We are rich- possessing nothing

Ministers of God-- YOU, ME, all who claim CHRIST!

2Co 6:4  But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

2Co 6:5  In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

2Co 6:6  By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

2Co 6:7  By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

2Co 6:8  By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

2Co 6:9  As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

2Co 6:10  As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

In MUCH patience.

In afflictions.

In necessities.

In distresses.

In stripes.

In imprisonments.

In tumults.

In labors.

In watchings.

In fastings.

By pureness.

By knowledge.

By longsuffering.

By kindness.

By the Holy Ghost.

By love unfeigned.

By word of truth.

By the power of God.

By the armor of righteousness.

By honor.

By dishonor.

By evil report.

By good report.

As deceivers.

As true.

As unknown.

As yet well known.

As dying.

As chastened- not killed.

As sorrowful- always rejoicing.

As poor- making many rich.

As having nothing- yet possessing all things.

I'm still caught up on having nothing - yet possessing all things.  We possess ALL things when we have nothing.

Mat 6:19  Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Mat 6:20  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Mat 6:21  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also

As ministers of God, as those who have Jesus Christ as their Savior, we will PUT our treasures in HEAVEN.

Name one earthly material possession that moths and rust won't touch, name a single possession a thief won't steal.  You might be able to name lots that moths won't bother, and rust never tarnishes, but a thief can steal absolutely ANYTHING material, anything tangible.  If our treasures are not where a thief can get them they have to be in heaven and they have to be of things not tangible, or not reachable by anyone.

Where are the things we would hate to lose? Where are the things we would not want stolen?

Where does our heart lie?

Our lives reveal the truth. How we behave reveals the truth. And honestly how others see us reveals the truth. I'm not saying everyone can know everything about us so the way we see others and they see us is only a small part of who we are, but it matters.

We know good from evil and we choose to follow one or the other in a lot of ways.

Only by the GRACE of God may we choose good- choose GOD over evil in ALL things!

May we have NOTHING, but POSSESS all things through our SAVIOR, having HIM, having eternal life IN HIM, through HIM, by HIM!

Please Father, please help us be YOURS as the world and the prince of this world fights against this in so many ways.

In Jesus' name always!

Amen.

Having nothing yet possessing all things

How can you have nothing but possess all things?

2Co 6:4  But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

2Co 6:5  In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

2Co 6:6  By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

2Co 6:7  By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

2Co 6:8  By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

2Co 6:9  As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

2Co 6:10  As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

How can we who place our worth upon the things we possess be worth anything at all?

Why is it a rich man with great possessions has more value placed upon him than those who are poor and have little to nothing?

How can we deem another person worthy or unworthy based upon the part of their life we view?

We know so little about each other when we pass our judgements.

Not all wealthy people are cheats and not all the poor are innocent victims.

We all have to ask ourselves if we possess the most precious of gifts? The poorest of the poor can possess the most precious gift, a gift that is priceless. The gift cannot be bought by anyone, yet it is available free for all. We can't work for this gift.  We can't take this gift by force, there is no way to steal this price less gift. So how can such a priceless gift be available for all? 

If we had a gem that we considered priceless it would be so incredibly priceless because of its rarity.  You often hear about people paying huge amounts of money for things like a dress, or shoes, some will even pay millions for them and it won't be because the material that makes them up is rare, but rather their previous original owners will increase the value. Something that was Elvis Presley's, Marilyn Monroe's, George Washington's, Lincoln's, JFK's, Babe Ruth's and so on, something that these people possessed is rare and in great demand because of the notoriety it has, not because it is made of gold or diamonds. 

What determines the pricelessness of something is also an individual belief. I might think having my mother's wedding gown a priceless gift, irreplaceable and unique yet a stranger would toss it away as trash or sell it without a thought very cheaply. The price of that dress, it's value to me is endless because of the sentiment involved.

Having nothing yet possessing all things. 

TRUTH!

More on this tomorrow by the grace of God!

In Jesus' love always!

Amen.

Corrected by God

Forgive Me.

Heb 13:2  Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Heb 13:3  Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

Forgive Me.

1Jn 3:17  But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

How?  God's love cannot dwell in a heart that is closed to compassion.

1Jn 3:18  My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Love in DEED.  It's better than saying you love. It's easy to say you love someone with your Christian love, but is your love revealed in action?

