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This site is devoted you, my family and friends. I recently started keeping a journal of my daily Bible study and the act of writing down my thoughts was so exciting and enlightening that I decided it would be good to share it with you. My hope and prayer is that you will be blessed by what you read here and motivated to keep your own journal of God speaking to you through His word, the Bible.  Please comment on my blog posts (comments are publicly viewable).  Your comments are a huge encouragement to me.  If you would like to automatically receive new post notifications via email please subscribe to the site.  Also check out the video page.  On it, there are some of my favorite christian videos (be sure to watch “Christ the Only Way”).  God bless you and I hope to hear from you soon.  In Christ - Jeff

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Who Does God Say I AM?

I AM loved and chosen.

  • For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you. (1 Thess. 1:4)

I AM a child of God.

  • Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12)

I AM a friend of Jesus.

  • 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. (John 15:15)

I AM not condemned.

  • Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Rom. 8: 1)

I AM accepted by Christ.

  • Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. (Rom. 15:7)

I AM the temple of the Holy Spirit, who dwells in me.

  • Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. (1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19-20)

I AM a new creature in Christ.

  • Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2 Cor. 5: 17)

I AM the righteousness of God in Christ.

  • God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Cor. 5:21)

I AM set free from the law of sin and death.

  • For through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. (Rom. 8 :2)

I AM set free in Christ.

  • It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Gal. 5:1)

I AM no longer a slave but a child of God and an heir.

  • So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir. (Gal. 4:7)

I AM redeemed and forgiven.

  • In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace (Eph. 1 :7)

I AM valuable.

  • For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.(Eph.2:10)

I AM on God’s VIP List.

  • In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. (Eph. 3:12)

I AM created in God’s Image.

  • Put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. (Eph. 4:24)

I AM a citizen of heaven.

  • But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. (Phil. 3:20)

I AM taken care of by God.

  • And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 4: 19)

I AM complete.

  • You have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority. (Col. 2: 1 0)

I AM to be with Christ in Glory.

  • When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. (Col. 3:4)


Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus

You have to watch this video.  It’s all about Jesus.

John 9 – I have seen Him

This morning I read John 9. In it, Jesus spits in the dirt and puts the mud on the blind guy’s eyes and heals him. Later Jesus says to the guy “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” Check out the guys response – he says to Jesus “Who is he, sir?” What?!!! Jesus had healed the guys’ blindness and is standing right in front of him speaking face to face with him and the guy still doesn’t recognize who Jesus is! The guy goes onto say “Tell me so that I may believe in him.”  Jesus says back “you have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”  Only after Jesus makes this declaration does the healed man say “Lord, I believe” and then he worshiped Jesus.  My observation and my point is that only through God’s calling and through him opening our eyes are we able to see, and know, and understand the glory of God and all he is. Paul proclaims that the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing (1 Cor 1:18).  We aren’t able to power up, or muster the level of belief, or do anything else that makes it possible for us to “see” who Jesus is and in turn believe in Him.  Without Christ, I am a broken, sinful man, blinded to the understanding of the Gospel of Christ.  But God chose to open my eyes.  The Holy Spirit lives in me and has removed my blindness.  When I read the Bible, I am able to “see” what it means through the power of the Holy Spirit opening my eyes and giving me understanding.  Proverbs 30: 5 says:

“Every word of God is flawless: He is a shield to the those who take refuge in Him.”

To those who have not been called by God, this verse can’t be understood and is meaningless.  They are spiritually blind and unable to understand.

I am so grateful Lord, that you have chosen me and you have opened my eyes to see who you are and have made it possible for me to believe in you.  Thank you for revealing yourself to me through your Word.  I claim you as my shield today and I take refuge in you – Amen.