Month: April 2010

The Kiss

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“Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.” 1 Thess 5:2

We should greet everyone we meet with a ‘kiss’. Maybe not necessarily with our lips but definately with our attitude!

When we first meet someone we have the opportunity to bless them or leave them feeling ordinary.

We ‘kiss’ people when we enjoy them, are interested in them, smile at them, welcome them, introduce them to others, remember their name & interesting things about them, congratulate them & give to them rather than take from them.

Greet people with a ‘kiss’ today!

See you in Church!

The devourer

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” Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” 1 Peter 5:8

Keeping a cool head, being aware & awake & not intoxicated with anything of this like enables us to avoid being ‘devoured’. Jesus seeks people to save. The devil seeks people to destroy.

Malachi 3:11 tells us that when we bring ‘ALL’ the tithes into the storehouse (God’s House), that He will rebuke the ‘devourer’. When we don’t bring the tithe to God we leave the door open to the devourer.

WHen we do bring the tithe to God, He rebukes the devourer – whenever Jesus rebuked something it was defeated. He rebuked winds & waves, demons… When He rebukes the devourer, the devil is vanquished!!

See you in Church!

This is the message

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“This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” 1 John 1:5

What is the “Message” – This is the message  – ‘God is light’ – This means we need to bring a message that brightens peoples lives. Light gives color,m guidance, warmth, life. We can see & be seen. This means God is positive, not negative, not dark.

In fact, in God, there is no darkness at all, no negativity, no unbelief, doubt or cynicism… but rather He is ‘LIGHT’.

We heard this from Jesus. When people think they are ‘hearing’ from God & they bring fear & despair they are wrong. They purpose of Johns statement is so we can tell what message is from God & what is not. We are to ‘declare’ that God gives hope, faith & love. This is the message!

See you in Church!