1Jn 3:19  And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

Loving in ACTION.  This is TRUTH!  All my words mean NOTHING! NOTHING! I must love in my actions!

1Jn 3:20  For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

THANK YOU GOD for being GREATER than my heart!

1Jn 3:21  Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

Truly IF we confidence toward GOD when our hearts are not condemned. Truly we cannot have confidence towards God if our heart is condemning up beyond any shred of hope. GOD is our hope! We CANNOT have hope outside of GOD. GOD will do all things, we can do NOTHING to save ourselves. Our confidence is sorely misplaced if it is with ourselves.

1Jn 3:22  And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

We make the choice to KEEP GOD'S COMMANDMENTS.

We make the choice to DO THOSE THINGS THAT ARE PLEASING IN HIS SIGHT.

Keep and Do- two actions we must choose, and will choose if our CONFIDENCE is towards GOD.  He will work through us.

1Jn 3:23  And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

1Jn 3:24  And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

Do we keep the commandment to believe on the name of God's Son Jesus Christ?

Do we keep the commandment to love one another?

Believe and Love.

Keep and Do.

He abides in us by the SPIRIT He gives us.

Joh 14:26  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Joh 14:27  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

The Holy Spirit will bring ALL things to our remembrance.  The Holy Spirit will bring our need to believe God, Believe in God's Son Jesus Christ, and our need to love one another.  When we might be tempted to be unloving, the Holy Spirit will convict our hearts! The Holy Spirit will teach us, and as we know in the realm of the flesh sometimes learning lessons isn't easy and we need to learn them over and over again constantly studying, constantly taking refresher courses, constantly being tested.  We are being taught by the Holy Spirit and we cannot DESPISE the chastening of the Lord!

Job_5:17  Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty

Pro_3:11  My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction

Heb_12:5  And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him

Heb_12:7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Heb_12:11  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby

A teacher often corrects a student, why? Because the student doesn't have all the answers but must be taught the answers.  Sometimes we learn better through mistakes we've made, they bring the lesson home harder than if we'd not made a mistake.  Being corrected by God through the Holy Spirit sent to us by the Savior Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son - this is what we need and should NOT despise.

Perhaps rather than being upset because of our error being pointed out to us, rather than being upset because we are shown our sinfulness more and more we need to praise God, look outward away from our self to the God who is correcting us so wonderfully.  No, our chastening isn't joyous, it is grievous, but we must ENDURE it as we are sons of GOD. We cannot get tired of being corrected as we are prone to do if we look at God's correcting as our just being shown over and over again how awful we are, and we don't want to recognize our awfulness. We need to recognize our unworthiness, knowing our worth is ONLY found in GOD.  We would have the peaceable fruit of CHRIST'S righteousness!

By the Grace of our LORD, by HIS mercy, His everlasting love now and always in His name, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior now and forever!

AMEN.

Our faith stands in the power of God

Enticing words of man's wisdom…. 

We get so caught up in the words of mankind and their supposed wisdom.  I couldn't speak eloquently not even if my life depended upon my doing so. I have little to NO charisma, that special charm some people seem to ooze so that others are drawn to liking them even if logic tells them they've no real reason to do so. I've met eloquent people and for the most part they intimidate me because of their ability to speak in ways I can't fathom ever speaking. I've met people that by a mere glance I'm all but captivated by their charisma and it amazes me. We all know these sorts of people, and some of us are those sorts of people but bottom line- that ability to speak eloquently and the ability to charm people in a special way is not necessarily from God.  We like to believe the pastors, preachers, ministers, priests and so on and so forth who have been blessed with these gifts all have them from God and are being used for His will, but the truth is, the majority are probably NOT using their gifts for God's will but for their own.  No, I will NEVER judge them ALL or condemn ANY of them, that's not my place. What I think I'm trying to say here is we that we need to be very, very careful of falling into the trap of eloquence and charisma thinking these men and women are God's just because they have those qualities in abundance.  There are preachers who gain great followings preaching FALSE religion. Their untruths are so sugar coated that people don't even want to think for a moment they could be following someone who is deceiving them.   Do we WANT truth?  If we want truth and not someone to sooth our ears, and make us feel good then God will give us truth. If we simply want to hold fast to something that will appease our conscience the devil has all sorts of lies set up to do just that. 

