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Foundation words
Friday, March 9, 2018 Foundation words Matthew 7:24 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: It is a great experience to build your own home from foundation to finish. Not many persons
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ASK
Thursday, March 8, 2018 ASK Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. Ask. Seek. Knock. These three words are the familiar guidance from Jesus on persistence in prayer and our approach to God. These
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Judge yourself
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Judge yourself Matthew 7:5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. There is a natural tendency to criticize others. We look at people and make many judgements about them all
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Passed away
Tuesday, March 6, 2018 Passed away 2 Corinthians 5:17 If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. The transformation of those who are in Christ is real. Often these days it doesn’t seem so with the emphasis
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In church, not in Christ
Monday, March 5, 2018 In church, not in Christ 2 Corinthians 5:17 If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. There is a trend being observed in churches across North America, many persons who claim to be
March 5, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
Let yourself go
Saturday, March 3, 2018 Let yourself go Matthew 6:25 I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Jesus
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Serving mammon
Friday, March 2, 2018 Serving mammon Matthew 6:24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Jesus appears to have a real
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Children property
Living Stones – Thursday, March 1, 2018 Children property Luke 12:15 Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses. In Guyana, there is a concept called ‘children-property,’ or in the vernacular, ‘chirren-property.’ A piece of property comes to
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Moths, rust and thieves
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Moths, rust and thieves Matthew 6:19,20 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not
February 28, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
Giving motives
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Giving motives Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. Now there seems to be a contradiction here in Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5:14-16. In our devotional yesterday, we looked at statements
February 27, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
Right-handed secret
Monday, February 26, 2018 Right-handed secret Matthew 6:3 But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing Today, everything we do must bring value to our image, brand, or our corporate identity. In the public relations and marketing business,
February 26, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
Ninety-nine
Saturday, February 24, 2018 Ninety-nine Luke 15:4 “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? In the devotional yesterday, we mentioned a comment made
February 24, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
Works
Friday, February 23, 2018 Works Matthew 25:40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’ As we continue to explore this idea of what matters
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Practical exam
Thursday, February 22, 2018 Practical exam Matthew 25:37 “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?’ Jesus, in one of the long discourses recorded by Matthew, gets to telling a story of what it would
February 22, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
Touching
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 Touching Matthew 8:3 Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Every Christian likes a mountaintop experience. The ecstasy of being in the presence of God is unparalleled in our spiritual experience. Sometimes it
February 21, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
Authority
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Authority Matthew 8:9 “For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” The centurion who had
February 20, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
Not my house
Monday, February 19, 2018 Not my house Matthew 8:8 The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. Jesus has a very interesting encounter with a centurion in Matthew 8:5-13. The
February 19, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
Haters
Saturday, February 17, 2018 Haters Matthew 5:44 I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. Jesus regularly goes up against the accepted norms and traditions in the things
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Turning the hearts
Friday, February 16, 2018 Turning the hearts Malachi 4:6 And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse. I grew up fatherless. Fatherlessness is a condition created by
February 16, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
Conditional forgiveness
Conditional forgiveness Matthew 6:15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Jesus seemed to be pretty hung up on the issue of forgiveness. After discussing it at the point when He was addressing giving, He returns to it in the model
February 15, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
Giving standards
Giving standards Matthew 5:23,24 Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Our traditions have
February 14, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
Effort
Effort 1 Timothy 1:18 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare Many people talk a good game. Many people talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. The clichés are endless. There
February 13, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
Due diligence
Due diligence Luke 14:28-30 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it— lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
February 12, 2018 by Pastor Alex -
New Ideas
Saturday, February 10, 2018 New ideas Acts 17:20,21 For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.” For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear
February 10, 2018 by Pastor Alex