Let there be a new expresssion in the New Year

God has given us all so very much - more than most of us realize. Let us all join in prayer that this year will be a year of a new and more powerful expression of God in His people. He has filled us with the fullness of His power, He has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, and He longs to shine His light and love through all of us.

May this New Year be a time when the people of God, Christians, the followers of Christ, start putting to use the gifts and power and love that He has already put in us - those things that He has already given us. So many pray for and cry out for that which the Lord has already put in us. This is not about being presumptuous, this is about starting to express and use what He has already given to us.

It would be fantastic if more of us would simply start taking Him at His word - if we did we could start seeing a glimpse of what the greater works are that He talked about in John 14:12.

One of the ways we can start that is to start sharing and expressing the powerful and exciting visions and dreams and hopes the Lord has put in your hearts. Paul talks about the grace of God which worked in Him. We all have gifts and graces that the Lord has invested in us, so let's let Him express Himself in us and through us in a new way this year.

Matt 5:16
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Eph 3:20
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us

Col 1:29
To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.

Phil 1:6 Amp
And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you.

Looking for an exciting New Year in 2008.

Blessings to all

Jay

Beloved - Let Us Love One Another

If us Christians have trouble getting along with each other, and continue to have difficulty in relationships – then how are we ever going to reach this world?

We all know that God’s Word is truth; we also know that unless we line up with His Word and are called by His name that we are not going to inherit eternal life. However, it’s not just about being right or wrong, it’s about being in Christ. This is not talking about compromise, this is about compassion, and it is about the love of Christ.

All through the teachings of Jesus and the writers of the New Testament we see the importance of love. Below are a few verses about love and how we can love and relate with others in love.

Eph 4:15

speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ

John 13:34-35

34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Rom 12:9-11

9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. 10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; 11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

Gal 5:13b

through love serve one another

Heb 10:23-25

23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

1 Pet 3:8-9

8 Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; 9 not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

1 Cor 13

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,^[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.