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Psalm 73:26, "My flesh and my heart may fail me, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Portion simply meaning supply, or satisfaction, everything that we need. The Lord of heaven above is our portion. Psalm 84:11 says, "The Lord God is a sun and shield, the Lord gives grace and glory, no good thing does He withhold from those…

In 35 years of being a Christian, lots of things happen. Some good things happen, some bad things happen. But the lions share have been good. For the "Lord is merciful or gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindeness."(Psa.103:8) The Lord always is providing a great or plentiful quantity or supply. "He can do far more a…

Could someone love us with a love so great that it would go above our comprehension? And if there were such a love toward us, how would we respond to that? And if there were such a love toward us, where could we find it? It is wonderful to hear words like, "I love you," I will always love you," or I loved you the moment I laid eyes on you." What wo…

The Christian enjoys communion with the Father in love, with the Son in grace, and with the Holy Spirit in comfort. And in the context of being a committed, devoted, loyal part of a local assembly of God, enjoying weekly, a rendezvous for joint fellowship with God, which is the best fellowship we can have with one another. Church membership is a bl…

What does the bible say about contentment? Is there such a thing? Is it possible to attain it somehow? Has anyone succeeded in obtaining it? Let's look into it for a little while today. Let's start with a definition so we all know what we are talking about. Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely s…

The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, indwells all believers. We see that to be a fact based on God's word in Acts 10:43-47. Read. He is as Eternal as God the Father, and God the Son is. A believing gaze upon Jesus as He is revealed in the scriptures, the One who is the image of the invisible God (2Cor.4:4), the One in whom the fullness…

In preparation for our first of the season meetings on Sunday night, the GCC Scripture memory program will embark on a season of learning more of spiritual warfare in our life. We have a constant adversary about us, one who is always against us and never for us. We have much to learn to combat any enemy in life to be kept from being overcome by it,…

Last week I shared a story with you that I finish our new members class with, but just moments before that, I like to share a little bit about a verse that is of great benefit to anyone who is a disciple of Jesus Christ, on his walk with Him. As we walk by faith in Him, forsaking all else to follow Him, how can we best make it from first being fill…

This is a story that I share with all the new members to be before we close the books on the class and enter the arena of an interview with an Elder. A woman writes," When she was born, a treatable disease was misdiagnosed, and she was paralyzed. By age 14 she had had 21 surgeries and was cruelly treated by other children calling her 'crippled'. Sh…

Joy is defined as, "the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation." It is listed second only to love in the fruits of the Spirit in Gal.5:22. In regards to the birth of the Christ child and the resurrection of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the word joy is used many time…