This study on Phillipians over the past few weeks have taught us to love more, to be more joyful, to place our trust in God, to live as citizens our heaven, to be humble in our citizenship, to honour God and to develop a mindset like God’s.
This book has been very challenging and full of [...]
As we study Phillipians chapter three we can find three main point that show us how to live as citizens of heaven.
Be on your guard
Know your heritage
Move forward
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here Paul tells Titus what teaching he should be giving to the members of the church. Verse one tells Titus to teach with a sound doctrine, a complete understanding of the scriptures that is not distorted by his own ideas but specifically focused on the Word of God.
Read: 1 Corinthians 13: 1-3
Focus: 1 Corinthians 13: 3
Verse 3: “If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.”
God has gifted us with the ability to achieve many many great things. We can acquire wealth. We can show compassion on those [...]
READ: 1 Corinthians 13: 1-3
FOCUS: 1 Corinthians 13: 1
“Verse 1: If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal”
A man decides that he wants to marry the girl that he is currently dating. He surprises her with tickets to [...]
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