. When worry shows up, you remind your heart that resurrection power lives in you, not condemnation. When doubt whispers that things will never change, you remember that the grave was not the end for Jesus, and it is not the end of your story either.
Today, let the Father grace you down with His love. You are not carrying your faith alone. You are carried by Christ. You are not trying to survive. You are connected to life itself. Resurrection is not waiting for heaven. It is already at work in you. Death could not remain in the tomb then, and fear does not get to rule your heart now.
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“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.”
Colossians 3:5-7 KJV
Colossians 3:5-7 KJV
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Forwarded from Be Ready For The Rapture
🕊🔥Revelation 22 : 12 ~ “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.”🙌👏
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“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”
Ephesians 4:26-29 KJV
Ephesians 4:26-29 KJV
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Forwarded from Be Ready For The Rapture
💠2 Corinthians 4:8 ~ We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
💠Job 23:10 ~ But He knows the way that I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
💠Job 23:10 ~ But He knows the way that I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
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“And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
Ephesians 4:30-32 KJV
Ephesians 4:30-32 KJV
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God First (Seeking God through Jesus)
2 Timothy 1 - Questions Q: What does the word, manifest mean? Q: Who was Paul an apostle of? Q: By whose will? Q: According to the promise of life which is who? Q: Who is Paul writing to? Q: What did Paul say he was thankful to God that he remembered…
2 Timothy 1 - Questions & Answers
Q: What does the word, manifest mean?
A: Clear or obvious to the eye or mind.
Q: Who was Paul an apostle of?
A: Jesus Christ.
Q: By whose will?
A: God.
Q: According to the promise of life which is who?
A: Christ Jesus.
Q: Who is Paul writing to?
A; Timothy.
Q: What did Paul say he was thankful to God that he remembered to pray for night and day?
A: Timothy.
Q: What did Paul say that he greatly desired?
A: To see Timothy.
Q: What did Paul see in Lois and Eunice?
A: Unfeigned faith.
Q: Who was Lois to Timothy?
A: His grandmother.
Q: Who was Eunice to Timothy?
A: His mother.
Q: Did Paul see this in Eunice too? Yes or No.
A: Yes.
Q: Did Paul feel persuaded that this was in Timothy too? Yes or No.
A: Yes.
Q: Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by what?
A: The putting on of my hands.
Q: For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of what?
A: Power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Q: Be not thou therefore ashamed of what?
A: The testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner.
Q: Paul said to be thou partaker of what?
A: The afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God.
Q: Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own what?
A: Purpose and grace.
Q: Who gave us in Christ Jesus before the world began?
A: God.
Q: Who is made manifest in our Savior Jesus Christ?
A: God.
Q: Who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel?
A: Jesus Christ.
Q: Who was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles?
A: Paul.
Q: For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against what?
A: That day.
Q: Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in who?
A: Christ Jesus.
Q: That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by who?
A: The Holy Ghost.
Q: Which dwelleth where?
A: In us.
Q: This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of what?
A: Whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
Q: The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my what?
A: Chain.
Q: But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and what?
A: Found me.
Q: The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou what?
A: Knowest very well.
Q: What does the word, manifest mean?
A: Clear or obvious to the eye or mind.
Q: Who was Paul an apostle of?
A: Jesus Christ.
Q: By whose will?
A: God.
Q: According to the promise of life which is who?
A: Christ Jesus.
Q: Who is Paul writing to?
A; Timothy.
Q: What did Paul say he was thankful to God that he remembered to pray for night and day?
A: Timothy.
Q: What did Paul say that he greatly desired?
A: To see Timothy.
Q: What did Paul see in Lois and Eunice?
A: Unfeigned faith.
Q: Who was Lois to Timothy?
A: His grandmother.
Q: Who was Eunice to Timothy?
A: His mother.
Q: Did Paul see this in Eunice too? Yes or No.
A: Yes.
Q: Did Paul feel persuaded that this was in Timothy too? Yes or No.
A: Yes.
Q: Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by what?
A: The putting on of my hands.
Q: For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of what?
A: Power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Q: Be not thou therefore ashamed of what?
A: The testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner.
Q: Paul said to be thou partaker of what?
A: The afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God.
Q: Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own what?
A: Purpose and grace.
Q: Who gave us in Christ Jesus before the world began?
A: God.
Q: Who is made manifest in our Savior Jesus Christ?
A: God.
Q: Who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel?
A: Jesus Christ.
Q: Who was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles?
A: Paul.
Q: For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against what?
A: That day.
Q: Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in who?
A: Christ Jesus.
Q: That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by who?
A: The Holy Ghost.
Q: Which dwelleth where?
A: In us.
Q: This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of what?
A: Whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
Q: The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my what?
A: Chain.
Q: But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and what?
A: Found me.
Q: The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou what?
A: Knowest very well.
2 Timothy 1, Paul opens with gratitude to God for Timothy’s sincere faith, reminding him of the spiritual heritage that shaped his devotion and calling. He urges Timothy to actively stir up the gift God placed within him, emphasizing that God’s Spirit produces power, love, and sound judgment rather than fear. Suffering for the gospel is presented not as defeat, but as participation in God’s saving purpose, which was established by His grace long before and revealed through Christ’s victory over death. Timothy is encouraged to hold firmly to the pattern of true teaching, to guard the entrusted truth through the Holy Spirit, and to remain loyal even when others turn away, trusting in God’s faithful strength.
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