Titus 1:14-16 (AMP)
15 To the pure [in heart and conscience] all things are pure, but to the defiled and corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are defiled and polluted.
16 They profess to know God [to recognize, perceive, and be acquainted with Him], but deny and disown and renounce Him by what they do; they are detestable and loathsome, unbelieving and disobedient and disloyal and rebellious, and [they are] unfit and worthless for good work (deed or enterprise) of any kind.
2 Corinthians 11:2-4 (NLT)
2 For I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God himself. I promised you as a pure bride[*] to one husband—Christ.
3 But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent.
4 You happily put up with whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different kind of Spirit than the one you received, or a different kind of gospel than the one you believed.
[*]Footnotes: [2 Corinthians 11:2 Greek a virgin]
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
A Pure Heart...A Good Clear Conscience...NOW
I Timothy 1:5
Whereas the object and purpose of your instruction and charge is love, which springs from a pure heart and a good (clear) conscience and sincere (unfeigned) faith.
Whereas the object and purpose of your instruction and charge is love, which springs from a pure heart and a good (clear) conscience and sincere (unfeigned) faith.
May You Excel & Overflow In Love...Pure...
Thessalonians 3:12-13 (AMP)
12 And may the Lord make you to increase and excel and overflow in love for one another and for all people, just as we also do for you,
13 So that He may strengthen and confirm and establish your hearts faultlessly pure and unblamable in holiness in the sight of our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) with all His saints (the holy and glorified people of God)! Amen, (so be it)!
12 And may the Lord make you to increase and excel and overflow in love for one another and for all people, just as we also do for you,
13 So that He may strengthen and confirm and establish your hearts faultlessly pure and unblamable in holiness in the sight of our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) with all His saints (the holy and glorified people of God)! Amen, (so be it)!
May His Glory Be Manifested In Purity...A Prayer
Philippians 1:9-11 (AMP)
9 And this I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more and extend to its fullest development in knowledge and all keen insight [that your love may display itself in greater depth of acquaintance and more comprehensive discernment],
10 So that you may surely learn to sense what is vital, and approve and prize what is excellent and of real value [recognizing the highest and the best, and distinguishing the moral differences], and that you may be untainted and pure and unerring and blameless [so that with hearts sincere and certain and unsullied, you may approach] the day of Christ [not stumbling nor causing others to stumble].
11 May you abound in and be filled with the fruits of righteousness (of right standing with God and right doing) which come through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One), to the honor and praise of God [that His glory may be both manifested and recognized].
9 And this I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more and extend to its fullest development in knowledge and all keen insight [that your love may display itself in greater depth of acquaintance and more comprehensive discernment],
10 So that you may surely learn to sense what is vital, and approve and prize what is excellent and of real value [recognizing the highest and the best, and distinguishing the moral differences], and that you may be untainted and pure and unerring and blameless [so that with hearts sincere and certain and unsullied, you may approach] the day of Christ [not stumbling nor causing others to stumble].
11 May you abound in and be filled with the fruits of righteousness (of right standing with God and right doing) which come through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One), to the honor and praise of God [that His glory may be both manifested and recognized].
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Blameless...Barefoot & Holy...Purified...
Today, are you standing in the presence of a Holy God?
Then remove your shoes and walk as a “barefoot priest” before your God!
There are many people who attend the churches throughout the world that act as though they have no responsibilities to live holy and godly lives. I have spent my whole life in the churches across America and I have never heard so many people confess unrighteousness and impurity as a state of their life in Christ Jesus as I do today. Truly this is a sign of the apostasy where men turn away from the sound doctrine of redemption in Christ Jesus and take on their own identities and those, which men and the powers of darkness would impose upon them. If our souls have not been washed clean in the blood of Jesus now then when will they be? If our spiritual garments are not spotless now when will they be? If we have not been made a new creation now then when will we be? If we are not the holy and righteous people of God now then when will we be? The cry of the old gospel song rings out today for all who will hear:
"Are you washed in the blood;
In the soul cleansing blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless?
Are they whiter than snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?"
There is an invitation now for you to meet with the Lord and to have an ever increasing intimacy with Him, but you must believe His report and accept His salvation for there is no other way to come into His presence. Today the Lord says to you: "be holy even as I am holy."
(1 Peter 1:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2)
Then remove your shoes and walk as a “barefoot priest” before your God!
There are many people who attend the churches throughout the world that act as though they have no responsibilities to live holy and godly lives. I have spent my whole life in the churches across America and I have never heard so many people confess unrighteousness and impurity as a state of their life in Christ Jesus as I do today. Truly this is a sign of the apostasy where men turn away from the sound doctrine of redemption in Christ Jesus and take on their own identities and those, which men and the powers of darkness would impose upon them. If our souls have not been washed clean in the blood of Jesus now then when will they be? If our spiritual garments are not spotless now when will they be? If we have not been made a new creation now then when will we be? If we are not the holy and righteous people of God now then when will we be? The cry of the old gospel song rings out today for all who will hear:
"Are you washed in the blood;
In the soul cleansing blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless?
Are they whiter than snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?"
There is an invitation now for you to meet with the Lord and to have an ever increasing intimacy with Him, but you must believe His report and accept His salvation for there is no other way to come into His presence. Today the Lord says to you: "be holy even as I am holy."
(1 Peter 1:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2)
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The PURE In Heart...Great Rewards
Proverbs 22:11 (AMP)
He who loves purity and the pure in heart and who is gracious in speech--because of the grace of his lips will he have the king for his friend.
He who loves purity and the pure in heart and who is gracious in speech--because of the grace of his lips will he have the king for his friend.
The Pure Life IS The Perfect Life -- Blessed
Proverbs 16:1-3 (AMP)
1 THE PLANS of the mind and orderly thinking belong to man, but from the Lord comes the [wise] answer of the tongue.
2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirits (the thoughts and intents of the heart).
3 Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.
Psalm 19:7-9 (AMP)
7 The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the [whole] person; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure and bright, enlightening the eyes.
9 The [reverent] fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the ordinances of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Psalm 24:3-5 (AMP)
3 Who shall go up into the mountain of the Lord? Or who shall stand in His Holy Place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted himself up to falsehood or to what is false, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
1 THE PLANS of the mind and orderly thinking belong to man, but from the Lord comes the [wise] answer of the tongue.
2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirits (the thoughts and intents of the heart).
3 Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.
Psalm 19:7-9 (AMP)
7 The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the [whole] person; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure and bright, enlightening the eyes.
9 The [reverent] fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the ordinances of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Psalm 24:3-5 (AMP)
3 Who shall go up into the mountain of the Lord? Or who shall stand in His Holy Place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted himself up to falsehood or to what is false, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
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