Daily Inspirations

  Good morning. Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. Now the good part: for whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith. You are an overcomer! It may not look like it, but you are. Are you sure? And who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. You believe that, so you overcome the world. Again it may not feel like it, but you have overcome the world! Father thank You that the reader has overcome all obstacles that are in his/her way. Show him/her what he/she needs to do every step of the way. And now a little humor to start your day off right. A woman and her baby get on a bus. The bus driver say...

  Good morning. We know we are safe in God's hands because: there is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. We may fear things that might happen to us, but we should not fear God. As the commercial says, we are in good hands. We have to be careful to not let fear of things that might happen turn into fear of what God will do to us. God only wants the best for us. When you are afraid, that is real punishment. We love, because He first loved us. Outside of Him, there is no true love. If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. It was not a suggestion when Jesus said to love one another. And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also. Just because you love the brethren, does not mean that you accept everything they...

  Good morning. John says about himself: and we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. John didn't just read about it in a book or hear it from someone – he was there personally with the Son. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. There are religions that say that Jesus was a really good man and perhaps even a prophet; but they do not agree that He was the Son of God. But that is the number one tenant of Christianity – John 3:16! And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. Remember that in Greek the word "is" does not mean equal to. Just because God is love does not mean that love is God. Love is one of God's attributes, but it is not God Himself. By this, love is perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the Day of Judgment; because as He is, so also a...

  Good morning. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. That of course is true love (I just watched The Princess Bride). God did that for us before we even existed. If God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. He demonstrated to us how we should love our brethren. Some supposedly Christians wouldn't give the time of day, much less their only child for the brethren. How do we know that God is in us? No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. How do we know that God exists; after all no one has ever seen Him? We know He exists because of His love in us. If He did not exist, it would be impossible for us to have this kind of love dwelling in us. How do we know that we abide in Him: by this we know th...

  Good morning. Yesterday we talked about we have overcome them: they are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. This is so true today in many different ways. People say such ridiculously horrible things; and people listen to them because the ones speaking and the ones listening are both from the world. They actually want to hear these things. We do not want to hear them because: we are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. If someone is of God, then he/she listens to those speaking the truth of God. And then those verses we used to sing as a song: beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He who loveth not (bum, bum, bum),   knoweth not God, for God is love – beloved let us love one another. First John four, seven and eight. That's kind of definitive....

  Good Sunday morning. Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. I've told you before about there being groups of so-called apostles and prophets. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. Here again John is fighting the beginnings of Gnosticism. They did not believe that Jesus came in the flesh. At water baptism He came in the Spirit upon the man Jesus, and then left Him when He was on the cross. And then a verse we all love: you are from God and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. We are overcomers – not because of anything we did; but because of everything He did. Sadly we do n...

  Good morning. We shall know by this that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before Him, in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. If our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God (now get this); and whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. How about them apples? Yeah but I don't want to have to keep a bunch of commandments. This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He commanded us. Well we already believe in the name of His Son. That just leaves one itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny one - right? Actually sometimes it is much harder than the other. And the one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. How do we know that He abides in us? I'm glad you asked. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. That's how you can...