You Need Patience to Inherit the Promise!

You Need Patience to Inherit the Promise!

Jesus praying

Hebrews 10:35-36: “So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.”

Patience to be willing to take as much time as necessary no matter how long to achieve the objective. 
The word persevere implies effort. It means to persist, to maintain purpose in spite of difficulty, to continue steadfastly in spite of whatever that may be. Perseverance is hard work.

Most people mistakenly think that simply believing the Word of God is true is enough to obtain the promised blessings, however the Bible teaches otherwise. According to the Bible; simply believing is not enough because

James 2:19. "even the devils believe and they tremble":

Scripture states that patience is needed in order to see the manifestation of the blessing. If this is true, then it explains why so many of God's people never obtain the blessings, and it also indicates to us that it is to our benefit to gain a better understanding of this passage if we are ever to walk in the manifested promises of God.

Yes, it’s hard. Yes, things are going wrong. Sometimes you’ll be tempted to give up. But don’t. Keep going. You will be rewarded. Not maybe, not hopefully, not only if things feel right or go the way you want them to. If you keep your confidence in Christ, if you persevere in what He has called you to, you will receive the promise. Period. That’s His guarantee to you.
The hard part is in the everyday of it. In the waking up, getting up, choosing to move forward when all you want to do is crawl back into the warm darkness. But remember; only those who finish attain the prize.

Quitters never win and winners never quit. It’s impossible to win a race you don’t finish. The people who win the race are just as tired as the ones who quit. The only difference between the quitter and the winner is the stopping point— quitters stop early and winners run it out. Falling down, moving slowly, getting redirected, and ending up in last place— none of that keeps you from the finish. It’s never over until you quit.

Be encouraged today. It’s hard work, it’s tiring, it’s a long journey, but God has it mapped out. He knows the end of the story. Don’t throw away your confidence over a fleeting moment of frustration. Remember, perseverance = promise. It’s finishing, not winning, that ensures the promise.

Our Heavenly Father has given us His Word, that if we will use our faith, and have the patience, perseverance, steadfast endurance, and fierce-longness that is required of us - then we WILL obtain the promised blessing of Health, healing, deliverance, provision, safety, soundness, and any other promise granted the Church in Scripture.

There is a blessing coming to many in the New Year. You’ve lived in confusion and trials all through 2012. You’ve battled giants in the land. You’ve been tossed up and down. But God sees you in the midst of the storm. He is telling you – hold on! Persevere! Don’t give up! Keep obeying, keep trusting, keep believing and you WILL receive the reward. You will receive what he has promised to you.

Salvation is an inside job:

Salvation is an inside job:

