F4S: Live and think well. Be wise and stay well spiritually!

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Live and think well. Be wise and stay well spiritually!

If your gift is serving others, serve them well. Be spiritually well all the time cuz way too many people are not. Our condition is related to our choices of course. 


Hear it well (the Bible Message), observe it lived.. follow the Leader (cap) with a WELL church cuz a spiritually sick or religious one (same thing) is a real pain to endure!

W - ord (first a believer, a healthy church or a well group is loving Jesus and God's Book. ) 

E - vangelistic (an outgrowth of health)

L - oving (up first, with a worshipping church, then outwards)

L - earning (discipleship is important church) 

“The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.” — D.L. Moody

Words found in the flyleaf of his Bible. 

Indeed pray to the Author (at least briefly) alone and from the heart, or before you together as a group study the Bible. 

The illumination comes from Him. The Spirit will help you grasp, understand see how to apply and who doesn't want to understand what God via the original human writers meant to say to his original hearers. What was this audience dealing with at the time. 

What's really smart is getting right with the Lord today, early before the toughest years arrive. The Apostle Paul warned that the last days would bring a marked increase in false teaching. “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons” (1 Timothy 4:1). 

These last days are described as “perilous times” because of the increasingly evil character of man and people who actively “oppose the truth” (2 Timothy 3:1–9; see also 2 Thessalonians 2:3).

Our time in a well church is important, and leaving to go witness out in the world is also important. 

All the forces of darkness, (and there indeed are some), cannot stop what God has ordained. 

"For the Lord of hosts has decided and planned, and who can annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?” Isaiah 14:27 amp



It has to do with work, but ask yourself.. Am I pretty upbeat about serving the Lord and other people... or am I like many out there who have the gift of complaining?

You know how many people seem so content with finding fault—like at church and all the things the believers are doing wrong in their estimation.

But people with the gift of serving see a need and then meet that need because they want to help out.

Has God given you this spiritual gift? What a wonderful gift it is. So, if you’re checking on your neighbors and praying for them, that is great, and if you’re picking up the groceries for them, that is great too. Because whatever you’re doing to serve, it matters.

The Bible says, “Do not neglect the spiritual gift you received” (1 Timothy 4:14 NLT).

Or, as The Message puts it, “Keep that dusted off and in use.”

Choose to live healthy spiritually. Be faithful in the little things, and God will open up greater opportunities for you.

“You can never be too small for God to use, only too big.” ~ Warren Wiersbe

“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” — Winston Churchill
..unless it’s sin cuz ya know without a doubt that would be destructive. Duh. It always is for at least one person. It hurts God and then others. It hurts you and sometimes the consequences aren’t seen for a while. Lord, help us hate sin like you do and walk humbly before you.