Thoughts and Considerations

                                              PATIENCE “…in your patience, possess ye your souls.” Luke 21:19 “That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” Hebrews 6:12 “ For you have need of patience, that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.” Hebrews 10:36 “Love is patient….” 1 Corinthians 13:4 “Knowing this that the trying of your faith works patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire wanting/lacking nothing.” James 1:3-4 “…but he that endures to the end shall be saved.” Matthew 10:22 INDEX: - PATIENCE, AND INGREDIENT OF LOVE - HOW DO WE EXERCISE OUR PATIENCE? - FROM WHERE DO WE SOURCE OUR PATIENCE?   - HO...

                             DISCOURAGEMENT (Especially within the Church)   “Now the just shall live by faith; but if any man draws back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.” Hebrews 10:38-39.     Disappointments and discouragements are struggles for saints and sinners alike, and no less serious. As for believers, many have drawn back, become bitter, given up. Some of the most difficult are the stumbling blocks that occur within the church.  I have written this blog as an attempt to help any who may have been hurt, especially in the service of the Lord, lest they draw back, or even turn away. May the Grace of God and the love of Jesus keep you in the palm of His mighty hands.  INDEX:  - WITHIN THE CHURCH LIFE -  LET DOWNS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS - ...

                               OUR GOD = THE GOD OF COVENANTS “For with finding fault with them, He says, ‘Behold, the days come,’ says the Lord, ‘when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant   that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out   of the land of Egypt, because they continued not in My covenant, and I regarded them not,’ says the Lord. ‘For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least to th...