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rste104343 September 26, 2017 No Comments

September 26

The “Go” of Reconciliation

“If you … remember that your brother has something against you …” (Matthew 5:23).

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This verse says, “If you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you … .” It is not saying, “If you search and find something because of your unbalanced sensitivity,” but, “If you … remember … .” In other words, if something is brought to your conscious mind by the Spirit of God—“First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift” (5:24). Never object to the intense sensitivity of the Spirit of God in you when He is instructing you down to the smallest detail.

“First be reconciled to your brother … .” Our Lord’s directive is simple—“First be reconciled … .” He says, in effect, “Go back the way you came—the way indicated to you by the conviction given to you at the altar; have an attitude in your mind and soul toward the person who has something against you that makes reconciliation as natural as breathing.” Jesus does not mention the other person—He says for you to go. It is not a matter of your rights. The true mark of the saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

“… and then come and offer your gift.” The process of reconciliation is clearly marked. First we have the heroic spirit of self-sacrifice, then the sudden restraint by the sensitivity of the Holy Spirit, and then we are stopped at the point of our conviction. This is followed by obedience to the Word of God, which builds an attitude or state of mind that places no blame on the one with whom you have been in the wrong. And finally there is the glad, simple, unhindered offering of your gift to God.

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rste104343 September 25, 2017 No Comments

September 25

The “Go” of Relationship

“Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two” (Matthew 5:41).

Our Lord’s teaching can be summed up in this: the relationship that He demands for us is an impossible one unless He has done a super-natural work in us. Jesus Christ demands that His disciple does not allow even the slightest trace of resentment in his heart when faced with tyranny and injustice. No amount of enthusiasm will ever stand up to the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His servant. Only one thing will bear the strain, and that is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ Himself—a relationship that has been examined, purified, and tested until only one purpose remains and I can truly say, “I am here for God to send me where He will.” Everything else may become blurred, but this relationship with Jesus Christ must never be.

The Sermon on the Mount is not some unattainable goal; it is a statement of what will happen in me when Jesus Christ has changed my nature by putting His own nature in me. Jesus Christ is the only One who can fulfill the Sermon on the Mount.

If we are to be disciples of Jesus, we must be made disciples supernaturally. And as long as we consciously maintain the determined purpose to be His disciples, we can be sure that we are not disciples. Jesus says, “You did not choose Me, but I chose you …” (John 15:16). That is the way the grace of God begins. It is a constraint we can never escape; we can disobey it, but we can never start it or produce it ourselves. We are drawn to God by a work of His supernatural grace, and we can never trace back to find where the work began. Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us—He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.

My Utmost for His Highest

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You Can’t Know Yourself Apart From Knowing God

rste104343 September 14, 2017 No Comments

September 13, 2017

You Can’t Know Yourself Apart From Knowing God

Brothers and Sisters grace and peace to you in the name of God our Father and His Son and the Holy Spirit. May God lavish you with His goodness, and kindness out of His vast treasures of wealth and supply all that you need, and delight your heart with what you really want. God is Good and He does wonderful things for those that love Him, and those that He love. Lord thank you for this time and opportunity to share with your people in which I am one. Bless them with the knowledge of the importance of knowing who they are to you. Lord lead me and guide me , in Jesus name Amen.

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Just about every human being at one time or another in our life ask the questions. Who am I ? Where did I come from ? Was I somehow here before? Somehow you knew that there was something obscured from our vision, from our mind’s eye. We had a strong sense of something, a point in our minds that we cannot seem to penetrate. and the answers we seek is yet beyond this continuum. So once we convince ourselves that we can’t solve the mystery. We come back to the questions at the age of adolescence when we began to become more independent and when we become a young adult we become active in seeking the answer. That when the idea surface I have to find out who I am. You can’t know yourself apart from God.

