“What We Need to do to Guard Our Hearts Part 2 of 3”

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What do we need to do to guard our hearts so that the Word will abide?

Proverbs 4: 24 – 27  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. (Amplified Classic)

Proverbs 4: 20 – 27 is in the context of a commandment.

Attend or give attention to – This means that there is an action required on our part. Not just listen to them but to do what they say, apply them.

In order for the Word to bring forth the life and health we must do the following: 

1- Attend to His Word (Amplified = consent and submit)

2- Let them not depart from our sight

3- Keep them in the center of our heart

4- Keep and guard our heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard for out of it flow the springs of life

5- Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you

6- Let your eyes look right on with fixed purpose, and let your gaze be straight before you

7- Consider well the path of your feet

8- Let all your ways be established and ordered aright.

9- Turn not to the right hand or left

10- Remove your foot from evil

 

“What We Need to do to Guard Our Hearts Part 1”

Posted by mcoxbmi on August 24, 2023
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What do we need to do to guard our hearts so that the Word will abide?

Proverbs 4: 24 – 27 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. (Amplified Classic)

Proverbs 4: 20 – 27 is in the context of a commandment

Attend or give attention to – This means that there is an action required on our part. Not just listen to them but to do what they say, apply them.

In order for the Word to bring forth the life and health we must do the following:

1- Attend to His Word (Amplified = consent and submit)

2- Let them not depart from our sight

3- Keep them in the center of our heart

4- Keep and guard our heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard for out of it flow the springs of life

5- Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you

6- Let your eyes look right on with fixed purpose, and let your gaze be straight before you

7- Consider well the path of your feet

8- Let all your ways be established and ordered aright.

9- Turn not to the right hand or left

10- Remove your foot from evil

 

 

“The Abiding Word is a Condition of the Heart”

Posted by mcoxbmi on August 17, 2023
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The Abiding Word is a Condition of the Heart

Proverbs 4: 20 – 23(Amplified Classic) 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.

The promise is that the Word is able to bring Life and Health to all our flesh.  We need to do the rest of what is contained in these verses to get the promise to work

The power to walk in Life and Health is contained in God’s Word.  The Word that we attend to or the Word that abides will bring forth life and health to all our flesh.

“The Abiding Word Always Brings Forth Fruit”

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Whatever is abiding will bring forth fruit for good or evil

Luke 6: 43 – 45 For a good tree does not bring forth corrupt fruit, neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.  (44) For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. (45) A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth the good. And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth the evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. (NKJV) 

John 15: 7 (Amplified Classic) 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.

We are to abide in Him and His Word is to abide in us. Both are by our choice.

Our Love Walk and the Abiding Word are determining factors for fruit bearing

A major hindrance and possibly the #1 hindrance is our lack of walking the love walk because Faith works by Love.

Galatians 5: 6 (Amplified Bible) For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love.

(KJV) faith which worketh by love.

If we are not walking in love our faith will not work.

Without our faith the Word cannot be activated.

Without our faith the Word will be dormant and unable to bring forth life or fruit.

 

“The Abiding Seed of the Word”

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“The Abiding Seed of the Word”. If the Living Seed of The Living Word does not abide it cannot bring forth Life.

Once the Believer has the seed of the Living Word planted in His Heart and activated by the Faith of that Believer that seed will bring forth life unless it is prevented from abiding.

Our enemy satan does everything that he can to prevent the Living Word of God from abiding in the heart of the Believer.  The only chance that he has is to deceive the Believer into making a choice to not allow the Living Word to abide in His heart.

If satan is unable to deceive the Believer, the Living Abiding Word in the heart of the Believer will come to manifestation.  Satan cannot stop the Living Word from coming to pass any other way. 

John 15: 7 (Amplified Classic) 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.

Abide – The Greek word used here is “meno”  It means to stay in a given place, state, or expectancy – To abide, continue, dwell, endure, be present, remain, stand, tarry for.

IF – If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you. We are to abide in Him and His Word is to abide in us. Both are by our choice.

 

 

“God’s Living Word – Absolute Life, Absolute Truth”

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John 1: 1 IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. (Amplified Classic)

Not only is God Himself the source of The Living Word but The Living Word IS God Himself. God and His Word are One.

