Topics for Your Studies:
GOD’S Words For Abundant LIVING
Quality of HEALTH AND LIFE
PURE LOVE
GOD’S Words For Abundant LIVING.
(11/16/2020) Kenneth Mullen
Ver. 18: “Light is represented by GOD’S righteousness. It shines bright right before dawn and is brighter throughout the day.”
Emphasis added: When JESUS saves us we become the Rightness of GOD. 2 Corinthians 5: 21. The light becomes GOD’S truth in us and gives us direction and truth to live by.
Ver. 20: “My child pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words.”
Emphasis added: Read the Bible daily, listen to what you are reading, make sure you understand what GOD is saying. To clearly understand, ask the HOLY SPIRIT for insight, use a dictionary, read the full chapter before and after the chapter in question.
Ver. 21: “Don’t lose sight of GOD’S words and message. Let them penetrate deep into your heart”
Emphasis added: Let GOD’S words penetrate deep into your MIND.
Ver. 22: “for they bring life to those who find them, healing to their whole body.”
Ver. 23: “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.”
Emphasis added: Your MIND determines the course of your life. Renew your mind (Rom 12:2 “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world ,but let GOD transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know GOD’S will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” Read the 4 gospels and the epistles to see how JESUS and the Apostles THINK on different subjects.
Ver. 24: “Avoid all perverse talk; stay away from corrupt speech.”
What does this mean? Perverse speech and corrupt speech is untruth, hurtful and damaging.
Ver. 25: “Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you.”
Emphasis added: Do you have GOD’s given life PLAN for your life? If not, success will never be yours!!! GET started NOW!! Ask the HOLY SPIRIT FOR His help. What do you like to do, what are your gifts? Stay with this exercise until you’re ready to write a life plan.
Ver. 26: “Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path.”
What does this mean? This is where you put your written life plan to action. Then ask the HOLY SPIRIT to partner with you to fulfill it!!! Then discipline yourself, THINKING and taking actions to fulfil your life’s plan.
Ver. 27: “Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil.”
What does this mean? Self-accountability!!! Communicate often with HOLY SPIRIT, pray, read your Bible. Set short time frames to self-check your progress.
These verses are life building blocks for GOD’S desires for you.
Quality of HEALTH AND LIFE.
(11/16/2020) Kenneth Mullen
Let’s study a Scriptural pattern to guide our behavior to improve our quality of health and life. If we agree with Scripture, we must begin to practice to THINK as the Scripture teaches.
How: We live with two truths: one, who we are in JESUS and two, our living environment issues. (Problems)
It’s OUR choice: Which will dominate our THINKING??? Answer this question and determine the quality of YOUR life!!
Let’s explore 1 Thessalonians for the Apostle Paul’s choice.
1 Thessalonians 5:16,17,AND 18 All Scripture is NLT version
V 16: “Rejoice, be joyful.”
What does this mean?
Be joyful because of who you are: A new creation in JESUS.
2 Corinthians 5:17: “You are the rightness of GOD in JESUS.”
2 Corinthians 5:21: “You are blessed with every spiritual blessing in JESUS.”
Ephesians 1:3: “You are a joint heir with JESUS of all GOD’S glory.”
Romans 8:37: “THIS IS WHO YOU ARE!!!”
OUR ACTIONS:
We focus on who we are in JESUS and seek GOD’S help for our problems and issues.
1 Peter 5:7: “Give all your cares and worries to GOD because He cares for you.”
Practice THINKING these Scriptures daily until you fully see yourself as you are in JESUS. Then you’re thinking emphasis will be on who you are in JESUS and you will trust GOD with your problems and needs.
V17: “Never stop praying.”
Emphasis added. Prayer is your right as a Christian!!!
1 peter 5:7: “Give ALL you cares, worries, fears and anxieties to GOD in prayer because He cares for you.”
Philippines 4:6: “Don’t worry about anything; instead ,pray about everything. Tell GOD what you need, and thank Him for all He has done for you.”
Philippines 4:19: “Declare GOD’S blessings on you. GOD provides ALL your needs from HIS riches in glory in JESUS.”
This is GOD’S Plan for you!! Question: If you pray as outlined, that’s key to changed behavior.
V18: “Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is GOD’S will for you who belong to CHRIST JESUS.”
Emphasis added. Be thankful to GOD for who you are in JESUS!!! See the Scriptures from above in verse 16. They apply to both being joyful and thankful.
1. Be thankful in all circumstances for who you are in JESUS.
2. Pray about everything. Example: Be thankful ,praise and tell GOD all your needs and have faith in HIM (verse 17).
Mark 11:22: “Have faith in GOD!!!”
“Remember, all things are possible with your GOD!!!” (Mark 10: 27).
PURE LOVE
(11/16/2020) Kenneth Mullen
1 John 4: 7–21 NLT Version
In this Scripture the Apostle John states that GOD, our Creator, is LOVE!!! See the contrast between GOD and man.
GOD IS love. Man loves.
Let’s read these Scriptures for the next 30 days at least twice daily asking the HOLY SPIRIT to reveal their meaning. Begin to study and meditate on them until you are transformed into the GOD kind of loving person and love people as He loves them!!!]
Ver.7: “Let us continue to love one another, for love comes from GOD. Anyone who loves is a child of GOD and knows GOD.”
Ver. 8: “But anyone who does not love does not know GOD.”
Ver.9: “GOD showed how much He loved us by sending His one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him.”
Ver.10: “This is real love not that we loved GOD, but He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.”
Emphasis added: Do you have questions about salvation??? Read Romans 10:9,10. “If you openly declare that JESUS is LORD and believe in your heart that GOD raised Him the dead, YOU will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with GOD, and it is by faith that you are saved.”
If you believe as stated above ask Jesus to save you!
John 6:29. Believe you are now saved and trust JESUS with your future.
Ver.11: “Since GOD loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.”
Ver.12: “No one has ever seen GOD. But if we love each other, GOD lives in us and His love is brought to full expression in us.”
Ver. 13: “And GOD has given us His SPIRIT as proof that we live in Him and He in us.”
Ver. 14: “Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.”
Ver.15: “All who declare JESUS is the Son of GOD have GOD living in them, and they live in GOD.”
Ver.16: “we know how much GOD loves us, and we have put our trust in His love. GOD is love, and all who live in love live in GOD, and GOD lives in them.”
Ver. 17 “And as we live in GOD, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face Him with confidence because we live like JESUS here in this world.”
Ver.18: “Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced His perfect love.”
Ver.19: “We love each other because He loved us first.”
Ver.20: “If someone says, I love GOD,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love GOD, whom we cannot see?”
Ver.21: “And He has given us this command: those who love GOD must also love their fellow believer.”