To Do List

Pray ✔
Trust God ✔
Love one another ✔
Forgive and be forgiven ✔
Live the abundant life Jesus provides ✔

You're Invited

Studying God's Word not only motivates us to do the right thing, but it also demotivates us from doing the wrong thing!

C'mon out tonight and join us in Bible Study @ 7 p.m. 

The Journey of Faith Church
2900 Smallwood Drive W
Waldorf MD

or

Find a church near you and join in their study of God's Word.

You'll be glad that you decided to come!!

Get Out of the Way!

Church folk are Called to be Spiritual Guides, NOT spiritual guards. Get out of the way... blocking God's plans with your rules and ideologies. Hey, you can guard your religion all day if you like, but get out of the way of those seeking a RELATIONSHIP with Christ!

"This people honors Me with  their  lips, But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, Teaching  as  doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men" (Read Mark 7:1‭-‬23 NKJV for the full account of this passage)

Successors!

Men of Faith, are we raising up a  modern-day Joshua? Are we speaking into the lives of our sons, equipping them and establishing them for their roles in life to be protector, provider, and prayerful over their households. Are we allowing them to see us pray, to join us in prayer and to see us in service to The Lord; allowing them to have a more intimate relationship with Jesus as they witness the same in us? Who are we making ready to lead when our time has come to step aside? Will there be faithful and mighty men of valor in the church after you've finished?

Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; so the children of Israel heeded him, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses. (Deuteronomy 34:9 NKJV)

Have You Considered?

Have you considered, do you think carefully about or are you giving attention to Jesus in regards to His unique role in your salvation? 

Holy brethren - He makes us holy brothers and sisters by setting us apart unto Him. To be holy means that we have turned away from unclean things of the world and from the religions of the world and have turned to Christ

Partakers of the heavenly Calling - We have been Called by Christ to live with God in heaven. We are not to live for this earth; we are to live for heaven. Therefore, our attention is to be fixed upon heaven, even more so on Christ who is our Savior and who has made it possible for us to live in heaven

Jesus is the Apostle of our confession - Jesus is the One Sent by God with full authority and power. We confess that He is the One whom God sent from heaven to earth for our salvation

Jesus is the High Priest of our confession - Jesse is the great high priest who stands between God and man. He bares the name of God before man, and He carries the names of men before God. This means two things: (1) Christ must know man and He must know God (2) Christ must also be able to represent God before man and man before God

“Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,” (Hebrews‬ ‭3:1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬)

Something to consider today...

Hybrid Faith

"Hybrid" may be good for cars, but a Hybrid Faith is no faith at all

Hybrid cars can be powered by gas or electricity and because it's a hybrid, you can toggle between the two. When one source becomes depleted you can simply transfer or toggle to the other. This is indeed useful for cars and the owners of man made or manufactured things. However, please know that even hybrids can and will deplete both gas and electricity and if you are in s situation where you don't have access to refuel, you're stuck!

The issue at hand is that some of us are living with Hybrid Faith, meaning that we are relying on our abilities, our education, influence, position and financial situations to carry us through this life and only when our health becomes depleted, our monies become depleted and our relationships become low, that's when we want to toggle/transfer over to Christ.

Jesus is always accessible, never low on blessings, favors and miracles. Jesus is the only, original and authentic source of power that you'll ever need!

The writer of Hebrews puts it like this, “Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses..." (Hebrews‬ ‭3:3‬a NIV‬‬). So today, I contrast Hybrid Faith with FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS:

Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than ___________________.  You name "whatever" your mind can conjure up and I'll say again, Jesus had been found worthy of greater honor than "that"!!!!

He's Able to Help

Transparency - I've made some mistakes in my life. I haven't done a lot of things right. I've said hurtful things and I've had hurtful sayings come my way. I've lied, I've wronged folks and I've had my fair share of misunderstandings. I haven't always been grateful; had my bouts with conceit, jealousy and all kinds of shortcomings. BUT GOD...

God has known me before I was even born and He knew of my shortcomings, miss deeds and mess ups. Yet He still sent Jesus to "Put On" (this flesh) and to "Take On" (my sins) and to "Shut Down" (the power of sin in my life), so that I can stand today and say that I have been forgiven and that I AM A CHILD OF THE MOST HIGH GOD!

Today is a good day to know that the same applies to YOU!!

“Since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity so that by His death He might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is not angels He helps, but Abraham’s descendants. For this reason He had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that He might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.” (Hebrews‬ ‭2:14-18‬ ‭NIV‬‬)

He became like us that He may be a merciful Priest. "I know what you're going through", Jesus says. "I was just like you, I never sinned - but I understand your struggle".

Isn't that something...Jesus understands our struggle. Talk to Him about what you are going through today, He really understands and has made a way out!