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Devo What if ? Part 2 1 Peter 3:1 New International Version (NIV)3 Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives,
Ephesians 5:22-24 New International Version (NIV) 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. What if wives submitted to husbands? Husbands would be saved. Marriages would be saved, restored, and be what God designed them to be. There is more... Pastor Jeff Lane Devo What if Part 1
James 4:1-10 New International Version (NIV) Submit Yourselves to God 4 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. I had a dream last night and I saw the world and people fighting, arguing, wars, and murders. Then God spoke to me and said; “What if people learn how to submit to one another. What if wives submitted to husbands, children to parents, people to governing authorities, and all to Me? What if? Well for starters James said the devil would flee from us. We would have authority. Fighting would stop. We would gain control over our evil desires. Sin would no longer to exist in our lives. Motives would change and prayers would get answered. Our relationship with God and man would be restored. God would lift us up to the position He created us for. Not bad for a start. Pastor Jeff Lane Devo Reflecting His Image Part 5
John 8:31 New International Version (NIV) 31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. John 8:19 Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” Matthew 7:23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ Unless you hold to or obey the teaching of Christ you don’t belong to Him. Many know of Him, but few are known by Him. Pastor Jeff Lane Devo Reflecting His Image Part 4
John 8:44 New International Version (NIV) 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. This is what Jesus told the Jews who were arguing with Him. They were children of the Devil, because they acted like him. We need to be honest with ourselves. Jesus said you will know them by their fruits. Who do you look like to others? Do you lie and argue? We can murder someone with our tongue easier than with a gun. Do we hold to the truth of God or do we have our own truth? What’s in your nature? Pastor Jeff Lane Devo Reflecting His Image Part 3
Hebrews 1:3 New International Version (NIV) 3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. Here is a perfect verse to show what we are talking about. Jesus radiates God’s glory and power of His word. We are to grow in relationship to Christ until we radiate His image, but How? Just like Becky and I. We spend so much time together we begin to think, talk, walk, and act alike. Pastor Jeff Lane |
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