I'm Up - for today's Blessings
I'm Up - for today's Favor
I'm Up - for today's Opportunities
I'm Up - for today's Challenges
I'm Up - for today's Victories
I'm Up - for today's Call to witness yet again THIS GREAT LOVE that The Lord has lavished on His creation and to receive this love so that I may love others!
Who's UP with me?
Many of us are going through some life challenges, some of us are uncertain about tomorrow and some of us has given up our hope of better, restoration and reconciliation. I'm here today to tell you to hold on to faith, hold on to love. Hold on to Hope!! You’re not alone. Don’t lose sight. HOPE remains and our Hope is in Christ Jesus!
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials" (I Peter 1:3-6 NKJV)
Have we allowed the business of the day and the busyness of church life and ministry to take us away from our initial appointment? The foundation and bare essentials of who we are can only be found in Jesus.
Before He sent you to preach, teach and reach HE CALLED YOU UNTO HIMSELF SO THAT YOU MAY BE WITH HIM! Jesus wants, needs, requires, mandates, instructs and expects us to be with Him before He sends us out to others. Not just upon your initial calling, but everyday: before every bible study, before every hospital visit, before every preached Word, before we lay down at night and before we start our day.
Have you spent time with Jesus before spending time in your ministry calling?
And He (Jesus) went up on the mountain and called to Him those He Himself wanted. And they came to Him. Then He appointed twelve, THAT THEY MAY BE WITH HIM and that He might send them out to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons (Mark 3:13-15 NKJV)
Pray ✔
Trust God ✔
Love one another ✔
Forgive and be forgiven ✔
Live the abundant life Jesus provides ✔
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!!
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)
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)
