Daily Focus

As much as sin can carry with it a lasting effecting that tarnishes a family righteousness can grant an even greater blessing.   This blessing can affect the generation after us just like sin can. This blessing can carry deep in our lineage. Seeking and keeping righteousness is worth every moment of time and ever drop of sweat. Let this be your legacy. Sin is not worth the corruption it brings to your life nor the effect it has on your family. Bless them by striving for what is better, righteousness. “No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.   I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. 8 Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in ...

The New Testament shows God’s desire to protect His plan for the family from our sins. God truly wants what is best for us. Sin is not the answer. God wants us to stay married and stay bound to one another. God wants the plan to stay the same, that is one man and one woman for life. We are the ones that want to pervert it. Sin has been sin and will always be sin. It is the same sins that brought the flood that plague the world today. There are a simple security system and an insurance policy that can guarantee that you can avoid the world and stay true to God’s plan for your family. It is to follow His word. “The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who [a]made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall ...

We have protection. If you want it. We buy insurance, guns, security alarms, and we pay taxes for first responders so that we can be protected from the harms this world has in store for us. Sin is the issue, and sin is the one plague that can destroy you with one choice. God setup statues and laws for the family to protect it from the evil desires that reside in us all. If you choose to follow them, we can be safe from the horrific disasters that sin wants to impart on the family. ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon him. ‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death. The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.   If a man lies with his ...

The family God setup continued to deteriorate as time went on. The same plague haunted those families that haunts ours.   If we let this plague of sin go unchecked and refuse to inoculate ourselves against it, then we too will become the rotted poor sad reflection of God’s real intent. Do not laugh at or take the  power of sin in your life and family lightly. “that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil co...

There is one thing that interrupted God’s plan. It is the same thing that can destroy families today, sin. Sin reared its ugly head and caused great turmoil in the family. First, we see life become harder because of the sin of Adam and Eve. Then we see sin continue its work in Cain as he deals murderously with his brother Able. We need to keep in mind that sin cannot only destroy individuals it can destroy any blessing God gives us by causing us to reject God and His blessings. “Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.” Genesis 4:8 NKJV

God had a plan for man. He created all things in Genesis, chapter one. There we were, man and woman, in a perfect place with a simple work to do. He prepared a beautiful place for a man to be fruitful and multiply. It was not an accident that God created the earth and then placed its maintenance in the hands of a man and woman. Take time today to read Genesis chapter one and think about God’s plan for the family.   “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the ...

        If we do not take full   advantage of   the   opportunity,   God gives us   to grow and be transformed in Him fully, we   will die. We will walk away because of our   weak  faith. We will be   entangled   in sin again. We will find fault in God’s ways and in delusional thinking assume we have a better grasp of things. Then we will die spiritually. All because we were not humble enough to   say,   “I need more .”   All because we grew satisfied with where we were and the   lifestyle   that brought with it. Please do not fail to   improve   or continue to grow in Him. “Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of  resurrection  of the dead, and of eternal judgment...

       We gather together as living stones on the first day of the week to offer up the reasonable and excitable sacrifice of worship to God. We remember Him. We praise Him. We give back from what He has given us. We teach and learn from His word. We offer up prayers to Him. We do this for Him. In the middle of all this, we teach, admonish, encourage, fellowship, and grow together. Why would you want to miss? “not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.” Hebrews 10:25 NKJV

       We need to understand we come together on the first day of the week to worship God. We gather to partake of the Lords Supper. We are here for that reason. Not for ourselves. Although I have not heard of the atrocities that we see in Corinth concerning the Lord Supper take place today, others are being committed that are just as bad. Don’t forget that. You want to have a strong faith, pure religion and are growing in Christ take remembering the Lord seriously. Take God and His word seriously. Your soul depends on it. “ Therefore when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper.   For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others; and one is hungry and another is drunk.   What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in ? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you. For I received from the Lord that which...

     Yes, grow up in Christ. The things of children seem wonderful to them. For them, they are. They do not get to enjoy nor see or even understand all the great wonders and blessings that surround them every day. They are too young still and can only grasp what is right in front of them. Not only are they naive to all the bountiful blessings they are naive to all the sin and evil as well.   As Christians, we are to take off this childlike tunnel vision and embrace all the riches that are in God. This can only be done by maturing in Him. If you are not growing in Him, you are missing out on so much. When we do grow in Him, we can easily avoid the snares of the devil and celebrate all the great things in Christ. “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.   For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskil...

     We need to be exhorted . I know I do. Oh, come on, don’t say you don’t. You know you're not perfect. You know you need it to . Why do we need it so much? We are still living in human bodies. Faith comes by hearing. When we grow weary or begin to meander amongst sinful things, we need to hear the word of God, the voice of the shepherd, so that we can come back.   There are people out there that are false. They proclaim a whole different message we need to be exhorted to avoid such things. We need to be exhorted to exercise our senses.   The exhortation is not bad . We make it bad by what attitude we use to respond to it. Children of God can exhort and be exhorted in Christ. “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17 NKJV “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” 1 John 4:1 NKJV “I charge you th...

     If we  add to our faith the wrong things, like  elements of the world, then we will not have success. T hat would be the key to failure. We will become an awful child of God. We will become shortsighted, even to blindness. We will forget the most wonderful things that have ever happened to us, the forgiveness of sins in Christ. How horrific of a situation that would be to be in . Avoid it. Do what is right in God’s eyes and be handsomely rewarded for it. “For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.” 2 Peter 1:9 NKJV

     If we build up our faith with the things God asked us to add to our faith, then we will reap wonderful blessings. We will never stumble. We will never be barren n or unfruitful in the Lord. Sounds like the key to success to me. I hope it does for you as well. Don’t be afraid to grow and add to your faith the things of God. “For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;” 2 Peter 1:8-10 NKJV

       Raw faith is the foundation of our new spiritual selves in Christ. We need to add beautiful things to our faith. These things that we add on to our faith like building blocks are God-given , God appreciated, and make us more like His Son. We need to add kindness, virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, and love.   What have you been aiding to your faith? “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.” 2 Peter 1:5-7 NKJV

     We are to worship God in spirit and truth. Truth being His word. Our spirit is what makes us up. Our spirit is all that we have. Who cares what that sounds like or what our best may amount to, to the ears and eyes of the world. God asked for all of us. Lip service will not suffice. Man-made concepts will cause our worship to come up short in God’s eyes. Be mindful of this. Give Him all you have. Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:   ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ” Matthew 15:7-9 NKJV

    We show our purity in  religion   through  our actions. Just like our works are proof of our Faith,  those  same works prove our pure religion. Take care of those that are alone in this world like orphans and widows.  Be free from the wanting lusts of this world.  It is an easy concept. We need to  execute  it.  “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” James 1:27 NKJV

       We need to be careful that we do not sell our soul for worldly things. Although it seems impossible that anyone would conceive of doing such an atrocity, it happens every day. Sometimes even God’s children fall into the snare of pursuing instant gratification or earthly plunders. It's easy to become what those around you are. Watch your ways carefully and be mindful of your choices. Make sure every step and decision brings you closer to God and not further away. “For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16:25-26 NKJV