“If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you say, depart and be warm and filled, but do not give them the things they need for the body, what does it profit? Thus also, faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, you have faith and I have works. Show me your works, and I will show you, my faith.” My brothers and sisters in Christ, faith, and works go together, and by works, faith is made perfect. Faith without works is dead!

“Come and hear, all you who fear God and I will declare what He has done for my souls. I cried out to Him with my mouth and He was extolled with my tongue. If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear, but certainly, God has heard me, He has attended to the voice of my prayer.” Thank You, Lord!

When the Lord gave Jeremiah the direction to go to Tophet and prophesy to the people, he was afraid, and he said that he would not make mention of the Lord, or anymore speak his name. But he was tormented, and he confessed, that God’s word was in my heart like a burning fire, shut up in my bones. I was weary of holding it back, and I could not. My brothers and sisters in Christ, when God gives us a word we must speak the word without fear or shame. We must say like Jeremiah, “The Lord is with me as a mighty and awesome One.” Jeremiah 21

“Commit your way to the Lord and put your trust in him, and he will bring it to pass. He will make your righteousness as clear as the light, and your just dealing as the noonday. Be still before the Lord and wait patiently on him. Refrain from anger and leave rage alone, do not fret yourself it only leads to evil, but delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”

“If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. Give to everyone who begs from you, and if anyone takes away your goods, do not ask for them again. Do to others as you would have them do to you.”

My brothers and sisters in Christ, it is no secret what God can do. Trust him, he is able. Whatever he is about to do in your life or mine, he says he will only do it once, to make us know his power and his might and that his name is the Lord. I will not doubt you, O Lord, but wait patiently on you.

“O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance. Let us, therefore, hold resolutely, to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful. And great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each and every morning.” And we are thankful!

“Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing; yet, the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

“O enter then His gates with joy, within His courts His praise proclaim, let thankful songs your tongues employ, O bless and magnify His name. Trust that the Lord our God is good, His mercy is forever sure, His faithfulness at all times stood, and shall from age to age endure.” Thank You, Lord!

My brothers and sisters in Christ, “If there be no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen, and if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless, and so is our faith. But, since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus, those who have fallen asleep in Him. Therefore, for to me, living means living for Christ, and dying is even better.”