Monday, December 30, 2024

Do you 'have committed sins', brethren? Decommit unto righteousness

‘Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he HAVE COMMITTED SINS, they shall be forgiven him.' (James 5:14,15 KJV)

committed: pledge or bind to a certain course or policy

'Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.' (James 5:10,11 KJV)

Are you holding on to considerations of the kingdom of God, and the kingdoms of this world that have separated you from the anointing of God in the name of the Lord? Paul, James, Peter, John and Jude are surely elders/apostles that, in their epistles discuss the way of righteousness. If we find ourselves sick, it is a manifestation that we are bound to 'certain' policies that have separated us from His righteous cause. Recognize the elder's writings and the fruitfulness of their discipleship in the name of the Lord Jesus. You will be happy as you endure: it is the joy of the Lord!

Monday, December 16, 2024

All Things: Every thing in order to walk, even as He walked

‘And we know that ALL THINGS work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to THESE THINGS? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us ALL THINGS? Who shall lay any THING to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in ALL THESE THINGS we are more than conquerors THROUGH him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'
(Romans 8:28-39 KJV)

Our consideration of this portion of Scripture shall prepare us for transformation to become 'meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work.' (1 Timothy 2:21 KJV)