Understanding the path the Lord will direct us in today requires our whole heart. Otherwise, our hearts will be drawn to antichrist rabbit trails. Opening the Bible aligns with the former, while the latter is often a result of social media feeds.
Proverbs 3:5 KJV Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 3:6 KJV In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
I've never regretted investing in the Kingdom of God. As for other financial investments, I can't say as much.
Proverbs 3:9 KJV Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Proverbs 3:10 KJV So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
We are not God, we cannot help everyone, but we can help a few.
Proverbs 3:27 KJV Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Not according to the antichrist Zionist dispensationalist, who believes the house of the wicked is blessed simply because they call themselves Jews.
Proverbs 3:33 KJV The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
If a preacher withholds certain truths from the Word of God because it comes at a cost, they handle the Word of God deceitfully. I've learned that this cost includes most churches not touching a preacher who preaches the whole counsel of God with a ten-foot pole.
2 Corinthians 4:2 KJV But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
We are called to shine the Light of Christ today, not ourselves. The god of this world will take you to a high mountain so all can see you, just before he kicks you off it, so all can see your fall.
2 Corinthians 4:3 KJV But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
2 Corinthians 4:4 KJV In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
2 Corinthians 4:5 KJV For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
2 Corinthians 4:6 KJV For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
If the Light of Christ shines in and through you, you are rich.
2 Corinthians 4:7 KJV But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
The pain of this world is always bearable through Jesus Christ, for He comforts us regardless. He will always help us see the light in our dark circumstances if we look to Him.
2 Corinthians 4:8 KJV We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
2 Corinthians 4:9 KJV Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
2 Corinthians 4:10 KJV Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
2 Corinthians 4:11 KJV For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
I may not see all who follow the work of Gospilled on this side of heaven. However, I will see all who share the same spirit of faith—a gift from God—at the resurrection and throughout eternity.
2 Corinthians 4:13 KJV We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
2 Corinthians 4:14 KJV Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
True faith never quits and always endures to the end.
2 Corinthians 4:16 KJV For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Earthly pain is temporal, but the lake of fire is eternal. Praise God for deliverance from eternal suffering; then the suffering of this world will pale in comparison.
2 Corinthians 4:17 KJV For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
2 Corinthians 4:18 KJV While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Tribalism is a part of life and is manifested in local churches.
Numbers 36:9 KJV Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
They call this antisemitism today.
Isaiah 58:1 KJV Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Fasting unto the LORD is not a personal weight loss program or a spiritual trophy; it brings discomfort to the flesh so that others can be comforted and God may be glorified.
Isaiah 58:6 KJV Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Isaiah 58:7 KJV Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Isaiah 58:8 KJV Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
Isaiah 58:9 KJV Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
Christians are called to build the old waste places, repair the breaches of society, and restore the old paths that many godly men and women have ridden upon. We don't need to reinvent the wheel; we just need to put air in the tires and start rolling again.
Isaiah 58:12 KJV And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Father, help us to see Your light in the darkness of this world. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
