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LYN Christian Fellowship Thread Ver 15
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TSunknown warrior
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 Jul 7 2021, 09:55 AM
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No Branch can bear fruit by itself
John 15:4 (NIV) - Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
Dear Friends, whenever you hear any teachings that teaches and put demands on you, that you must do this or you will be lost, you will lose your salvation...whatever it is; always remember John 15:4.
Our Lord Jesus said this himself...Apart from me, you can do nothing.
The very source of life is in God. All the Powers. God's word says in John 15 verse 4, No Branch (referring to you and I) can bear fruit by itself. Do you see and hear that?
It is as clear as day light, what God is saying, We have no power in of ourselves to bear the fruits of God's Spirit.
So how do you get these fruits to love one another? To be at peace in a storm, to abstain from sinning even..for examples?
The answer is in the same verse and chapter.
Abide in God. Meaning Stay in God. Don't move away, don't run away. Allow God to dwell in you.
I'm always encouraged to know and remember God says, Those who come to Him, He will never ask the person to go away. No qualifications.
Perhaps there are some of you who may have doubt of their own Salvation because of their inability to obey God for whatever reasons.
The reason for this is because you have moved away from God. You have not given your time to spend in his presence, neither the time to read his word, to wait on him.. the one who loves you.
If this message speaks to you, it's time to come "home" to our loving God and savior.
I urge you before it's too late.
The Lord Bless you.
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TSunknown warrior
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Jul 8 2021, 01:40 PM
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The one who does the work is God
1 Corinthians 1:8 (NIV) - He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:21 (NIV) - Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us,
I don't know if you have been told that you got to keep your Salvation by faith through your works. Because the Bible says otherwise. Both of today's devotion verses as you can see above confirmed it is God, not you.
Why am I doing this? So that you will give up trying to save yourself and surrender complete faith to God.
Even the very famous bible verse that talks about Work out your salvation......agrees to this.
Philippians 2:12-13 (NIV) - Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
You have nothing to work out if God is not the one working in you. Always remember the root source of Salvation. Who is the one who is Life and Power.
God Bless.
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TSunknown warrior
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Jul 9 2021, 08:42 AM
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QUOTE(prophetjul @ Jul 8 2021, 03:10 PM) "Your post was reported" i guess we cannot discuss sensitive Christian issues either.  Erm but I didn't report anyone's post in here. I've allowed it in fact both your and Feynman. |
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TSunknown warrior
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Jul 9 2021, 09:29 AM
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QUOTE(prophetjul @ Jul 9 2021, 08:52 AM) i know it is not you. That's the reason i find it rather astounding that someone would report my post. Especially in a rather 'private' forum.  I feel I needed to clarify because some people (like desmond for example) always assume it "must" be TS. Sigh. |
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TSunknown warrior
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Jul 10 2021, 09:41 AM
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Belonging to God
1 John 3:10 - 24 (NIV) - 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister. 11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death. 15 Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. 23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Good day fellow believers.
Today's devotion scripture verse is quite long. But it's important to read all of it...to know this.
I think all of us have been through this before. Whenever one sin, that sin pulls the person away from God, makes the person feel, don't want to have anything to do with God. This is why the Bible makes it clear sin separates the person from God.
Sin is never the life of a child of God. With that being said, it is important and necessary to do a reflection whether we have come to repentance to let this go because we must remember we are heading towards living a life of all that is good for eternal and eternal is very long. It is permanent. If you don't want to get use to living God's Kingdom's life now, when will you ever get use to it?
Imagine if you will, the time you arrive before God, what life are you living now?
Yet the very core essence of who God is, is Love.
Bible tells us, to know that whether we are on the side of God's truth, we can check whether we are living with hatred of others or loving others? If we are living life with hatred and bitterness, then we have completely missed the point of what God has tried to warned of us.
Yet God's word assures us, when you are living the life of love, you can be at rest, that is your assurance of walking in line with God's Holy Spirit.
But even if you have doubts despite knowing you are living in love, God is greater than your doubts, He knows.
In the entirety of 1 John 3:10 - 24, we are told to keep God's command. And it is made clear the command is this; to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ.
To believe in Jesus Christ is to believe in all that He has said.
"Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him." For the definition of what love is, you can do this bible study, Check 1 Corinthians 13:4.
I hope this speaks to you. This may be strong admonition but it applies to everyone, myself included.
God Bless.
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TSunknown warrior
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Jul 12 2021, 10:50 AM
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Our inheritance shield by "Faith"
1 Peter 1: 3 - 5 (NIV) - Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
Where the word of God say He has given us new birth into a living hope, that is what I will believe. God has given, then it is what I have. The Lord is pleased when we believe this. This is the position of a Christian.
The phrase living hope here means hope that is alive and well because God is the one who is faithful as promise keeper. When God makes a promise, it's a done deal. Much better than any righteous person who makes you a promise. Why? Because God cannot lie.
This inheritance is permanently incorruptible. What you have is far safer (being kept) than the most secured Bank Vault of this world. How? By your faith.
By your Faith, your inheritance is shield by God's Power which no powers of evil nor darkness can break against. IN fact the very presence of God cause all demons to tremble.
Have faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
God Bless
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TSunknown warrior
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Jul 12 2021, 02:32 PM
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TSunknown warrior
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Jul 14 2021, 11:14 AM
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The Law fully met in us
Romans 8:4 (NIV) - in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Dear Friends, today's devotion is quite deep, if you cannot understand, it is alright but it requires that you know scripture verses else you will be lost.
I love this verse. It says here, the righteous requirement of the law might be "fully" met "IN" us. There are 2 key phrases, which are
1) Fully
2) In us
Fully here represents the complete total righteous requirement of the Law fully met in us. From God's estimation this righteous requirement fully here is no joke, it's means complete perfection and not partial. If that is what is say....how is that even possible? Think about it, If it's saying it depends on us who walk after the HS, then it's either partial or complete depending on what we do, doesn't it? That is virtually quite impossible because we are all imperfect human beings.
Would you consider King David whom God gave this exclamation, Man after my own heart to be somebody who did? As we know even King David failed.
what more when God says this in
Romans 3:10 (NIV) - As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; Notice the phrase "not even one"? It's there in the Greek. This verse testify it. Not even one means not even one person. Not even Zechariah nor Elizabeth. Though the Bible states they were righteous and blameless observing all of God's command, yet Zachariah did not believe God and Elizabeth was barren. There are inside revelations in there but we will not talk about it for now.
Also take note that it is recorded...the righteous requirement of the law is met "IN" us...not "BY" us. There is a big difference there. IN us there denotes someone else is doing it.
So what is Romans 8 verse is really saying?
We must look at the verse before Romans 8:4 which is verse 3 because verse 4 says "In order that..." meaning there is a preceding happening that causes verse 4. What is it? tells us The law was powerless or weak because of our flesh. Stop. What does that even mean? No one could reach God via the Law because the strength of sin is the Law. The more we try, the more we will fail. How then will this be solved? What is the answer then?
Bible tells us, God send his Son in the likeness of sin... What is this about? Answer = It's about what our Lord Jesus did. That is the answer. There are opposing teaching that tell us Jesus Christ did not come abolish the Law, and not one drop, not even the slightest dot will be remove. That is correct. Why? Because The Law was waiting for only 1 person who could fulfilled it perfectly. His Name is Jesus Christ. Nobody else in Bible History could do it, not even the best of OT, King David.
Jesus Christ was the only one who could fulfil God's Law and meet that Righteous requirement. The Law was waiting for this ONE Messiah who is qualified. NO other person qualifies.
Romans 10:4 tell us; Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. Culmination here means the end of the Law for those who believe in Christ.
In Galatians 3:24 and 25 scripture tells us the Law has a time frame until Christ, meaning it is no more after Christ. Until there indicates "up to". It stops at Christ.
Friend, walking after the flesh means you have forgotten you have Christ who has saved you*. Walking after the Spirit means setting your minds to what God wants. Walking after the Spirit is walking and living by Faith in Jesus Christ. You have no power inside of you to fight against sin. How you got saved when you accepted Christ (which is by faith) is exactly how you walk after God's Spirit. It is also by faith. There is no difference there.
You got saved by God not because of your own might or strength. Think about it. Did you do anything that merits it? No isn't it? Likewise fighting against sin and fulfilling "FULLY" God righteous requirement takes faith. No difference. You know without anyone needed to tell you, there is no way you will be able to fulfil it perfectly.
