Worth

True riches are not in the things we have or the trips we take. They are not in what the neighbors think our net financial worth is. Our true worth is in our relationship with God. Have we accepted His son as our Lord and Savior? Are we a true believer? For it is in that transformation walk that we will find our true reward. ~ DickEvans.org

Best Teacher

The best teacher is the Lord. When we became a believer, He sent the Holy Spirit to live in our hearts and comfort us, guide us and teach us. Isn't it time we turned off the world and took time to listen? ~ DickEvans.org

Freedom is for Now

Galatians 5:1
So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don't get tied up again in slavery to the law.

I love to hear the old hymns. They have a presence with them. Singing them brings you to a place close to the Lord.

However, many of the old gospel songs are about how glorious it will be someday. What about how glorious God wants it to be right now?

He saved us to be free. To be Holy. To be righteous. Not to wait for freedom in the everlasting. We are to be free right now.

So perhaps we should stop singing about what will be. Let's rejoice in today. Let's rejoice in His perfect presence in our lives here and now.

Relationship

God wants all of us. He has a plan. So let's stop fooling ourselves. It is not what others perceive us to be that counts; what they see on the outside. It is what He knows us to be; on the inside. It is about our relationship with Him. ~ DickEvans.org

Circumstances

If we are so wrapped up in our circumstances how can we see the light, the open door that He has for us to take us out? When we let the circumstances control our very existence, haven't we turned away from God and to our own understanding? ~ DickEvans.org

Example

It is by our example, our leading that others come to know Christ and learn to walk the walk that leads them deeper into the light. We must be on guard each day and make sure we stay on the right path. ~ DickEvans.org

His Light

As you and I walk out into the world each day, we take His light into dark places. Others see it. Those that have known us before see a difference. Those that do not know us are drawn in and do not know why. But when God calls they sense it. When they sense it they find that little faith. The seed of faith that was planted in them from creation awakens and they begin to water it. So Go into the world and be that light today. ~ DickEvans.org

Forget

Father God wiped out our sins from His memory, but we keep the old fires burning. (Hebrews 10:17) Isn't it time that we got with the program? If He can forgive why can't we? If He can forget, why can't we? ~ DickEvans.org

Grace and Sin

Hebrews 8:12 NIV
For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.

Our sin is forgiven forever. Grace covers us when we sin. And yet our lives are to be holy as He is holy. How can that be if we continue to sin? You see, Jesus went to the cross so our sins would be forever forgiven. He did not go to remove all sin. Sin is still here and it is our choice to walk in sin or in righteousness daily.

As we walk with Christ we build our relationship with Him. There is no sin in Him and when we continue to walk in sin we do not get as close as we could to Him.

He is looking for a pure clean bride. As we sin we remain dirty. He still loves us. He still covers us with His blood. He still protects us. We still walk in His grace. Yet we know we want to be closer to Him. To do that we cannot continue to walk in known sin. To walk as a carnal Christian instead of who we are in Christ, instead of walking in the spirit, in our renewed mind.

What we look at on our computers may be hidden from the world but He knows. It is sin. What we do behind closed doors may not be visible to others. But He knows because He is in us. He forgives our sin and yet He knows our sin.

Lord help me to be a pure bride. Help me to not remain in the sinful positions I have allowed in my life. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Visible

The Internet is a great way to communicate today. But we must stop hiding behind it because God wants us visible to His people. The world needs more than what they can see on Facebook. They need flesh and blood to disciple them. It is time to move out into the world among the people as Jesus' disciples did. Go out two by two and touch the people one at a time. Go outside of your comfort zone. ~ DickEvans.org

Meat

How often do we attend church service on Sunday expecting to hear a message that digs deep into us; a message that is a catalyst for growth? And how often do we feel comfortable with the milk that is served instead? To get meat we have allow Holy Spirit to take us out of the box, out of our comfort zone. ~ DickEvans.org

His Word

As each believer reads the Word of God it speaks to him or her to communicate a need for the present time. It opens up things occurring in us that need to be worked on, need to be judged by us and taken care of. As we read the same passage over again at a later date it may open up an entirely different issue in us to be exposed and dealt with. ~ DickEvans.org

His Promises

2 Corinthians 1:20 NKJV 
For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.

I recently saw this quote on Social Media: "It is impossible to walk with God without patience. It is required to receive His promises."

First of all, I believe that patience is not about waiting. It is about what we do while we wait. And the Great Commision does a good job showing us what we are to do. We are to go... (Mark 16:15-18)

I believe thinking we are required to wait to receive His promises is old covenant thinking. Under the new covenant, all His promises are yes and amen. The only work is to believe in the one the Father sent. (John 6:29) There is no longer any "if" to walk in any promise. Jesus fulfilled it all at the cross.

No longer are we burdened with having to "do" to receive. We walk in the age of grace not law. The promised inheritance is ours. The only thing stopping us from receiving every promise is us. Nothing is impossible with God. (Matthew 9:26) Just receive. (Matthew 21:22) Walk in it.

Father God, thank you for sending Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, for all you have done for us. Thank you for fulfilling the law so we would no longer be under its burden, For paying our sin debt and freeing us forevermore.

Warned

We are to encourage others every day in their faith. We are to warn them not to turn away from God; not to fall into the traps of evil that are set for each of us daily. We are to warn each other so that none of us will be deceived by the enemy. ~ DickEvans.org

Dig

We cannot just listen once to the truth. We must dig into His word and hear it over and over and over again. We must take that next step after salvation and allow Holy Spirit who is in us to guide us through the transformation of our soul. It does not just happen automatically. We have to pursue it. ~ DickEvans.org

Generosity

Generosity means more than sending a check to a charity. Generosity means more than giving out of our excess. Generosity means giving something to someone else because of their need. It means putting ourselves out to help someone else. ~ DickEvans.org​

Oaths

God's Word tells us never to take an oath. (James 5:12) And that oaths are openings for the enemy to slide in. That is not what I want to happen to me. I want all those doors closed. I want to abide in His Word in my life. ~ DickEvans.org

Judging

The only one we should be criticizing or judging is our self. We know what God wants of us and our job is to obey Him, not judge others. ~ DickEvans.org

Marriage

2 Corinthians 11:1-3 NLT
I hope you will put up with a little more of my foolishness. Please bear with me. For I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God himself. I promised you as a pure bride to one husband-Christ. But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent.

We are the sons and daughters of God. We are the bride of Christ. And He is grooming us to be a pure bride without a spot or blemish for our wedding day with Him.

Speaking of a wedding and therefore marriage. It is wonderful to live in America where husbands and wives live under Biblical principles.

Ephesians 5:24-26 NLT
As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God's word.

A marriage succeeds when those principles are followed. When they each treat each other with love and respect. When each realizes that their happiness together is not 50-50. That each is 100% responsible for the outcome.

I can't imagine living in another area of the world where wives are treated like servants created to serve their masters...their husbands.

In Christ, we are all equal. Male and female. In heaven as well. Made to worship the Father in all we do now and forevermore.