Don't mistake God's patience for the lie that He is okay with your sin.
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EASTER call to husbands and wives: LOVE like Christ loved — SACRIFICIALLY! ❤️🔥
FORGIVE like Christ forgave — COMPLETELY! 🕊️ LIVE like Christ lives — VICTORIOUSLY! 💪 Your marriage becomes a LIVING testimony of the resurrection! Eph 5:25 🌟
How will you live out resurrection victory in your home TODAY? #StrongMarriage #Easter
FORGIVE like Christ forgave — COMPLETELY! 🕊️ LIVE like Christ lives — VICTORIOUSLY! 💪 Your marriage becomes a LIVING testimony of the resurrection! Eph 5:25 🌟
How will you live out resurrection victory in your home TODAY? #StrongMarriage #Easter
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Here is what it means to live for the Kingdom of God:
• Putting his priorities above our own desires
• Investing our resources in things that last
• Sharing the hope of Jesus with those who are lost
• Looking forward to the day of his return
• Putting his priorities above our own desires
• Investing our resources in things that last
• Sharing the hope of Jesus with those who are lost
• Looking forward to the day of his return
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Jesus didn't hangout with sinners because he affirmed and accepted their lifestyles.
He spent time with sinners to show them their need for a Savior, and to teach them a different way of living.
He spent time with sinners to show them their need for a Savior, and to teach them a different way of living.
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Simply reciting the "sinner's prayer" has never saved anyone.
There is no place in Scripture that guarantees salvation if you repeat the right words. You can't trick God into giving you a ticket into heaven just because you repeated something at Bible camp or during an altar call.
Salvation comes through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, resulting in a changed life. Yes, we can and should call out to God to ask Him to forgive us (Luke 18:13), but it must come with a changed heart.
Don't trust a moment.
Trust Christ.
There is no place in Scripture that guarantees salvation if you repeat the right words. You can't trick God into giving you a ticket into heaven just because you repeated something at Bible camp or during an altar call.
Salvation comes through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, resulting in a changed life. Yes, we can and should call out to God to ask Him to forgive us (Luke 18:13), but it must come with a changed heart.
Don't trust a moment.
Trust Christ.
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7 Morning Affirmations (Bible)
1. I am forgiven (Eph 4:32).
2. I am new (2 Cor 5:17).
3. I am set apart (1 Cor 6:11).
4. I am accepted (Eph 1:7).
5. I am chosen (Eph 1:4).
6. I am loved (Gal 2:20).
7. I am saved (Eph 2:8).
I am in Christ‼️🛡️🗡️❤️
1. I am forgiven (Eph 4:32).
2. I am new (2 Cor 5:17).
3. I am set apart (1 Cor 6:11).
4. I am accepted (Eph 1:7).
5. I am chosen (Eph 1:4).
6. I am loved (Gal 2:20).
7. I am saved (Eph 2:8).
I am in Christ‼️🛡️🗡️❤️
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Listening to Scripture is listening to God. Reading the Bible is listening to hear the Holy Spirit speak.
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Temptation is not a sin, but entertaining it is (2 Tim. 2:22).
Run from the things that draw you away from God.
Run from the things that draw you away from God.
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I have read the Bible, and found that there are many errors. All of which were in me.
April 10: Tent Making for Eternity
#Devotional
Deuteronomy 18:1–20:20; 2 Corinthians 5:1–10; Psalm 37:23–40
Paul, the tent maker, knew the temporal nature of human-made structures. For someone who made and probably repaired tents, he knew all their flaws and tendencies for wear. So it’s not a stretch for him to draw the connection from tents to mortality:
“For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens” (2 Cor 5:1).
Paul is also making a connection to the tabernacle, the tent where the Israelites first regularly experienced God. Like the tents that Paul made, these earthly homes for God would eventually break down and be destroyed. But the Spirit and the heavens, where God actually dwelled, would live on. While temporal tent worship would fall apart, eternal worship in God’s heavenly “building” will remain.
Paul contrasts the art of tent-making and the beautiful worship places of Yahweh with God’s work (what He actually made), which was incorruptible. Right now, we have a “building from God” waiting for us—eternity made possible by the sacrifice of Christ.
He stresses that our eternal reality transforms our “meantime.” It clarifies what “we have as our ambition, whether at home in the body or absent from the body, to be acceptable to him” (2 Cor 5:9). While waiting, we don’t have to live with longing. We don’t need to escape. We can live for Him, spreading the news that the kingdom of God is at hand. Until then, God has given us someone who comforts us: the Holy Spirit (John 17). He reminds us of our eternal confidence and empowers us to live for God.
How would your perspective change if you looked at your daily tasks in light of eternal significance?
#Devotional
Deuteronomy 18:1–20:20; 2 Corinthians 5:1–10; Psalm 37:23–40
Paul, the tent maker, knew the temporal nature of human-made structures. For someone who made and probably repaired tents, he knew all their flaws and tendencies for wear. So it’s not a stretch for him to draw the connection from tents to mortality:
“For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens” (2 Cor 5:1).
