Deuteronomy 16:19 “Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.” The above verse states that gifts (money) cloud our judgment at crucial times in our lives when we should rather be led by the Holy Spirit.  Our culture respects people according to how much money they have, what they own and what they look like. We manipulate each other with gifts (money) for the sole purpose of swaying the judgment of another.  Whether now or later, every…

Although we count the years, God does not respond to time…He responds to our steps. He gives us a new chance everyday (and all throughout the day) to come clean, repent and restart our lives. The closer we get to Christ, people will count us out because we will be different from the world. But God counts us in!!! You cannot be the same after an encounter with the Lord. This is a spectacular season for those who love (are obedient to) God, and He is doing spectacular wonders! Let’s continue to love God, praise God, and worship God in…

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Matthew 7:18-20 “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.  Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” Good Fruit Christ is the fruit of the Spirit. He produces the fruit and the Holy Spirit administers it as we surrender to Him.  Christ is 100% love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.  He cannot produce sin, pride or evil because His character is love, Joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and…

Daniel 9:3 “And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes” The opposite of fasting is gluttony.  Gluttony is a sin of food and drink (in excess) that kills the body and soul – and it derives from Satan. In contrast, fasting is a temporary abstinence from food and drink that strengthens the body and soul – and it derives from God. Christians usually fast as a last resort in uncommon situations when we’re desperate for an uncommon solution, and we want God to move in a supernatural way.…

Galatians 5:14  “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” suppose I don’t love myself; or worse, I don’t even know who I am ~Terri We were made in the image of God; therefore, our identity should come from Him.  We should be an extension of Christ – to see ourselves like He sees us and receive everything He has for us.    As He gives to us, we impart to our neighbors – we can’t give what we don’t have.  We must first love God, love ourselves, and then…

Revelation 1:7  “Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.  Even so, Amen.” you can’t miss Him!!! One morning years ago, a bright warm light through my bedroom window woke me up.  I opened my eyes but couldn’t see anything except the brightness.   I got out of bed but couldn’t see where I was going because everything was consumed by the light and I was completely confused.  I was trying to get to the bedroom window to see where the…

Matthew 22:39 “And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.“ You can’t love your neighbor as yourself unless you first love yourself.  Then you may ask, “Well, who is my neighbor?”  I would answer, “Your neighbor is anyone other than yourself.”  In the Old Testament, God’s commandment to love your neighbor was given to Israel. But today, it is directed at everyone: Jews and Gentiles.  We don’t know who belongs to God or who belongs to Satan, so we must love everyone (as ourselves) until God tells us otherwise. all people are not God’s…

Psalms 27:14   “…wait, I say, on the Lord” The Christian theme is “wait”.  If you can wait, you can make it to heaven because everything God promises includes a waiting period.  Singles (and married people) who are unable to wait on God to either bring them a spouse (or heal their marriage) end up in sin.  Behind racism, fornication and adultery are the largest global sins out of the Bible that’s plaguing the world.  Fornication and adultery have always been sin.  It doesn’t matter who is doing it; whether the preacher, a parent, the president, or the spouse of a…

Matthew 26:24   “The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.” The world uses religious holidays to cram what should be daily practices, into one day of the year.   They watch The Passion of the Christ on easter (and cry) to show God they care – and move on. But God never asked us to cry and point our finger at His killer. When The Passion of the Christ came out, everyone…

Exodus 20:8  “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Throughout the Bible in the Old Testament, God called a rest for man on the seventh day of every week; and a rest for the earth every seven years.  God commands everything that He made to rest at a specific time – the earth will rest, animals will rest, and we will rest – or He will lay us all down.    God’s command to rest is for our renewal.   It is our ticket to be lazy one day of every week out of obedience. Deuteronomy 5: 14  “But the seventh…

Amos 5:21 “I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.” The world has just finished celebrating a string of holidays and everyone gave it their best shot.  They tried to love everyone and remember the ‘reason for the season’ to earn points toward heaven.  But there is a paganistic origin to just about everything the world celebrates – including christmas, easter rabbits, thanksgiving, birthdays and all the other feast days that we create.  Most crucially, if we are celebrating these things as Christians, we are in disobedience to God. God never told…

John 14: 15 “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” How should we love God?  What will He accept?  We can’t love Him just any old kind of way.  The only way to love God is through obedience to Him.  Nothing says, “I love you, Lord!” like doing exactly what He says when He says it (nothing more and nothing less).  God told us in His word what He wants, and we just need to obey. Obedience is learned through praying, reading the Bible and following the Spirit.  This walk with Christ is not a waltz in ¾ time, it…

Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; Every person on this earth was born in pride, and pride is sin.  Pride attempts to recreate (for the benefit of itself) what God has created .  Pride is in every part of the American system – our workplace, churches, schools, government and our homes.  America was not built on the Bible; it was built on pride (using the Bible).  Pride is the opposite of…

Luke 21:11 “And great earthquakes shall be in divers’ places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” A pestilence is a “contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating” – Merriam-Webster.com.  Well, more is coming. Everything God does is so that His Word is fulfilled. He will change the situation before he will change His word. COVID-19 is a pestilence that we were all surprised by, but we shouldn’t have been. God warned us of this in the New Testament, and this is just the beginning. Before God would bring…

Psalm 119:18-19 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wonderous things out of thy law.  I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. Many Christians say they don’t read the bible because they can’t understand it.  On the other hand, non-christian scholars read it just for the facts.  But the Bible is the miraculous living word, Jesus Christ, the Power which God uses to transform our lives.  It shows us the different facets of God, describes who He is and who He is not; what He commands and what He will not tolerate.  He…

Proverbs 11:19 “As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.“ The righteous walk in obedience. God has always commanded that we walk in his path, rather than our own personal preferences, to produce righteousness.  He commanded Israel in the old testament to walk in His statues.  His disciples in the new testament were commanded to follow Him.  We are commanded to walk in the Spirit wherever He leads us – over hills and through valleys, or in stillness at rest.  Righteousness is a free gift from God that we receive when we…

Psalm 85:8 “I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.” Mindfulness is a term that is fast becoming the new savvy-chic word for “peace”.  It is defined as a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique. This technique is used in meditation and yoga to help control our thoughts in order to obtain peace.  It is the practice of…

Matthew 18:9 says, “And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.”   All over the globe, darker skinned people have had a really hard time because of their skin color.  Black men and women have been made ashamed of their hair and skin color to the point of changing them in order to be accepted.  But changing the look of a black person still won’t change the eye of the racist…