1 Peter 4

Below you will see scriptures that can effect your life and the way you live it if you choose to believe His word and apply it to your life, and actually live by it!!
Verse 1, "ceased from sin." !!! Of course we have to stop living for ourselves!! Besides, we've spent enough time doing that anyway! So let's be serious and watchful, for the end of all things is at hand!!


1 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us[a] in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For we have spent enough of our past lifetime[b] in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. 4 In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. 5 They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 6 For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
Serving for God’s Glory

7 But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. 8 And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”[c] 9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. 10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Suffering for God’s Glory

12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; 13 but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.[d] On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people’s matters. 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.[e]
17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 Now


“ If the righteous one is scarcely saved,
Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”[f]

19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.

Holy to the Lord

I just feel like The Lord wants us to be holy, just as He is holy, but we, or those around us, even those who teach over us, tell us this is impossible! 1Peter 1:15 & 16 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy." Why can't we just believe this, it's true!? The bar has been reset to accommodate our unbelief that we aren't made to be just like Him! That He has made us to be holy vessels, Holy to the Lord. Even their cooking pots, and the bells on their horses were inscribed "Holiness To The Lord" how much more so should our lives be holy to the Lord. (Zech 14:20 & 21) Are we not more important that cooking pots and bells on horses!!

My Grace is sufficient for you for My power is made perfect in your weakness. 2 Cor 12"9"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." And do we have a lot of weakness, "Lord help us to realize our weakness so You can come in and be our strength!! In Jesus mighty Name, amen."
He is enough, He can sustain us, He has made us to be Holy, now let us be!!

Acts 9

So I'm about to meet with the city to discuss some really important stuff, I'm getting my stuff ready and have my trunk open. I see my bible there and want to read a scripture, so I open to Acts 9, and my bible is a red letter edition so my eyes are drawn to Jesus words "You will go into the city and you will be told what to say." That was incredible! And I did feel the Lord telling me what to say!! It looks like the city is going to do what we're hoping for, God gave us favor and He even gave us His word to back it up, God is so good!!!

My Food is to do the will of My Father in heaven.

I have always loved this scripture, John 4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work."
I focus on the food of this world way too much. Everything that feeds me physically everyone should agree should be good food, food that's good for me, with a treat every once in a while, and yet for me too much of my time even physically is spent on food that is not good for me! Ice cream, snacks of every kind, food that tastes good, but isn't good for me!
Spiritually I need to be fed only the food that my Father provides, where He leads and guides me, the places of His pasture.
This world offers all kinds of spiritually food, and spiritual candy of every kind as we watch our favorite TV shows or movies. "Lord why do I focus on so much that doesn't give me life, bring me around to the place where I want You more than any other thing. Lord I don't want this world or the things of this world, I just want you, and what You provide, because you are so kind, solving I know what you have for me is only good things, so I can trust in you, come to You, and receive what I need form You, however You choose to provide what I need!
Lord let me finish the work You gave me to do, I want to focus on that, and not on all the things around me that draw my attention off of You! You are the only One worth looking at, because you created everything else, so who else should I focus on but You!! Lord help my vision, my vision to be about You, on You, for Your glory, in Jesus Name, Amen!!"

Jude

I Love this scripture I read this morning, and all of Jude is a challenge, read it! 24 Now to Him who is able to keep you[f] from stumbling,
And to present you faultless
Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
25 To God our Savior,[g]
Who alone is wise,[h]
Be glory and majesty,
Dominion and power,[i]
Both now and forever.
Amen.

Let us crucify the flesh with it's passions!

My wife has this really cool dream. She went into this really beautiful house and then she was working out in this field and shoveling stuff. Then she would bring this stuff, guided by a 13 year old, into the basement of this house and dump it there, if this wouldn't effect the house in any way!
So the Lord showed me that this house is us the bride, and more specifically it's my wife and I. The poop that was brought in was the impurity of our flesh, our dung. More specifically my flesh, my dung. What I bring into this marriage is either my flesh, or His Spirit. Let us crucify the flesh with it's passions. (Romans 6:1-71) What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
1 Cor 6
12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.”[b] 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body[c] and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Press in closer and you will see

As we press in closer to The Lord, remember that He already pressed into us, and even became one of us, then He died and rose again so that He could come and reside in us, you can't get any closer than living inside someone.
"Lord You love us soooo much. There is none to compare to Your Love, it is greater than any heighth, greater than any depth, Your Love is deeper than any sea, and with Your Love oh Lord, You Loved me, thank You, in Jesus Name, amen."