02/25          1 Corinthians 15:1-4

1 Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it.  2 It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.  3 I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. 4 He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said. 

MESSAGE

Jesus is alive.  He was raised from the dead by the power of God.  He is alive and He lives in you.  Blessed be the name of the Lord.

02/24          1 Corinthians 13:13

13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

LOVE

Love lasts.  Love heals.  Love forgives-even the unlovely.  Love is the element that makes us most like the Father.  He calls us to love one another.  That really changes a life. 

02/23          1 Corinthians 13:7

7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 

ENDURES

Love endures.  Love is grounded in faith.  We live today by faith but one day face to face we will see Jesus.  He proved His love to us by dying on the Cross to pay the price for our sin.  Be assured that if you are to learn to love as Jesus loved you will make huge sacrifices.  Die to self.  Live for Jesus.      

02/22          Romans 6:22-23

22 But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life.  23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

FREE GIFT

Salvation is free.  It is a gift from God to you if you choose to accept it.  If you accept His free gift of Salvation He gives you a new heart and a new life-eternal life-life like God’s.  You become a member of His family.  His Holy Spirit will oversee your life.  You will change.  You will love those you are with. 

02/21          Romans 6:11-14

11 So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus. 12 Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires. 13 Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. 14Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace. 

CLAIM

Claim your rights as a child of God.  Claim His power.  Claim His control of your mind and your life.  Jesus is Lord and He can easily direct your life in the way of the Lord.  Holiness is a choice.  You can be holy.  Choose Jesus. 

02/20          Romans 12:12-16
Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying.  13 When God’s people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you. Don’t curse them; pray that God will bless them. 15 Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep. 16 Live in harmony with each other. Don’t be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people. And don’t think you know it all!

VALUE

People count.  All people have real, God-given value.  We are to value everyone we come into contact with.  Treat them the way you want to be treated.  Do not forget to pray for those who mistreat you.  You and I are called to live in harmony and reality.  Jesus is indeed Lord of all things. 

02/19          Romans 12:1-2

1 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. 

HOLY

You and I are called to live life as a victorious family member of the Almighty God.  We do not stumble over the sins of the world.  We live in deference to the mighty, not stymied by the evil of the current generation and in fact are very different than the world.  How are we different?  We love one another.  We do not wear different clothes.  We do not look down our nose at the lost-Jesus died for the lost.  We love them.  The call from the Cross is to love one another. 

02/18          Romans 10:13

13 For “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.” 

YOU

This is directed to you.  If you have called on the name of the Lord you are saved.  You are walking in the power of the Holy Spirit.  When you pray, Jesus is there praying with you.  There are NO second-class citizens in the family of God.  I encourage you to pray boldly and live humbly.  Jesus loves you. 

02/17          Romans 10:10-11

10 For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. 11 As the Scriptures tell us, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced.” 

FAITHFUL

God is faithful.  Whosoever calls upon the name of Jesus and openly declares their faith is saved and will never be disgraced.  I don’t know what life will be like after we pass but I do know that Jesus promises to be with us for eternity and the Father says we will never be disgraced as we trust Him for eternal life. 

02/16          Romans 10:5-9

5 For Moses writes that the law’s way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands. 6 But faith’s way of getting right with God says, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will go up to heaven?’ (to bring Christ down to earth). 7 And don’t say, ‘Who will go down to the place of the dead?’ (to bring Christ back to life again).” 8 In fact, it says, “The message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart.” And that message is the very message about faith that we preach: 9 If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 

SAVED

Do you believe that you are saved by Jesus?  If you do Jesus declares that you will be saved.  Live in victory.  Stop letting the world get you down.  You belong to the Lord and nothing can separate you from Him.