God IS Love!  The Being Love.  Absolute Love.

1st John 4: 8  He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. (NKJV)

1st John 4: 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. (NKJV)

Because God IS Love, The Being, and God and His Word are One then God’s Word IS Love.

Because God Is absolute Life and God and His Word are One then God’s Word Is Alive, absolute Life.

Because God and His Living Word are One and God cannot lie God’s Living Word Is Absolute Truth.

God’s Living Word Is Absolute Truth. His Word is His bond.

God’s Word has absolute integrity.

Integrity:  Unchangeable, Steadfast, Truth, Faithful, Trustworthy, Incorruptible, Perfect

Just as God never changes God’s Nature or Ways do not change; neither does His Word.

Hebrews 13: 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (NKJV)

God’s Living Word has Absolute Integrity.  God’s Living Word is Absolute Truth.

Psalm 111: 7 – 8 The works of His hands are [absolute] truth and justice [faithful and right]; and all His decrees and precepts are sure (fixed, established, and trustworthy). (8) They stand fast and are established forever and ever and are done in [absolute] truth and uprightness. (Amplified Classic)

 

“God’s Words are Containers of God’s Life”

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Just as God never changes God’s Nature or Ways do not change; neither does His Word.  God’s Word has absolute integrity. His Word is His bond. His Word Is Absolute Truth

Integrity:  Unchangeable, Steadfast, Truth, Faithful, Trustworthy, Incorruptible, Perfect

Not only is God Himself the source of The Living Word but The Living Word IS God Himself.  God and His Word are One. 

John 1: 1  IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. (Amplified Classic)

All that God does is done by, in, and through His Word.  Everything no matter what it is conforms to His Word.   

John 1: 3 All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being. (Amplified Classic)

God’s Words are Containers of God’s Life

The Word of God is alive that is why God’s Words are containers of God’s Life, God’s Word is alive; therefore, it brings forth life.

John 6: 63  It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. (NKJV)

Hebrews 4: 12 – 13   For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (NKJV)

 

“God’s Word is Absolute Truth”

Posted by mcoxbmi on July 4, 2023
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God’s Living Word Is Absolute Life and therefore His Living Word Is Absolute Truth.

Just as God never changes God’s Nature or Ways do not change; neither does His Word.  God’s Word has absolute integrity. His Word is His bond. His Word Is Absolute Truth

Integrity:  Unchangeable, Steadfast, Truth, Faithful, Trustworthy, Incorruptible, Perfect

As long as you live by the Word of God, you never have to be in the dark again. You never have to remain in confusion about which path to take. You never have to grope blindly along, struggling to find your own way.

The Word of God will give you all the light you need every day of your life if you’ll allow it to?

Build your faith in that Word and renew your commitment to it

“Putting on the New Man Through the Living Word”

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If we are to live a consistent Christian Life, we must put on the new nature or new man.

In order to put on the new, we must take off the old. 

Ephesians 4: 22 – 24  Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; (23) And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude], (24) And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God’s image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness.  (Amplified Classic)

In order to put on the new nature or the new man we must renew our minds by the Living Word. 

Colossians 3: 9b – 17 (NKJV)  (9b) since you have put off the old man with his deeds, (10) and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, (11) where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all. (12) Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; (13) bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. (14) But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. (15) And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. (16) Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. (17) And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him

 

“Our Minds are Renewed by the Living Word”

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If we are to live a consistent Christian Life, we must renew our minds. 

Ephesian 4: 23 And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude], (Amplified Classic) 

Romans 12: 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (NKJV) 

2nd Corinthians 4: 16 – 18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. (17) For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, (18) while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. (NKJV)

 

“God’s Word Is Alive”

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God Himself Is Life.  Since God and His Word are One then God’s Word Is Life.  Absolute Life.

The Living Word is like a Seed.  Just as a seed contains life in itself, so does the Living Word. The Living Word contains the Life that it needs to bring itself to pass.  But that life must be activated.  We are the ones who activate that life by applying our Faith to the Word.

John 6: 63  It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. (NKJV)

This Living Word of God is constantly at work in us who believe It.

