NOT IN YOUR STRENGTH

Leon FontaineDevoted

[Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight. Philippians 2:13 (AMPC)  Over the past few days, we’ve been talking about how we need to work out our own salvation. We are made right with God the moment we give our lives to Christ, and there’s nothing we need to do to add to that fact. We are instantaneously delivered from things like sickness and poverty, but we need to renew our minds and believe in order to experience those promises.  But it can’t come from our own strength, as today’s verse …

FULLY COMPLETE IT

Leon FontaineDevoted

Work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ). Philippians 2:12 (AMPC)  Have you ever started a project that you didn’t fully complete?  Let’s say a man wants to repaint his car. He gets it primed, but then he stops there and drives it around like that for the next few years. He’s so close to being finished, but he just doesn’t take that one extra step!   Well, the Bible is saying that a lot of Christians haven’t fully completed their salvation. No wonder they struggle! We all need to enthusiastically …

USTED TIENE UNA HERENCIA

Leon FontaineEntregate

También hemos obtenido herencia, habiendo sido predestinados según el propósito de aquel que obra todas las cosas conforme al consejo de su voluntad, Efesios 1:11 (DHH)  He escuchado que los bancos de todo el mundo tienen miles de herencias no reclamadas, en espera de que un heredero se presente. Imagine que usted tiene derecho a riqueza y propiedades, pero como no lo sabe, nunca ejerce su derecho a recibirlas. Lo mismo ocurre con la herencia que Jesús ha ganado para usted.  Todo lo que necesitamos saber sobre nuestra herencia se puede encontrar en la Biblia. Pero al igual que un testamento, si usted no lo lee, nunca sabrá a qué tiene derecho y, por lo tanto, nunca lo recibirá.  La Palabra de Dios no solo …

STORMS DON’T STRENGTHEN

Leon FontaineDevoted

Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Matthew 7:24 (NLT)  We often think that God sends us the storms of life—pain, tragedy and heartache—to make us stronger. But is it true?  In Matthew 7, Jesus told a parable about two houses: one built on the rock and one on the sand. When a storm hit, the one on the sand was destroyed, but the one on the rock remained. Let me ask you a question. What built strength into that house on the rock to cause it to stand? Did the storm strengthen the house? Did the sky rain down concrete to secure the foundation? Did the wind drive the nails …

SU ESPÍRITU SABE

Leon FontaineEntregate

Lámpara del Señor es el espíritu del hombre que escudriña lo más profundo de su ser. Proverbios 20:27 (DHH)  Su mente trabaja con la lógica y el conocimiento, pero su espíritu opera desde la sabiduría de Dios. El Salmo 119:97-99 dice que si usted estudia la Palabra de Dios y medita en ella, será más sabio que sus maestros, más sabio que las personas mayores que usted y más sabio que sus enemigos. Ese es el tipo de sabiduría que le ayudará a hacer las cosas extremadamente bien en todas las áreas de la vida. Es el tipo de sabiduría que viene de su espíritu.  Proverbios 20:27 dice que usted puede sentir que Dios le habla en el centro de su ser. Cuando Él le …