Paul said this…

1Co 2:1  And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

1Co 2:2  For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

1Co 2:3  And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

1Co 2:4  And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

1Co 2:5  That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

He was with them in WEAKNESS, he was with them in FEAR, he was with them in much TREMBLING, he spoke NO enticing words of man's wisdom, this is the truth. 

The SPIRIT and POWER OF GOD- this is truth, not our wisdom, not in our attributes whatever they may be!

Our faith needs to stand ONLY in the power of GOD and no other.

Our faith needs to stand when we have NO man to preach to us of worldly wisdom.

We need to hear the words of the SPIRIT not man's words!

The power of GOD.

Mat_22:29  Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

Luk_22:69  Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.

Rom_1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

1Co_1:18  For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

1Co_1:24  But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

2Co_13:4  For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

2Ti 1:8  Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God

1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1Pe 1:4  To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

1Pe 1:5  Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

THE POWER OF GOD- JESUS CHRIST-THE GOSPEL-SALVATION IN OUR SAVIOR!  The power of GOD- JESUS!

Redeemed by God, Condemned by Man

Christians are called fools, and some can be.

Christians are call delusional, and some are.

Christians are thrown in a single group and condemned by the name Christian.

Christians are sinners, some of the worst sinners.

Christians are humans, made of flesh and subject to fleshy lusts.

Christians can excel, or fail.

Christians can be evil.

The thing is…  I am a Christian and to me the cross is everything, the cross is the power of God.  Just because there are FALSE Christians, evil loving Christians, Christians who are fools, Christians who are delusional, Christians who live for their flesh lusts, JUST BECAUSE they exist does not mean there are not TRUE Christians!

You can call Christians evil, no one can stop you. You can call me evil.  You can call me and my beliefs foolish I cannot stop you and won't try to stop you. I was told that it would happen…

1Co 1:18  For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

This is truth. 

1Co 1:19  For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

1Co 1:20  Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1Co 1:21  For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

1Co 1:22  For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

1Co 1:23  But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

1Co 1:24  But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

1Co 1:25  Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1Co 1:26  For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

1Co 1:27  But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

1Co 1:28  And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

1Co 1:29  That no flesh should glory in his presence.

1Co 1:30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

1Co 1:31  That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

I glory in GOD!

I will not glory in myself, of myself I am nothing. I lay claim to nothing good in me on my own. Christ alone is all things for me, He is any of the good that may appear in me.  Christ is my Redeemer!

By His GRACE I live.

In His name always and forever!

Amen.

Dust

Gen 3:19  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Before man was created- he did NOT exist. Before the dust was formed into man- he did NOT exist! The dust was formed and then the BREATH of God was given to man so he would live, the dust would come to life.  Man would return to dust, the breath would go back to God.  

God did NOT take a spirit being and put it inside a body.  No spirit body will live after the body returns to dust. No intelligent being was put into the body made of dust. The body was given the ability to live and it is that life that gives it the intelligence. Once dead the intelligence is gone.

Psa 146:4  His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Psa 104:29  Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

Gen 2:7  And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Job 14:10  But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

gâva‛

gaw-vah'

A primitive root; to breathe out, that is, (by implication) expire: - die, be dead, give up the ghost, perish.

NOT GHOST as we imagine ghost to be- but BREATH -  giving UP our breath.

Job 17:1  My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

Job 27:3  All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils

Ecc 12:7  Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Job 7:21  And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

So much points to there being a finality of thought, of communication, of living in any way remotely as we do now- able to speak, to know, to do anything at all after we die.  The spirit part of us is the spirit God gives to us and Jesus living in us through that spirit, it isn't us stripped of our flesh and filled with knowledge able to communicate and live on and on and on without end ever.

We fool ourselves when we choose to believe our intelligence lives on after death when so much tells us otherwise.  We know evil spirits (angels) can portray human beings to others. We know evil people will try to bring these evil spirits (angels) to convince others that their dead loved ones are alive just in another form.

Where is the penalty in sin if disobeying God simply means being stripped of our flesh and living as a spirit being? How many people would prefer that life to this?  How many would think God only blessing us when He allows us to die as young as possible? Death is a punishment, it is that way throughout the Bible. Death is something Job begged for to be released from his suffering because he knew he would be fleshless and without all ability to think and know anything in death. The solace death offers is an end to our thoughts entirely on every level there is. Death is a SLEEP.  By the grace of God, death is just a sleep!  God is able to restore to the dead their bodies made incorruptible and their ability to know things, their intelligence, their spirit the part of Him He has given them restored but ONLY in the last day, after the last trump sounds then and ONLY then will the dead in Christ rise and be given new bodies, new flesh unable to deteriorate. 

