Commissioned

God displeased with with me when I knowingly disobeys His commandments. God “take pleasure” in me when I am obeying His Word, when I walk in the Spirit and when my worship is in spirit and in truth; no fluff, but genuinely from the heart. There is no excuse for me not serving God deliberately and joyfully. I can make a decision to serve God with my whole heart, mind and spirit; regardless of what is happening around me. It's my choice. Praise the Lord!

Repentance and separation from the sins of our culture for a disciple today take the disciple with a repented heart away from the draw of the immoral and works of Satan to seeking after righteousness and fellowship with God. When we prepare ourselves to worship Jesus in the Lord’s Supper we should do so by repenting of sins and remembering the words of our Lord and the purpose of His death, burial and resurrection. We should prepare to serve God with purity day by day submitting to His Word and walking in obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit.

When faced with “insurmountable odds,” we sometimes give up so easily when our faith in God is not where it should be. The characteristics of a disciple who retains a robust faith in the God of amazing breakthroughs and impossible solutions is one who lives in the realm of the supernatural where God resides. Leaving the natural, where Satan rules behind.

The enemy is at the heart of removing true worship to God. Unfortunately, some are snared in the plans of the enemy to tamper with our praise, worship and service to God by bringing in selfish desires, modernization, copycat rituals; removing the true and genuine fellowship with God. Jesus to the Samaritan woman that indeed the Father is seeking true worship, "But the time is coming--indeed it's here now--when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way." ) John 4:23. It is Satan's plan to enter into the heart of man to tamper with God's design for the church’s image in the community, to redesign worship and to redesign the preaching. We can be innovative and still be faithful to God’s heart when we are led by the Spirit of God in our praise, worship and service to God.

My personal worship moves toward what it should be daily. The more I thing of God and His consistent faithfulness to being the "I AM", I can never praise Him enough. I join with the angels and give continual praise. Holy, Holy, Holy.

Only some of the Jews chose to return to Jerusalem when given the opportunity because they were homesick and were not comfortable living away from their homeland. Those who stayed were comfortable where they were and chose not to return to rebuild their life in the old homeland. Only some answer Jesus’ call to follow him on his journey to a radically different kind of lifestyle and mission, because like the Jews others want to remain in the lifestyle that they are used to and are enjoying, This they'd rather do than to enter a life that is unknown to them. The characteristics of true disciples is a humble and obedient servant to the commands of God.

Peter and Jude has brought a who new and different revelation on the love of the Father for His children and the love He requires of us. Jude has shown us that God has made it possible for us to be protected in our spiritual journey so that we can truly love, worship and praise Him.

Like He does in positioning angels to protect us, He also will position them to strengthen and uphold us when the enemy sends temptation our way. God will rejoice over us because of His pure love for us. We will be presented to God by the sacrificial Lamb that was instrumental in bringing reconciliation of man to God. We are blood washed and saved by the blood of the sacrificial Lamb.

"keep yourself in God's love" means to consistently stay in obedience to the word of God. So every command that tells us to love, worship, praise, commune, etc. with our God; these keep us in God's love. To strengthen my relationship with God I do all that was just mentioned and spend time fasting. More time alone with Him would help bring me closer to Him Amen!

God make us responsible to "build up" your own Christian faith because it is built and strengthened as we read the word of God. As we read the word of God we come to know God, who He is, and our relationship with Him grows To maintain this, on a regular basis communion and dwelling in the Word of God is the answer. To build up the relationship, more dedication to the presence of God must be foremost.

Of the three privilege, I am most captivated by the fact that Jesus Christ the King of Kings has set a guard around me, to keep me in all ways meeting His will. This is special to me because as I carry out God will I can rest knowing that in every effort His protection will carry me through. This builds my faith in a faithful, mighty God.

A belief in Christ's return and coming judgment gives me hope. An underemphasis on Christ's return cause a Christian to live his life without the blessed hope in view.

Our culture resist the ideas of sin and repentance because it lacks full acceptance of such sin will lead to eternal damnation. There can be no salvation without repentance. There was a time when repentance was difficult for me. It was difficult because I enjoyed the sin even though it was damaging to my body.

According to Peter, Christ's coming is seen to be delayed because God measures time different than we do. This teach us that God's ways are higher than ours and in the time to Christ coming He is making a way for many to hear the gospel message so that none would perish.

It is important for us to understand what it means to "perish" because there is no return from the point of perishing. You are lost forever. These truths are under-emphasized in our day because the coming of Christ i not seen as imminent, at any moment. Many have become slothful. We can get an understanding of judgment into proper balance in our churches and teaching by a proper study of the Word of God and listening to those with revelatory knowledge.

Reminders are so important for Christians because they keep us in a perpetual examination mode and keep us on the right path. I remind myself of God's promises by meditating on His Word. I remind others by bringing the Word of God into our conversation.

Open sin is spiritually dangerous, and some churches have stopped talking about it because they want to be welcoming to all and they want to be relevant to the climate of society; but what they're really doing is masquerading as Christians but exhibiting hypocrisy.

Flagrant, defiant sin can enslave a person through continued participation; the person's conscience becomes seared and eventually sees no wrong in what they are doing. The way out of these sins is repentance and transformation with a renewed mind, the Holy Spirit working in the soul of the individual. We can truly love the sinner and hate the sin by embracing them into the fellowship and teaching them the path to righteousness. We can steer clear of a quick judgmental attitude toward those who sin by exhibiting/demonstrating agape love.

Sexual sin deny Christ because it denies the very teaching of Christ. Christians have become complacent about overlooking persistent sexual sin it in our culture for fear of appearing to be judging someone else's rights to live as they will.

We "must contend for the faith" to bring the pure Word of God to the people of God and to those who are coming into the faith so that they may know the gospel that was entrusted to the Apostles. The danger in not challenging the doctrines of false teachers is a doctrine that is perpetuated from generation to generation' and i every succeeding generation will move farther and farther from the truth and further and further into sin. The danger inherent in challenging false teachers is not doing it from a place of love. and making them an enemy instead of having them accept truth. We can keep the correct balance by speaking truth with love and allowing the Holy Spirit to lead the confrontation.

The Scriptures, "breathed" by God draws us to God because we too are of the breath of God. God "breath" is so important in helping us to understand Scripture because the Scripture is of God. Our understanding of the Scripture is an understanding of God. The Spirit of God gives us understanding of the Scripture.

A person can be speaking as God is speaking, he speaks what he hears from God. The image of the ship being moved by the wind help you understand this because the ship is visibly moving by an invisible force of the wind.

The Old and New Testaments act as "a light shining in a dark place" because there are numerous questions of life, present and future, I would not understand if it were not for the scriptures. The darkness represents ignorance of the true fact. Whereas the light gives full understanding through the Spirit of God for my growth and development.

Our culture avoid talking about death because of its finality away from family and friends. Describing your earthly body as a "tent" might be considered as freeing and motivating because you see it as eventually an outer garment to be cast aside before entering a more permanent one. The significance of Peter referring to his death as a "departure" or "exodus" gives us an understanding of his thoughts towards death and that it is only a transition from one place to another.

Christian character is an essential indicator of being saved or rescued by Christ because it shows a life that has been renewed and transformed; no longer gravitating towards the old ways. The Biblical assurance of salvation that can be offered to the fruitless, barren "believer" is found in Acts 2:21, 'But everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.'