What You Need to Know to Be with Me, Bible Study 02/06/19

Posted on February 14, 2019 by growintheword

 

Bible Study 4-Part Series
Series Title: Love Clinic

Week One: What You Need to Know to Be With Me

Synopsis of 02/06/19 Bible Study

Delivered by Bishop Joseph W. Walker, III, D.Min.

John 15:10-12, “10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”

I.          Introduction

  1. Relationships, friendships, marriage all take on different meanings today. For instance, 20 yrs ago the term “dating” was viewed much different from the way we view these type of relationships today.
  2. It is hard to know what Dating is today. Today, when we say we are dating we wonder is the person is saying that the two are seeing each other or does it mean they are doing something else?
  3. Friendships today are the same way. We view Friendships so casual now, everyone seems to be our friend. Friendships should really carry a certain weight and responsibility.
  4. Marriages are different. We see a lot of different types of marriages. First, we have the Image Marriage, then we have the “I want a baby marriage”. Next, we have the “I got pregnant and we got married” type of Marriage. We also have the “Everyone but us, sees us as being good together” type of marriage.
  5. There are uncompromising standards for healthy godly relationships. You got to take time to learn things about the other person to make the relationship work.

Steps to Having a Healthy Godly Relationship:

  1. Love God First. – You’ve got to be in relationship with God first. If you spend more time in your relationship than you do with God, then you know it is an out of whack relationship.

Scripture References: Mark 12:30 (NKJV) 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ [a]This is the first commandment. – God wants you to let Him be your priority. You have to have a relationship with God first, before you can have a relationship with anyone else.

 Matthew 6:33 (NKJV) 3 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. – You got to get to a point where you want to get right with God first. God might frustrate your attempts to get into relationship, because you haven’t first got into relationship with Him.

 

  1. Learn to love God first.

 

  1. Learn to Love Yourself.

 

Scripture Reference: Ephesians 5:29 (NKJV) 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. – Don’t be so busy loving everyone else that you sacrifice yourself. You got to get to a point where you take care of you. You can’t give what you ain’t got.

 

  1. If you don’t like you, who else will love you? Invest in yourself. Take care of yourself. Don’t get into relationship and let yourself go.

 

  1. Pray to Discern if this Person is Right for Your Life. – Discernment can be important when it comes to relationships.

 

Scripture Reference: 1 Corinthians 2:14 (NKJV) 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.   – Often, we go into relationship through our flesh.

  1. Relationship must be discerned in the spirit and not in the flesh.
  2. Earthly people start with perception first. The image portrayed by the person that interests you, feeds your perception.
  3. Spiritual people start with integrity. Questioning the integrity of a person will lead to the truth. This makes Holy Wedlock and Unholy Padlock.
  4. Get to Know the Real Person. – You got to know the person to the core.

 

Scripture Reference: John 8:32 (NKJV) 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  – We spend more time researching a puppy we want to buy, than the person we want to be with.

“Hell is truth seen too late.” –Thomas Hobbes

  1. Don’t’ get caught up in perception. Get to the truth by discernment.

 

  1. What Makes Me Want You
  2. The capacity of your compassion comes from Christ
  3. You can accept things better when you know the truth. A lot of people think a person wouldn’t want them, knowing the truth about them.

2.      Love is not based on what you get in return. It is unconditional.

Scripture References: 1 Peter 4:8 (NIV) (NIV) 8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. – I love you to the point that I can love you knowing everything about you. It is hard to love all that, if you don’t know all of that.

  1. When you love deeply it is more than physical connection or lust. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a (NIV) 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor oth ers, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. – Love me without losing yourself.

 

  1. You should be the same after you come together with a person. You shouldn’t have to lose yourself to be with someone.

B.      You can love me without losing you

Scripture References: Psalm 139:14 14 I will praise You, for [a]I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. ; – You are wonderfully made.

  1. Wonderfully made – The root word for wonderfully is wonderful. You are wonderful.
  2. People package you together and people don’t know who you are. You can’t give your status away to be in a mediocre relationship.
  • Genesis 2:24 (NKJV) 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be[a] joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.;- One flesh doesn’t mean you turn magically into one person. It means you ae joined together at the heart. This is why every attack on a relationship deals with the heart
  • Ezekiel 36:26 (NKJV) 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. – A heart made of stone makes you un able to love. Your heart is the biggest gift you can ever give somebody.
  • Proverbs 4:23 (NKJV) 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. – You got to be able to keep your heart in a good place. People have to be able to earn your heart.

