Tag: commandments
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The Testimony
According to Your steadfast love give life to me; then I will keep the testimony of Your mouth [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying it]. Psalm 119:88 AMPC I found the secret! I found it! I’ve been looking for how to keep God’s word, how to obey His commandments, and I found it. I’ve sensed it…
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Not Allowed to Fail
Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer [allow] my faithfulness to fail. Psalm 89:33 KJV This is God’s promise for David and his children, because David loved and glorified God so much, God would love and prosper his children for generations after Him. Even if future descendants disobeyed or dishonored…
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Commanded
“Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.” Psalm 42:8 KJV Has loving someone ever been hard to do? Have you ever struggled with being or staying kind, especially in the face of needless…
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Ask What Ye Will: Day 4
They say Day 4 of any new habit is the hardest. If we can get past today we’re more sure of finishing…
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Ask What You Will: Day 3
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you.” John 15:7 Do you believe in experimental religion? If God claims His word is true, it should work when applied to reality. The experiment I’m doing is not to see if…
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Ask What You Will pt 3
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” John 15:7 KJV We’re exploring this verse to see how prayer works. We’ve seen that to abide in Christ means to continue trusting His love, and keeping His commandments keeps us…
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Ask What You Will pt 2
Because they are the commandments of Christ’s love, it’s clear why keeping Christ’s commandments keeps us in Christ’s love.
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Ask What You Will
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” John 15:7 KJV This verse has a big claim in it: sounds like there’s a way to guarantee our prayers will be answered. Whoa! Stop the press! Where’s the catch? you…
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God is Love: Love Incarnate
The story in Luke begins with Zacharias the priest and his wife Elizabeth, who were about to become the parents of John the Baptist. The Scripture says they were both righteous and blameless before Love…