Daily Focus

We have passed on when the soul is has left the body. We often weep bitterly over this event. In Christ, it just means it is our time to go rest in Abrahams bosom until the day we get to go home to the place Christ has prepared for us. It is not an end; it is the beginning of the rest of our lives. It is a day to look forward to.   We do not die in Christ we live on for eternity in the best place ever given to man, Heaven. Use your body to reach this goal. It is temporary and will return to dust, back to the earth it came from. Then when your earthen vessel gives way your soul will go on  to a  better place. “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” James 2:26 NKJV “And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.” Genesis 35:18 NKJV “In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you we...

We need to be concerned with the physical needs of others. Not the wants but the needs are what we need to pay attention to. We show our faith by doing such. We also reach the souls of others by paying attention to such things. Let us not forget it is because of Christ, we no longer focus on the flesh but the soul. The world, however, is only concerned about the flesh. Get their attention by meeting their needs and then save their soul by giving them the Word. “What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?” James 2:14-16 NKJV

Scars branded Paul as a bondservant of Christ. He earned these visible markings by his fidelity to Christ. Although our bodies may limit us, they can be the best showing of our faith. The way we live, act and use our earthen vessel are the scenes of Christianity that the world sees on daily baizes that teaches them about God before they hear His word. “From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.” Galatians 6:17 NKJV “Are they ministers of Christ?—I speak as a fool—I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in p...

We have limitations to this body. They are limitations we all wish we could avoid. This body is not our eternal home. This body will want the fleshly gratification that this world offers. This body is limited by its mear design is subject to illness and death. We wish it weren’t, but it is. We can’t avoid. We can embrace the reality of it and make the best of it. “So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 5:6-8 NKJV   “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.   For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.” Romans 7:18-19 NKJV “Yet I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fel...

Paul avoided becoming a castaway by disciplining his body.   If we discipline ourselves, we can prevent the same result. We learn a lot from this simple verse. We discover we can discipline our fleshly selves. We learn we can bring it into the subject to our will. We learn that if we don’t, we will become disqualified to share the word as well as for Heaven. The words "bring" and "discipline" in this verse helps us grasp that this is a process that requires work. We can do it. We need to do it. It’s worth our eternal soul to do it. Will you discipline yourself to be the person of God, God wants you to be? “But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.” 1   Corinthians 9:27 NKJV

You will struggle to be a Christian if you are unwilling to be a voluntary slave to God and others.  "Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Him, saying, “Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask.” And He said to them, “What do you want Me to do for you?” They said to Him, “Grant us that we may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on Your left, in Your glory.” But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to Him, “We are able.”So Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the baptism I am baptized with you will be baptized; but to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared.” And when the ten heard it, they began to be greatly displeased with James and John. But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, “You know that those who are considere...