III. Walking with Wisdom

  1. Learn me or leave me– You got to know a person. You need to know what makes them cry and what makes them shutdown along with other things that make them perk? You have to study people.

Ex – 2 yrs after Bishop’s first wife died, he started dating. While dating, one of things he used to do is study the person he was trying to date. In other words, he wanted to know what triggers them to cry or what makes them shutdown and other things similar to this. He explained that by doing this, it taught him when he should talk to a person and when he should approach the person he was dating.

  1. The most important thing about your relationship is knowing that the other person understands you and knowing that they get you.

2.      Michal was married to King David for years. After the ark of the covenant returns to Israel, David danced so hard, he danced out of his clothes. While all of this is going on, David’s wife Michal looks out the window at him.

Scripture Reference: 2 Samuel 6:16 (NKJV) 16 Now as the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

2 Samuel 6:20-23 (NKJV) 20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious was the king of Israel today, uncovering himself today in the eyes of the maids of his servants, as one of the base fellows [a]shamelessly uncovers himself!” 21 So David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me instead of your father and all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel. Therefore I will play music before the Lord. 22 And I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own sight. But as for the maidservants of whom you have spoken, by them I will be held in honor.” 23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death. – Michal despised David (her husband) in her heart. She didn’t understand him.

  1. If you are busy, you can’t marry lazy. David is dancing and Michal is at home. David has this high spiritual experience and he’s hype. He wants to bring the expiring to his house, but Michal disapproves.
  2. In verse 21, David explained God has this ordained him before he put David and Michal together. Milco didn’t bore children, because David stopped being intimate with here, because she didn’t understand him.

B.      Timing is everything

Scripture References: Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJV) 3 To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:  – Don’t rush the process, just because you are ready to get down the aisle. People spend more time getting ready to get married, than they do working in their marriage to make it successful.

  1. You have to learn how to invest and wait. Ruth waited and Boaz approached her. Boaz studied her. Sometimes you can meet the right person at the wrong time. You have to study the person you are interested in.
    1. Ruth 2:23 (NKJV) 23 So she stayed close by the young women of Boaz, to glean until the end of barley harvest and wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

 

  1. Working Well to Win

A.     I’m a package deal

1.      You need someone that works well with you.

Scripture Reference: James 5:16 (NKJV) 16 [a]Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, [b]fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. – Have a mutual understanding between the two of you.

B.      Work with me, not against me

Scripture References: Amos 3:3 (NKJV) 3 Can two walk together, unless they are agreed? – In relationship you need a ride or die. It is hard to be ride or die if you have only met your image.

Proverbs 18:24 (NKJV) 24 A man who has friends [a]must himself be friendly,
But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. ; – There is a person that will love you despite your baggage.

1 Peter 3:7, 8 (NKJV) 7 Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. 8 Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be [a]courteous; – We are in this, because we are on our way somewhere together. If we enter relationship, we have similar paths or goals.

  1. Anyone that will stifle your dream, is a person that is only tolerating you and not celebrating you.
  2. Relationships matter. You know how hard it is for you to be with yourself. Know that there must be someone out there anointed just to be with you.

 

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How to Handle Your Emotions, Bible Study 1.23.19

Posted on January 28, 2019 by growintheword

Synopsis of Bible Study 01/23/19
5-Part Series
Series Title: How to Handle Your Business

Week Four: How to Handle Your Emotions

Delivered by: Bishop Joseph W. Walker, III, D.Min.

Proverbs 29:11, “A fool vents all his feelings, but a wise man holds them back.”

    I.          Introduction

  1. Some people have had a lot they wanted to say to people and yet they decided to hold back. God gave us emotions, but we must know when to hold back.

2.      We were created to have dominion over everything, this includes our emotions.

Scripture Reference: Genesis 1:26-28 (NIV) 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”  – This is an issue of self-control

  1. One may ask, why do we have emotions? Emotions are reactions to things that happen in life. You can’t go around not feeling anything. It is ok to have emotions, but our emotions should be in tune with God’s will.

