Simple Devotions

Tag: faith

  • mars is not in the script..

    Daily writing prompt
    Do you think humans will ever colonize Mars? What would life there actually look like?
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    Hello readers,

    I’m happy to inform everyone according to the Word of God, we will not be leaving this planet until the Son of God comes for those who chose to surrender their lives to His calling.

    How do I know? Prophecy declared and written in the infallible Word of God.

    Only through accepting the Gospel of Christ is how one will leave this place called earth.

    The best way to prepare for take off is to read the accounts of the great controversy from cover to cover. The Holy Word-Jesus Bible.

    The Word of God is purposed for all to see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ. Eph 3:8-21

    To the intent that the manifold of the wisdom of God might be made known by the church {His followers/believers/disciples} and to those principalities and powers in the heavenly places.

    According to the eternal purpose which God the Father accomplished in Christ Jesus the Lord.

    Those who are insistent that Mars is a possible escape route from this deteriorating sin filled world are misinformed and deceived by the enemy of God – the liar aka Satan.

    God invites all to investigate the truth of His Word boldly with confidence and I hope that whoever reads these words will seek the truth in the Word of God.

    You should pray and ask the Lord for the light to see the truth in this dark world and this will only happen if you have faith in Him.

    The Lord invites every person to accept His invitation to eternal life and even life today more abundantly, by allowing His Holy Spirit into your heart you will experience the healing power of Christ forgiveness.

    All are sinners born into this sin filled world having a very selfish nature which is why we need a new heart and mind in Christ.

    He invites you to come as you are, He will heal, clean and prepare you for life with Him. To be able to even begin to comprehend what is the width and length and depth and height of the love of Christ which passes knowledge.

    Let Him dwell in your hearts, so that you will know the love of God and begin to be rooted in His truths.

    That you may be filled with the fullness of God.

    Because He who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to His power that works in us.

    And it will be to the glory of Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever who leave this planet with Him.

    Friends accept the invitation open the stony heart of yours and let His light come in,

    In Christ love – amen

  • money buys happiness

    Daily writing prompt
    Share a proverb you think is completely wrong and make your case.
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    This title is one proverbial saying ~ I’ll never agree with.

    It’s been my personal experience that it’s an attitude that brings happiness.

    In the book of Matt 5:1-12 Jesus sat down and explained the distinctive joy of His kingdom.

    He begins by saying: Happiness comes from having a humble attitude.

    Have you ever noticed this is true with most humble people even in just passing by? It seems those who smile or even acknowledge you by holding open a door to let you go first, those people have a certain attitude about them.

    While those whom perceive themselves better or superior do not act in this manner, I’d guess they are in fact not happy and less then humble.

    Back to Beatitudes: Humility means you feel your need of God and if you trust in Him , you have the kingdom of God within you.

    So clearly humbleness in God, gives confidence which gives happiness!

    We see humility at its best where confidence is within.

    How appropriate that we can see this clearly.

    I’m going to stop here but stay tuned from more beatitudes.

    And I suggest we really think about what this means.

    There is nothing in the life worth more then our need of God the Father. He gave us His son Jesus Christ as our Savior, we only need to humble ourselves in acceptance of this gift and repent in our need of forgiveness. It’s not hard. Stop chasing what you think you want, and give God the opportunity to work in your life to give you what you need.

    Friends if we are not feeling confident about our eternal life. We should pray and ask God to show us what needs to change in our walk with Him, He wants to give us a happiness the world can’t not offer.

    In Christ love, amen

  • nothing between

    I was raised to understand the God of the Universe who created all things and then made man in His image is also The One who wants nothing between Himself and His children.

    I know this is true because I have experienced a continued favor in my life. Because of this I raised my three children to know He loves them just the same, and at the young ages when we would load up to go anywhere in the car – I would ask them ” do you have your seatbelts on?” They would say ” yes ” and then I would tell them “ok now lets put on our spiritual seatbelts ” and we would stop and pray.

