A SPIRITUAL HEALTH CHECK CONSISTS OF:
A. YOUR PRAYER LIFE: ………………………………………………………………………………….
B. YOUR BIBLE READING: ………………………………………………………………………………….
C. YOUR GIVING: ………………………………………………………………………………….
D. YOUR TESTIMONY: ………………………………………………………………………………….
E. YOUR CHURCH RELATIONSHIP: ………………………………………………………………………………….
F. YOUR HABITS: ………………………………………………………………………………….
On an upper garment it says,”Loyalty is everything,” and I am really beginning to think.
A dictionary tells me that a loyal person shows allegiance. Allegiance is loyalty, as of a subject to his sovereign. Loyal means being faithful to one’s country, being faithful to one’s government.
The opposite of being faithful is being unfaithful.
In the Bible we are told about a person who was unfaithful. The name of that person was Saul. In the Bible it says about Saul in 1 Chronicle 10:13-14:
“SAUL DIED
1 Chronicles 10:13-14
Introduction:
because he was unfaithful to the LORD;
End:
So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David, son of Jesse.”
I say, “Loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ, our Sovereign, is everything.”
Three times on the last page of a mission publication I am reading how to give money, bequests are mentioned, we are told how to make cheque donations, and we are also told that donations can be made online.
Recently it has been pointed out to me that the Lord Jesus Christ taught more about money than anything else. I have never thought too much about it, and I am quite surprised.
And here is what the Lord Jesus Christ says about wealth and possessions.
Billy Graham says:
“If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area of his life.”
It has also been pointed out to me that the Lord Jesus Christ, so far as we know, never even asked for an offering,
“Die Hand unseres Gottes ist so stark, dass sie die ganze Welt halten kann, sie ist aber auch so sanft, dass sie unsere Traenen abwischen kann.” – Unbekannt
“When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong.” – Ecclesiastes 8:11
Blurred are the lines between fact and fake, we are told, and that increasingly so.
That’s why we must watch our sources of news and information.
In spite of that “1.7 million of us [New Zealanders] continue to view newspapers as our most trusted source of news and information.” (Northern News, Wednesday, May 29, 2019)
My source of news and information is the Bible.
The author of the Bible is God the Holy Spirit.
And here are three symbols used to illustrate the Scriptures:
There are only FACTS in the Bible.
“Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.” – Proverbs 31:30