Baptism of Jesus

The Bereans "received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so" (Acts 17:10-11).
What Salvation Is
While the real truth must come from the Bible. The saving of man from the spiritual consequences of sin; especially deliverance from sin and eternal damnation ....
But why would you need to be saved from the spiritual consequences of sin? And why, if you are an immortal soul, do you need preservation from destruction? What has this to do with you?
Romans 3:23 God Almighty, who designed, created, and sustains human life—including yours, says this: "ALL have sinned, and come short of the
According to the Bible, what the "saved" receive as God's gift through Jesus Christ is eternal life. Salvation, then, actually is the receiving of something you don't now have—eternal life. And if that Bible statement is true, then our accusers are false!
His salvation—is also His own love which imparts to you His righteousness! It is no longer just you, in your own power and strength "keeping the commandments"—it is, spiritually speaking, the living Christ IN YOU, keeping His Father's Commandments—even as He kept them by this same divine love even while He was human here on earth! This is God's gift. It is the presence, conditionally, of Eternal Life.
Get it straight! You are now converted—a changed person—for God's Spirit (Ephesians 4:23) produces a renewing of your mind. Your whole concept and direction of life is changed! God's Spirit is His very life imparted to you! You are now a begotten son of God.
1. Salvation like letting someone in the door. In Revelation 3:20 Jesus said, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hears My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me."
Jesus said that salvation is like that. He is out of your life. He is not your Saviour. You have lived without Him. You have never trusted Him. Now you simply say, "Dear Jesus, come in." God says that is salvation.
2. Getting saved is like taking a drink of water. In John 4:14 Jesus said, "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst." Revelation 22:17, "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Now it is very simple to take a drink of water. Some people get so thirsty that when they take a drink of water they go "Whoooo." Some people say, "Ahhh-hh-h." Some just swallow it, and that is it. Now who gets the most water? How it makes you feet doesn't have a thing to do with it! Jesus said getting saved is like taking a drink of water. Are you thirsty?
3. Getting saved is receiving a gift. Romans 6:23, "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Ephesians 2:8, 9, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast." I give a person a gift. He takes it. Is it his? Absolutely! What if he doesn't feel good? The gift Is still his. What if he doesn't shout? It is still his. What if he doesn't cry? It is still his. It is very simple to accept a gift. All you do is reach out and take it and believe it is yours.
Now salvation is that way, the Bible says. Jesus is God's "unspeakable gift." Eternal life is God's gift to man. Anybody who will say, "I am willing to receive the gift," can very simply receive the gift from God.
4. Getting saved is going through a door. In John 10:9 Jesus said, "I am the door," and in John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." Is it very complicated to go through a door? No. When I leave the service I most always go through this door. I will walk over there, turn the doorknob, walk through the door, and go down the stairs. Is that very complicated? I probably won't shout. I doubt if I'll cry or holler. I doubt if I'll laugh, but I will go through the door.
Jesus said that on one side is eternal life; on the other side is eternal death. The difference is a door. Everybody in this house this morning who realizes he is unsaved, realizes that Christ will give him eternal life, and will say, "Dear Lord, I do accept You and come through the door of Jesus to salvation"--that minute God makes you His child!
5. Salvation is compared with coming home. This is very interesting. Here is a boy in Luke 15 who decides to leave his father and go to a far country. He takes all of his goods, goes to a far country, gets in trouble, looks for a job, can't find a job, finds a job feeding the hogs out in the hogpen, and finally he starts feeding himself the husks off the corn that the swine would not eat-the cornhusks, if you please. He eats the cornhusks. Finally he says, "The servants back home have more than this. Why, the servants back home have some good bread and potatoes and meat and beans, and here I am eating the cornhusks. I will arise and go to my father." He comes back to the father, and the father receives him.
Salvation is just going home. How many of you ever go home to see your father?
6. Jesus compares salvation with accepting an invitation. Jesus told the parable of a man who "made a great supper and bade many." Jesus says, "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28).
Now let me ask you, will he be any more invited either way he answers? Not a bit! The way he would do it matters not; he simply accepts the invitation.
7. He compares salvation with taking a bath. In Titus 3:5 He says, "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration." In John 13 Jesus said, "You have already bathed once; now wash your feet." Salvation is compared to taking a bath. Remember. Jesus is the One Who bathes you, makes you clean.

9. Salvation is compared to putting money in the bank. 2nd Timothy 1:12b, "I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed (or deposited) unto Him against that day." You take some money and put it in the bank. Now, two fellows go to the bank and each one puts in $100.00. One says, "0 boy! 0 BOY! I saved $100.00.

We are all called to serve;

We are all called to serve;

Jesus the master serving the servant

We are called for a holy and noble purpose! You were put on earth to make a contribution. You were not created just to consume resources, to eat, breathe, and take up space. God designed us to make a difference with our life.
We were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back. This is God's purpose for your life, and it is called your "ministry" or service.

“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Eph 2:10

these good deeds are your service. Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God (Eph. 6:7).
In God's Kingdom you have a place, a purpose, a role, and a function to fulfill. This gives your life great significance and value.

It cost Jesus His own life to purchase your salvation. "In the same way, the Son of Man did not come for other people to serve him. But the Son of Man came to serve other people. The Son of Man came to give his life to save many people.
Here is the heart of our Hero given in one simple statement. We are to serve and sacrifice for others. It is our legacy. It is our life. It is our Lord's example. We were bought and brought to freedom by the ransom price he paid. We are now called to follow his example and live his life in our world.
You are called to serve God. Growing up, you may have thought that being "called" by God was something only for missionaries, pastors, nuns, and other "full-time" church workers experienced, but the Bible says every Christian is called to service
Your call to salvation included your call to service. They are the same. Regardless of your job or career, you are called to full-time Christian service. A "non-serving Christian" is a contradiction in terms.

Another term for serving God that's misunderstood by most people is the word "ministry." When most people hear "ministry" they think of pastors, priests, and professional clergy, but God says every member of His family is a minister. In the Bible, the words servant and minister are synonyms, as are service and ministry. If you are a Christian you are a minister, and when you are serving, you are ministering.

We are commanded to serve God-if we are saved. Jesus says "Your attitude must be like my own, for I, the Messiah, did not come to be served, but to serve and to give my life" (Matt. 20:28).

