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Tag: #following the Son

  • BE BOLD

    Be Bold

    Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. HEBREWS 4:16

    The safest place to go when we have sinned is the throne of grace.

    In Hebrews 4:15 we read that Jesus Christ can commiserate (sympathize) with our human weaknesses.

    Sympathize means “to suffer with,” and even though Christ did not sin, He is able to sympathize with our struggles.

    The pressure to sin is intense and the temptations we face are powerful, yet Jesus understands what we are going through. He knows well the spiritual battle we are engaged in.

    Therefore, because Jesus knows what the contest against sin is like, we are able to go before Him.

    Our confident approach is unlike an Old Testament high priest who always feared that his sacrifice might not be acceptable to the Lord. The consequence for that would be his life, taken in judgment.

    We have the resurrected Lord as our High Priest.

    He was the perfect sacrifice for our sin, so we can, and we should – purposefully and boldly approach His throne of grace.

    . The One seated upon that throne has mercy and grace in abundance for the humbled sinner.

    He knows what we are going through; He knows what we need, and He can give us that which we seek.

    Go to Him today!

    From: “Being still with God every day.”

  • Photos of the day

    Our flat in Speyer. On the ground floor.
    Our small garden.
    Riding my Motorcycle to Spryer. Over 600 km.
    A snail (Slug) without a shell.
    Walking on the Rhine river.

  • Ambassadors of Mercy

    I appeal to you for my son Onesimus.

    PHILEMON 10

    Onesimus was a runaway slave whose name meant “useful,” once useful to his master Philemon and then useful to Paul.

    His story helps us learn about being agents of reconciliation . . .

    Scripture is silent about why Onesimus fled from his master, although it is generally assumed he absconded with some of his master’s funds or property.

    However, after Onesimus became a believer, he was extremely helpful to Paul (v. 11).

    In fact, this slave’s life was so transformed by God’s love that he was willing to return to Philemon to face the consequences of his past sins.

    Although the acceptable punishment for Onesimus’s offense was probably death, Paul exhorted Philemon to see Onesimus not as an unworthy slave but as a spiritual brother.

    Paul’s personal intervention in the life of a new convert is exemplary for all believers.

    Every Christian is God’s ambassador for reconciliation, forgiveness, and new hope in Christ.

    We must look at the heart of a person rather than the outward appearance or circumstances.

    God demonstrated through Paul’s appeal that mercy is always preferable to harsh legalism.

    You yourself have received mercy from the Lord. To whom can you extend that same mercy today?

  • FAITH

  • Prayer of Repentance

    Lord, I am so sorry for all the times I promised to change, but fell back into old habits.

    I am sorry for saying I follow You, yet ignored reading Your Word to know you better and draw closer to You.

    I’ve disappointed You more times than I can count, but I thank you for giving me a new day.

  • Flesh and Spirit

    “Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

    The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

    The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

    Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

    You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.

    And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.

    But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.

    And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.”
    ‭‭Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭5‬-‭11‬ ‭NIV‬‬

  • Fun at the DART UK Training 1.06.2025 to 07.06.2025

    The Training was awesome. Many thanks to the organizers, staff and presenters who presented the training very professional and so passionately. Thank you so much.

    Meeting a family of people who love Jesus and wants to serve in Jesus Name. What a family. I love them so much.

    Ministering to a group of youngsters making fun of us on our way to our Hotel, but instead experienced the wonderful love of Jesus as we love and prayed with them.

    It was also great fun when we went out to Nando‘s to eat together.

    We also took over the bowling club taking eight( I think) 8 bowling courts. It was loud and awesome.

  • The true vine (17.June 2025)

    ““I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

    He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

    You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

    Remain in me, as I also remain in you.

    No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine.

    Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

    “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

    If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.

    If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

    This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

    “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.

    If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

    I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

    My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

    You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business.

    Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

    You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

    This is my command: Love each other.”
    ‭‭John‬ ‭15‬:‭1‬-‭17‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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  • DIRECTION (15.05.2025)

    Everything is fast today:

    Fast food, fast cars, fast internet, fast solutions – everything must be fast.

    It doesn’t matter how fast you move- without direction – you never reach your destination.

  • Verse for the day 6 June 2025

    “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

    And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,”
    ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬-‭18‬ ‭NIV‬‬
    https://bible.com/bible/111/eph.3.16-18.NIV