This post is from Kirk’s Journal. I found Kirk’s blog just recently and I want to recommend it to you! In this post, Kirk L. Zehnder talks about a very important topic. MATTHEW 7:21-23: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of […]
FILIPINO EXPAT ENCOURAGEMENT NOTE IF YOU HAVE BEEN BLESSED, PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD TO YOUR FRIENDS Just key in “ptl2010.com” When you go through Isaiah 43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be […]
Father, You have told me not to be anxious but to bring my cares and worries to You with thanksgiving. You promised Your peace when I will do that. (Philippians 4:6-8) Those words are easy to quote when all seems well, but they are much harder to live when trials come, when babies are sick, […]
“The LORD keeps you from all harm and watches over your life.” Psalm 121:7 NLT God you are way beyond a sugar daddy, but your love is infinitely sweet! As we are found in Christ we are truly KEPT!
Pray. Then let it go. Don’t try and manipulate or force the outcome. Just trust God to open the right doors at the right time. Unknown The first thing you need to know about trusting God is that you are not to depend on your own understanding of the situation, nor of God. Proverbs 3:5 […]
No love is greater than giving one’s life for a friend. Jesus said this and by His giving of Himself on the cross, lived this. We also ought to love one another as much as we love ourselves. “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever […]
21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
22 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”
23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.25 For whoever wants to save their life[f] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.
28 “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
The words and music of this song written by two former General’s of The Salvation Army mean so much to me that I find myself somehow returning to it quite a lot. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s a simple tune with such true and earnest words to it