Morning Faith

Proverbs 3:5 NIV

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;"

Many of us have trust issues. Whether it be that someone has hurt us in a bad relationship, someone has taken something from us, or we have been lied to, leaving us feeling betrayed, abandoned, or manipulated. This causes us to doubt if we can ever trust anyone again. Of course we keep trying because we think that we understand what happened and this time it will be different, only to be let down again and again.

Jesus has told us in the scripture that we should love one another. Much of trust is built on faith. If your faith is of worldly things, so will your trust be. If your faith is of Heavenly things, so should your trust be. Know that a person is not justified by the works of the law of people, but by faith in Jesus Christ.

This message teaches us that if you place your trust in Jesus first, by asking for his spiritual guidance, and truly listening for the answer even if it is not what you want to believe, trust in worldly things becomes much easier. Don’t just change your direction in faith, be true to yourself when you get the answer you seek. He is Lord of all and can be trusted with everything, no matter how small it is.

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316 Ministry - Morning Faith - What's love got to do with it

Morning Faith

05/24/23 • 2 min

Daily Devotion – What’s love got to do with it

If you have read through the Bible, you have found that God cares for his people very much. In so many instances, he specifically states it. You will also find where, just as a Father, he gets upset when his people turn away from Him and don’t do what they have promised to do. Many times, this results in punishment. He also encourages His people with rewards.

The Lord created each of us out of love and gave all of us the potential of being good, even though we inherited sin. The love from God is so great that He believes that we are all worth saving. Even the most evil and corrupt.

So, this seems somewhat hard to believe but He tells us this over and over in the scripture. He believes it so much that He proved it by sending his Son to tell us. As John 3:16 states, he whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. He did this knowing that His Son would have to be sacrificed as a lamb. That is truly love. You do not have to earn His love. Believe in His Son and know that He loves every single person.

God loves without conditions and as Jesus said, love one another as I have loved you. All you have to do is want it and accept it.

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316 Ministry - Morning Faith - Choose how your day will go

Morning Faith

03/17/23 • 2 min

Romans 8:31 NIV

“What, then, shall we say in response to those things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”

We do not get to choose all the things that happen in this life on a daily bases but we do get to choose how we handle and process those daily happenings. When we wake up in a bad mood, we can choose to go throughout that day in misery, being upset or mad at the world or we can choose to understand that God is there to lean on.

Praising God and being in Gods word will help us to brush it off and move on with our day. Believe it or not this is true in the hardest of conditions. As the verse says, If God is for us who or what can be against us. God’s daily blessings are worth more than any mood, any aggravation, or any bothersome person.

Gods promises help to us move freely throughout our bad days. God blesses us, not people or things. God will never disappoint us. Humans disappoint us. Things disappoint us. Bad days, weeks, months, disappoint us NOT God.

Lean on him. Trust in Him and move with God in your thoughts all day and see the difference in how bad moods can quickly change to a grateful heart. Pray everyday all day and be blessed. Understand that praying is not always stopping everything you are doing and bowing your head in silence. Prayer is talking to God and you can do this effortlessly all day long.

Great examples are: Answering your phone “God please guide my words”, Dealing with a teenage son or daughter, “God please grant me the ability to give mercy and grace for the things we are about to discuss”, Drive by an accident, “God please protect those in the at accident and Thank You for protecting me”.

These are just a few ways to talk and be in a relationship with God all day long. It’s changing our focus from the negative to the positive. It’s praising God and asking for guidance in everything we do and every aspect of our day.

Most people understand the struggle of choosing how your mood will be but it is actually possible, Try it!

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316 Ministry - Morning Faith - Making the Word Alive

Morning Faith

03/14/23 • 2 min

James 1:22 NIV

“Do not merely listen to the Word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”

Many of us today have the belief that since we go to Church on Sunday and tithe, we are living like Christians. True that Christians do those things and they are important things but if we begin to read the Gospels in the New Testament, we find that we lead a very different life than most of the Apostles and Jesus himself.

We often get up in the morning and begin the hustle. Make the coffee, shower if there is time, get dressed, rush to work, put in your 8+ hours, rush home to make dinner, watch some TV or listen to our favorite podcast, then go to bed, all to do it again the next day. Simplified version I know but the point is made.

