He Has Redeemed

Who is the family the of God? Are you a part of His family? Let's look at Luke 8:19 - 9:62 , for it shows us what the family of God looks like. Yes, there are many many  other passages that show us this, but as I was reading this passage, I felt led to just focus on it. Maybe it was for you? Maybe myself....But I hope that this look into Scripture will bless you.  Who is the family of God? 1. "Those who hear God's Word and put it into practice." (8:21) Those who deny the world and give everything to God in both heart, mind, body, and soul. (9:25)     Any one of us can read the Bible, listen to a sermon, or pray. But do we hear  God's Word and do we live it? Does our life look different outside of the church building (or online group) than it does when in it? If there is a difference, it's time to seek the Lord and to repent of those things which are not of Him.     Do you agree that there should be no cussing or profanity in the church? Yet, how many o...

A friend of mine asked recently about how we can tell the difference between true prophets and those who are deceivers. Many people in the Body of Christ have been learning in recent months that for obvious reasons, all those who kept prophesying a certain political leader's success in November, were proven false. This is a recent example, but there are examples all across the board of people saying " X will happen at X time by X person.....thus saith the Lord." And as a result, many of those who had a weaker faith, were struggling spiritually, or were looking to those as shepherds and leaders, became bitterly disappointed and left their faith in the proverbial trash can.   So here is my response to that. I am no wise-woman, only a servant of the Lord who desires strongly to bring people closer to Him. My heart grieves every time I see these wolves-in-sheep-clothing and the incredibly deceived, lead people to their spiritual death. My heart grieves! The Church has forgott...

While everyone is working on their resolutions of not getting sick, achieving weight loss goals, improving money management, finding love, and other such things we tend to set goals for....is anyone working on their resolution of looking like Christ? I am. And already I'm failing. All throughout the Old Testament, we see stories of mighty men (and wonderful women too!) who God used that were so imperfect, it's not even funny. God tends to look at the failures of society, the undesirables, the people who we tend to "SMH" at. And it just wasn't that God picked these people to accomplish His purposes, but whenever we start reading their stories, we begin to love these people and root for them as if they were the best of the best. Let's look at Moses, the most popular example in the Bible. Moses had a humble beginning, born to a non-important Hebrew family, and discovered by royalty floating in a grass basket in the river where there were snakes, bugs, mud, etc......