Friday, September 6, 2024, 05:23
How do you repay someone who has saved your life?
This is the question that is haunting me tonight.
My life, this life i am living, seems now is a borrowed life.
When someone give everything, their own life, so that you can live what is the proper response?
This is the question i hope to answer,
the simple answer i guess would be my life in return.
But then how do you do that for him?
How does that work out each day?
is it just for a day, a month? a year? Or forever?
i guess i'm afraid of losing sight of what has happened and just slipping back in to my old life, and losing the gratitude i have for him and what he has done for me, as if i am ungratefull.
The gratitude should never end, the person gave their life for me so that i can live,
so as long and i have life i should be grateful for what he has done for me. Right?
If i am truly grateful what would be the problem with showing gratitude for him for as long as i have a breath?
He had asked me to do something; something that will or could take me the rest of my life should i, can i do it????????
If my life was so valuable to him that he was willing to gave up his own life to save mine, shouldn’t i fulfill his request, his desires??????
Is this life mine anymore?
Just one heart beat from death how should it be spent?
This is what I am trying to work out in my heart and mind.
i don't want to be or even seem ungrateful.
ill be back.
Tuesday, September 3, 2024, 09:42
Self-control:
1Corintians 7:3-5
The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise, also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1Co 7:9
But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
1Corinthians 9:24-27
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize?
Run in such a way that you may win.
Everyone who competes in the game’s exercises self-control in all things.
They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim;
I box in such a way, as not beating the air;
but I discipline my body and make it my slave,
so that, after I have preached to others,
I myself will not be disqualified.
Galatians 5:16-26
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.
For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;
for these are in opposition to one another,
so that you may not do the things that you please.
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are:
immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these,
of which I forewarn you,
just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control;
against such things there is no law.
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.
2Timothy 3:1
But realize this,
that in the last days difficult times will come.
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.
2Peter 1:11
Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
Now for this very reason also,
applying all diligence,
in your faith supply moral excellence,
and in your moral excellence, knowledge,
and in your knowledge, self-control,
and in your self-control, perseverance,
and in your perseverance, godliness,
and in your godliness, brotherly kindness,
and in your brotherly kindness, love.
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing,
they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.
Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you;
for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;
for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.
1Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly;
it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails
Mathew 22:37-39
And He said to him,
“ YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.
This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it,
‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
Joy:
Deuteronomy 28:47-4 “Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things; therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
Psalm 51:10-13
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit.
Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners will be converted to You.
{{{ when we give in to our will instead of obeying the words of Father God and out Lord Christ Jesus we deceive our selves in to believing that all is good because we say we are of Christ, attending church, going to church and making an appearance, saying and acting the part but in the heart desiring to fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Do to lack of self-control,
Putting self-first rather than loving the Lord your God and fellow believers, your neighbor.
With joy and a glad heart.
Joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, when you came to or come to and except the Lord Jesus, Christ Jesus goes to the Father;
Father God and askes Him to send, to dwell in you the Holy Spirit,
to teach you and direct you through life.
When you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit you then have the recived the fruit of the Spirit;
love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control
Love,
Joy,
Pease,
Patience,
Kindness,
Goodness,
Faithfulness,
Gentleness,
Self-control
And just like with excepting Christ Jesus by faith, and intern you receive the Holy Spirit from Father God, And by faith in Father God, Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit, allowing the Spirit of GOD to have power in and over your life, you receive the fruit of the Holy Spirit and by the power and authority of GOD you can live by the fruit of the Holy Spirit in your life.
And having self-control;
You can know and live with true Love, Joy, Pease, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness.
Just like salvation these are gifts from GOD, it is up to us to except them just as it is up to us to except the Love Father God and Christ Jesus have offered to us.
To have knowledge of if different then having position of it in your life, to have position of something in your life will cause your life to reflect it out to others.
Aging we need to remember
2Timothy 3:1
Realize this,
that in the last days difficult times will come.
For men will be lovers of self,
lovers of money,
boastful,
arrogant,
revilers,
disobedient to parents,
ungrateful,
unholy,
unloving,
irreconcilable,
malicious gossips,
without self-control,
brutal,
haters of good,
treacherous,
reckless,
conceited,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
holding to a form of godliness,
although they have denied its power;
Avoid such men as these.
Do you go by the title Christian?
Do you associate with people who live by the above list out of 2Timothy 3:1?
Do you choose to listen to and follow after the attributes they desire to install in your life?
Or do you choose to obey the Lord your GOD and avoid such people?
Living by the attributes, lifestyle of the world and such as these, we are told
Are you one who is always learning but yet never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,
never able to grasp and live by the commandments of GOD?
