ALCEDES JONES's Blog – August 2009 Archive (5)

John 15:16-17

NIV You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit-fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other.

KJV Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one… Continue

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT GOD PUT ON MY HEART IN 2008 N I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE IT. There is a bible verse that I love and would like you to ponder in the coming year,"why do you look at the speck in your brother eye,but do not notice the log that is in your own eye (the words of Jesus Christ according to Matt.7:3 NASB).YES I would like for all GOD children to ponder those words in a higher look this year,and let us all live a "WHAT" and "IF "year of purpose in 2009.The "WHATS"are what will happen… Continue

when it seen like life is against you, just start smiling and give praise to GOD, because satan is attacking you because GOD HAS CLAIM YOU FOR HIMSELF OR THAT GOD IS TESTING YOU SO THAT HE CAN USE YOU TO HELP SOMEONE ELSE TO MAKE IT THROUGH THEIR HARD TIME, SO COUNT IT JOY AND SHAME THE devil, FOR he IS A LIAR AND ALWAYS WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE.

MAKE SOMEONE DAY EVERYDAY



Let us be our brother?s keeper. Reach out to that stranger across the street and say hi. You may never know but maybe saying hi to him and telling him that Jesus loves him is all that he needs to hear in order to change his life. Maybe he was going to kill himself for he was feeling rejected and ignored by the whole world. When somebody we hardly know reaches out to us with kindness, it leaves us feeling good about ourselves. Why don?t you let somebody go… Continue

SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN CHRIST

The Loneliness of the Christian



by A. W. Tozer









The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of… Continue