With #Valentines coming in just a few days, we all think on things that delight us. What is your delight? As a child in school you probably wanted to get many valentine cards from your friends showing their love for you. Then with maturity you wanted a special someone to bring chocolates in a red heart box; or maybe you wanted roses; or maybe a ring; or maybe all of those. When someone cares for another, he or she delights in giving and receiving spoken heart felt appreciation. Do you think God Delights in You? What does the Bible record in Ps.18 “Lord delivered me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me….He rescued me, because HE DELIGHTED IN ME. The LORD HAS REWARDED ME according to my righteousness…for I have kept the ways of the LORD.” Ps.1 “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked….but HIS DELIGHT is in the law of the LORD.” Eccles.5:4 “When you make a vow to GOD, do not be late with paying it for HE TAKES NO DELIGHT IN FOOLS” There are so many “modern day” theories on love and the delights of the day; however, our God is everlasting and His law and word were given to us for our good. How can we delight our heavenly Father? Micah 7:18 “GOD DELIGHTS IN UNCHANGING LOVE.”
Author: Barbara Jones
The LIVING GOD #TRUTH
#Joke for today, “Truth in #Advertising” Does truth mean the same thing to everyone? One person tells it like he sees it, but another sees something completely different. Judges 17:6″In those days…every man did what was right in his own eyes” Romans 1:24,25 “God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own heart to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: who changed the TRUTH OF GOD into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever.” Sound like today? I have known some individuals who could tell me a bold face to face lie all the while trying to convince themselves that what they were saying was true. Truth to some is their choice from the flavor of the day. Is there a standard for Truth? I believe there is and that it is found in the LIVING WORD OF GOD. John 1:14 “the WORD became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and TRUTH” John 14:6 “JESUS said to him,’I am the WAY, and the TRUTH, and the LIFE; no one comes to the Father, but through ME” John 8:32 “YOU SHALL KNOW the TRUTH, and the TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE.” Thessalonians 2:13 “..we thank God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God…you received it not as the word of men, but it is in TRUTH, the WORD OF GOD, which effectually works in you that believe” Rev. 3:14 My family decided on the title of FIND BIBLE TRUTH for this website to tell of GOD’s TRUTH through HIS WORD around the world to all that will choose HIS WAY, HIS TRUTH, AND HIS LIFE. That’s no joke!
The LIVING GOD #PRESENCE
If you had a #choice, with whom would you choose to spend #time? Maybe a great #musician, #mathematician, #politician, #scholar, #king, #queen, #artist, #mother, #father, #child would be your choice; however, today I am afraid many would choose fiction in the form of books, videos, TV, or internet. As I observe our culture, I find that many individuals do not enjoy one another or appreciate the wisdom that interaction affords. With this withdrawal has come a denial of God’s desire for our companionship. You see when you truly love someone you want to be in their presence! Revelation 2:2-4 tells us, “I know your works, and labor, and patience, and how you cannot tolerate them which are evil: and you have tried those which say they are apostles, and are not, and found them liars: and have borne and have patience for my name’s sake you have labored without fainting. Nevertheless I have somewhat against you, because you have left your first love. Rev.1:17 “Lord said, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am He that lives and was dead; and behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.” How long has it been since you spoke to GOD? Rev.2:7 “He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the PRESENCE OF GOD.”
The LIVING GOD #HATES
#Numbers are on the minds of #lottery #ticket holders today. Every evening before the six o’clock news those numbers start rolling holding the hopes of millions that they will win millions. The Bible tells us about God’s order and mentions numbers throughout His Word to us. One scripture is very concise – Prov. 6:16″There are six “6” things which the LORD HATES, yes, seven “7” which are an abomination to Him: “1” Haughty Eyes, “2” a Lying Tongue, “3” Hands that shed innocent blood. “4”A Heart that devises wicked plans “5” Feet that run rapidly to evil “6”a False Witness who utters lies “7”One who spreads strife among brothers. God knows Us – Jesus said in Matthew 10:30 “the very hairs of your head are all numbered” What an omnipotent reigning living Lord who knows how to give justice and has covered our hateful sins with His own son’s crucification in our place.
