As you love God and are obedient to what you read in His word, you will become like minded, you will start to love others in the same way that God love others and you will start to have the same mindset as our Father. When you choose to love God first He will make your heart beat for His will and purpose. Just like Timothy and Epaphraditus had hearts that desired to be with the Phillipian church.
Christian, God has a new name for you. You don’t know what it is yet, but this what
Revelation 2v17 says, that to those who overcome, God will give a white stone with a new
name written in it, that only you will know! The name Timothy means Honouring God, so do
you wonder what the name is [...]
Take a look at the sky on a clear day, there are no stars. Where have they gone? Why are
they not there any more? Look up at a patch of sky on a clear night (especially away from
the city) and see the stars, see how brightly they shine! What changed? Lets take a look at
you [...]
Phillipians 2: 1-11
Imitating Christ’s Humility
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition [...]
This portion of scripture encourages us to walk in a way that is worthy of the gospel. You see Paul’s suffering for the gospel is for the sake of the gospel. To see the gospel working out in peoples lives. Even though Paul finds joy through his suffering, the purpose of suffering is to see Jesus Christ glorified. Therefore it is important to note that Paul’s encouragement in Phillipians chapter 1 is to live a life worthy of the gospel of Christ. In other words:
Paul carries on in his letter to the Philippians and as we read through Philippians 1v19→26 we get an awesome sense of how Paul just totally trusted Jesus, He knew that everything would turn out exactly as it should. We can learn some awesome lessons about who God is, and how we should live in [...]
Paul is in prison, things weren’t going well, he was living in the will of God, he was ministering for God, his heart was set on God, and he was in prison. Today as we carry on into Paul’s letter to the God worshipers in Philippi, we’re going to be looking at Philippains 1v12->18 and [...]
Today we start a study on the book of Phillipians. This book is full of joy, in fact, joy is mentioned sixteen times in the four chapters. I am excited to get into this study because sometimes we miss out on the joy of being a Christian. Hopefully this book will help us to experience [...]
“So, when you grow up, who do you wanna be like?” This phrase may bring to mind an image of two little boys standing in the playground, talking to each other about their heroes. The one may say that he wants to be a famous soccer player, the other may want to be a fireman. [...]
There is so much advice, so much wisdom, and so many people out there telling you to listen to what they have to say. How are you going to decide what you are going to spend your time listening too? Which advice are you going to follow? How are you going to decide what is [...]
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