Application of God's Word: Psalm 1:2
Verse: Psalm 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
Application:
This "law" means all of Scripture. The more of the whole scope of God's Word, the more resources we all have to guide us in our daily decisions.
You can learn how to follow God by thinking about his Word. This means spending time reading and thinking about what you have read. It means asking yourself how you should change so you're living as God wants. Knowing and thinking about God's Word are the first steps toward applying it to your everyday life. If you want to follow God more closely, you must know what he says.
A godly person is influenced not by unrighteous people but by his meditation on the Word of God. Such meditation necessarily involves study and retention. This is possible only if he has a desire to do so, here referred to as a delight. The psalmists found direction, not drudgery, from the Law of God.
God's Is Our Foundation
𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:
“𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒. 𝐻𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑑𝑢𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡.” - Luke 6:47-48 (NIV)
𝗢𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
It amazes me when I hear people complain about
how the Lord doesn’t do anything for them or even answer their prayers. I have
no doubt that He answers them, He just tells them No because they are asking
for things that either go against His Word or will hurt them in the short or
long term. I have seen studies that have projected that the number of
Christians that have read the Bible through even just once ranges from less
than thirty percent to less than ten percent. For those that read the Bible
daily, it is less than even ten percent. Now consider this, how do people
expect to know the Lord’s will for their lives and the principles to live by if
they never open His Word? They go through the storms of life and get swamped by
them because they don’t know or understand His principles and they think that
He abandoned them! If only we would heed the promise, He gives us all in Joshua
1:8, “Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it
day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then
you will be prosperous and successful.” The verse above is a word picture of
Joshua 1:8. Not only does He tell us to meditate on His Word day and night but
that it will increase our faith for as faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God. (Romans 10:17) so that when the wind and the waves come
crashing down you will not be like the man who built his house upon the sand,
but instead built it upon our Rock.
𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
People have asked me how I have dealt with the
trials in my life, and I tell them plainly that it is because of my foundation
of the Word of God. I trust Him because I have gotten to know Him through it,
and I know my prayers are answered according to it and He will do the same for
anyone else that asks.
𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿:
Father, I thank You that You have given us
Your Word to read and grow with. That I can look to You through it to find any
answer I need, and it has given me access to You in a way I would never have
had. In Jesus’ Holy and Mighty Name, Amen.
- Chuck Glover
Provided by "All About God"
Sermon: Reverse The Ripple
An event is not your identity.
Pastor Steven Furtick helps us go back to the source of what we’re
going through so we can begin to write a new story for our lives.
going through so we can begin to write a new story for our lives.
How Do I Become A Christian?
if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9
Realizing how to become a Christian is the most important discovery of your life! Becoming a Christian is more than joining a church or saying a prayer. It is a personal relationship that will last for eternity. Do you know what will happen to you the moment you die? Where will you find yourself? Where is your destination?
There are only two destinations - and both are eternal: You will either find yourself living for eternity in heaven or existing for eternity in hell. Where will you be?
𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻 - This destination is reserved for those who receive Jesus Christ's gift of eternal salvation. Contrary to popular belief, heaven is not for the church-goers, the devout, or the "good people." The only stipulation is receiving God's gift of salvation.
𝗘𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹 is reserved for those who reject Jesus Christ and His Gospel. The Bible sums up the Gospel like this: : "...That Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). Hell is described in the Bible as a fiery lake of burning sulfur.
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 - 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀
The Bible explains how to become a Christian in very simple terms:
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱 and can not live up to God's standard of holiness. Romans 3:23 says, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵. Romans 6:23 states: "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗚𝗼𝗱'𝘀 𝗴𝗶𝗳𝘁. God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die in our place, so we could be spared from hell. Romans 5:8 says, "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." According to the Bible, we aren't required to subscribe to a religious formula or do more good things than bad ones. God gives His gift freely to all who ask. "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved" (Romans 10:13).𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 - 𝟭𝟬𝟬% 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲
Once you discover how to become a Christian and then accept God's gift, the Bible says that you can be 100 percent assured of your eternal designation.
1 John 5:11-13 says, "And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God 𝘀𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲."
Do you know for sure that you will spend eternal life with God in heaven? If not, this is a decision you don't want to put off.
𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗳 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝗧𝗵𝗲 "𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻" 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗚𝗼𝗱
The "prayer of salvation" is the most important prayer we'll ever pray.
When we're ready to become a Christian, we're ready to have our first real conversation with God, and these are its components:
We acknowledge that Jesus Christ is God; that He came to earth as a man in order to live the sinless life that we cannot live; that He died in our place, so that we would not have to pay the penalty we deserve. We confess our past life of sin - living for ourselves and not obeying God. We admit we are ready to trust Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord. We ask Jesus to come into our heart, take up residence there, and begin living through us.