Death is a punishment because as soon as we die any opportunity we have for eternal life has been decided and we've NO more opportunity to choose to be saved by the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

Death is a punishment because we leave behind all those who love us to keep on living but without us.

Death is a punishment because there are two deaths.

Rev_2:11  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Rev_20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Rev_20:14  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

The second death is the death that all the wicked who have died in sin, who have died unrepentant, who have died without God, who had died unforgiven because they sought no forgiveness, these all will die the final death from which there is no resurrection because it will be as if they never ever existed.

Sin and all sorrow will be wiped away after the second death.

What harm is believing we shed our flesh and go on to live intelligently with all our memories and the supernatural ability to view our relatives and friends still in their flesh on? It lulls us into believing the first lie ever told to mankind- 'you shall not surely die'

Gen_3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die

Did she die?

Yes.

Did she die right then?

No.

Satan would have us believe that because Eve did not die instantaneously that what he said was true.  And Satan goes a step further and wants us to believe that death is no punishment at all, but simply a new way of living. 

I've talked about it before but I cannot stop talking about it, not ever, because people are deceived. People are caught up in the lies that are far from harmless.

Our loved ones are sleeping and they will awake either to life everlasting or death forever, to non-existence.  Their sleep is peaceful because we know all their thoughts cease. 

Their ultimate fate is in God's hands and we who remain can only hope and pray they are God's, that they've chosen to be His and God has saved them through the sacrifice of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Amen.

Jesus knew

Joh 7:14  Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

Joh 7:15  And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?

Joh 7:16  Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

Joh 7:17  If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

Joh 7:18  He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

Our Savior was NOT a scholar according to man's way of learning. Our Savior had NO formal education. Our Savior was NOT sent away to study. Our Savior did NOT study in the synagogues as one interested in becoming a teacher.

We know this--

Luk 2:42  And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.

Luk 2:43  And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.

Luk 2:44  But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.

Luk 2:45  And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.

Luk 2:46  And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

Luk 2:47  And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.

Luk 2:48  And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

Luk 2:49  And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

Luk 2:50  And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

At twelve years of age Jesus went into the temple at Jerusalem and sat among the doctors - men of great learning- and He listened to them and answered the questions they had of Him.  These men of learning were ASTONISHED at the understanding Jesus possessed. They were ATONISHED by the answers He gave them.  Learned men astonished by Jesus at twelve years old. And yet Jesus had not been given any education into the things they talked about.  It wasn't COMMON for a boy of twelve to have the understanding and answers Jesus had. And Jesus had no real reason for His knowledge, no earthly reason. No one could understand, no one could comprehend this strange occurrence yet Jesus Himself understood. Jesus knew. And we know…

Joh 7:15  And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?

Joh 7:16  Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me

Jesus' truth, Jesus' teachings ALL came from His Father, God in Heaven. God, who by decree sent God who became the Son in flesh to earth. Jesus' knowledge was given to Him supernaturally.  Those who had the opportunity to hear Jesus speak were amazed and some believed, but more found excuses NOT to believe.

Joh 8:47  He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Joh 8:48  Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

Joh 8:49  Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.

People will NOT hear, they will claim Jesus a devil and all things in between. And what I mean by that is, people will choose not to believe at all, they will choose to believe in a Jesus they make up - giving him attributes that please them attributes they can live with, without having to give up their cherished sins, they coveted self.

Jesus had knowledge He had NO EARTHLY right in knowing!  There was NO LOGICAL way for Jesus at twelve or thirty to know the things He knew! Logic, man's LOGIC means NOTHING in the face of GOD!

All of mankind can talk about logic, about sense, about intelligence, about science all they want to and it ALL means NOTHING, truly nothing without GOD.  God CREATED them! God created those men of logic, of sense, of intelligence, of science! And what do those men do? They deny God even exists.

Joh 7:18  He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

People heap glory upon themselves when they choose to believe their ideas, their thoughts, their beliefs are superior to God. 

Please Father God, please keep us in YOU, keep us seeking YOUR glory! PLEASE!

 In the name of Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, now and forever and ever, AMEN!