Week 9

Build a house and at some point, there will be maintenance. Install a landscape, and at some point, there will be weeding, mulching, and trimming. Buy and drive a car, and there will be routine maintenance. Nearly everything that we acquire that has value has a maintenance routine attached to it. Because our brains are organic and imperfect, even Scripture memory requires maintenance. By having a ...

Yesterday we cross referenced John 6:63 and John 16:13. Here they are in sequence:“The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.” What kind...

Yesterday we discussed, and you may have realized for the first time, that God’s words are “spiritual” food – the fuel of life in Him. Even though the Holy Spirit does not speak audibly, He does activate the words of God in our life to help us understand what is coming up and going on! The Spirit will “speak only what He hears…” What is our responsibility? Obviously, to keep our lives soaking in t...

Colossians 3:1-10 comes across like a multi-vitamin – a small package filled with good things to keep you healthy and growing. Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your l...

Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will....

Staying on the verses Romans 12:1-2 for another day to mine out more gems of truth… Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship....

We’ve come full circle through the first of one of our outline “spokes.” A relationship with God through Christ is the center-point and focus of the normal Christian life. In any relationship, there must be communication (both ways). The primary mode of communication from God to us is His Word (heard, read, studied, memorized and meditated on). By Jesus’ own admission we can get The Word and miss ...