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Tag: Faithful

  • Verse to DATE the Word on October 13 (10/13) is 1 Corinthians 10:13

    “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” – 1 Corinthians 10:13
    God is faithful to keep us faithful!

    1 Corinthians 10:13 teaches us that our great and awesome God is very actively involved in our lives. One of His greatest activities is providing HELP with the very real temptations we face. I like to say that our God is faithful to keep us faithful.

    As temptations come, God shows us and leads us in how to resist and say no. He provides us with the WAY OF ESCAPE.

    Now let us get honest with our battle with temptations.  The key to victory is for us to USE the WAY OF ESCAPE.  As He is faithful to REVEAL the way of escape, we must be faithful to REMOVE ourselves from temptation. Victory over temptation calls for cooperating with God as He provides direction, as He provides the WAY of ESCAPE!

    Being honest with ourselves again and we tell the truth we will say that many of our failures with temptations happened because we were in the wrong place with the wrong people.  If we analyze our failures, we probably will recall the Spirit of God speaking to us to stay away from that place and/or person but we did not listen! 

    Are you listening to God as He is seeking to keep you from even being in a place of temptation?  Being victorious over temptations means not putting yourself in places where you are prone to fall!!  

    Don’t put yourself with people where you are prone to fall.  

    Verse to DATE the Word on October 13 (10/13) is 1 Corinthians 10:13. It says, “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”

    If we are going to ask God to lead us not into temptation, we must follow Him as He leads us from temptation. 

    Continue strong knowing our God is faithful to keep us faithful.
    And remember to DATE the Word
     
  • Verse to DATE the Word on May 24 (5/24) is 1 Thessalonians 5:24

    Verse to DATE the Word on May 24 (5/24) is 1 Thessalonians 5:24

    “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:24
    FAITHFUL in name and in character is God

    1 Thessalonians is one of the most REASSURING verses in the Bible.  We live in a world of UNFAITHFULNESS.  The evidence is all around us, whether in the family unit, the church, the political world, etc.  It is hard to know who to TRUST.  It is hard to know who to believe.   

    Then you read 1 Thessalonians 5:24 that GOD, “who calls you is FAITHFUL” and then comes the additional confirmation, “who also will do it”.   As I internalize these words, I find comfort and I find assurance and I find encouragement.   As I have entrusted my soul and my life to Jesus, I have placed myself in the sure hands of one who is FAITHFUL.  He is reliable and dependable.  He can be TRUSTED.  He keeps His PROMISES!  

    Going a little deeper let me remind you that this description of God is mentioned many times in both the Old Testament and the New Testament.  For instance, in Deuteronomy 7:9 we read, “Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments.”
    Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 1:9  that “God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.:
    To the Thessalonians, he wrote in 2 Thessalonians 3:3 that “the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.”  
    John wrote that He is faithful to forgive and cleanse us when we confess our sins. (I John 1:9). John describes Jesus as the FAITHFUL witness (Rev. 1:5) and tells us that one of His names is FAITHFUL. (Rev. 19:11)  

    I know we live in a world filled with unfaithfulness and where we find ourselves wondering if anyone can be trusted.  However, we do know One we can always rely on.  When God makes a promise, He keeps a promise.  And the promises of promises are tied to our salvation.  Another verse for 5/24 is John 5:24 and in John 5:24 we have this promise: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life”   What a promise.  The One we put our trust in for salvation is trustworthy!  He is faithful and will DO IT!!

    Ponder the great faithfulness of the Lord to you!!  What does His faithfulness mean to you? 

    Verse to DATE the Word on May 24 (5/24) is 1 Thessalonians 5:24. It says, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”

    Continue Strong KNOWING He is FAITHFUL,
    And remember to DATE the Word
  • Verse to DATE the Word on April 5 (4/5) is 2 Timothy 4:5

    Verse to DATE the Word on April 5 (4/5) is 2 Timothy 4:5

    “But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist,
     fulfill your ministry.” – 2 Timothy 4:5
    FINISH your race and FINISH FAITHFUL

    In getting to know God’s Word it is important to KNOW WHY THE WRITER WRITES what they write.  Looking at an introduction of 2 Timothy one will find that the Apostle Paul is writing to Timothy, his son in the faith, to give him words of ENCOURAGEMENT as well as words to EQUIP him so that HE DOES NOT QUIT running the race that God has set before him.  It is clear in chapter one that Timothy needs this as Paul tells him that he knows about his tears (2 Tim. 1:5).  Paul also knows that Timothy is struggling with him being in prison and is moving to a place of not wanting anyone to know he is a follower of Christ nor a friend of Paul.  Paul writes, “Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner.” (2 Tim. 1:8a)  

    The letter to Timothy then is to help him with practical instructions.  The help starts with 2 Timothy 1:6 where Paul tells him to STIR UP THE GIFT (keep the fire burning is the idea) and concludes with 2 Timothy 4:5.  After 2 Timothy 4:5 Paul will share some personal information.  Our verse to DATE in 4/5 is in many ways a summation of all that has been said and becomes one of those verses we all need to be holding onto as we run the race that God has for us.   Let us look at the 4 things Paul instructed Timothy to do.

    First, he tells him to “be watchful.”  The idea is ALERT.  It means to keep a clear mind. Timothy is a leader, and he is to be calm, cool, and collected in the face of a crisis.   He can’t let the enemy get the best of him.  As situations arise he must remember that God has not given him a spirit of fear but of power and love and a SOUND MIND.  As everyone else is losing their head in the crisis the Christians are keeping their head.   

    How do you need to apply “be watchful” to your daily life?

    Second, he tells him to “endure afflictions.”  The idea is to HANG IN THERE no matter how tough and rough and hard it gets.  In the first chapter, Paul invites Timothy to join him in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God.   (2 Timothy 1:8b)  In chapter 2 Paul reminded Timothy that he is like a SOLDIER and soldiers ENDURE HARDSHIPS.   

    Isaac Watts wrote in his great song Am I a Soldier of the Cross, “Must I be carried to the skies on flow’ry beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?  Great question for us!

    How do you need to apply “endure affliction” to your daily life?

    Third, he told him to “do the work of an evangelist.”  This is basically a repeat of the first verses of 2 Timothy 4 where Paul tells Timothy to PREACH the Word and to preach in season and out of season.  Timothy was to step out and SPEAK UP!  Even if the message of the gospel is offensive, people have to know the TRUTH.  Paul is telling Timothy he can’t be silent.  

    How do you need to apply “do the work of an evangelist” to your daily life?

    Fourth, he told him to “FULFILL his ministry.”  This is the FINAL charge.  Be a FINISHER and FINISH FAITHFULLY.  Don’t ever quit.  Regardless of the persecution, regardless of the failures, regardless of the rejections, regardless of the objections, regardless of the resistance, etc. Paul wants Timothy to stay focused on what God has for him to do and to do it so that Timothy might finish the race and hear “Well done My good and faithful servant!   

    How do you need to apply “fulfill your ministry” to your daily life?

    Verse to DATE the Word on April 5 (4/5) is 2 Timothy 4:5. It says, “But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”

    To be FOUND FAITHFUL (1 Cor. 4:2) will mean FULFILLING God’s assignments!  
    “Don’t Quit.”  Dr. Jerry Falwell

    Continue Strong,
    And remember to DATE The WORD