1st Thessalonians 2: 13  And we also [especially] thank God continually for this, that when you received the message of God [which you heard] from us, you welcomed it not as the word of [mere] men, but as it truly is, the Word of God, which is effectually at work in you who believe [exercising its superhuman power in those who adhere to and trust in and rely on it]. (Amplified Classic)

 

“Entering the Secret Place of God’s Rest”

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God Himself has invited each of us into the secret place of His rest.  We are the ones who must choose to enter the place of His rest.

Part of God’s own Rest is His Communion with Man. This is one of God’s Greatest Desires.

It was and still is God’s intention that all His people would dwell in the secret place of His rest. But we must choose to enter that place of rest.

Hebrews 4: 10 – 11 For he who has once entered [God’s] rest also has ceased from [the weariness and pain] of human labors, just as God rested from those labors peculiarly His own. (11) Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience [into which those in the wilderness fell]. (Amplified Classic)

Psalm 91: 1 – 2   HE WHO dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand]. (2) I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust! (Amplified Classic)

In order to enter His Rest we must first come to Him, We must bring our lives just as they are!  We must be born again. He will then qualify us to enter His Rest.

John 3: 3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”(NKJV)

John 3: 5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. (NKJV)

If we have not received Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord, we cannot enter the Secret Place of God’s Rest.

Anyone who is Born Again can enter into The Secret Place of God’s Rest but We must walk the Love Walk and be Spiritually Minded

Romans 8: 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (NKJV)

The Word says that we are to dwell, live, and abide continuously in The Secret Place of God’s Rest.In Order to dwell, live, and abide in The Secret Place of God’s Rest, The Word must live and abide in our hearts.  The Word must be first place and final authority in every area of our lives.

 

“The Abiding Word Sets You Free”

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John 8: 31 – 32  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. (Amplified Classic)

John 17: 17  Sanctify them [purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy] by the Truth; Your Word is Truth. (Amplified Classic)

It is the abiding Word that you know in your heart that sets you free.

John 15: 7 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. (Amplified Classic) 

When we study the Word, meditate on the Word, confess the Word, and apply our faith to the Word, it comes alive in our hearts or spirit man.

As we meditate on the Living Word the Holy Spirit will enlighten our understanding.  As He enlightens our understanding we grow in the knowledge of Who God really Is and His Ways.  We also grow in the knowledge of who we are in Christ Jesus and what our ways are supposed to be.  We become the light in a dark and hurting world revealing Jesus.

Psalm 119: 130 The entrance and unfolding of Your words give light; their unfolding gives understanding (discernment and comprehension) to the simple. (Amplified Classic) 

 

“God and His Word are One”

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John 1: 1 – 2 (Amplified) IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. (2) He was present originally with God.

Not only is God Himself the source of The Living Word but The Living Word IS God Himself.  God and His Word are One.

You cannot separate God from His Word.

Just as you cannot separate God from His Word you cannot separate man and his word, good or bad.

Matthew 12: 35 – 37 (Amplified Classic) The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things. (36) 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.

 

“Hope for Hopelessness Part 4 of 4”

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***If you have made Jesus Your Lord and Savior you are never alone and without hope.

Hope or Hopelessness? Our focus in life determines which we will walk in. 

Hopelessness can slip up on us if we are focusing on the wrong thing.

If we are continuously focusing on the problem, we will be building the problem and be on our way to hopelessness.

What we focus on the most becomes who we are.

No matter what the problems in life are, they are temporary.  Your eternity is not temporary.  It is eternal without end.  You decide where your focus should be.

We need to change our focus in life to see our lives and the lives of others through the eyes of Love and God’s Living Word.

The Lord’s focus is upon us.

Place your focus in life on God and His Word and watch the circumstances in your life change.

No matter what the problem is the Lord already knows the answer.  He will guide us if we set our love and hope on Him.

 

“Hope for Hopelessness Part 3 of 4”

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God Himself has set His Faith and Hope (Absolute Ernest Expectation) on His Word and called all mankind especially us the Church, His Children, to that Hope.

Ephesians 1: 18 By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones), (Amplified Classic)

We are not in this alone.  Our hope (Ernest Expectation) is connected to God’s Own Hope (Absolute Ernest Expectation).

When I apply my Faith and Hope to the Living Word His Faith and Hope are already applied to the Living Word.

Our Loving Heavenly Father wants us to know Him and the Hope (Ernest Expectation) that He Himself has set before us.

