I Say Our

I say our lives are the greatest testimony for Christ. Joseph- Anthony a son of Jehovah

Can Never Bring

Faith that goes no further than the head can never bring peace to the heart. John Blanchard

You Accomplish Much More In

“It is easier to ridicule than commend but you accomplish much more in giving encouragement than condemnation..” Joseph- Anthony a son of Jehovah

The Lord Mocks The

The Surest Mark of True

The Lord mocks the mockers but is gracious to the humble. Proverbs 3:34 The Holy Bible, The New Living Testament

The arrogant ones who think we are stupid for following Christ and mock us will be made humble by Jehovah and knocked off of their high horses.

The trouble makers who enjoy antagonizing Christians will have antagonist’s torment them even more than they tormented us.

I have seen these scenarios played out over and over again through many decades.

The humble are those who are confident in who they are in Christ so they have no need to be arrogant nor proud. They are the most beautiful men and women to have for friends and mentors. This in itself is a blessing.

The surest mark of true conversion is humility. J. C. Ryle

Selah: Stop and think about it.

Prayer: Please Jehovah Bore (Isaiah 40:28 The LORD Creator ) send The Holy Spirit to help me maintain a humble spirit so as not to be a big headed buffoon. I humble request this in the name of my meek king, Jesus Christ. Amen

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The Further Away We Get From

The further away we get from prayer, the further away we get from Jehovah. Joseph- Anthony: Green

We Can Never Be

We can never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. Max Lucado

Born Crucified, yet Alive in Christ

The Christian life is a daily putting off all that belonged to the unregenerate old self and constantly putting on all that belongs to the new life in Christ. The cross and the resurrection extend their power and influence over the believer’s entire life.

The Christian life is constantly producing new life. This new life in Christ through His Spirit must be daily replacing within the soul what our daily crucifixion of the flesh is taking away. This new life in Christ fills the emptiness created by self-denial with some new likeness of Christ. In place of the natural affection, there comes some new divine affection (Eph. 4:17-32).

“You are dead . . . . you are risen with Christ” (Col. 3:1, 6).

The flesh will never produce a strong spiritual life that pleases God and looks and smells like authentic Christianity. The flesh will always disgrace the Lord Jesus Christ no matter how you try to dress it up in legalism.

The Holy Spirit is busy making real in the believer’s life what is already true of him doctrinally.

The believer has not only died, but is to “die daily” with Christ as long as we live in this present life because we are in “an irreconcilable enmity” between the flesh and the spirit (Gal. 5:17). We have no option but to take up the cross daily in following Christ. The flesh can only reproduce itself. It holds no possibility of a divine life. This dying to self and sin is something we do daily.

Our life-long growth in Christ-likeness is a determination to deliver us to death for Christ’s sake all that is kin to our old life before we gave our lives to Christ. It is also a commitment to put on Christ daily.

It is each believer’s responsibility to submit to the work of the Holy Spirit in mortifying the flesh and therefore bring our body under the dominion of the cross of Christ.

Moreover, the Christian life is not just a life of crucifixion; it is also a new life in Christ Jesus.

“You are risen with Christ.” This is the second part of this essential doctrine of Christian living. Our progressive sanctification includes both “taking off” the old self and “putting on” the new. Since “you are risen with Christ” keep on “seeking those things which are above.”

Yes, we “die daily,” but we were also made a “new creation” in Christ and our inward person is being “renewed day by day.”

The apostle Paul wrote, “I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me” (Gal. 2:20).

The daily spiritual growth of the Christian towards perfection lies always in these two opposite directions. The believer is always subjecting, repressing, and mortifying the natural man on the one hand, and nourishing, developing, and renewing the spiritual man on the other. It is not one or the other; it is both principles and activities working in conjunction with one another.

It is our responsibility to daily judge and mortify all that we find in our attitudes, behaviors and values that are in the flesh and contrary to authentic Christian living. Yes, there must be a daily denial to anything that is not Christ-like.

A negative process is never adequate to accomplish a positive goal. And no amount or kind of self-denial can make a person holier, or sinless. What is needed is the means of bringing him into more intimate fellowship with Christ. Every retreat from the life of the flesh must be followed by a deeper entering into the life of the Spirit. We take off the old man, and we put on the new man in Christ.

As we abide in Christ, we walk as our Lord walked.

SELAH! Pause – reflect- just think of that!

Message by Wil Pounds (c) 2006

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A Prayer to Speak with Love and Respect

Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But not with God. Everything is possible with God.” Mark 10:27 The Holy Bible, The New Living Translation

Prayer: Oh Jehovah KalEl (voice of God Isaiah 30:21 ) please bless me with the ability to communicate with those You have placed in my care in a manner in which they will understand what I am saying.

Just as important Poppa, please bless me with the ability to understand what they are trying to communicate with me.

Please my Beloved bless me that You will guide my words this day to bring encouragement, comfort, assurance and love.

Please strengthen me to bite my tongue to not lash out with hurtful words when disputes erupt.

When the fires start to flare when they are being stubborn and obstinate, please bless me to close my eyes and to call out unto You to bring peace into the conversation.

And, with the wisdom to know when to walk away because of the futility in the conversation.

Please bless me with the ability to come back later and speak with respectful authority to which they must succumb to. Or, with the wisdom to just walk away and let them suffer the consequence for their stubbornness.

Please bless us to be loving and respectful towards each other as You and I are loving and respectful towards each other.

I humbly request this in the name of He whose speech was always respectful and loving Jesus Christ. Amen

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Unlocks the Fullness of Life.

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”  Melody Beattie

Which can Have

There are simple things we can do for others through out the day which can have great affect on them. Joseph- Anthony: Green