    I believe that in this life we are subject to all kinds of possible accidents and it’s those accidents that would discourages us from believing that God cares, I’ve heard it said often “if God is love…”

    What we fail to understand is there is this great conflict of { Good verses Evil} this is very much the reason for all the tribulations; trials and heartache.

    This is not because God doesn’t care or love – just like driving safely doesn’t keep you from all the possibilities of an accident. We are subjected to other drivers, their distractions; their lifestyle choices.

    There is a great need for you to trust and obey the Word of God. In order to survive the daily assault’s by the evil one. If you believe in God and His Son Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior then you have become an enemy to the liar and deceiver. You are at war daily to stay closer to the path of righteousness.

    But you need not fear, only respect and trust that whatever is born of God {confessed sinners made new } overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. ( 1 John 5:4)

    We also need to realize Jesus ~ who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father. ( Galatians 1:4)

    He who came and died for you will hear the desire of the humble; He will prepare your heart; He will hear.

    Friends, don’t stop praying let nothing come between you and the Savior – the reward is great.

    In Christ love, amen

  • school of trials

    Those whose purpose it is to serve God in their lives will walk in His light, they will endure all kinds of tribulations.

    Why? Ephesians 6:12 we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

    Even so we are able have fellowship with those whom also serve Jesus Christ the Son of God who cleanses us from all sin, this class of believers help one another battle, in prayers encouraging each other to stay on the path of right doing.

    Living to serve God through Christ examples means enduring burdens. Jesus is the only one who redeems however sin still exist to remove God’s children from the choice to accept His son’s offering.

    His redemption was given that in faith those who believe would be saved. Jesus is the new covenant – which the evil one of the world hates, yet if we who live in the world would take heed to the words of truth that gives life accepting Gods gift of life to us, we will learn that Christ Jesus is indeed the Savior of the world.

    This gift is to everyone, many will not receive it because it requires belief and also works, some say it doesn’t matter and we only need to confess we are sinners to be saved but they continue to live in sin filled lifestyle.

    This will not work out for them.

    He who says I know Jesus but does not keep HIs commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him. 1 John 2:3

    And to those who understand the cost of Christ who educate and discipline themselves through the school of trial for the sake of Jesus Christ their reward is great, because they chose heavenly rewards over earthly ones.

    They chose eternal life, not life here.

    As the title of this post says, the school of trials will mean enduring opposition; hatred – and yet still following Christ.

    These are those who come out of great tribulation, whom washed their filthy garments ( confessing they are sinners ) and made them white in the blood of the Lamb ( accepting The Saviors blood for their sins.) They will stand in the presence of God and joyfully serve Him day and night in His temple (in His presence.)

    These are those who stayed in class and learned from the teacher The Lord Jesus Christ.

    Don’t be tardy, late or absent friends accept the invitation.

    In Christ love, amen

  • Perseverance

    Daily writing prompt
    What’s the most profound piece of advice you’ve been given? Did you take it?
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    What does perseverance look like to you?

    Maybe it’s a race your trying to run or working on a project till its done successfully.

    Both require endurance and self discipline to go through something that temps us to quit, to stop and say “I can’t or I’m tired and don’t want to.”

    However – we know if we don’t complete the task – we wouldn’t see the finished product, enjoying the end results.

    Like these examples this is how it can feel when you follow the Word of God.

    Even with good intentions I have fallen short where life gets complicated and I get stubborn. Had I stayed in a surrendered attitude just around the corner was a beautiful reward.

    Surrendering to Gods Will means we give Him our desired outcome, its when we don’t trust Him with it that life becomes hard again.

    In this life we will have all sorts of trials and troubles, but the only way to preserve is to do it with Him, which leads to eternal rewards.

    We must learn that it is better to live His way then trying to do it our way, and it only means saying

    “Lord lead me..help me to finish this race and may all that I do glorify you.”

    The Lord is good and He will help you.