Have you asked Him for “1” forgiveness,-
asked Him to be your “2“Savior,-
asked Him for “3“His Love and to LOVE HIM.-
asked Him to “4“See through His Vision,-
asked Him to be your “5” Guide,-
asked Him for “6“His strength to tell the Truth, –
asked Him to “7“show His Love through YOU to OTHERS ???????
Psalms 90:12 “So teach us to NUMBER OUR DAYS, that we may apply our heart unto wisdom. Return, O LORD, how long?”
The LIVING GOD #REST
“#Hurry, hurry, hurry!” seems to be the theme for our life today. The holidays were filled with work and worry to get just the right gifts, decorations, and food to make things joyful. Was it? Or are you worn out before you even start on 2016? Have you checked the weather report before dressing? Did you answer that text? What’s the latest news on the internet? How’s everyone on Facebook? You’re still on your first cup of coffee while stopping to pump gas before work? Add to the to do list – make time for a tune-up! Have to stop and get groceries after work and so the work goes on….meals, laundry, cleaning, yard, and bills – bills and more bills. How’s that saving’s – investment plan working? I see a society that is stressed yet constantly looking for escape to a more serene life. The Lord gave us an example in Genesis 2 “On the seventh day GOD ended His work which He had made; and HE RESTED from all HIS WORK ..which GOD created and made.” I have watched America change from observing Sunday as a day of rest and worship to a nation that never says CLOSED. Everyone wants to win the jackpot from the lottery, but I want the sure thing that Jesus Christ spoke, “COME UNTO ME ALL YOU THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME; FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART; AND YOU SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS” Matthew 11:28,29
The LIVING GOD #HIDES
#Tornado #Alarms were blaring this week across U.S. Did you have to#run and hide in your #closet /basement/ safe room? I know I did and thankfully the tornado did not touch down here! The storm devastation cost many others everything. Thankfully many lives were spared because they heeded the warnings and got to their safe haven. The prayer of David in Ps.27 is close to my heart, “One thing have I desired of the LORD, and seek, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and inquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion: in the secret of His tabernacle shall HE HIDE ME; He shall set me up upon a rock.” Ps.32:5-7″I acknowledged my sin unto the LORD, and my iniquity have I not hid. …God forgave my sin. For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto Lord in a time when thou may be found surely in the floods of great waters they shall not reach him. THOU ARE MY HIDING PLACE; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.” Ps. 31:19-21 “Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou has laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! THOU SHALL HIDE THEM IN THE SECRET OF THY PRESENCE from the pride of man: thou shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. Blessed be the LORD; for He has shewed me His marvelous kindness in a fortified city.”
The LIVING GOD #COMING
Years ago while in Jamaica, I heard, “Me soon come” which was spoken by #Jamaican #friends as they parted company with the implied intent that they would return to have fellowship as soon as possible. I have a smile on my face when I remember their sincere words spoken with the desire to see one another again. There are words in the Bible that not only give me comfort but assurance that Jesus is coming back for me! “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, says the LORD, which is, and which was, and which IS TO COME, THE ALMIGHTY.” Rev.1:8 “Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and HE SHALL COME UNTO US as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.” Hosea 6:3 “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I WILL COME IN TO HIM AND WILL SUP WITH HIM AND HE WITH ME.” REV.3:20
The LIVING GOD#IS
Is it not the day of #knockoffs? Can you tell the #genuine for the #copied. Notice the #Isis name. Is it an imitation trying to replace the original “GOD WHO IS? What does the Bible say? Rev.1:8 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, says the LORD, WHICH IS, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” Ps.71:19 “Thy righteousness O GOD IS very high…who is like unto thee!” Rev.1:5 “from JESUS CHRIST WHO IS the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood” Jesus gave His own blood for us not like those taking others’ blood for their own supposed redemption. You see, GOD IS LOVE and if you will turn, seek, ask, and accept Him, you get the real omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent Lord. Luke17:21 “Neither shall they say, lo here or lo there. for behold, the kingdom of GOD IS WITHIN YOU.” May you choose to rejoice in His sacrificial birth, death, and resurrection because of His great love for each of us made in His image so that we may have fellowship right now with the LIVING GOD WHO IS. “The LORD LIVES…and let the God of my salvation be exalted.” Psalm 19:46