Category: Devotional

Hypocrites?

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Why do non-believers believe Christian are hypocrites?

When the initiation into to Christianity (so to speak) is as follows: To even enter into God kingdom, one must realize, they are never worthy in themselves. It is only on Jesus’s works alone, that will never change!

Charles Spurgeon said it perfectly:

“The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.”

 En Espanol: 

Por qué creen que los no creyentes cristianos son hipócritas?

 
Cuando la iniciación al cristianismo (por así decirlo) es la siguiente: hasta para entrar en el reino de Dios, uno debe darse cuenta, que nunca se digno en sí mismos. Sólo en Jesús está trabaja solo, eso nunca cambiará!
Charles Spurgeon lo dijo perfectamente:
 
” la primera conexión entre mi alma y Cristo no es Dios mío pero mi maldad, no es mi mérito pero mi miseria, no mis riquezas pero mi necesidad.”

Are You In A Spiritual Wilderness?

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Do you feel like you are in a spiritual wilderness or not sure where to turn or what to do?  This  devotional blessed me:

O Lord God, Thou knowest! Ezek. xxxvii. 3. Here is the response of faith. “Thou knowest!”—what a pillow for the heart to repose upon! “Thou knowest!”—what few but comprehensive words to sum up and express the heart’s difficulties and perplexities and trials. “Thou knowest!”—what an inexpressibly sweet resting-place in the midst of life’s tumultuous heavings; in the midst of a sea that knows no calm; in the midst of a scene in which tossings to and fro are the hourly history! What an answer they contain for every heart that can find no words to express its big emotions; for a heart whose sorrows are too deep for language to find its way to God! Oh, that they were ever uppermost in the soul, as the response to every difficulty in our path! They are God’s answer to everything we cannot fathom; God’s answer for our hearts to rest upon, and our lips to utter, when every way is hedged up so that we cannot pass. “O Lord God, thou knowest!” Rest here, believer. Lean thy soul on these words. Repose calmly on the bosom of thy God, and carry them with thee into every scene of life. “O Lord God, thou knowest.”—F. Whitfield.

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God Bless

Dennis Stauffer  (Founder/President and writer of DSI Ministries/Hands In Action)

Gary Green (Editor for DSI Ministries)

What Am I Worth To God? What Is My Value?

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Here is an analogy I once learned:

Take a brand new 100 dollar bill. Crumple it in your hand, then throw it on the floor and walk all over it, next look down and spit on it and spill a drink on it. I want you to treat the 100 dollar bill as bad as you can without destroying it. Now pick it up, wipe it off and then go to the store and ask the clerk how much that hundred dollar bill is worth? It is worth a 100 dollars, nothing has changed it.

Now take a Christian. Crush him, throw him on the ground and then walk all over him. Next, you can spit on him and denigrate him. As a Christian, he also can fall, come up short and never make the so-called mark. How much is he worth? He is worth the same as he was when Christ died for him, nothing has changed.

Remember, no matter what happens to you as a Christian, you are always the righteous of God, you have been saved and declared righteous by the King of Kings and nothing can ever change that. No matter how much you mess up in this world, just like the hundred dollars, your worth never changes in the eyes of the Savior. He died for you.

What if I never excepted Jesus?

If you never gave your life to Jesus or you have tried to live a religious life and trying to earn your way to heaven.

So if you are not sure: Ask this question: Am I going to heaven when I die? If you say: “I do not know” or “yes,I believe I am a good person!” BOTH answer will disqualify you!

Only Jesus paid for your sins at Calvary. You owed a sin debt to God, in which you could never pay. So in order for God to make you sinless and righteous, He became man (Jesus) and died for you. Your debt is paid, so all you need to do is to except Jesus gift to you. You just need to give your life to Him and ask:

“Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from you. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward you. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

Written by Dennis Stauffer

Edited by Gary Green

If you like our Post please “SHARE IT” on Facebook and Twitter! When you share this post, it helps this ministry and who knows your share, might bring someone, who you have been praying for into the Kingdom of God!

Also before you leave the website, look around the site. DSI/Hands Action is a missionary team who helps the poorest of the poor in Northern Guatemala. Please sign up for our newsletter on this website and also on Facebook. Thank you.

If DSI has blessed you, please consider becoming a Partner with us to help spread the gospel of Jesus Christ and be His Hands in Action in Guatemala and around the world with this teaching ministry.

Go to donation page and become a “missionary partner” with us. When you give! You do what I do, we are partner with the Lord in His service.

Unspotted

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A boat doesn’t sink because it is in the water; it sinks because the water get into it! – Billy Graham

Christians do not fail because they’re in the world but the world has gotten into them!

James 1:27  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.

Are You Waiting For God to Direct You?

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Are you waiting around for your ministry?  You might be called to your first work and not even realize it. Always remember, before God can use you in ministry, you must be usable. (not perfect)

Here is a word from the Lord:

Remember your great field of labor is yourself. That is your first task, the weeding, the planting, digging, pruning, bearing fruit. When that is done, I lead you out into other fields.

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me (Devotional)

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Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

If you find yourself beginning to love any pleasure better than your prayers. any book better than your Bible, any house better than God’s, any table better than the Lords’s, any person better than your Savior, any one better than your soul, a present indulgence better than the hope of Heaven – TAKE ALARM! (Guthrie)

The Word of Faith Prayer

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A Prayer and Confession of Faith,  

The Lords is my Shepherd, I shall not want.

The Lord is my light and my salvation, who shall I fear. 

The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid. 

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me and He shall supply all my needs according to His riches in Glory.

He also forgives all my iniquities and heals all my DISEASES.

He redeems my life from destruction. 

He will satisfies my mouth with good things. 

He will never leaves me or forsakes me. 

My job is to believe and God will perform His Word in my life. 

But we who seek the Lord, shall not lack any good thing. 

 For He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

and I with all the saints will be able to comprehend what is the width and length and the depth and height, to know the Love of Christ which passes knowledge; that I may be filled with all the fullness of God. 

The Bible declares; let the weak say I am strong. 

We now thank God who always leads me to triumph in Christ, because with men this is impossible, 

but with God all things are possible in my life, as I serve God with all of my heart and  life. 

The Lord declares; I will never leave you or forsake you, so we boldly say, The Lord is my helper,

I will not fear what man can do to me! 

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro through the whole earth to show Himself strong on the behalf of those who are loyal to Him. 

So I humble myself under the mighty power of God and in His good time He will honor me. 

So I can boldly say; I give all my worries and cares to God, for He cares what happens to me. 

Amen!     

Written by Dennis W Stauffer Jr through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God through out the years of serving him. 

 You have my permission to print and share this prayer with anyone who will be blessed. 

 

Helmet of Salvation (Rick Renner)

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I have been sharing this for weeks. Today found it in one of my devotionals, that I read every morning.  Friends do not let the devil or your traditions of  your Church steal from you!

If your salvation is not worn tightly around your mind like a helmet, the enemy will come to chop the multiple blessings of your salvation right out of your theology. He will try to hack away at your foundation, telling you that healing, deliverance, preservation, and soundness of mind were not really a part of Jesus’ redemptive work on the Cross. By the time the enemy is finished with your mind, the only blessing he will leave you with is Heaven!   (From Rick Renner Aug 4 Sparking Gem)