I share this devotion with the purpose for you to know what you have. I share this because I want you to grow and have victory through God. Understand that God sees completion of his righteous requirement of his Law via your acceptance of Christ in your life, not your own performances to his laws. VERY HUGE difference here.
We all need this because the devil wrecks pain and havoc with the believers life like a prowling lion.
When you can begin to understand this, the magnitude of your spiritual life changes so much when you pray, you know God will answer because of what you have here. Being righteous in Christ.
God Bless.
This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Jul 14 2021, 11:29 AM
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TSunknown warrior
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Jul 14 2021, 11:29 AM
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2 Peter 1: 8-9 (NIV) - For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, * forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Jul 14 2021, 11:30 AM
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TSunknown warrior
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Jul 15 2021, 02:15 PM
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What this Christian Fellowship Thread is about?
1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV) - Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
It goes without saying the number one priority is always about our God. But I also think it's important for Christians to understand that the very purpose of this thread is to encourage and build one another as how God wills it in 1 Thessalonians 5:11.
I've been here for many years and I've come across many challenges of people trying to break the fellowship. There are comments saying; "I don't get the point of fellowshipping" as this is a forum, etc You can insert whatever reasons but that raise up an alarm for me.
All the more reason to fight against enemies of soul. This place is sanctuary for Christians to gather and to encourage one another.
God Bless
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TSunknown warrior
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Jul 30 2021, 07:45 AM
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I AM GOD, THERE IS NO OTHERS!
Isaiah 46:3-10 (NIV)
3 “Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob,
all the remnant of the people of Israel,
you whom I have upheld since your birth,
and have carried since you were born.
4 Even to your old age and gray hairs
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
5 “With whom will you compare me or count me equal?
To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?
6 Some pour out gold from their bags
and weigh out silver on the scales;
they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god,
and they bow down and worship it.
7 They lift it to their shoulders and carry it;
they set it up in its place, and there it stands.
From that spot it cannot move.
Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer;
it cannot save them from their troubles.
8 “Remember this, keep it in mind,
take it to heart, you rebels.
9 Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me.
10 I make known the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say, ‘My purpose will stand,
and I will do all that I please.’
This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Jul 30 2021, 07:46 AM
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TSunknown warrior
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Aug 6 2021, 07:35 AM
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Psalm 37 :1-11 (NIV) :
1 Do not fret because of those who are evil
or be envious of those who do wrong;
2 for like the grass they will soon wither,
like green plants they will soon die away.
3 Trust in the Lord and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
4 Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him and he will do this:
6 He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,
your vindication like the noonday sun.
7 Be still before the Lord
and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when people succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.
8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
do not fret—it leads only to evil.
9 For those who are evil will be destroyed,
but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.
10 A little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though you look for them, they will not be found.
11 But the meek will inherit the land
and enjoy peace and prosperity.
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TSunknown warrior
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Aug 7 2021, 08:09 AM
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Matthew 19:21-26 (NIV)
21 Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
22 When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.
24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
25 When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”
26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
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This is an illustration, we have read this passage in the bible so many time...we may think the Rich Young Ruler could not be saved but Jesus Christ said this......with Man this is impossible but with God all things are possible.
Meaning with God..even the young rich ruler could be saved. We think Sin like love of money, lust, etc makes it impossible for a person to be saved.
Yet the word of God says even such sins, does not mean it's hard or impossible for God to save the person.
There is always hope in the God of the Israel, the God of the Bible.
God Bless.
This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Aug 7 2021, 08:09 AM
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TSunknown warrior
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Aug 9 2021, 09:21 AM
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Why God does not answer?
Galatians 5:4 (KJV) - Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Hello Fellow Believers of Christ,
We have this problem where there are some of us who live under the new covenant but with an old covenant mindset. You understand there is a new covenant but predominantly, the old covenant rule and shape the person's walk with The Lord.
We have this idea where we think we are alright before God via our actions. Nothing wrong in that. But we've missed it if that is how we see God's truth, because ultimately what we are saying, we are made right depending on our actions measured against God's Law.
That is what it means in Galatians 5 verse 4 where it says.."whosoever of you are justified by the law".