The first thing we need to know about God is that He created the Heavens and the Earth. In this statement located in Genesis 1:1 it is revealed that God is powerful and that He is a creator. If creating the earth is not powerful enough for us to see that God is awesome, then look up into the heavens, or in other words the universe. God created all that you see and can’t see. If you read the creation account you will see that God created the day and the night, and the plants and the animals and the days of the week, the sun and the moon and the last of His Creation is Man, the crown of God’s creation. If you want to know who you are, whose better to ask then your creator. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; ( Gen 1: 26a). In this verse of scripture, God revealed two very important things for us to pay attention to. The first thing for us to see is that God is talking to someone else. First Only God can create so the other persons that He is talking to are not angels because angels can.t create. He is not talking to Himself as though He is some kind of schizophrenic. God was speaking to the Son and the Holy Spirit. All three persons in the Godhead participated in the creation.

God said let us make man in our own image. If we look at each other neither of us look like. God is Spirit so we can’t see God with our eyes. But the image that God is speaking of is, Intellect, Emotion, and will. God created us to be the same kind of being that He is. God has a intellect and He gave us one, we have the ability to think independent of God and each other and most importantly we are able to communicate with God. God created man to worship Him. God Has a emotion and He gave us one. God has the ability to love to get angry, to be sad, to be sorry, in fact God is Love. God has a will and is able to do whatever He wills to do. God gave us a will and asked us to do his will and a choice to choose between His will or our will . This is where the problem comes in, in the exercise of free will man sinned. Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—(Ro. 5:12)

v¹⁵But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many( Ro. 5:15). God gave Adam warning that the cost of his disobedience is death Gen 2:16’17. God created us from the dirt of the ground. Our bodies are made of the same ingredients that are found in the earth. When we die our bodies are going to return to the elements of which we were made. But that’s not all, its not over. We still have to be concerned about our soul. Where will it go? If you read the Gospel of Luke 16:19-23, you will see that the rich man died and went to Hell immediately to endure an eternity of suffering.

God’s word said,¹⁶For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16). that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. ( Rom 10:9,10). God cares about you and who you are, He knew you in eternity past before you were born. Before He created the earth. God knows you better than you know your self, and He loves you more then you love your self. God says that all you have to do is believe in His Son and you will be saved. Amen Thank you for my brothers and Sisters and friends, I hope this is a blessing to you and If you don’t know Jesus and you now believe, let me know to blog my post, if not blog my post. Thank you, Lord, in Jesus name Amen.

God Bless You

Rev. Reginald Stevens

From Time To Eternity

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LAYING IT DOWN

rste104343 August 24, 2017 No Comments

AUGUST 24, 2017

one shepherd. 17Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

19There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. 20And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? 21Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind? (John 10: 17-21)

Greetings Brothers and Sister’s Grace and peace to you in the name of The Father and The Son and the Holy Spirit. I thank God for you and the opportunity to share God’s word with you. Lord, I pray that you use this message someone to lead someone to Jesus. I pray that you open their eyes of understanding and help them receive the truth. Lord let this message encourage my brothers and sisters, in Jesus Name I pray, Amen.

Jesus did many great miracles when He was here on earth. Many of the religious leaders wouldn’t except what they saw with their own eyes and claimed that Jesus did this miracle in the power of Satan, or that He was demon possessed. All the miracles Jesus did indicate to everyone that only God could do what He was doing, or what they saw Him do. Finally, Jesus told everyone who would listen that He was commanded by His father to lay down His life and to take it up again. Jesus went on to tell everyone that he had the power to do exactly what God wanted Him to do. After hearing this some might just consider that something may be wrong with Him. After Jesus carried out exactly what He said He would do, His act should have erased any doubt in anyone’s mind that not only is He not Satan, nor is He demon possessed. What He did only God Could do. Jesus is God, Amen.

My friends God sent His Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins. God said that if you believe in Him He will forgive you and give you eternal life, Read John 3:16. Do you believe? If you do and don’t know what to do let me know Blog my post. Let me Help you. Thank you, brothers and sisters, from reading this message, I hope you have been blessed if so let me know blog my post. Thank you, Lord, in Jesus name Amen

FROM TIME TO ETERNITY

Rev.. Reginald Stevens

Devotional, Evangelism, Missionary