II.   Change Your Mindset

  1. Manage your mouth by managing your mind
  2. You can manage your mind sometimes by managing your mouth
  3. Your emotions originate in your mental space. The hardest thing to ever change is our mind. Have you ever who was passionate about something, but they were passionately wrong?

Scripture References: Philippians 2:5 (NKJV)5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,  – What is the mind of Christ? Our nature reflects the word of God and not our emotions.

3.      Romans 12:2 (NKJV) 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. – What we do, must be in line with the perfect will of God. We do not react, we respond. This is the mind of God.

  1. To react is not the perfect will of God. You pray about it, think about it, and then respond.

 

 

 

  1. Find peace by obtaining a new perspective
  2. We find peace by finding a new perspective.

Scripture References:- You have peace when you reflect on God’s will.

 

  1. Control is about focus. Even though circumstances around me are changing, my focus is not on what is changing, but instead what is constant.
  2. My peace is not absence of chaos, but the presence of proper perspective.

a.      Philippians 4:7(NKJV) 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.  – Elijah was depressed and about ready to throw in the towel. He had fasted for 40days and 40 nights. He went into a cave and the voice of God asked what was he doing there?

b.      God knew where he was, but he wanted to know where Elijah was emotionally.

4.      Where you are emotionally is where you will end up physically. Elijah needed a new perspective.

a.      Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV) 3 You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.

b.      1 Kings 4:10 10 [a]Ben-Hesed, in Arubboth; to him belonged Sochoh and all the land of Hepher; – Elijah was fed up and let his emotions get the best of him. All it took was one encounter with God to get the proper perspective.

  1. Your emotions will cause you to neglect the thing that will change your perspective. Elijah thought he was alone, but God was talking to him. Elijah realized he wasn’t the only one going through.
  2. God’s word will always give you a perspective.

 III. Choose New Methods

  1. Seek the help of the Word of God to find a better way
  2. God’s word has to be centric. If you are not careful, you will find yourself spiraling out of control. When you are in a funk, you are in a funk.
  3. The enemies aim is to paralyze your purpose.

3.      The prophet Jeremiah was in a funk.

Scripture Reference: Jeremiah 20:7-9 (NKJV) 7 O Lord, You [a]induced me, and I was persuaded; You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I am [b]in derision daily;
Everyone mocks me. 8 For when I spoke, I cried out; I shouted, “Violence and plunder!” Because the word of the Lord was made to me A reproach and a derision daily. 9 Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him, Nor speak anymore in His name.” But His word was in my heart like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, And I could not  – Ever felt like God tricked you? Jeremiah wanted to quit.

  1. God’s word will bring you back. Behind your “but” is the Word. Imagine how the people don’t have the Word make it. They have nothing to revert back to.

 

 

 

  1. Select new approaches to deal with conflict
  2. Learn to control your passions. You cannot say everything you think or act on everything you feel. You have to have self-control.

2.      Think before you speak. (Scripture Reference: Proverbs 15:1 (NKJV) 15 A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.) – It is not what you say, it’s what you think.

  1. A soft answer turns it away wrath.

3.      Deal honestly with your feelings. Stop sweeping things under the rug. Deal with it. (Scripture Reference: Ephesians 4:26 (NKJV) 26 “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, )- You can’t play with your emotions.

  1. You have a beef, then everything you think keeps building

4.      Take care of yourself. There is a relation between your emotions and health. Ever notice when you work out, you feel better. You have to work some stuff off. (Scripture Reference: 3 John 2 (NKJV) 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. ) – There are a lots to deal with. You have to take of yourself.

  1. Create New Management
  1. Take control away from others and get control of you
  2. Stop letting people manipulate your emotions. This can bring on cursing and even crying.

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is made up of the following four core skills: – This is monitoring your emotional ability.

  1. Self-Awareness – Your ability to accurately perceive your emotions and stay away from them when they are happening.
  2. Self-Management – The ability to use awareness to stay healthy emotionally
  3. Social Awareness – The ability to accurately pick up emotions of others and realize what is going on. This is when everyone you work with says you are hard to work with and you are the only one that doesn’t see it.
  4. Relationship Management – Awareness to use your emotions and others to get things in action.
    1. You feel the room out and you know how to move and react to make things happen.
  5. Scripture Reference: 1 Corinthians 10:13 (NKJV) 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to [a]bear -You got to know when to make your exit. You can’t let someone elses emotional stuff mess up your life.
  6. Turn your emotions around and think on God’s level
  7. You emotions has a lot to say about who you are.
    1. “In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.” –Eckhart Tolle
    2. How you see yourself can a bearing on how you react.
  8. Sometimes God does things that you think don’t make sense.