Did we take a few minutes in the morning to talk with God or even ask for a good day? Since you are reading this, you are getting there. But then, how do we put what we know God says into action, bring the Word to life? Jesus came to earth as the Son of Man to show us by example how to live a Godly life. Do you have an open dialog with God and thank Him for the good that happens or ask for guidance on the more challenging parts?

It is very often hard to make time in your busy day for God, but if you put God into all your thinking first, you are truly making progress in the right direction in doing what the scripture says.

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316 Ministry - Morning Faith - God Deserves Glory

Morning Faith

03/13/23 • 2 min

Romans 1:21 NIV

“For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish heart were darkened”

Many of us go through life knowing who God is but believe that is enough and all that God expects of us. We see Churches and believe that one day we will need to go but never find the time. We turn through the radio stations and come across one of those channels which talks about burning in hell if you don’t repent.

It is important to understand that God has a plan for us all. As we move through life, God will put speed bumps in front of you to remind you that He is still there even if you don’t recognize Him. Sometimes He has to get a bit more aggressive to get your attention. God is patient and will wait for you to come around. What does that mean? God wants to have a relationship with each one of us. So much so that he gave His Son to die for you so that you can be close to Him through Jesus Christ. God can’t be close to sin. Jesus removes the sin as a filter so you can talk to God the Father through Jesus Christ.

God does not want to be just someone you know about. He wants to be involved and help you through the pitfalls of life. He wants you to succeed, but to do that, you will need to take the time to understand Him in all His Glory and lean on Him. Once you let Him lead and include Him in your choices, you will see things smooth out in your life. However, you have to listen or you might see some gentle nudges to get you back between the lines.

God is great all the time. Just chose to let Him help you.

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316 Ministry - Morning Faith - What do you Seek?

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03/07/23 • 2 min

John 1: 36-39

After Jesus was baptized by John, He asked his followers this question. "What do you seek?" They answered, "where do you dwell?" Jesus replied, "COME and SEE." Andrew tells his brother Simon, "We have found the Messiah, which is, being interpreted the Christ."

Everyone is searching for something. I believe Jesus asked us this same question, "What do you seek?"...We attend church services, Bible studies, small groups and religious programs, but my question for us today, "What are you seeking" Do you seek to know the place where Jesus dwells? As the disciples sought to know His dwelling place, Jesus says, "come and see" When you seek His dwelling, do you long to see? And in your seeking, have you found the Messiah, who is the Christ? Simon encountered Jesus, and Jesus changed his name to Cephas, which is by interpretation; A stone. The following day, Jesus finds Philip and says, "Follow me" Philip finds Nathanael, and says, "we have found Him, the One, of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write of Nazareth. Nathanael said, "can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?"...Philip says, "COME and SEE!" After Nathanael's encounter with Jesus, He says, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel"... Jesus said, "you believe because I said I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things then these." Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man... amen, and amen!

Today; are you seeking the place Jesus dwells? Have you found the Messiah? If so, are you following Him? Have you received the revelation; Jesus is the Son of God, the King of Israel? I say, "COME and SEE greater things! COME and SEE heaven open! Amen!

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Morning Faith - Parable of the Mustard Seed

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10/02/24 • 2 min

If you are a Christian, you are not the person you were yesterday or several years ago. Why? Because you are growing in Christ. The more you learn about Christ, the more you will grow. Very similar to the parable of the mustard seed describing the mustard seed that starts out as the smallest seed but as it is nurtured, it will grow to be the largest tree. As Jesus said, this is like the kingdom of heaven.

With Christ we are stronger

The larger you grow in Christ, the deeper your roots will grow which can withstand any storm that the evil one can throw at you. Jesus speaks of this when He talks about where you grow in the Parable of the Sower. Plant your roots deep through Him and you will be the one that grows in Christ, producing many times what was sown.

What happens to a tree if it is denied its basic needs? It begins to wither and gets diseased and the roots begin to fail. Understand this, your basic needs are from God. You need to feed yourself with the love of God most high and the knowledge he brings so that we can keep strong and remain filled with strength, and with that strength, our soul will remain strong and our roots deep.