    Lamentations 3:25

    In Christ love, amen.

  • battlefield for the mind

    John 16:33 Jesus is speaking about the times of tribulation and how the way is already prepared, how it plays out both good and the bad.

    It’s not something we get to change, it was done on the cross.

    However this is the hope of salvation and because we live in a sin filled world it will be hard, however the Lord prepared the way for us to overcome it.

    It is His will that we know He has defeated the evil one and has overcome the great conflict, therefore He does not want us to be intimidated and discouraged by the assaults of the serpent.

    He being Christ Jesus has won.

    We must learn this truth to accept the peace He supplies – He who made us all equal, He wants to bring together in one body – the body of believers of God’s son Jesus Christ the Lord.

    Putting away hostility toward each other at the cross.

    It is in Christ we have access to God the Father – through the Holy Spirit, this means we are no-longer stranger or foreigners living outside the will of God and with out hope.

    Because of Jesus we can be in one accord.

    We don’t need to look any farther then Jesus the son of God for peace of mind – there is no other who has laid down His life in love who gives forgiveness not earned.

    There is no other who has the Creator God divine authority to be our Lord and Savior. No other who will rescue us from this place.

    The battle today is over your belief system – your mind.

    So what do you believe is true, is it from traditions or is it reasoning of what you have seen or heard?

    The truth is Jesus will explain Himself in the Word (His Bible), He will reason with you – the real battle is will you believe Him or will you listen to the spirit of the enemy?

    What you believe and whom you believe will decide your own fate.

    Abiding in the Spirit of truth is peace and safety.

    Friends – Yes ! God loves His children and wants to save all, there is only one way – through Christ Jesus.

  • losing sight

    Daily writing prompt
    How do you handle fear and self-doubt?
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    And I can personally attest to the benefits of trusting the Word of God to help me in times of uncertainty.

    But did you know the acronym for fear?

    “future events appearing real” – it’s not actually true, it has the appearance in our mind that it is- but it’s yet to happen.

    When I lose sight of this and forget that I have the answers, I am just like those who followed Jesus and yet witnessed great and mighty miracles He did only to forget this because trouble came.

    Instead of remembering the promises of Gods word, I get fixated on the problems in my life.

    Check out this example in John 6:15-21 Jesus walks on water.

    Do we understand why He did this?

    The men in the boat were in need of help and are focused on the problem at hand, but Jesus walks up.

    This is my take away, He showed them He was always near, and yet they forgot to ask for help from Him.

    They lost sight of what they just experienced at the hands of Jesus, He fed five thousand with five little loaves of bread and two small fish. John 6:9

    They forgot who they belonged to, they were focused on their problems not their miracle working Savior.

    I’m guilty of this, all of us are but the next time if we would stop with our self doubt and the fear – and instead pray for help – it could be as easy as Him walking up. But no matter know we are never alone, He is always near.

    We must not lose sight every time things go side ways. Problems are a part of life but in this life we have a helper, His name is Jesus.

    Instead of living on shaky ground – remember our Salvation is Jesus, He is the rock on which we stand.

    And that friends is how we don’t lose sight, we focus on The One who walked on water.

    In Christ love, amen

  • what is sin?

    Can you answer this simply?

    Was your first thought of what you’ve done or what others are doing wrong?

    The question is not “who does sin”- it is “what is sin” ?

    If I am right in how you answered, then you will soon be relieved to know that the Word of God explains simply what sin is. Especially for those seeking the truth.

    And if you don’t agree with the answers below, then I challenge you to bring “receipts” show me where the Word says otherwise.

    Because what I will share is not what the world believes ~ but what the Word says of the true children God who believe.

    God’s true children abide in Him, His Word and His Ways. 1John 3

    He makes them strong in the confidence of their hope and they are not ashamed before Him because His is their teacher.

    He is righteous and everyone who practices the act of right doing is born of Him. It is God’s will that all who love Him – are called children of God.

    In this respect we are to be like Him, not a “god” but Holy like Him.