God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived. If you are not involved in any service or ministry, what excuse have you been using?
Have you ever wondered why God does not just immediately take us to heaven the moment we accept His grace? Why does He leave us in a fallen world? He leaves us here to fulfill His purposes. Once you are saved, God intends to use you for His goals. God has a ministry for you in His church and a mission for you in the world.
Jesus calls us all and not only a certain class of people to follow him and serve others. God can use anyone, no matter how insignificant he or she appears to be and even when you feel small and useless, you should remember that God uses ordinary people to do his extraordinary work...
When Jesus called His first disciples, He didn’t draft them, force them or ask them to volunteer, but he chose them to serve him in a special way. Most Churches lives or dies on the strength of the people who serve them. We are living in a time of pressure where most families are working outside the homes and most of them work longer hours and therefore the church attendance patterns of committed people are declining and every Minister almost everywhere are reporting less regular attendance and a reluctance of commitment in long term tasks.
God has shown you his grace (kindness) in many different ways. And you are like servants who are responsible for using God's gifts. So be good servants and use your gifts to serve each other. The person who speaks should speak words from God. The person who serves should serve with the strength that God gives

God wants to use you. Are you ready?

God wants to use you. Are you ready?

Jesus and the fisher men

It’s a profound truth to be told that no matter what situation you find yourself in, you can still be used by God. Nothing that we do, no sin that we commit can disqualify us from serving Jesus. This truth is controversial. It’s counter-cultural. And it can seem ludicrous!
God is searching the world right now looking for willing vessels that will carry forth his word. When you stop and think about the time when the word searched out and found you---the very day you were transformed out of darkness and into God's marvelous light! What a feeling!
Each of us has a calling. Callings are not reserved for those who have it all together, or for those who seem to be the Christian elite, or even for those that some tout to be the “heroes” of the Bible. No. God has a call on each of our lives. The question is: Will you offer yourself up to be used?
Do you believe that Jesus is simply waiting for you to be willing to be used?I don't care who you are, how much education you have, how knowledable of the Bible you are, how shy you can be or how unprepared you feel- God can and will use you to further His kingdom. God isn't looking for super spiritual Christians or those who seem to have it all together, He wants to use you!
Let's be his hands and his feet in this world and spread the good news of the gospel!God shows His great power by using a unwilling people to willinging complete His great will, to bring His light to the nations
We didn't become Christians in order to just sit on the bench and be a cheerleader, God wants every one of us in the game. If you are listening to this right now, I can guarentee that it is true for you because if God didn't have something for you to do, you would already be in heaven.
There is no question of our having sufficient power in ourselves: we cannot claim anything as our own. The power we have comes from God" Corinthians 3:5
And if you were to talk to most Christians out there who are serving God, I bet they would tell you the same thing: that on their own they are inadequate to serve God but as soon as they stepped out and started serving those inadequacies no long mattered because it was then that God stepped in and gave them more strength than they needed to cover for their weaknesses.
As God told Paul and says to each and every one of us "My gracious favor is all you need. My power works best in your weakness."
Doesn't it just burn within you, the desire to share the gospel of Jesus Christ
A desire to tell anyone with a heart to hear that there is a God that saves!
A God that delivers!
A God that heals!
The same God, that changed you completely and set you in green pastures feasting on the true word, wants to use you.
Jesus said, "Freely ye have received, freely give".
So no matter where you are today, let me encourage you to not be afraid to let God use you. There is nothing that serves as a better faith builder than to allow God to move through you and that is the only way the world will come to know Him.
"David was the youngest son of a shepherd, but he became the greatest king of Israel. Paul ardently persecuted the early church, but he became the one who would spread the Gospel to the Gentiles. Mary was an ordinary teenage girl who became the mother of the Messiah. There are times in our lives when things seem almost hopeless' but God wants to use us all for great purposes. He does not look at our current condition, but at what we have the potential to become. We should view others and ourselves in the same way...We should try to view all things with the faith and hope that God can and will transform us into the people He wants us to be.Here is a list of several Biblical personalities used by God.
NOAH was a drunk....ABRAHAM was too old...ISAAC was a daydreamer....JACOB was a liar....
LEAH was ugly....JOSEPH was abused....MOSES couldn't talk....GIDEON was afraid....SAMSON had long hair and was a womanizer....RAHAB was a prostitute...JEREMIAH and TIMOTHY were too young....DAVID had an affair and was a murderer....ELIJAH was suicidal...ISAIAH preached naked....JONAH ran away from God....NAOMI was a widow....-JOB went bankrupt....JOHN the Baptist ate bugs....PETER denied Christ....THE DISCIPLES fell asleep while praying....MARTHA worried about everything...MARY MAGDALENE was demon possessed....The SAMARITAN WOMAN was divorced... more than once!!....ZACCHEUS was too small....PAUL was too religious....TIMOTHY had an ulcer....and LAZARUS WAS DEAD!!!!
Yet God used them all!!! Even the dead Lazarus! If others look at us like worthless, then God sees our potential! So don't put yourself under stress. God wants to get the best out of you - after all it was Him who, at some point, has put it there! If you know what sort of problem it is that you cannot correctly deal with, then ask God to help you with it. If you don't know what it is, then ask God to make you realize it. Also then He will help you overcome it, if you allow Him to

