Category: Insights

Matthew 1:19 (NLT)

Joseph, to whom she was engaged, was a righteous man and did not want to disgrace her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement quietly.

Sometimes as believers we think we have to lay it all out on the table. That is not the case. There are times when you just have to quietly withdraw.

In our ministry, when I was traveling one week we asked one of our dedicated church leaders to preach the Word that Sunday when would not be in country. It bothered a particular person that we had appointed them to share. This other person decided that they didn’t want to be a part of our church due to a person preaching that they didn’t like. Unbelievable, as we hear so much about people looking so long and hard for a church home in our nation before they find our ministry.

The departure didn’t stop with the person just stopping attendance. The individual tried to pull others out of the church. To the point of talking to multiple people and trying to influence other church family members.

Note Joseph trying to quietly back out of the marriage that he thought his fiancée had failed in. Rather than draw a lot of attention to her and the issue, he decided to quietly leave. The Word says this is good.

If your church becomes cultish, that is an issue. However, if it’s preaching the Gospel and people are coming to Jesus you’d better not be caught talking, or working, against it. The church is very special to the Lord Jesus. Remember Matthew 16:18 ? If you work against it, you are working against Him. Don’t line yourself up with the enemy, AKA the accuser or destroyer.

Whatever you say or do, always carefully consider what God has planned and what He would do. Be a righteous person like Joseph then you can enjoy the abundance God has for those who believe.

If you want to be a champion in life, you must surround yourself with people who are stronger than you.  Iron sharpens iron.

Revelation 3:20-21 (NLT)

“Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends. Those who are victorious will sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat with my Father on his throne.

Revelation 3:16 (NLT)

But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!

Don’t take any risks. Make sure you are fully focused on God now.

Revelation 3:5 (NLT)

All who are victorious will be clothed in white. I will never erase their names from the Book of Life, but I will announce before my Father and his angels that they are mine.

If you think once saved always saved, you are mistaken. Here in revelation we see salvation is something you can lose.

A famous personality died today, he was a well known singer, actor, and face in his time. His daughter said,

Words cant express the solace our family’s received from all the love & support during this trying time. My father’s last words were “So much wasted time”.

Life is to short, don’t waste a minute of it.

Acts 2:28 (NKJV)

You have made known to me the ways of life;

You will make me full of joy in Your presence.’

If you want to know true joy, you only get it from being in God’s presence. To truly understand the ways of life, you’ve got to know Jesus.

If someone really cares for the poor, they are doing something for the poor (not trying to make you feel guilty about your job, education, car, jewelry, or wealth).

Luke 19:22 (NKJV Strong’s,)

And he said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.

Matthew 12:37 (NKJV Strong’s,)

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

We must be careful what we say. You’re going to hear what came out of your mouth. This is what you will be judged by.

Deuteronomy 15:4-11 (NKJV,)

…except when there may be no poor among you; for the Lord will greatly bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance— only if you carefully obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe with care all these commandments which I command you today. For the Lord your God will bless you just as He promised you; you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you. Generosity to the Poor

“If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother, but you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs. Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,’ and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to the Lord against you, and it become sin among you. You shall surely give to him, and your heart should not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand. For the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.’

Jesus quotes this Old Testament passage when people complain about the woman how have Him an expensive gift.