No Fear in Love

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” - 1 John 4:18

As I begin to meditate on this word and what is saying to us.  Perfect Love is found in Jesus.  1 Cor 13 is all about love and what it is.  But to walk in Jesus is place of peace and not fear.


I pray that we all walk in that perfect love.

May God bless you

Be Convinced and Be seperated

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” - Romans 8:38-39

This morning two words stuck out to me convinced and separate.  Being convinced means to me that you know and believed.  This is saying that we must be convinced that nothing can stop us with our relationship with the Father.  Did you see what I wrote NOTHING!  No issues of life will stop what you believe.

Then the second word - Separate.  Now I am not saying that your suppose to this holy than thou attitude. What the passage is you will not be be separated from the Father.  Back in the day, when I played basketball the coach would tell us that when we played man to man defense to stick our man like glue.

So here is what I am saying stick to the Father like clue and never let go.

Be blessed to day..

More Than a conqueror

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” - Romans 8:35,37

What an awesome passage of encouragement. This shows us that no matter what is going on in our life as long as we are centered in on our Heavenly father and him alone we will make it.   This is not always things work we get so focused  on the problem. We miss the hold of the answer.

So today my challenge is that you focus on the answer not the problem.

Have a blessed day

True Love - Sacrifice!

“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” - 1 John 4:10

True Love = Sacrifice.  God sent his son for a sacrifice for us. What an example of us about true love.   Love is about sacrifice. Marriage is about sacrifice - when you love someone you will do everything that you can for the other person.

This is opposite of what our society has promoted - if it difficult jump ship and find new love. Notice I didn't say true love because if they would have stuck with it the definition of true love would have been defined for them.

True Love is sacrificial.

Have a blessed day

Happy Valentines day!

““A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”” - John 13:34-35

Yesterday, I spoke about extravagant love. This made me think of what God did by send the perfect valentine His Son to die on the cross for our sins and then rose again..  What an awesome thought!

Today passage states to love one another! I pray that we put that into practice.

Have blessed day!

Valentines throughout the year

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.” - 1 Corinthians 13:4-5

We are embarking on Valentines day! Where people try to show there love for one another. I would like you to challenge you with the scripture that you and I could show love throughout the year if we would dare to follow this passage.

I believe that there would be more peace on our lives.

Have a blessed Friday!

You are Just a Bunch of Noise if you don't have love

“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.” - 1 Corinthians 13:1-3

I was just thinking this morning with Valentines coming that some people say they love but they have no content which like a bunch of noise.

But when I think of my awesome wife I do Love her so much. I love Jesus with all my heart. I love my daughters with all my heart.  I love my church and community with all my heart. This means there is not a lot of room for noise.

Have a blessed day

thank God For you !

“[Thanksgiving and Prayer] We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.” - 2 Thessalonians 1:3

As I read this statement of thank God for you... Well, I praise the Lord for all you but we need to continue to grow in faith.

Grow in your faith

Can't we just get along

“[Love for Enemies] “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” - Matthew 5:43-45

I read this scripture and thought wow in this day of living we see more bickering and bake biting amongst people because of disagreements from the smallest to largest of issues to smalled neighborhood to the largest group of influential people (the government) not showing love or the matter of fact respect.

This morning this statement came to my mind "Can't we just get along".

Ask yourself this question are you showing the kind of love that our Heavenly showed you if not place it in you heart to begin today!
Have a great DAY

Love God Hate evil

“Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.” - Psalm 97:10

This past weekend I was watching a video entitled "Lord, save us from ourselves". It was on the premise that Christians act differently in the outside that church then they do inside the church. Which makes that statement mean the some Christians are hypocrites.

So I guess my biggest challenge from me as well as you that we love God with all that is in us no matter where we are.

Have a blessed Monday!

Get On the Rock!

“[Psalm 18] For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. He sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.” -Psalm 18:1-2

Good Morning!

As I begin to read this passage of scripture. I read about my fortress, my deliver, my shield, my stronghold but is statement in the middle of my rock.

When I think of a rock I think of strength or a firm foundation. When you put all the other statements together there is defiantly a strong foundation and a safe haven.

I don't what this verse speaks to you but to me it speaks to that no matter the issues of life that I may be going through I can get through it as long as I on the firm foundation of our Heavenly Father.

See you Monday!
Well Be blessed today.

Preacherman

Oh By the way - yesterday's post is found at bfirstag blog. This is my old blog when I first started.

Out of date wisdom Update faith

1 Corinthians 6-10 (The Message)

 ^6-10We, of course, have plenty of wisdom to pass on to you once you get your feet on firm spiritual ground, but it's not popular wisdom, the fashionable wisdom of high-priced experts that will be out-of-date in a year or so. God's wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of his purposes. You don't find it lying around on the surface. It's not the latest message, but more like the oldest—what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us, long before we ever arrived on the scene. The experts of our day haven't a clue about what this eternal plan is. If they had, they wouldn't have killed the Master of the God-designed life on a cross. That's why we have this Scripture text:

   No one's ever seen or heard anything like this,
   Never so much as imagined anything quite like it—
   What God has arranged for those who love him.
But you've seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you.

** I am stuck at home again with the snow storm of 2011.  
This passage of scripture is really interesting to me... Last night before I went to bed I shoveled my walk but then this morning it was covered with snow. The wind had filled in the path last night. So now I will have shovel the path over again.  So it looks as if I had never shoveled the walk at all. 


So you may wondering what this have to do with wisdom.  Sometimes, we use all the wisdom that has been taught us from the so called experts. We need to look to the word  of God and expect the things of God through faith.  


It takes faith not world wisdom.  


I pray that this made sense to you but I also pray that you walk by faith and listen to the heavenly Father.


Have blessed day.. 

Snow day 2011 a time to reflect

Today was one of those days that you wait until arrives and then wonder what I was thinks,

I have been wanting to begin blogging. So check in -- I will blogging daily


“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” - Deuteronomy 6:4-5

I love this when you read this words... Hear, O Israel... means Listen up... How many times have the Lord spoke those words to you or I to pay attention because what is about to be said will change you life or challenge. Today scripture is a challenge to do...

Love the Lord you God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.  Which really means everything which is in you.

So the challenge love the Lord with all that you are and continually love him more. Fall head over heals in love with him.

Have a blessed day!

Preacherman.