Be Encouraged Today!

Have you ever, as a child of God, sat back and wondered "Why am I here again?!" or "Why am I going through this again?!" Have you ever had something that kept reoccurring in your life and not know why? You love God, you want and have a desire to do His Word and Will, and you know His Word — and yet you find yourself at the same crossroads (or similar) over and over again. We pray, we repent, we seek God's face, we stay in His Word, and yet the same thing — or something similar — keeps popping its head up; it keeps coming back again. The problem is we often repent and truly mean it in our hearts, but we only address the symptom. We deal with the outward sins committed through the members of our bodies — our words, actions, or thoughts — without addressing the root cause that produced them. Where is our faith placed? The real problem is that we have our faith, our hope, and our trust in the wrong thing. We look to something other than where our faith s...

We All Need Jesus! We all need Jesus! Before the Fall of Lucifer, he was perfect, beautiful, and full of wisdom! There was no other angel or creature wiser than he. And please understand, he still has that wisdom but it's perverted, and NONE of us mere mortals can outsmart him. We, within ourselves, are easily manipulated and persuaded by him, blown to and fro by the winds of change, doctrines, ideas, and opinions. With this wisdom, though perverted, he has corrupted our world and the lives of untold billions of people who are and will be eternally lost. In his wisdom of manipulation and persuasion, he is artfully cunning and dishonest. We don't even realize it - we're deceived. It evades even some who say they name the Name of the Lord. This is the reason sin is so subtle; it is elusive to us mere mortals. This is why we all need Jesus . This is why we must have our Faith rooted in the Cross of Calvary. The Holy Spirit can then help us to see a...

What is the Grace of God? The Grace of God is the goodness of God that has been freely given to us by what Jesus has accomplished on the Cross of Calvary. As believers, we can fall from grace. But what does that mean? Many people think that falling from the Grace of God means that one has simply sinned. No. In Galatians , Paul was addressing the demand that Gentile believers be circumcised. The Judaizers were teaching that circumcision (and the Law) was a requirement for salvation. Paul responded that if you add circumcision as a requirement for salvation, then what Jesus did on the Cross is rendered ineffective for you. Galatians 5:1-6 (AMP) 1 It was for this freedom that Christ set us free [completely liberating us]; therefore, keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery (sin) [which you once removed]. 2 Notice, it is I, Paul, who tells you that if you receive circumcis...