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Morning Time Prayer

Morning Time is the Best Time to Connect with God in Prayer

Morning Time is the Best Time to Connect with God in Prayer

Morning time is the best time to connect with God in the Bible and prayer. Before the day gets going, the worries come,  stresses come, the emails come, the phone calls  come and then the other 1000 things that fill a day.  Take time in the morning to connect and contact God the source of our life and our strength. He is the one to help us through.

Just take one little verse from the Bible and let it be your strength today.  Take this verse from Isaiah 40:31 but  they that wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.  Notice all the God action words such as wait, renew, mount up, run, not be weary, walk,and not faint. God fills us with his actions and energy as we spend time with Him.

Morning time is the best time to connect with God.

Why God Created Man with spirit, soul and body

Purpose for Our Body, Soul, and Spirit  

Now what are these three parts of man for? Our body, of course, is designed for us to experience and contact the physical realm.

Our soul enables us to contact the psychological realm.  The Greek word for soul is the word from which we get our English word, “psychology”. So man’s soul is man’s psychology. The Bible helps us to see what man’s soul is. The Bible indicates that our soul is comprised of our mind for thinking, our will for making decisions, and our emotions for feeling things, like love, joy and peace and so on.  So, we have these three things in our soul or psychology: our mind, our will, and our emotions. That describes our soul.

We’ve talked about man’s body and man’s soul. Why did God give man a human spirit? God gave man a human spirit so that we could contact, experience and enjoy God. You see the Bible says that God is Spirit.  It’s like saying God’s substance is Spirit or what God is made of is Spirit.  So if we want to contact God, if we want to experience God, and if we want to enjoy God, we need to use our human spirit.

In fact that same verse that says God is Spirit, also says that they who worship Him, or (or would contact or enjoy Him) must do so in Spirit and in reality. This is why God gave us a spirit. Here is a table. This table is made of wood. In order to see the table and to feel the table I have to use my proper organs to sense the table. I have to use my eyes and my hands. The Bible says God is Spirit, God’s substance is Spirit. So if you want to see or experience God you have to use the proper organ and that proper organ is the human spirit. Now some people are looking for God in their mind. They think, “If I could only figure things out, then I could find God.”  The Bible says God is Spirit. Some people are looking for God in good feelings, beautiful feelings.  Now sometimes God comes in that way, but God is Spirit and in order for us to find God we have to use our human spirit.

God created us to express Him and God created us to represent Him on this earth.  How does man do this? Can man do it on his own? Do you think you and I can express God on our own? For instance God is love. The Bible tells us that God is love.

John 15 – Abiding in the Lord and How to Pray

John 15 – Abiding in the Lord and How to Pray video’s are now posted on YouTube and Vimeo.

John 15:7 says, “If you abide in Me”, that is, if you are following the Lord, remaining in the Lord, doing what God wants you to do, and you are up to date with your obedience to God, and, “My words abide in you”, then you can ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. What does this mean?

What Happens When I Die

What Happens When I Die

There is a day on the calendar when we are appointed to die. God knows the day. He gives life and He takes life. We try to extend life with diets, exercise, and doctors, but life and death is in the hand of God.  The day of our birth and death is set by God, not me. The fact is that all of us are born, we die and we all pay taxes. None of us choose when we are born and when we die. Everybody faces God.  After death we all face God to determine eternity. Some for eternal rewards some for eternal punishment.

So what happens when I die?  When we die, we at some point will face God to give an account for our life.

1. For the believer it is to inherit eternal life.
2. For the un-believer it is to receive eternal punishment.

Here are some verses from the Bible on death and what what happens after we die.

John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame, to everlasting contempt.
John 3:36  He that believes on the Son has life eternal, and he that is not subject to the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.
Psalms 39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days as hand- breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity.

When we die, we at some point, will face God to give an account for our life.

1. For Believers, there is the Judgment Seat of Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Romans 14:10 But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment- seat of God.

The judgment seat of Christ does not determine our eternal destiny; that issue is decided the moment we receive Christ. Knowing that in the future we will stand before Jesus Christ and face a personal review of our lives should always motivate us to love the Lord, grow in the Lord, obey the Lord, live righteously and live faithfully in the present.

2. For un-believers, there is the Great White Throne.

The “Great White Throne” judgment described in Rev. 20:11–15 is for unbelievers. This final exam for all un-believers is a picture of God’s holy rule and requirements.

20:15 Only God’s elect, those whose names are written in the Book of Life, will escape the lake of fire. To be written in the book of life is to believe on Jesus for eternal life.

Man has Three Parts – spirit and soul and body

Man Has Three Parts

Now everything that is designed or built today has a specific purpose.  An automobile, for example, is designed to be a comfortable vehicle for travel.  Just like a car has parts and functions, you can also say a man has parts and functions as well.  The beginning of the Bible reveals to us the three main parts and functions of man:  body, soul, and spirit.  Let’s put a diagram on the board to represent these three parts. First of all, we’ll draw a large circle to represent man’s body. Second, we’ll draw another circle inside that, representing man’s soul. Third, we’ll draw a circle inside that to represent man’s human spirit.  In the beginning of the Bible when God describes how He created man, He tells how He formed man out of the dust of the earth. Then it says that God breathed into man the breath of life and man became a living soul. This passage shows us the three parts of man.  Now it says that God breathed into man the breath of life. This phrase, “breath of life” can also be translated, “spirit of life”. Now another place in the Bible says, “The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord”. So we see that man has three parts. Later in the Bible, the Apostle Paul also mentions these three parts. He is praying for the sanctification of believers.  He prays that God would, “Sanctify us wholly—our whole being; our body, and our spirit and our soul.”

God Removes All Tears

In the New Jerusalem, where all God’s people will be for eternity, God removes all tears and crying.  All bad and negative things have been dealt with. No more pain, no more crying, no more devil, no more sin,and no more bad things. Everything evil is taken care of by God.  Right now on the earth is a lot of good and bad, and lot of wonderful things and a lot of evil. So be sure you are ready for acceptance into the New Jerusalem by receiving Jesus Christ.  Your good works will not get you there, just a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Revelation 21:4  He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away

God Sees What We Do

The best verse for this is:   Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.   Galatians 6:7    In this verse God sees everything we think, everything we say and everything we do.  We may think He does not see but He does and eternal consequences ( and short term ones) are real.  In the context it days something about “God is not mocked“, because some think that we can escape the consequences of our actions and sins. So sow good things and positive things and spiritual things so we and others can reap the benefits.