Scripture References: Isaiah 55:8-9 (NKJV) 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.  – We have to have faith that God knows what he’s doing

a.      Philippians 4:8 (NKJV) 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. – You got to get your emotions in place. Your inability to manage your emotions is what causes so many crazy things to happen.

  1. When you operate in Word of God, you operate in facts, not in the way that you feel. Apply the facts before the feelings.
  2. With facts upfront, then there is a certain set of things you live by.
  3. God gave you amazing authority over your feelings. If I don’t make your emotions obey, they will make you obey.
  4. You got too much to do to sit around and be an emotional wreck.

 

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How to Handle the Word

Posted on January 7, 2019 by growintheword

Synopsis of 1/9/19 Bible Study
5-Part Series: How to Handle Your Business

Week Two: How to Handle Money

Delivered by Bishop Joseph W. Walker, III, D.Min.
January 9, 2019

Proverbs 3:9-10, “Honor the Lord with your possessions, and with the first fruits of all your increase; 10 So your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.”

     I.                    Introduction

  1. Money is often a subject that is difficult to discuss. It not just difficult in church, it is difficult to discuss the subject of money when it relates to raises on a job and when it comes to money in relationships too.
  2. If you learn to handle money effectively, you will understand how God intended you to handle money.
  3. Some people say it ain’t about money, but if this is so, why do we go to work?

Scripture Reference: 1 Timothy 6:10 (NKJV) 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. – The Lord doesn’t want you to fall in love with money.

  1. Today’s lesson is designed to explain God’s desire for your money. It also to bring you to a better understanding of stewardship.

 

 II.                    Make a Change in How You Spend Money

  1. Learn to control money, don’t let it control you
  2. Many people don’t have a plan on how to control or spend their money. They live out of their front pockets.
  3. Without a plan, you plan to fail. If you don’t control your money, it will control you.

Scripture Reference: Proverbs 10:22 (NKJV) 22 The blessing of the Lord makes one rich,
And He adds no sorrow with it.- If sorry is attached to your increase, then it is not a blessing from God.  For example, if you have the house that you want, but can’t pay for anything else, then it is not a blessing. If you have a car and can’t afford to pay note on it, then it is not a blessing.

  1. You must learn to manage what God has blessed you with

 

  1. This starts with tithing which is 10% of your gross income.

Scripture References: Genesis 2:15-17 (NIV) 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” – God started in the beginning trying to teach us what not to touch.

  1. In Joshua 6, the children of Israel took stuff they weren’t supposed during battle and as a result, they had problems. When you take what you are not supposed to take, you bring curses to yourself. Taking the tithe can cause a curse to come to you or your finances.
  2. Malachi 3:10 (NKJV) 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you suchblessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. – Bring the tithe into the place where you are being fed (the storehouse). This is the only place in the Bible where God asks you to try him to see what he will do. If you do what God has commanded, he promises to bless you more than they will pay you. You won’t have enough room to receive the blessing that will come your way.
  3. Trusting God helps you understand the value of the other 90% left after the 10% has been tithe.
  4. After paying your tithes, how much money do you have left over to manage? You have 90%.
  5. Paying the tithe is not magic. You have to be a good manager of what’s left.
  6. When you trust God, he rebukes devourers for your sake.

III.                    Master the Challenges of Saving Money

  1. Break the bad habits that keep you in debt
  2. We hate debt. When you hear the word “debt”, it ought to make you frown. Debt wasn’t even designed to put a smile on your face.
  3. God never intended for you to be in debt.

Scripture Reference: Romans 13:8 (NKJV) 8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.  – You were not created to be in debt. You were created to be owners and managers.

  1. God’s system is learn to save for it, then get it. This does not include your house or a school loan. These two things are considered good debt.

How to Break Bad Spending Habits:

  1. Refuse the temptation to make hasty financial decisions. – Don’t make impulsive purchases. Don’t make quick decisions. To buy stuff for sale, buy it on sale.
  2. Understand the true nature of wealth. – Wealth is not things just you buy, it is a quality of life.
  3. Rich talks softly, wealth whispers, and broke
  4. Stop trying to look wealthy, instead, build wealth.

