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  • Got a minute? – 6

    Got a minute? – 6

    If the Lord speaks to you, as in the days of your fathers, do not resist Him; but give Him the glory that is due to the One who has made you.

    Got a minute for the Lord?

    He has given us sixty minutes in every hour, more than a thousand in each day, and more than five hundred thousand in each of our years.

    Got a minute for the Lord?  We have wasted millions of minutes on the ways of the world. 

    Though we would claim Christ, we hardly have a minute for Him six days each week. 

    Though we may be born again in the Spirit, we backslide to follow the voice of the deceiver and do not heed the urging of the Spirit of righteousness.

    Take a minute to hear the Lord:

     

    “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.”

    Deuteronomy 6:5 & Matthew 22:27

    – Jesus calling this the ‘greatest commandment!  And if you have a minute to hear our Lord, Jesus Christ…  “God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.” [John 4:24]

     

    Got a minute to be in communion with God, your spirit with the Holy Spirit, in truth…  have you got a minute for God?  Got a minute for Jesus?  Hear the words of our Lord:

     

    “I am the bread of life.” [John 6:48]

    Before Abraham was, I AM. [John 8:58b]

    “I am the door.  If anyone enters by me, he will be saved… [John 10:9a]

    “I am the good shepherd.” [John 10:11a]

    “I and My Father are One.” [John 10:30]

    I am the resurrection and the life.  He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.  And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.  Do you believe this?” [John 11:25b-26]

     

    “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” [Revelation 22:13]

     

    “Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.” [Matthew 25:13]

     

    Got a minute?  “Surely I am coming quickly.” [Rev. 22:20b]

  • Got a minute? – 5

    Got a minute? – 5

    Originally published 9/15/2007

    Got a minute for… 

    Even more personal… FAMILY:

    Do you relate to your wife (or your husband) in Christ?

    Do you honor your father and your mother, as is the commandment?

    Do your children know Christ’s love and the discipline of His example through you?

    Jesus said of His disciples, “These are my mother and my brothers!”  Hear what the Lord has said of our ‘family:’

     Now brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

    And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake.  But he who endures to the end shall be saved. [Mark 12:12-13]

     

    Will you endure to the end against the unsaved in your family?

    … A brother, a sister, your father or mother, a mother-in-law, an aunt, a cousin, a step-parent; even (sometimes) your husband or your wife?

    Who do you show Christ’s love?

    Do you love the family of your church, your brothers and sisters in Christ, even more than these of your own blood?

    God has chosen you and chosen them by grace for all eternity; yet the blood of those who oppose Christ will dry up and their bones will wither to dust.

    Got a minute for your family? 

    Show them Christ’s love.

    Put the desire of salvation in the Lord upon their hearts and the example of Jesus in your actions.

    Jesus welcomes lost sheep; Jesus welcomes sinners… after all, He shed His blood on the Cross for sinners like you… and sinners like me.

    Christ has redeemed us and brought us near to Him as God’s own family.

    Just one addition to my original:

    commoditiesHave you heard the question:

    How do children spell LOVE?

    Answer: T-I-M-E.

    Do you ask God to answer your prayer?

  • Got a minute? – 3

    Got a minute? – 3

    Got a minute for prayer? Good.

    Got a minute or two for the Bible? Good.

    Got an hour? – 60 minutes out of your 1080 minute week?

    Now it becomes more time consuming.

    Got an extra hour for fellowship?

    When we were growing up, no thought was given on Sunday to taking an extra hour for Sunday school.  We just went.

    Our parents had close relationships with the other adults in our church.  We held close to our church friends even at school.  Now we call it, ‘small groups,’ a more concise meaning of God’s purpose for us.  Sure we studied the Bible.  Of course we pray.  Often there is food and fun.

    ‘Fellowship Hall,’ we used to call the big room with all the food and people on special church occasions; but fellowship happens in small groups, Sunday school, Wednesday nights, community service, mission trips.

    Are you an insignificant lone worshiper at the large weekly church service?

    You are missing out on a great blessing God has set before you: fellowship.

     Love one another as I have loved you.  [John 15:12]

    If we love the Lord, will we not follow His commandment?  J

    Jesus said that the ‘church’ is your family. 

    Got an extra hour for fellowship with your brothers and sisters in Christ?