Rhythm of Faith

Christ Suffered and Died… To Absorb the Wrath of God To Please His Heavenly Father To Learn Obedience and Be Perfected To Achieve His Own Resurrection From the Dead To Show the Wealth of God’s Love and Grace for Sinners To Show His Own Love for Us To Cancel the Legal Demands of the Law Against Us To Become a Ransom for Many For the Forgiveness of Our Sins To Provide the Basis for Our Justification To Complete the Obedience That Becomes Our Righteousness To Take Away Our Condemnation To Abolish Circumcision and All Rituals as the Basis of Salvation To Bring Us to Faith and Keep Us Faithful To Make Us Holy, Blameless and Perfect To Give Us a Clear Conscience To Obtain for Us All Things That Are Good for Us To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness To Give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on Him To Deliver Us From the Present Evil Age To Reconcile Us to God To Bring Us to God So That We Might Belong to Him To Give Us Confident Access to the Holiest Place To Become for Us the Place Where ...

Contentment means, being happy or satisfied either with yourself, your position, family,.....etc. As christians can we honestly say we are satisfied with what we have, what we've been given by God? Often times we find ourselves saying "if only I had that car, if only I had his job, if only i had a son/daughter,if only this, if only that,......" Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we shouldn't aspire for greater heights/achievements but we should aspire with joy and happiness within us to share/show Gods goodness and not with anger or frustration. In the creation story (Genesis 1) after every creation God made, it says "God made them all and He was pleased with them." Learn from this that however you are, tall, short, fat or slim, God made you and He's pleased with you! Also we can look at Christ's contentment with His father's will for Him. Christ knew the task ahead of Him, He knew what He was going to face to save us all, yet He did it! ...

Sometimes we have so much confidence in our abilities and what we can achieve. We forget that what we are and all that we could ever be is by God's grace. We face different challenges in our jobs,business, family,marriage and family. How do we confront these challenges we face? Do we first of all google the problem? Lol or try to figure it out on our own? Do we run and hide because we feel the challenge is too much for us to handle? The Bible says in 1 Samuel 17:11. " When Saul and his men heard this, they were terrified."...the israelites were terrified of Goliath. They were overcome by fear of his size and strength. They had seen him kill people with little effort so they had every right to be afraid but that was because they were focused on their strength,their wisdom,their capabilities. David as small as he was with no military experience whatsoever did not think of himself when he offered to kill Goliath.  Verse 39: David strapped Saul's sword over the armor and ...

You surely don't think much of God's wonderful goodness or of his patience and willingness to put up with you. Don't you know that the reason God is good to you is because he wants you to turn to him? (Romans 2:4 CEVDCUS06) Why does God put up with my attitude,my disdain,my unrighteousness,my sinful ways and my disregard of Him? The Bible says: You surely don't think much of God's wonderful goodness or of his patience and willingness to put up with you. Don't you know that the reason God is good to you is because he wants you to turn to him? (Romans 2:4 CEVDCUS06) This verse tells us the reason why God is good to us. God wants to lead us to repentance. He sent the best that heaven has to offer: His only son Jesus yet we still do not surrender our lives to this wonderful God? What more do we want from God?He has redeemed our soul from destruction,He has given us a chance at eternal life and He did this through His only son. He answers our prayers,blesses our fami...

So they called the two apostles back in and told them they must never, for any reason, teach anything about the name of Jesus. Peter and John answered, “Do you think God wants us to obey you or to obey him? We cannot keep quiet about what we have seen and heard.” The officials could not find any reason to punish Peter and John. So they threatened them and let them go. The man who was healed by this miracle was more than 40 years old, and everyone was praising God for what had happened. (Acts 4:18-22 CEVDCUS06)  I believe we as christians are constantly faced with this question " To obey man or God?. Sometimes we might be caught in situations that put us right in the questioning hot seat where we are sure of the question and have to make a definite answer just like Peter and John as they stood before the high priests and the teachers of law "So they called them back in and told them that under no condition were they to speak or to teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John...

Peter saw that a crowd had gathered, and he said: Friends, why are you surprised at what has happened? Why are you staring at us? Do you think we have some power of our own? Do you think we were able to make this man walk because we are so religious? (Acts 3:12 CEVDCUS06) You see this man, and you know him. He put his faith in the name of Jesus and was made strong. Faith in Jesus made this man completely well while everyone was watching. (Acts 3:16 CEVDCUS06) Here Peter tells us that the man at beautiful gate was not healed because he Peter and John were holy or righteous. He explains that the man was healed because of his faith in Jesus and the power of the name of Jesus. Going deeper, i understand now that Peter and John were just vessels just like our pastors,priests,you and i. Its the name of Jesus and faith in Jesus that does the work.We should therefore strive to have faith in Jesus, We should never remove our eyes from the cross. We should never forget that the spiritual leaders...

The Lord keeps close watch over the whole world, to give strength to those whose hearts are loyal to him. You have acted foolishly, and so from now on you will always be at war.” (2 Chronicles 16:9 GNT) When God gives you a dream, you can be sure you'll run into delays, difficulties, detours and dead ends along the way. They are a natural part of life. But you can be ready for them. Now if anybody had a right to be discouraged, it was Noah. Do you know how long it took Noah to build the ark? 120 years. Could you go 120 years on a project without one word of encouragement from anybody else in society? Noah trusted God. And when he heard God's warning about the future, Noah believed him even though there was no sign of a flood. I bet there were many days that Noah didn't feel like going to work, but for 43,800 days, he went to the same place and he worked. He never gave up. Don't give up on your dream either. Don't give up on the marriage. Don't give up on...