Scripture References: 3 John 2  (NKJV) 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.  – What good is it to buy a lot of stuff just to turn around and loose it? God wants you to be complete.

Ecclesiastes 5:12 (NKJV) 12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, Whether he eats little or much; But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep. – Those who are consumed with being rich will never have rest. Those who are content will be able to rest.

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” –Henry David Thoreau

  1. Stop spending more than you earn. – Act your wage.
  2. Drive that car until the wheels fall off.
  3. Studies show that 38% of people spend more than they earn.
  4. Also, studies show that half of Americans don’t have money to cover a $400 emergency if they needed to.
  5. You need to save enough money to pay at least 3 months of bills, to tide you over if an emergency.

Scripture Reference: Proverbs 22:7 (NKJV) 7 The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender. – Build up all this debt and you become a slave.

  1. Stop ignoring your bills. – Just because you throw it away, doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay it.

Scripture Reference: Psalm 37:21 (NKJV) 21 The wicked borrows and does not repay, But the righteous shows mercy and gives.  – If you create a debt, you have an obligation to repay it.

  1. You want to make sure you have a healthy credit score. Things happen and you don’t want to be in a situation where you go to buy that house and can’t.
  2. Do not use your credit cards like it is free money. – Realize that you will have to pay it back.
  3. The average household has at least $16,000 in credit card debt.

 

  1. Save today to have success for tomorrow
  2. Work should be optional, not mandatory. Lots of people can’t retire, because they were not good stewards when they were working.
  3. Don’t sacrifice your golden years trying to look like money

Scripture Reference: Genesis 41:47-49 (NKJV) 47 Now in the seven plentiful years the ground brought forth [a]abundantly. 48 So he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities; he laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded them. 49 Joseph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting, for it was immeasurable. – This is what financial people refer to as the Joseph Princple

The Joseph Principle

  • How much produce did Joseph instruct Egypt to reserve during the years of plenty? 20% or 1/5
    • How much of your monthly income should go towards savings? 20%
  1. Model Conscious Decisions in the Stewardship of Money 

 

  1. Your stewardship sets the standard for your successors

“It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.” –Robert Kiyosaki

 

  1. Our ancestors did so much more with less money than we have, because they knew how to save.
  2. Everyone should leave something that the next generations can draw from.

 

Scripture Reference: Proverbs 13:22 (NKJV) 22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.  – You ‘re supposed to leave a blessing to your children’s children.

 

  1. A good heart leads to good stewardship
  2. All this stuff starts in your heart.
  3. Don’t take financial advice from broke people.

Scripture References: Matthew 6:21 (NKJV) 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.  – Look in your checkbook and it will tell you where your heart is.

  1. Matthew 22:37-38 (NKJV) 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is thefirst and great commandment.;
  2. 2 Corinthians 9:7 (NKJV) 7 So leteach one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of [a]necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. – Give as your heart leads. Trust that;
  3. Luke 6:38 (NKJV) 38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” – If you give, God will give it back in ways that will blow your mind. God sometimes sends and assigns people to bless you.

 

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Wonder What God wants for Christmas?

Posted on December 4, 2018 by growintheword
By Darius Rucker

Old man playing Santa Claus
Blue in a town with old Jack Frost
Now he’s handing out candy canes and smiles for free
People scoring with their lists
Rushing around to buy those gifts that will
End up wrapped up underneath the tree
I’m sitting at this red light looking at a manger scene
Watching snowflakes kiss that baby
And it makes me think

I wonder what God wants for Christmas
Something that you can’t find in a store
Maybe peace on earth, no more empty seats in church
Might be what’s on His wishlist
I wonder what God wants for Christmas

What do you give someone
Who give His only Son
What if we believe in Him
Like He believes in us

I wonder what God wants for Christmas
What might put a smile on His face
Every bubble with no dust, the devil given up
Might be what’s on His wishlist

I wonder what God wants for Christmas
What kind of gift from you and me
More sister, more brother, more lovin’ one another
Yeah, I wonder, I wonder what God wants
By now we oughta know what God wants for Christmas
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