Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

3.25-Is it right to be involved in trying to affect your own community? Yes It is right to speak bold truth to powerful leaders as a follower of Jesus Christ.  We are called to be bold, fearless and courageous as disciples of Jesus.  I am against all people who are rich being selfish against the poor. We do this with our salt and light conversation.  We do this by investing our time and money for those we believe in who serve in our democratic offices. My mother was a believer in Jesus. in America, greatest country ever. in Texas, largest until Alaska and best always. in Fannin county, best in the nation, home of Sam Rayburn, speaker of the house. in her cousin, Robert Dale, ran for county clerk, she handed out his cards door to do. Followers of Jesus would normally stand up for that which they believe is good for children and what is good for the poor. This is normal life for a follower of Jesus to be active in their community John 19. 11  Jesu...

3.25- If you are blessed with a healthy body and mind and are passionate about what you do in life you go, go and go. Yesterday my wife and I discussed going 80 mph in our 50's and 50 mph in our 60's and 40mph in our 70's. We still enjoy being involved in community activities and doing many things we have done for the fifty years of our marriage but things are slower now. My nation has been impacted by the resurrection power of God. My parents, Wayne and Cora Sue Wishard lived and died with the belief that after death there would be a reunion with those who had moved on to a "better place". That "better place" set the life style of my grandparents on both sides of my family. Most of my uncles, aunts and cousins were very active workers for Jesus in the community. From sitting up with sick people and cooperating to get hay baled before rain or joining hands to build a barn to loaning and sharing farm equipment this was the normal ...

3.27- Devo170324 Love is shown by behavior much more than words.   Words are cheap. "I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day." I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. The eye is a better pupil, more willing than the ear; Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear, And the best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds, For to see a good put in action is what everybody needs. I can soon learn how to do it if you will let me see it done; I can watch your hand in action, but your tongue too fast may run. And the lectures you deliver may be very wise and true, But I'd rather get my lesson by observing what you do. For I may misunderstand you and the high advice you give, But there is no misunderstanding how you act and how you live. When I see a deed of kindness, I am eager to be kind. When a weaker brother stumbles, and a strong man st...

3.24- Hebrews 11. 17  By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18  even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” [ c ] 19  Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death. 20  By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future. 21  By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff. 22  By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones. 23  By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. 24  By faith Moses, when he had g...

3.23- Hebrews 11. 11  And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she [ b ] considered him faithful who had made the promise. 12  And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. 13  All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. 14  People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15  If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16  Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

3.22- Hebrews 11. 7  By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith. 8  By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9  By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10  For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.  

3.21- Hebrews 11. 11  Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. 2  This is what the ancients were commended for. 3  By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. 4  By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead. 5  By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” [ a ] For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. 6  And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

3.20- John 10. 27  My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28  I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29  My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all [ c ] ; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30  I and the Father are one.”

3.19- Arrogant religious "know it alls " are fools whose mouth is their undoing. They don't think God uses people who work on the Sabbath. They think a child born blind must have sinful parents or must have been born steeped in sin. Their view of religion is to judge where others are wrong. When God opens the eyes of our hearts, by His mercy and grace. We know less than we knew before because we become more modest before God, one thing we do know is that we were blind but now we see. God help us to concentrate on turning on lights instead of cursing the darkness. John 9. John 9. 13  They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. 14  Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. 15  Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.” 16  Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does n...