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It’s all God Part Four
Revelation 4:10-11 New International Version (NIV) 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say: 11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.” Someday God will place a crown on our head for all the works He has done through us, and we like the Elders will refuse it and lay it at His feet. Wait a minute God. Was it not you who gave us life, breath and strength? You created all things and even after I sinned you provided salvation, cleansed me and choose me. It was you who anointed me, put the words in my mouth and did the work before me, and now you want to share your glory with me. Who am I? No Lord take your crown, your glory, and let me but worship at your feet. That is more than I deserve to do. Romans 8:17 New International Version (NIV) 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. What a God we serve. Satan said: Genesis 3:5 New International Version (NIV)5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” God made us like Himself. Righteous, Holy, and shares His glory and thrown with us. Humility will promote us, but arrogance will be our downfall. Let God promote and lift you up. Pastor Jeff Lane
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It’s all God Part three
Deuteronomy 17:15 New International Version (NIV) 15 be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite. Once again God chooses and what is not of God shall not stand. Matthew 12:25 King James Version (KJV) 25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: If we put somebody or we choose ourselves we are divided and against God, and yet I see many a person in offices they don’t belong in. Why would you choose to be an instrument of satan to work against God for your own selfish ambition? Remember where there is selfish ambition there is every evil practice. Why would any Christian choose evil when humility could win the day? Remember David and what God said you look at the outside, but I know the heart. God knows your heart better than you do. Better He lift you up than your selfish ambition be your downfall. God be for you who can be against you, but if He is against you kiss your butt goodbye. Pastor Jeff Lane It’s all God Part two
Hebrews 5:4-6 New International Version (NIV) 4 And no one takes this honor on himself, but he receives it when called by God, just as Aaron was. 5 In the same way, Christ did not take on himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father.” 6 And he says in another place, “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.” You don’t choose the position or take it on yourself God does. Seek Him first, not position, and He will lift you up. Humility is key. If you think you are something you are not enough. You can’t stand against the enemy alone. You must stand with God. No amount of preparation substitutes for God. You don’t take the glory upon yourself He must bestow it. Pastor Jeff Lane Devo It’s all God Part one
1 Corinthians 3:5-7 King James Version (KJV) 5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. It does not take long in ministry to learn it’s all God. You are not everything and a bag of potato chips. It is not your work, but God’s that gets the job done. I have known many evangelists who seem to have it together and worked hard but never seem to move forward. It’s not by might, nor by power but by His Spirit. Simply put, God gives the increase. It’s important we answer the call but God chooses and does the work. Never forget you’re the tool, God is the skill. You were forged for the work but He does it. Give Him the glory!!! Pastor Jeff Lane Devo Our God He is Holy
Ephesians 5:11-12 New International Version (NIV) 11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 1 Thessalonians 5:22 King James Version (KJV) 22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. Leviticus 10:3 New International Version (NIV) 3 Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke of when he said: “‘Among those who approach me I will be proved holy; in the sight of all the people I will be honored.’” Aaron remained silent. We serve a Holy God and he expects us to be a Holy people. We must be Holy to approach Him, so He has made us Holy as He is Holy through Christ Jesus. When Nadab and Abihu approached God in an unholy manner God would not allow their father or brothers to mourn their death, because they dishonored God. When we who are saved sin, we become a laughingstock to satan, demons and the world. Exodus 32:25 Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies. It is because of our sin they satan laughs and mocks us. It is because of the sin of God’s people the world mocks God. I often have people ask me if this or that was sin and is it ok? They will argue that drinking or some other sin is ok, but the Biblt yells us not only don’t sin but avoid the appearance of sin. If you have doubt or must ask don’t it become sin for you. In fact, it is a sin to mention what the world does in darkness. Don’t let careless words fall to the ground or you to may have evil desires in your heart the very rout of sin. These careless words may entice your children to want to try sin. I heard Christian parents bragging about their glory days of sin, but when their children started doing the same things they were petrified. Their son said dad I want to have fun too. You see dad and mom were still living in the sin of their past. They were proud of their exploits. This too is sin. Sin dishonors God and is a shameful thing and yet they were proud of what they did and were bosting of it even though they would not think of doing it now they enticed their children into trying it out. Don’t even mention it or the appearance of it. Bring glory honor to God in your home not your past life. Be a shamed of what you were and the children will notice. You see they will catch more from your life than what you teach them. Live it. Pastor Jeff Lane Devo Seeking God Part 2
Luke 5:12-13 King James Version (KJV) 12 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him. In this scripture this man seeking Jesus knew Jesus could heal him but was not sure He would heal him. He went to Jesus and he quickly found out Jesus was willing. Many people just don’t know Jesus is willing. He longs to set us free. He loves us and wants us healthy. They just don’t know the character of Jesus. They doubt Him. Seek Him, get into His word and pray. Know Him. He came to live in us, so we might know Him. He took the beating to set us free from sickness. He must have wanted us healed very much. Pastor Jeff Lane Devotional How much of the power of God worketh in you Part 5
John 15:4-5 New International Version (NIV) 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. Romans 11:17-21 New International Version (NIV) 17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18 do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” 20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. Gardenias and Jesus. Gardenias are a flowering bush we have in our area but they are not native to here. They have a strong beautiful smell that fills the whole area around them and I wanted one for my yard. I went to the local nursery and as we were looking at them I noticed they all had a big knot at their base. I asked the nursery worker about the knot. He said they could not grow here because the root would get corrupted by the things in our soil and die, so they used a local bush that was incorruptible and grafted the gardenia bush in into it so we could have this sweet smelling flower bush. I wanted to jump and praise God for his words. We have been grafted into Christ, the incorruptible root, so we could once again take on the nature of God and release the aroma of God almighty of whom we were made in the image of. Jesus is the incorruptible root, sickness and disease cannot harm us. Wow! What a picture of what God has done for us. We partake of the nourishing sap of the Holy Spirit. Pastor Jeff Lane Devotional How much of the power of God worketh in you Part 3
Genesis 1:24-28 (NIV) 24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” WE keep coming back to this law. Kind produces after kind. We were made in God’s image to rule. We were given His constitution to rule as He ruled. It was sin that corrupted us and we have been dying to that image ever since until Christ. If you break the laws of physics destruction and chaos follow. Look at the atomic bomb. We broke God’s law and destruction and chaos followed. Christ came to fulfill the law in us so that we might be returned to our nature of God’s image again. Born of incorruptible seed. Our DNA was corrupted though sin. The Hebrew says Adam if you eat of the tree and break my laws dying you will dying. Dying spiritually, you will die physically. From generation to generation we become more spiritually corrupted so we become more physically corrupted and more disease is passed along. Through Jesus all things were made John 1:1-5. Hebrews 1:3 says all things are held together by His powerful word, but when that was corrupted chaos followed. Think about that. Pastor Jeff Lane |
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