Christ Jesus said
John 14:15
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments”
Matthew 6:33
“But seek first His kingdom (Father God’s kingdom) and His righteousness (Father God’s righteousness), and all these things will be added to you.”
John 14:12-17 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.
Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper,
that He may be with you forever;
that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,
because it does not see Him or know Him,
but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.”
“No one can serve two masters;
for either he will hate the one and love the other,
or he will be devoted to one and despise the other.”
You can not serve God and this world.
f you choose to serve GOD you have the opportunity to live in and with;
Love,
Joy,
Pease,
Patience,
Kindness,
Goodness,
Faithfulness,
Gentleness,
Self-control
And to be accepted in to eternal life with Christ Jesus, adopted in to the family of Father God.
Chose to live with the world and partake in their way of life and influence;
You will live in and with.
lovers of self,
lovers of money,
boastful,
arrogant,
revilers,
disobedient to parents,
ungrateful,
unholy,
unloving,
irreconcilable,
malicious gossips,
without self-control,
brutal,
haters of good,
treacherous,
reckless,
conceited,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
holding to a form of godliness,
although denying its power
As always, the choice is yours.
No one can make it for you.
Christ is waiting for you to accept Him in to your life,
He is offering you the free gift of salvation.
And all you have to do is ask.
Want to except Christ as your savior,
want to be lead by the Spirit of GOD,
Then say this little prayer out loud to the Lord, say it from your heart,
not just words, for GOD knows your heart and your sincerity.
( Lord Jesus, i humbly come before you asking that you would forgive me of my sins, i acknowledge You as the Son of the only living GOD, i accept You into my life acknowledging you as my Lord i give my life back to you, my desire is to live with in your commandments, to obey and live out Your words.
i come to you and ask to lead by Your Spirit.
i acknowledge and except Your authority over my spirit my life asking to be filled and lead by Your Spirit,
teach me Your ways O Lord. )
now read the book of John and learn who you are in CHrist Jesus.
read Matthew 5,6 and 7 to know how you are to live in Christ.
Now go in peace, GOD loves you.
Thursday, August 29, 2024, 05:02
Malachi 1:6-14
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master.
Then if I am a father, where is My honor?
And if I am a master, where is My respect?
says the LORD of hosts to you,
O priests who despise My name.
But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?
You are presenting defiled food upon My altar.
But you say, How have we defiled You?
In that you say, The table of the LORD is to be despised.
But when you present the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil?
And when you present the lame and sick, is it not evil?
Why not offer it to your governor?
Would he be pleased with you?
Or would he receive you kindly?”
says the LORD of hosts.
“But now will you not entreat God’s favor, that He may be gracious to us?
With such an offering on your part, will He receive any of you kindly? “
says the LORD of hosts.
“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the gates, that you might not uselessly kindle fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,”
says the LORD of hosts,
“nor will I accept an offering from you.
For from the rising of the sun even to its setting,
My name will be great among the nations,
and in every place incense is going to be offered to My name, and a grain offering that is pure;
for My name will be great among the nations,”
says the LORD of hosts.
“But you are profaning it, in that you say,
‘The table of the Lord is defiled,
and as for its fruit, its food is to be despised.’
You also say, ‘My, how tiresome it is!’
And you disdainfully sniff at it,”
says the LORD of hosts,
“And you bring what was taken by robbery and what is lame or sick;
so you bring the offering!
Should I receive that from your hand?”
says the LORD.
“But cursed be the swindler who has a male in his flock and vows it, but sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord, for I am a great King,”
says the LORD of hosts,
“and My name is feared among the nations.”
{{{{ this morning i was drawn to Malachi, and as i was reading the Holy Spirit showed me something i had not thought about before.
Those of you who have been around this sight for a wall know I believe the Bible both the Old and New Testaments are insight and for the growth of the followers of Christ Jesus.
Malachi 7-14 are words directly from Father God, and it speaks of the nations.
Are there not nations still today?
Do you not live in a nation?
What i saw was a bit disturbing but. let’s get in to it.
Malachi 1:6
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master.
Then if I am a father, where is My honor?
And if I am a master, where is My respect?
says the LORD of hosts to you,
O priests who despise My name.
As i read was instantly reminded of:
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other,
or he will be devoted to one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and wealth.”
And at that time thoughts of pastors and leaders in churches I have attended and been on staff at.
Of how they were more dedicated to the things of the world or self rather than the Lord God.
Lovers of position, wealth and position in life.
Serving themselves or mankind rather than the Lord their GOD.
Whom they clam to serve,
but instead in reality are serving money.
O priests who despise My name.
But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?
You are presenting defiled food upon My altar.
But you say, How have we defiled You?
