A Quote from John Wesley

''Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand.  If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth.''

(John Wesley)

Praise God in all things

Colossians 3:16
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual sons, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Psalm 67:3
Let the peoples praise You, O God. Let all the peoples praise You.

Praise the Lord, O my soul.  Praise his Holy name.

A Prayer.

Psalm 20 :1

May the Lord answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

Rebuked

Revelation 3:19
Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline.  So be earnest, and repent.

As a parent, when my children did something wrong I disciplined them.  God also disciplines whom he loves as I love mine.  But in this verse he is talking to the Church in Laodicea.  The church in Laodicea was lukewarm towards their worshipping to God.  God intended to discipline that church unless it turned from it's ways.

God's discipline is not to punish, but to bring people back to him. He also does it to help you, and because he loves you.

The Lord is close to the broken-hearted.

Psalm 34:18-19
The Lord is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.  A righteous man may have many troubles but the
Lord delivers him from them all.

We often wish we could escape troubles, the pain of grief, loss, sorrow and failure or even the small daily frustrations that constantly wear us down.  God promises to be ' close to the broken
hearted,' to be our source of power, courage and wisdom, helping us 
through our problems.  When trouble strikes, don't get frustrated with God, instead admit that you need Go's help and thank him for 
being by your side.

Memory and Meditation Verse.

Micah 6:8
' What does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love
mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.'

A Memory and Meditation Verse.

Don't be afraid.
Psalm 50:15
Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall
glorify Me.'

God is with us.

Psalm 147: 3
The Lord heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.

Have you ever felt that God is so far away that you can't reach him?  no matter how hard you try, you just feel so empty inside.  You call out to him in despair, but you think he's not listening.

I think that most of us at some point have had these feelings. But God is always there for you.  He will never turn his back on you.  He will always stand beside you and comfort you in your darkest
moments.  God will guide you and he will help you, do not despair.
God is always near.  Reach out to Him.  He hears your cries.  He sees your tears.  Trust in Him.  Have faith in Him.

God's Love

Ephesians 3:17- 19
...........And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love
that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

When I read these verses I am reminded of the children's hymn 'Wide, wide as the ocean, high as the

heavens above.  Deep, deep as the deepest sea is my Saviours love.  God's love reaches in to every corner of our being, and experience and it reaches out to the whole world.  His love is with us always.  His love is with us
in our discouragements, despair and our grief.  His love is real and true.

I know that He loves me and He loves you too.  Praise His holy name.

Meditation and Memory Verse.

Psalm 118:1
Oh,give thanks to the Lord for He is good!  For His mercy endures forever.

Psalm 100:5
For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting.  And His truth endures to all generations.

Service

Matthew 9:35
Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their 
synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every
sickness and every disease among the people.

Why did God choose us?  Have you ever wondered why?  He chose us to serve Him.  He chose us to tell those who do not know him, or have not asked him in to their lives, the Good News.  To tell them of how Jesus died for us, and of how he loves us so much that he took upon himself our sins.  He was crucified upon a cross.  He suffered an agonizing death, and he did that for us. He was buried and three days later he arose and sits at God's right hand.  We can call upon God any time of day and night.  It is important for us to share love with others, after all God gave us His one and only Son.

 

Serving the Lord with fear.

Psalm 2:11
Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling.

What do we define as fear?  Well that answer would have to
be something or someone we are frightened off.  fear can also mean that it is something in which we do not understand or know
about.  Ignorance can bring on fear because we don't understand.  To fear God is entirely different, the meaning of fear here is to respect Him, and to want to obey Him.  It is a desire to those of
us who have accepted God in our lives.  To serve God in fear is to
respect him, and to follow him, also to obey him with all our being.

Jesus our Saviour

1 John 2:1
My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin.  But if anybody does sin, we have the one who speaks to the Father in our
defence- Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

There are many times when I fail my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by saying, doing and thinking wrong things that must hurt
him.  In other words I have sinned.  I am human, but that does not
give me the excuse to do what I like, or to disobey in any way.  I am guilty of the sin I have committed.  Have you thought, said or
done something this week that you know are wrong in the eyes of
God?  Do you feel guilty, seriously guilty?  If your answer is yes,
then you have the best defence lawyer to defend you, Our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ.  He sits at the right hand side of God, and when you go before him to ask forgiveness for the sin you have committed, He will speak to the Father in your defence.

He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 2:2)