dW 07.20.07

1 Peter 1:3-9

 

3 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, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, 5 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. 6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

 

1.       Trials should not diminish our faith but increase it.

2.       Trials should remind us that this is not our home and that we are destined for a better place.

3.       The way we respond to trails will either bring honor or dishonor to God.

4.       Joy through trials is unexplainable to those who are perishing and is inseparable to they that are saved.

dW 07.18.07

scripture

 

Proverbs 24:17

Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice.

 

quote

 

Hate is only power to love misused.

Missionary Tidings

 

Forgiveness is not an elective in the curriculum of life.  It is a required course, and the exams are always tough to pass.

Charles Swindoll

dW 07.16.07

thought

 

How often do you tire of this existence? How often do you desire living water which entirely satisfies thirst and living bread that entirely satisfies hunger? Oh what a pitiful existence we experience when it is our momentary present and not our eternal future that is our focus.

 

quote

 

Real happiness is not costly, but what fearful prices men pay for its imitations.

Jerry Fleischman

 

scripture

 

Matthew 6:19-20

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

 

Isaiah 33:2

O LORD, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.