The State of Mind That Pleases God
on January 24th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.” Psalm 19:14;“May my meditation be sweet to Him; I will be glad in the Lord.” Psalm 104:34 God is pleased when we make thoughts of Him the center and priority of our days and nights. It is hard to believe that the one who says he loves God would not make pleasing H... Read More
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Meditating Brings Us Success In The Christian Life
on January 23rd, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and hol... Read More
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Getting Along for Jesus Sake
on January 22nd, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands... Read More
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Seeing Things God’s Way
on January 21st, 2024
SCRIPTURE: "But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night." Psalm 1:2 Getting the most that God intends from His word is more than an intellectual exercise of reading over His Words. The blessed life of Psalm 1 depends upon the degree to which I see matters from the divine perspective and then live in accordance to what God has enabled me to see. The success... Read More
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What the Wondrous Word of God Can Do in a Willing Servant
on January 20th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “ I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies, as much as in all riches. 15 I will meditate on Your precepts and contemplate Your ways. 16 I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.” Psalm 119:14-16 When I put the Word in me, I think about It. I break the Word down into small parts and I chew on It, I ruminate on It, I eat It, I bring It back, chew on It som... Read More
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I Must Be About God’s Word
on January 19th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” Joshua 1:8 Why does it seem like the Devil always wins? The only thing the devil respects is the Word. Even the Son of God, the Word in fle... Read More
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Finding God in Our Pain
on January 18th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped. 21 And he said: ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord.’ 22 In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.” Job 1:20-22 God can use evil and suffering as a means of judgment and ch... Read More
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God Wants to Be Believed
on January 17th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. 17 Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hop... Read More
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An Anchored Soul Won’t Quit
on January 16th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, 12 that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, 14 saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will m... Read More
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ARE YOU A DISCIPLE OR JUST A CONVERT?
on January 15th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. 17 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the... Read More
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Meditation Deprivation Is Evident
on January 14th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he [b]meditates day and night.” Psalm 1:2 The blessing of meditation on God’s Word every day as the psalmist did is that it refreshes our inner being face to face with the thoughts and ways of God Himself. It is the flush that cleanses us from the many forms of filthiness that can accumulate in us from the many things we face in... Read More
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The Attitude of Delight Is Right
on January 13th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.”Psalm 1:2 What is your attitude toward the Bible? Honestly? The scripture says, “His delight” is his attitude about the privilege to be exposed to the Words from God. The delight word may be lost in its usage today, but it carries the idea of elation, enthusiasm, and enjoyment that pleases our souls. ... Read More
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Regret In Missed Opportunities
on January 12th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall [a]bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you s... Read More
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God’s True Children Certainly Should Know
on January 11th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba,[ Father.” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with ... Read More
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Peace When We Do Right
on January 10th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: "For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the fles... Read More
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Forgiveness Is Our Daily Celebration
on January 9th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account ... Read More
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Don’t Worry About the Future
on January 8th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38, 39 Every believer has to come to a resting place in our faith that our future, the sum total of ourlives n... Read More
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Three Questions
on January 7th, 2024
SCRIPTURE: "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in His law he meditates day and night." Psalm 1:1-2 Now that we have asked our God to let us see what's in Him, the question of how many of you read your Word everyday seems to be the appropriate focus o... Read More
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Archive
2024
January
Gratitude Mixed with Faith Should Equal ObedienceGrace Comes In God’s TimingGOD USES WHOM HE CHOOSESSeeing What God Sees to Get What God HasA Life Verse That Is Good for Every YearSeeing Things as God Sees ThemThree QuestionsDon’t Worry About the FutureForgiveness Is Our Daily CelebrationPeace When We Do RightGod’s True Children Certainly Should KnowRegret In Missed OpportunitiesThe Attitude of Delight Is RightMeditation Deprivation Is EvidentARE YOU A DISCIPLE OR JUST A CONVERT?An Anchored Soul Won’t QuitGod Wants to Be BelievedFinding God in Our PainI Must Be About God’s WordWhat the Wondrous Word of God Can Do in a Willing ServantSeeing Things God’s WayGetting Along for Jesus SakeMeditating Brings Us Success In The Christian LifeThe State of Mind That Pleases GodPraised By the RaisedHaving the Right Knowledge for Real FaithWhose Mind Do You Think With?All My Heart & All My WaysWise with the Lord’s TimeNo Shame About What God Has SaidPrayer Is A Conversation
February
DEEP ARMOR FOR THE STEEP CLIMBDressed in the Whole Armor of God for Spiritual WarfareGRAB THAT ARMORSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER WITH PASTOR WAYNE COCKRELLIn My Dressing Room (Putting on the Armor of God)Armored for Any WeatherTruth is Foundation for Our FaithA Work in Progress and A Mouth in TrainingREJECTION OF GOSSIP, SLANDER, LIES, AND DISCORD: THE PERFECTING OF 'FEBRUARY'THE DETESTABLESSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER WITH PASTOR WAYNE COCKRELLIf the Lord Hates It, We Should TooThe Offense Ward of the Sin HospitalSpilling the TeaWe are in ChristLet us Do BetterSpread Love, Not GossipSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER WITH PASTOR WAYNE COCKRELLThe GREATEST THRILL: Being SPIRIT - FilledTHE HOLY SPIRIT'S CONTROLA Drunken SpiritLookin’ Like Our DaddyFermented or Fresh; How is Your Fruit?We Have it AllSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER WITH PASTOR WAYNE COCKRELLJESUS’ LOVE MANDATEHIS Walk, Our Hopethe greatest gift of allTo Love Like Christ
March
LOVE x LOVELove is CommitmentSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER with Pastor CockrellTHE HIGHEST DEBT OF LOVEPREVAILING IN LOVE, AND IN THE LIGHT OF THE PROMISEReturn Your Love to METhe Loveless ChurchWhat Do You Want First: the Good News or the Bad News?POSITIVE FRICTION THAT MAKES US BETTERSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER with Pastor Wayne CockrellHis Love Versus My FearsJESUS LOVES YOUBe Surrendered to 'Love'Victory Over Fear: Life’s Small LessonsJesus, Our VictoryTRUST CHRIST, BANISH FEARSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER with Pastor Wayne CockrellHarmony and Discord Aren’t FriendsHOLY PARAMETERSBlinded by HateACT or REACTRESISTING ANGER AND HATE IN CONFLICTPeculiar PeopleSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER with Pastor Wayne CockrellONWARD & UPWARDHow To Fall ForwardThe Front Windshield is Much Bigger than the Rearview MirrorONE THING TO DOLooking Back Will Have You SaltyGreat Cloud of WitnessesSUNDAY MORNING PRAYER with Pastor Wayne Cockrell