    What is Holy? God is Holy.

    What makes a man Holy- God’s presence abiding in them.

    Surrendering daily to walk with Him – this gives hope to whoever seeks Him that they will be purified by His presence from a sin filled life.

    So, what is sin? What does sin do?
    Are you beginning to see the connection yet?

    Sin is lawlessness.

    God is the Law ~ read the 10 commandments. Exodus 20

    Now read where Jesus says which laws are important. Matt 22

    He says the first is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul. The second is to love your neighbor as yourself. Again, incase you missed this, He did not change anything from the original TEN ~ He fulfilled them.

    The first four commandments are how to love the Lord your God, the next six commandments are how to love your neighbor.

    And if you are being honest you already know you have not done this perfectly.

    We have all fallen short. Romans 3:23

    But Jesus.

    He did all perfectly and because of His strength, we can give our free will to Him, offer our lives in surrender to do His good will, and become stronger daily.

    Friends the only way to not transgress against God- is to abide with Him. This is the only strength we need to be concerned with.

    Make Him your first choice daily, He made you His ultimate choice.

    In Christ love, amen

    Daily writing prompt
    What’s a moment that made you realize you were stronger than you thought?
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  • feed on the Word

    It’s said “you can’t walk forward looking back” and while this is true I can’t help but look over my shoulder at how I used to live.

    Deceit; envy; lying and foul language was something which held me back for years as a young adult. It caused all kinds of drama and mistrust. Romans 8:5

    So I can say with certainty that getting rid of this type of living gave room for me to experience more goodness.

    My motivation is to not go back in darkness but live in the light of God’s living Word ~ which abides forever. 1 Peter 1:23

    When His Word at first was preached to me and it begin to transform my understanding, reaching me where nothing else could. It sounded like a sermon on Grace. <Video link>

    So reading the Word of God eventually became a daily habit.

    At first I’d read it to try and find out what I needed to do or what it was saying about me.

    Then I realized I was going about it all wrong, it was a love story about Him and all that He has done to save us. John 3:16-17

    It was His Word that called me to truth and clean living.

    To letting go of bitterness and shame.

    No more looking to be better then others but instead praying for them, as He did. John 17:20

    No looking for acceptance in others because Jesus accepted me, even with all my imperfections He became my new habit.

    His Word fed my soul and it changed my thinking.

    Every misplaced longing for love and acceptance was met by His Word. He showed me what it means to have loyalty and serve others as He did. He changed me, it was Him working out my salvation in me. Eph 2:10

    And then He served me the best news; I was forgiven and loved forever.

    He has taught me to stay close and feed on His Word daily.

    It grows you spiritually strong and when you feed on the Word of God ~ you will find out how good God really is!

    In Christ love, amen

  • write a letter to a stranger

    You don’t know me and I don’t know you, but the one who inspires kindness, goodness and love – He knows us both.

    He is the True Vine

    He came as God in flesh to perfect love and joy.

    He represents everything good, and even though the world’s hatred of Him happens – He would do it again.

    He died for salvations plan – He saves those who believe He says who He is.

    When He arose the Heavenly Father gave Him all power and He then gave us His Spirit- He gives us a helper to guide us in making good choices and finding joy.

    Even right now He is helping me to write to you – whom I don’t know.

    But He knows you.

    He wants you to know your sorrow will turn to joy, if you trust and obey Him. His words are given to you to overcome the world.

    He is your best choice. He will never leave you nor forsake you.

    His kingdom is not of this world. He came to witness of the truth of God – and when we listen to His voice and heed Him. We are saved.

    He is the Lord of Lords and King and Kings,

    He is Jesus Christ the Son of God.

    Daily writing prompt
    What’s a simple pleasure in life that brings you joy?
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    Friends this was something I loved doing and if you enjoyed this you can read more in the Word of God.

    You can also write a letter to another stranger or share this one.

    God Bless you.

    In Christ love, amen