Any believers who hold the view that our action is what justifies us, the Bible tells us...Christ becomes of no effect unto us and we have fallen from "Grace". It's a very terrible position be under because defeat and failures will be, the only answers.
This devotion may rustle some of you but I share this with the intention that you see Bible truth and thus set free from your shackles.
So what truth view should Christians hold then?
The answer lies in one chapter before that..Galatians 4.
Well the Bible tells us in verse 30 of Galatians 4 to "Cast out, the Bondwomen and her son" referring to the Old Covenant of the 10 commandments.
Get rid of the old covenant out of your life completely. You are to embrace the covenant of the "Free Women and the promised Son", which is the New Covenant, all about the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
What are we to embrace everyday? Well according what the Bible tells us...that we are "made" righteous by our Faith in the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
Some may misunderstand to think to get rid of the Old Covenant is to live a careless sinful life. No. To be able to live a holy and righteous life can only be found under the New Covenant which is by Grace..undeserved and unearned favor of God.
Under this covenant, the Lord Answers!
God Bless.
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TSunknown warrior
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Aug 12 2021, 08:09 AM
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God says "Don't come near mount Sinai"
Exodus 19:12 (NIV) Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death
In Hebrews 12 (18-24), Bible tells us, God is no longer on Mount Sinai where the 10 commandments was given where there is "fear", but on Mount Zion where there is "joy". We need to know this before we continue further.
What happened in the OT are lessons for Christians to understand. We all know that God told the Israel not to come near the mountain, where even no human nor animals may touch lest they be killed.
How would you feel if God tell you not to come near Him like in the OT?
God never use this language "Don't come near" prior to the 10 commandments.
If you know your Bible, God was close to the Israelites in their exodus journey..in pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night. God was guarding them, in the front and back.
Tell me if that is not closeness?
How come before the giving of the Law, God was close and dispense much grace where even when the Israelites sin, they did not die?
How come after the giving of the Law, God says don't come near and when the Israelites sin, they died?
Today's devotion is something for you to digest.
Read Galatians 4:30 and ask the Holy Spirit to give you revelation of what is said above.
On which mountain to do you stand upon? You cannot have both, God would not have it and He is no longer on the old mountain.
Mount Zion is where your can put your trust in the Lord for Salvation, not your trust in your own performances.
God Bless
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TSunknown warrior
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Aug 13 2021, 08:06 AM
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Romans 4:5 (NIV) - However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.
This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Aug 13 2021, 08:07 AM
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TSunknown warrior
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Aug 16 2021, 08:43 AM
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QUOTE(Charmz83 @ Aug 15 2021, 05:41 PM) Thanks for believing me! I know it's quite hard for some people to believe. I myself always wonder how is it even possible, if it's real. I have been searching for a good church in the past few years.. Recently I found a church and joined their connect group. So far, it has been great. My group have helped me to receive Jesus Christ. I will ask them on how to pray the sinner's prayer. Thanks for your advise! Please do share your vision, I believe Jesus wants you to spread the gospel. FUUUHHHH!!!!! I'm so happy for you.  |
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TSunknown warrior
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Aug 17 2021, 07:50 AM
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TSunknown warrior
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Aug 17 2021, 08:45 AM
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Romans 4:5 (NIV) - However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.
If you think that you are ungodly, then you qualify for God to redeem you.
But if you think that you have it all together, you have not missed anything, then The Lord Jesus Christ cannot be an effect unto you. (Galatians 5:4)
But if everyday you believe you far from qualified for heaven because you are ungodly, God justify you by your trust (Faith) in his Son.
God Bless
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TSunknown warrior
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Aug 18 2021, 09:34 AM
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2 Timothy 2:13 (NIV) - if we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot disown himself.
I love God for his faithfulness. Even when sometime we as believers falter and fall, God remains faithful in loving us.
It is what draws me to come to Him every single time without fail.
Romans 3:3 tells us
"What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness?"
The word of God tells us time and time again, God is ever unchanging. He is stable and sure even when we are. This is what makes Him God.
This why we can come to Him who is eternal.
I post this in appreciation to God who is there for you when and if no one else will.
I pray this devotion will encourage you to come to Him.
God Bless.
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