In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 5:16

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Build Up YOUR Faith

Sometimes in this world we can lose sight of the prize, the reason, the purpose, the goal...we get tired.  For those dry days, we need the WORD (Jesus), the SPIRIT and TESTIMONY to build us up in OUR most holy faith!  (We overcome by the BLOOD of the Lamb and the word of OUR testimony.) That's what happens here!

 Post your PRAISE report and miracles here to remind others (and yourself) that God is for us and with us!  My prayer is that you will share here the GOOD things of the Lord to help us all remember how GOOD our GOD is.  The cares of life can suck life from our very soul but hearing others SHOUT UNTO GOD will spark the flame of hope in each of us listening and hopefully cause others to "lift up their eyes"!

 We are not alone...we have the SPIRIT to comfort, teach, guide, strengthen, encourage...until He comes back!

John 14: 15-31 (ESV)

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

 15 "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper,[f] to be with you forever, 17even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

 18"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?" 23Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

 25"These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. 28 You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. 30I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, 31but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.