Patiently Waiting With Endurance

Patiently Waiting With Endurance

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Isaiah 40:30,31 “Though youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly, Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.”
We are also told that we need to endure if we are to receive the promises of God; “For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. We are also told that it is with endurance that we are to run our race. We are reminded of the patience of Job and the rewards that followed.
The patience of a Christian, however, is different from the patience of others: it is not as the world gives, but as the Lord gives. How is it different?
Patience is “waiting for the Lord.” By trusting the Lord, putting the future in his hands, expecting and anticipating God's tomorrow and continuing faithful, we continue in our commitment to Christ. And, we grow ever stronger.
First, it is not "waiting something out," but "waiting for the Lord." We live with a wonderful anticipation of seeing Him and being exalted by Him and sharing His glory (1 John 3:1-3). Neither is the motive of our waiting bound to some standard of earthly success. Its purpose is not earthly success, but to cause us to be faithful and pleasing to God rather than returning to our idols.
It is easy to become frustrated when things “don't go our way.” People sometimes allow themselves to become cynical about life and its prospects, but not people with living faith. To turn from the Lord during such times is a mistake. To turn to Him is far better.
We recall how Israel's hardships were multiplied when they complained in the wilderness and rebelled.
God never calls us to be passive. Nor can we say we are waiting on the Lord while we are still doing our own thing. Sometimes God has to remove us from a situation, change our surroundings, put us in a place dreadfully alone where we can do nothing but fearfully watch all that surrounds us. The last thing we want is to be pushed out of the nest and be thrown in that mess!

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Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Jesus

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
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1 Chronicles 28:9. “… the Lord searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts .
The heart is what you are, in the secrecy of your thought and feeling, when nobody knows but God. And what you are at the invisible root matters as much to God as what your are at the visible branch.
A pure heart is a heart that has nothing to do with falsehood. It is painstakingly truthful and free from deceitfulness. Deceit is what you do when you will two things, not one thing. You will to do one thing and you will that people think you are doing another. You will to feel one thing and you will that people think you are feeling another. That is impurity of heart.
1 Samuel 16:7 "Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart"
From the heart are all the issues of life. So the heart is utterly crucial to Jesus. What we are in the deep, private recesses of our lives is what he cares about most. Jesus did not come into the world simply because we have some bad habits that need to be broken. He came into the world because we have hearts that need to be purified.
To have a pure heart means to have a heart that is committed to living a life that is totally pleasing to God, because Having purified our souls and hearts, refraining from evil desires, and wanting only to give love and do good things, we are ready to be very close friends with God.
It also means that those who have pure hearts (virtuous feelings and intentions coupled with childlike faith) will perceive God's presence and influence over everything they see in this life ... God is everywhere for the pure in heart, and, though still alive, they are already in heaven
If we see God, that will open up the treasure trove of all the blessings, not only for eternity, but also for life here and now.
And the key to open that treasure trove is a pure heart!
Psalm 24:3-4.Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, which does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.
So, to have a pure heart is to be Having a pure heart means living by the rules of God that bring internal, moral purity. God is a holy God, and He expects His people to live life according to the standard He has set for them.
Purity of heart is no deception, no double-mindedness, and no divided allegiance.
Carol King Amen, amen amen! The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules[d] of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.. "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer." Psalm 19: 7-9, 14 ESV Godspeed!

Nation of peace

The Nation of Islam.
To all my Islamic following friends globally, I urge you to criminalize these hideous acts of butchering your own kinsmen in the name of religion.Prophet Mohamed must be spinning in his grave in disdain of how a section of his follows have transformed his peaceful religion to a tool used to dehumanize his followers.
Every religion must be on a basis of Forgiveness,Love and Reconciliation,if you disagree with your neighbor seek peace not vengeance.

The greatest commandment is Love your God with everything in you and followed by Love your neighbor as you love your self.

Lets start a movement to bring sanity to Islam and preach love,peace and reconciliation to the extremist

Extremist ISIS