True Love

Let your heart leap for joy as you understand the knowledge that is beyond your true understanding. The Lord will never leave you or forsake you and will always uphold you with his right hand. He loves you so much that He gave His only Son for you. Exalt him. You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. For the spirit that God gave you will not falter and he has given you strength and you will not grow weary.

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316 Ministry - Morning Faith - Pentecost Countdown - Day 3

Morning Faith

05/26/23 • 2 min

Today we continue our Pentecost Countdown with Day 3

Acts 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

As you observe Pentecost, keep in mind that God has done great things through the ages. Every book, Old Testament and New Testament, are full of events that God directly fulfilled from page to page. Of course, the most important event of all, the resurrection of Jesus.

As you understand the Bible, it is full of amazing stories about faith, obedience, trust, forgiveness, humbleness, and many others that join the events together directly under God’s guidance and instruction.

The best part, the stories of the Bible are not meant to end. Once you accept Christ as your savior, you join in to continue the story and become a contributor. As you continue to contribute as your story unfolds, you will have opportunities for God to engage with you and others around you, just as He has done in the past. This engagement happens through the Holy Spirit. Using the Holy Spirit also gives you the ability to spread the gospel. Through the Holy Spirit, He encourages you to follow direction and enhance your position in God’s family.

With the Holy Spirit, you are directly aligned with God’s purpose for you. What will your story look like when you turn and write the next page? Ask God through the Holy Spirit.

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316 Ministry - Morning Faith - Where are you going?

Morning Faith

05/16/23 • 3 min

316 Ministry - Morning Faith - Where are you going?

Has your life slipped into a rut? The definition of a rut has been given as, “A grave with the ends kicked out.”

Why am I alive, what is my goal, where am I headed? Have you ever wondered about the answers to these questions? The Bible has the answers.

The Bible talks about the apostle Paul. Paul was born into a position, both socially and politically, that was as privileged as anything that day had to offer. He was born a Roman citizen in a time when the Roman empire encompassed 80 percent of the known world; he was born into a family that could afford to have him taught by the best teachers of the day; he was born into a family that was among the influential group in the Jewish faith, which controlled the Jewish people under the authority of the Roman supervisor of the area. When he was a “young man” he was influential in his own right in the affairs of this powerful body. He was learned, relatively rich, and yet there was no motivating force in his life beyond the desire to persecute Christians which he was very good at.

The on the road to Damascus, Paul met Christ. The effect of this meeting was so great that Paul amazed all of the people that knew him. His persecution of the Christians ceased and he began to preach the way of Christ.

Now he wrote, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” Philippians 1:21. He felt even dying would profit him for he would go to be with Christ. Now in Christ he lived and moved and had his being.

Paul stated that, “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” Philippians 3:14. His God given goal was to be “a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God” Romans 1:1. You and I may be called to do various things from missionary work to the job at which we are now working, but we must know Christ in order for Him to give us this higher purpose.

Christ can do for each of us that which He did for Paul, give us a meaning, an objective, and a joy in life. However, the thing that separates us from Christ is sin. This applies to all people in the world. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23.

But God, because of his love for us, has made provision for our salvation. “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8.

Christ has made payment for our sins and all we have to do is take the gift by acknowledging that we have sinned and asking for forgiveness.

As with Paul, a choice to follow Jesus can be just the change in our life’s focus that we need to provide purpose and motivation.

Where are you prepared to go to get out of the rut?

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316 Ministry - Morning Faith - Does the Evil one know your name?

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03/10/23 • 1 min

“And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”

(Acts 19:15) If the devil doesn’t know who you are, you should be concerned...

You should strive to hear the devil with a trembling fearful voice saying, “Jesus I know. Paul I know, and You, I know!”

Hallelujah!!! Walking in the Spirit. Living in the power and Authority of Jesus Christ, our King and we rejoice in the Lord for we know whom we serve!

Jesus said, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.” (Luke 10:19-20)

We should rejoice for our name is written in heaven!!!

Question. Do you know if your name is written in heaven? If not, I can assure you that God of the heavens desires for you to know on earth that you have eternal life. “These things I have written onto you that you might believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.” (1 John 5:13)

We love Him because He first loved us... Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the Living God, loves you!!!

If you believe on the name Jesus then the devil knows your name. And that’s a good thing, because he knows the power of Jesus name! As well as who you are and whom you serve.

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