In that you say,
The table of the LORD is to be despised.
But when you present the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil?
From what i have come to understand if we are of Christ Jesus, we are priests of GOD.
When a pastor or one who calls them self a Christian speaks of worldly things, are they/we not presenting damaged goods before the Lord our GOD?
Are we not defiling what is the LORD’S?
Am felling i am on the edge of something that if my soil can grasp it fully my life will never be the same aging.
Think about it;
living a life so dedicated to the LORD your GOD that every thing you say and do are a true blessing to HIM.
Living a life of true worship and adoration to the LORD.
A life pleasing and upright to the LORD.
A life totally dependent on Him and Him alone.
We clam to be of Christ Jesus but when we come to Him the majority of the time it is not to bring praise and honor to HIS Name but to ask for something of HIM,
to ask for gain for ourselves.
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world nor the things in the world.
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life,
is not from the Father, but is from the world.
The world is passing away,
and also its lusts;
but the one who does the will of God lives forever.
John 15:18-19
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
If you were of the world,
the world would love you as its own;
but because you are not of the world,
but I chose you out of the world,
therefore the world hates you.
Romans 12:1-11
Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,
like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.
And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men,
but is choice and precious in the sight of God,
you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
For this is contained in Scripture:
“BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER stone, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”
This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve,
“THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED,
THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone,
A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE”;
for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.
But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION,
so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
for you once were NOT A PEOPLE,
but now you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD;
you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY,
but now you have RECEIVED MERCY.
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.
Galatians 5:13-26
"For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement,
“YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.
For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;
for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident,
which are:
immorality,
impurity,
sensuality,
idolatry,
sorcery,
enmities,
strife,
jealousy,
outbursts of anger,
disputes,
dissensions,
factions,
envying,
drunkenness,
carousing,
and things like these,
of which I forewarn you,
just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is
love,
joy,
peace,
patience,
kindness,
goodness,
faithfulness,
gentleness,
self-control;
against such things there is no law.
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Let us not become boastful,
challenging one another,
envying one another.”
{{ ones who clam the name Christians are under the law if they are living by the ways of the world,
Because they have not crucified their flesh, desiring to fallow after their fleshly passions and desires rather than living by the fruit of the Spirit of GOD.
love,
joy,
peace,
patience,
kindness,
goodness,
faithfulness,
gentleness,
self-control;
against such things there is no law. }}
{{ the church in America speaks of honoring and parsing the LORD on Sunday morning but Sunday afternoon are partaking in worldly ways, feeding the flesh, and by Monday back to the same old rat race, trying to survive, and fulfill the lust of the flesh, more, and more, more money, more possessions, more pats on the back, more and more and more.
And the LORD is left on the back burner until the next crises or the next church service to attend.
This brings us back to Malichi 1:1
“But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name? ( un aware or willfully blind to the way they live )
You are presenting defiled food upon My altar. ( presenting a life not circumcised unto the LORD )
But you say,
How have we defiled You?
In that you say, The table of the LORD is to be despised. ( This is said by actions more than words )
But when you present the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? ( when you present your self as holly but are still living with fleshly passions and desires directing your path. )
And when you present the lame and sick, is it not evil? ( when you give unto the LORD an offering but do so with hesitation, regret, or holding a grudge because you could use it somewhere ells, or to be seen. )
Why not offer it to your governor? ( your governor; the one you answer to in this world, that ball game, that person at work, that friend, the boyfriend or girlfriend, your wife or husband, the tax collector, that new whatever whoever it is you are attracted to. )
Would he be pleased with you? ( if a person if you treated them the way you treat the LORD your GOD would they put up with you? )
would he receive you kindly? ( the answer to that is NO and you know it. ) }}
John 15:18-20
“If the world hates you,
you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
If you were of the world, the world would love its own;
but because you are not of the world,
but I chose you out of the world,
because of this the world hates you.
Remember the word that I said to you,
‘A slave is not greater than his master.’
If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you”
Take some time to think about this……..
Have you given your life to Christ Jesus?
If so then who are you living for?
What master are you serving?
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
Most translations say:
You cannot serve God and mammon
You cannot serve God and wealth
Mammon in the New Testament is commonly thought to mean money, material wealth, or any entity that promises wealth, and is associated with the greedy pursuit of gain.
Mammon is a term for riches, used to describe the wanton influence of material wealth.
The term was used by Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount and also appears in the book of Luke.
In days of old it was referred to as an evil demon or god.
mammon has been used to negatively describe the pursuit of wealth and gain of worldly items or personal gain.
You cannot serve both GOD and worldly gain.
Jest is the same
You cannot live by the flesh with its passions and desires, and by the Spirit of GOD.