There is a deep heart cry from God to all mankind saved and unsaved to come and experience real Living Hope.

The precious loving Holy Spirit is constantly calling us to come.  We have an open invitation to come.

 

“Hope for Hopelessness Part 2 of 4”

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If you know Jesus as your Lord and Savior I boldly declare to you today that there is hope.  You are not alone.  You are not hopeless. There is a real Living Hope available to you. You are never alone. This an absolute Truth

1st Peter 1: 3 – 4   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, (4) to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, (NKJV)

1st Peter 1: 13  Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; (NKJV)

Hopeless:  a. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of that which is desirable; despairing. desperate; a hopeless condition, no way out and no answer. 

Common Definition of Hope in today’s modern usage is = Wishful Thinking.  Maybe it will happen and maybe it will not. We do not know for sure but we sure would like for it to take place.

Bible definition for Hope = Absolute Earnest expectation.

Real Bible Hope is absolute earnest expectation.  It is anchored in the absolute truth of God’s Living Word.  It cannot fail.  It cannot lie.

No matter what the problem or issue is God has already provided everything we need and the way out.

Philippians 4:19  And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. (NKJV)

2nd Peter 1: 3 – 4  For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue). (4) By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature. (Amplified Classic)

 

“Hope for Hopelessness Part 1 of 4”

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In today’s world we all are living in perilous times.  No matter where we live or what our station in life may be there are difficult times present.

Many are crying out inside themselves for help.  It may not be obvious to the people around them but inside there is a struggle going on and a cry for help. They feel alone and unloved.

Many feel that they are at the end of their road.  They feel that there is no help or hope for them. They have been struggling with the same issues and problems for weeks months and years. They believe that they are facing a hopeless situation and that there is no hope for them.

It is sad to say that many truly born-again Christians feel the same way.  They believe that they are in a hopeless situation.  That there is no way out and no hope for them.  They believe that they are alone with no hope.  

I boldly declare to you today that there is hope.  You are not alone.  You are not hopeless.

You    are    not    alone!  There is a real Living Hope available to you. 

We do not deny that the problems and trials exist but no matter how serious the problem is there is an answer.  

John 16: 33  I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.] (Amplified Classic)

At one time before we were born-again, we were without hope.  But once we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior we are no longer without hope. 

Ephesians 2: 12 – 13  That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: (13) But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. (KJV) 

If we know Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior, we are not without hope and without God in this world.  We are never alone!

Hebrews 13: 5b  …for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!] (Amplified Classic)

 

“God’s Ways Revealed Through Jesus by the Holy Spirit” – Part 4

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God has a deep desire to reveal His Ways to us.  He reveals His Ways through His Word. As born-again believers the Holy Spirit Himself dwells in us.  He reveals the Living Word of God to us.  The Living Word of God reveals God’s Ways.

John 14: 26 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. (Amplified Classic)

John 16: 13 – 15  But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future]. (14) He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you. (15) Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He [the Spirit] will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you. (Amplified Classic)

The ways of the Lord are:

Love – Mercy – Grace – Loving kindness – Goodness – Faithfulness – Integrity – Long suffering – Full of Joy – Eternal without ceasing – Holy – Truth – Steadfast – Bring life – Righteous – Always right 

As a born-again child of God His Ways are supposed to be our ways. 

 

 

“God’s Ways Revealed Through Jesus by the Holy Spirit Part 3″

Posted by mcoxbmi on April 6, 2023
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Hebrews 1: 3  He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God’s] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the divine Majesty on high, (Amplified Classic)

Colossians 1: 15 – 20 [Now] He is the exact likeness of the unseen God [the visible representation of the invisible]; He is the Firstborn of all creation.  (Amplified Classic) 

It is God’s Will to reveal His Ways to us through Jesus (The Living Word) by the Holy Spirit.

The Bible is a copy of the Living Word of God.  It reveals the very nature and character of God Himself, Who He Is and His Ways.

The Bible reveals who we are and what our ways should be. The Bible also reveals who satan is and his ways.

It is absolutely vital that we know the Ways of the Lord.  All of God’s Ways are revealed in Jesus Christ.  As we study God’s Living Word, and walk in Love, God’s Ways are revealed to us by the Holy Spirit.