Weekly Focus

As we grow in our relationship with Jesus Christ, we must focus each day on His kingdom and spend time in His word, We must meditate on those things that create in us the fruits of God’s spirit so that His light will shine through us. We are to live our lives as examples for others to see Christ through us; not as the Pharisees, but by every living word of God as so demonstrated by our elder brother, Jesus The Christ.

This week’s focus: dwell in safety

Psalm 4:8 – In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety. (ESV)  
1  Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!

    You have given me relief when I was in distress.

    Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!

2 O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame?

    How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah

3 But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself;

    the Lord hears when I call to him.

4 Be angry, and do not sin;

    ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah

5 Offer right sacrifices,

    and put your trust in the Lord.

6 There are many who say, “Who will show us some

good?

    Lift up the light of your face upon us, O Lord!”

7 You have put more joy in my heart

    than they have when their grain and wine abound.

8 In peace I will both lie down and sleep;

    for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety. (ESV)

REMEMBER:

James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.  For as ambassadors of Christ, we must test ourselves daily to see whether we are in the faith. “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? ---unless indeed you fail to meet the test!” (II Corinthians 13:5, ESV)

“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh: but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit.” (Rom 8:5 KJV) “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” (Col. 3:1-2 ESV) For “Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.” (Psalm 119:114 KJV).

As always brethren remember:

----The faithful and the true ----                                        Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us. (I John 3:24 ESV)

Therefore brethren: Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." (Phil 4:8 KJV)  

Ephesians 6:10 -11 “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” (KJV)