“Abiding In God’s Word – The Anchor for Our Faith”

Posted by mcoxbmi on July 30, 2015
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Click Here To Download This Message – 150322 – Abiding In Gods Word – The Anchor For Our Faith

John 15: 7 (Amplified Bible) If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

Galatians 6: 7 – 9 (Amplified Bible) Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. (8) For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. (9) And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.

James 1: 5 – 7 (Amplified Bible) If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him. (6) Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. (7) For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord,

“What Are You Sowing? That Is What You Will Reap!”

Posted by mcoxbmi on July 19, 2015
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Click Here To Download This Message – 150315 – What Are You Sowing – That Is What You Will Reap

Galatians 6: 7 – 9 (Amplified Bible) Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. (8) For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. (9)And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint

James 1: 5 – 8 (Amplified Bible) If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him. (6) Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. (7) For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord, (8) [For being as he is] a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides].

 

“Focusing On God’s Word as Your Life Anchor Brings Forth Peace”

Posted by mcoxbmi on July 12, 2015
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Click Here To Download This Message – 041024 – Focusing On Gods Word As Your Life Anchor Brings Forth Peace

Ephesians 6:10 – 11 (Amplified Bible)  In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides]. (11) Put on God’s whole armor [the armor of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies], that you may be able successfully to stand up against [all] the strategies and the deceits of the devil.

Ephesians 6:15 (Amplified Bible)   And having shod your feet in preparation [to face the enemy with the firm-footed stability, the promptness, and the readiness produced by the good news] of the Gospel of peace.

Romans 8:1 -2   (Amplified Bible)  THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. (2) For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.

Matthew 12:36 – 37  (Amplified Bible)  But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak. (37) For by your words you will be justified and acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned and sentenced.

“Keep and Guard Your Heart – Filter Everything Through Love”

Posted by mcoxbmi on June 27, 2015
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Click Here To Download This Message – 150308 – Keep and Guard Your Heart – Filter Everything Through Love

Proverbs 4:20 – 27 (Amplified Bible)  My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings. (21) Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. (22) For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh. (23) Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life. (24) Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you. (25) Let your eyes look right on [with fixed purpose], and let your gaze be straight before you. (26) Consider well the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established and ordered aright.  (27) Turn not aside to the right hand or to the left; remove your foot from evil.

John 8:31 – 32 (Amplified Bible)  So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you abide in My word [hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance with them], you are truly My disciples. (32) And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.

John 15:7 (Amplified Bible)  If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

 

“God (Love) Himself – The Real Source of the Fruit”

Posted by mcoxbmi on June 20, 2015
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150215 – God – Love – Himself – The Real Source of the Fruit

1Jn 4:7 – 8 (Amplified Bible)  Beloved, let us love one another, for love is (springs) from God; and he who loves [his fellowmen] is begotten (born) of God and is coming [progressively] to know and understand God [to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him]. (8) He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love.

1Jn 4:17 (Amplified Bible)  In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world.

1Jn 3:1 – 2  (Amplified Bible)  SEE WHAT [an incredible] quality of love the Father has given (shown, bestowed on) us, that we should [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! The reason that the world does not know (recognize, acknowledge) us is that it does not know (recognize, acknowledge) Him. (2) Beloved, we are [even here and] now God’s children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be [hereafter], but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall [as God’s children] resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He [really] is.

Rom 8:14 – 17  (Amplified Bible)  For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. (15) For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!  (16) The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God  (17) And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory.

 

 

“As He (God) Is So Are We in This World – 1st John 4: 17”

Posted by mcoxbmi on June 15, 2015
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Click Here To Download This Message – 150208 – As He – God – Is So Are We In This World – 1st John 4-17

1st John 4: 16 – 17  (Amplified Bible) And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. (17) In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world.

1st John 4: 6 – 8  (Amplified Bible) We are [children] of God. Whoever is learning to know God [progressively to perceive, recognize, and understand God by observation and experience, and to get an ever-clearer knowledge of Him] listens to us; and he who is not of God does not listen or pay attention to us. By this we know (recognize) the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of error. (7) Beloved, let us love one another, for love is (springs) from God; and he who loves [his fellowmen] is begotten (born) of God and is coming [progressively] to know and understand God [to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him].(8) He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love.

 

“Being Spiritually Minded Brings Forth Kingdom Fruit”

Posted by mcoxbmi on June 6, 2015
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Click Here To Download This Message – 150125 – Being Spiritually Minded Brings Forth Kingdom Fruit

Galatians 6: 7 – 9   (Amplified Bible) Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. (8) For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. (9) And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.

Doing the Do’s in the Bible or walking the Love Walk (1st Corinthians 13: 4 – 8 Amplified Bible) obeying God’s Word submitting our life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every area of life produces Kingdom fruit by the Law of the Spirit of Life.

By doing this as a way of life the troubles and problems in our life will position us to bear Kingdom fruit right in the midst of the biggest and most intense storms of life.  