Paul is also making a connection to the tabernacle, the tent where the Israelites first regularly experienced God. Like the tents that Paul made, these earthly homes for God would eventually break down and be destroyed. But the Spirit and the heavens, where God actually dwelled, would live on. While temporal tent worship would fall apart, eternal worship in God’s heavenly “building” will remain.
Paul contrasts the art of tent-making and the beautiful worship places of Yahweh with God’s work (what He actually made), which was incorruptible. Right now, we have a “building from God” waiting for us—eternity made possible by the sacrifice of Christ.
He stresses that our eternal reality transforms our “meantime.” It clarifies what “we have as our ambition, whether at home in the body or absent from the body, to be acceptable to him” (2 Cor 5:9). While waiting, we don’t have to live with longing. We don’t need to escape. We can live for Him, spreading the news that the kingdom of God is at hand. Until then, God has given us someone who comforts us: the Holy Spirit (John 17). He reminds us of our eternal confidence and empowers us to live for God.
How would your perspective change if you looked at your daily tasks in light of eternal significance?
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April 10 - Warning against Partial Righteousness
#LifeOfChrist
“‘For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven’” (Matthew 5:20).
The righteousness practiced by the religious leaders further displeased God because it was partial, falling way short of His perfect standard. Again in Matthew 23, Jesus illustrates this phony righteousness: “You tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others” (v. 23).
The Jewish leaders were conscientious about making nonessential tithes of the smallest plants and seeds, yet they totally neglected showing justice and mercy to others or having heartfelt faithfulness to God.
To a large degree this sin of partial righteousness flows directly from externalism. Unregenerate people disregard justice, mercy, and faithfulness because those traits basically reflect a divinely transformed heart. Without a new heart no one can accomplish “the weightier provisions of the law.”
In a separate encounter, the Lord quoted Isaiah and further warned the Phari-sees of their empty and misdirected religion: “This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me. But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men” (Mark 7:6–7). Like the religious leaders and many of the people of Jesus’ day, professing believers today can be constantly exposed to Scripture but only superficially responsive to it. Their watered-down, partial obedience to God’s commands demonstrates their failure to grasp the profound spiritual intent of God’s law and their probable unsaved condition.
Ask Yourself
Realize afresh today that the only obedience which interests God is total obedience—the kind that can only be accomplished through Christ’s righteousness, imputed to His redeemed children. What instances of partial obedience need to be converted to full obedience in your life?
#LifeOfChrist
“‘For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven’” (Matthew 5:20).
The righteousness practiced by the religious leaders further displeased God because it was partial, falling way short of His perfect standard. Again in Matthew 23, Jesus illustrates this phony righteousness: “You tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others” (v. 23).
The Jewish leaders were conscientious about making nonessential tithes of the smallest plants and seeds, yet they totally neglected showing justice and mercy to others or having heartfelt faithfulness to God.
To a large degree this sin of partial righteousness flows directly from externalism. Unregenerate people disregard justice, mercy, and faithfulness because those traits basically reflect a divinely transformed heart. Without a new heart no one can accomplish “the weightier provisions of the law.”
In a separate encounter, the Lord quoted Isaiah and further warned the Phari-sees of their empty and misdirected religion: “This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me. But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men” (Mark 7:6–7). Like the religious leaders and many of the people of Jesus’ day, professing believers today can be constantly exposed to Scripture but only superficially responsive to it. Their watered-down, partial obedience to God’s commands demonstrates their failure to grasp the profound spiritual intent of God’s law and their probable unsaved condition.
Ask Yourself
Realize afresh today that the only obedience which interests God is total obedience—the kind that can only be accomplished through Christ’s righteousness, imputed to His redeemed children. What instances of partial obedience need to be converted to full obedience in your life?
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I hate sin. I hate the sin still in me. I long for the day when it is gone forever.
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Eternity is way too long to be wrong about Jesus.
HE IS RISEN! 🙌✝️ Let that truth ECHO in your marriage every morning!
Because He lives, we can face tomorrow — TOGETHER, STRONGER, more in love, more like Him! 🌅 1 Cor 15:20–22 ❤️
What “Because He lives” declaration are you making over your marriage this Easter? #StrongMarriage #Easter
Because He lives, we can face tomorrow — TOGETHER, STRONGER, more in love, more like Him! 🌅 1 Cor 15:20–22 ❤️
What “Because He lives” declaration are you making over your marriage this Easter? #StrongMarriage #Easter
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There is no reincarnation. You get one life, then you meet your Maker.
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Being a wife and mother is not a "lesser path."
It is one of the most powerful, formative, and God-honoring roles in the world.
Not every woman is called to it. But our culture has no business belittling what God has designed.
It is one of the most powerful, formative, and God-honoring roles in the world.
Not every woman is called to it. But our culture has no business belittling what God has designed.
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Satan wants to distract you with things that don't matter. He wants you to forget about eternity and focus on the now.
Don't let him win. Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus, saints.
Don't let him win. Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus, saints.
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