Stop trying to ride the fence,
chose a side and get off the fence.
Will you choose The LORD GOD?
Or the world and its ways?
The chose is yours.
Sunday, August 25, 2024, 07:07
Worship Do we truly worship the Lord?
To Worship:
To show reverent love and devotion,
To honor, to love, to show great respect,
To regard, to adore, to esteem, to be devoted to,
To perform acts of homage or adoration,
To pay reverence to by external action Respect paid by external action,
To firmly acknowledge Motivated to action totally devoted to serve with honor,
To live a life that displays a life in line with the lordship of GOD, of Christ Jesus,
To be zealous; actively showing great enthusiasms,
Fervently worship: Having great passion toward GOD
2 Corinthians 13:5-6
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith;
examine yourselves!
Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?
Do you Test yourselves?
Do you take note of how you think, of how you live?
Do you truly worship the Lord your GOD?
i have found that i have not truly understood what it means to worship GOD.
Holy Spirit i need your help to rein line my life to truly worship you.
It seems most of the songs we sing about worship, are just that about worshiping but not actually worship.
From this time forth i ask that you will lead me to true and honest worship of the LORD my GOD.
Holy Spirit i ask that you would fill me with Your fruit;
In Galatians 5:23 the Lord says the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control
Father GOD, i humbly come to you repenting of my lack of or week worship i have shown toward You, i humbly ask for your forgiveness, and humbly ask that You would direct the Holy Spirit to install in me His fruit, that i may truly know and live out in this life; love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Teach me O Lord how to live each out for your glory, i ask that you would make my self-control so strong that it would not waver from You, Your ways, Your commandments.
That this life You have given me would truly be lived out in complete worship of You.
Thank you, Father GOD, for sending Christ Jesus, thank you that He freely gave of Himself on the cross that i a sinner can be forgiven, saved and have the opportunity to worship You. Thank You that He rose from the dead three days later victories over death hell and the grave.
That in this world i have nothing to fear but fear its self.
And that by trusting in You my LORD for Who i do fear for it is You and You alone that can condemn the soil of man, man can only kill the body so why should I fear mankind when You are my GOD.
My desire is that my life will show the greatest worship of all, that i may live a life that is an image of a reflection of Your love, Your joy, of the peace that only comes from You, of Your kindness, Your goodness, Your faithfulness toward mankind, Your gentleness towards us and your self-control to honor Your word.
Please make the fruit of the Spirit; love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control strong attributes in my life.
Holly is Your name, Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen and amen.
Thank you for teaching me true worship that i may glory and honor to Your name, that this life may be a true blessing to You.
Saturday, August 17, 2024, 04:18
from
Psalms 51:1-17
Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;
According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.
Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being,
And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.
Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Make me to hear joy and gladness,
Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.
Hide Your face from my sins
And blot out all my iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from Your presence
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation
And sustain me with a willing spirit.
Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners will be converted to You.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;
Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.
O Lord, open my lips,
That my mouth may declare Your praise.
For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;
You are not pleased with burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
{{ the sacrifice GOD desires from us is a broken humble heart
If we come to the LORD with a humble repentant heart
GOD will not reject us.
Giving of money is not what GOD is looking for,
He is looking for that broken heart,
that heart that in humility comes to Him in repentance. }}
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said,
“Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
Proverbs 21:3
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Lamentations 5:21-22
Restore us to You, O LORD,
that we may be restored;
Renew our days as of old,
Unless You have utterly rejected us
And are exceedingly angry with us.
Romans 6:16
Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience,
you are slaves of the one whom you obey,
either of sin resulting in death,
or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
{{ Obeyance is better than sacrifice
To obey is better than sacrifice
I don't need your money, I want your life
And I hear you say that I'm coming back soon
But you act like I'll never return
Well you speak of grace and my love so sweet
How you thrive on milk but reject my meat
And I can't help weeping of how it will be
If you keep on ignoring my words
Well you pray to prosper and succeed
But your flesh is something I just can't feed
To obey is better than sacrifice
I want more than Sundays and Wednesday nights
'Cause if you can't come to me everyday
Then don't bother coming at all
To obey is better than sacrifice
I want hearts of fire, not your prayers of ice
And I'm coming quickly to give back to you
According to what you have done
According to what you have done
According to what you have done
These words were written by: Keith Green
But were taken from the words of GOD Himself.
To obey is better than sacrifice I don't need your money; I want your life.
To obey is better than sacrifice I want hearts of fire, not your prayers of ice
And I'm coming quickly to give back to you
According to what you have done.
"According to what you have done"
Now that could be rather scary for a lot who clam the name Christian.
What have you given the LORD your GOD????? }}}