Romans 8:1 – 2 (Amplified Bible)  THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. (2) For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.

Doing the Do not’s in the Bible produces the Law of Sin and Death

Romans 8:5  For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.

 

“Recognizing The Hindrances to Our Fruit Bearing”

Posted by mcoxbmi on May 29, 2015
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Click Here To Download This Message – 150118 – Recognizing The Hindrances To Our Fruit Bearing

Matthew 7: 16 – 20 (Amplified Bible) You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? (17)Even so, every healthy (sound) tree bears good fruit [worthy of admiration], but the sickly (decaying, worthless) tree bears bad (worthless) fruit. (18) A good (healthy) tree cannot bear bad (worthless) fruit, nor can a bad (diseased) tree bear excellent fruit [worthy of admiration]. (19) Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. (20) Therefore, you will fully know them by their fruits.

James 3: 14 – 18 (Amplified Bible)  But if you have bitter jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry, selfish ambition) in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus be in defiance of and false to the Truth. (15) This [superficial] wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual (animal), even devilish (demoniacal). (16) For wherever there is jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry and selfish ambition), there will also be confusion (unrest, disharmony, rebellion) and all sorts of evil and vile practices. (17) But the wisdom from above is first of all pure (undefiled); then it is peace-loving, courteous (considerate, gentle). [It is willing to] yield to reason, full of compassion and good fruits; it is wholehearted and straightforward, impartial and unfeigned (free from doubts, wavering, and insincerity). (18) And the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to God’s will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace by those who work for and make peace [in themselves and in others, that peace which means concord, agreement, and harmony between individuals, with undisturbedness, in a peaceful mind free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts].

 

 

“Keys To Refreshing and Revival”

Posted by mcoxbmi on May 23, 2015
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Click Here To Download This Message – 150426 – Keys To Refreshing And Revival

Are you in need of a refreshing? Are you weary in your body, mind, and spirit?  Are you being beat up by the circumstances of life?  Do you need a change?  Do you know that God Himself has already prepared the place of rest, refreshing, and revival for us?  He has already given us the keys to enter that place. It is God’s desire for us to be in a continuous state of refreshing before and even during the storms of life that come our way.

Act 3:19  (Amplified Bible) – So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord;

Jeremiah 6:16  (Amplified Bible) – Thus says the Lord: Stand by the roads and look; and ask for the eternal paths, where the good, old way is; then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it!

Ephesians 6:10 (Amplified Bible) – In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides].

John 14:26 – 27 (Amplified Bible) – But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you. (27) Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]

 

 

 

Tips For Bible Study

Posted by mcoxbmi on January 5, 2014
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Every Christian should have a regular daily Bible Study time.  Over the years I have observed that many Christians do not study the Bible.  They may read the Bible occasionally but never study it.  As Christians we must have a good knowledge of God’s Word in order to know who we are in Christ.  We must know our true identity and our inheritance through Christ Jesus.  We cannot be a good witness or be victorious in our Christian walk without knowledge of God’s Word.  The following are some tips that will help with your study of God’s Living Word.

1)  Pray and ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten your understanding of the Word before and after you study the Word.

2)  Make a habit of studying and thinking about the Word and how it applies in your daily life.

3)  Study the New Testament first especially the book of Romans all the way through to the book of Revelations.  These books of the Bible teach us who we are in Christ after the Cross.  Also study the 4 Gospels and Acts.   Reference the Old Testament as you study but concentrate your study on the New Testament.

4)  As you study pay close attention to the Promises and the Commandments.

5)  Pay close attention to the little words and phrases such as: If, but, put, let, I am, therefore, shall, is, in him, in us, will etc.   —- These key words and phrases represent conditions and commandments.  Overlooking will change the meaning of the verse.

6)  The Bible will confirm itself.

7)  Study the surrounding verses.

8)  Study related verses.

9)  As you read the bible take time to study and meditate on each parable, promise, or section.

10)  Apply the Word to yourself personally.

11)  Allow the Holy Spirit to make the Word a reality in your heart.

12)  Carefully ponder how the Word applies to your everyday life.

13)  Dwell on how the Word changes your situation.

14)  See yourself as God sees you.

15)  Realize the integrity of God’s Word.

16)  Filter everything through the Word, God’s character and ways.

17)  Confess what the Word says, not your problem.

18)  Pray the Word (especially the promises) not the problem.

The following are some bible study resources that may help you.

 Young’s Analytical Concordance and Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance

Vine’s Expository Dictionary of the Bible

Amplified Bible:  A paper back can be purchased for approximately $6.00 in the I-tunes store.

Bible tapes and CD’s

E-Sword for PC:  Free download at www.e-sword.net/downloads or do a search for e-sword.

It is also available for I-Phone and I-Pad.

Bible Gateway (Online resource)

Devotional – Limitless Love available at www.kcm.org This is a very excellent daily devotional.

Get into a good bible believing church where you can be taught the Word.

Get into a good faith bible believing bible study.

There are many other good resources available.  The important thing to do is to study the bible.