Category: Discipline

Are you bearing fruit or are you not?  Are you a Christian, or are you just giving lip service that will not be acceptable?

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If there is no fruit, you will be taken away.  That is not a place you want to be.  Pray that the Lord would help you fully see that you might produce fruit.  If you are bearing fruit (true believers), the sin in your life will be pruned away, that you may produce more fruit!  How great for those who believe, to have God help us, throw off the sins that hold us back.  This is a process, that does not happen over night.  May we hand over to God, those sins, so that we might not have to go through the painful process of pruning as much.  Let us hope for and wait, for that day when we are called home, to be fully complete, lacking in nothing!

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.
John 15:2 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.15.2.nasb

Set aside your political beliefs, which man has made.  The Bible says,  mankind was made in God’s image!  Even the most distorted of an image, deserves being treated with dignity and respect.   That also doesn’t mean, people are not supposed to submit to governmental authorities laws……unless it breaks God’s moral laws.  May God give us all wisdom, as we live in these trying times.  May he give wisdom to our leaders, who must see through the principle of scripture, and not be wise in their own eyes.

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God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 1:27 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/gen.1.27.NASB

What Good News!  Do you believe it?  There is no sin you can hide from God.  Why not humble yourself before him, and be washed white as snow.  Don’t beat yourself up.  There is no sin God cannot forgive?  Do you believe it?  If you are hiding from him, then you are missing it.  Humble yourself before him, and let him change your heart, through his grace and mercy.  The alternative is, he will humble you anyway, but it will not be a good ending for you.  Not now, and not forever, possibly.  May the Lord grant you his eyes to see today.

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Seek the Lord while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the Lord , And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 55:6‭-‬7 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.55.6-7.NASB

This is so difficult for me.  It is only, through the eyes of Jesus, and the power of the Holy Spirit, that I am able.  Interestingly, this is not a suggestion, but a command!  Start somewhere, and the Lord will help you grow in this.  Remember, we were enemies of God, until we surrendered to Jesus, through the work of the cross.  He loved us, before we could love him.

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But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.
Luke 6:35 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.6.35.NASB

Are you going through the motions with God…….Don’t think he doesn’t know.   He desires relationship and devotion, but hypocrisy he will deal with.   Read the rest of the chapter to see.  May we humble ourselves before you LORD.  You are a gracious God who Loves us.  You care enough to discipline us, when we elevate ourselves above you, to bring us back in the fold.  

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Then the Lord said, “Because this people draw near with their words And honor Me with their lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote,
Isaiah 29:13 NASB

https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.29.13.NASB