Your Daily Bible QUESTion - Church Work?
September 22, 2024
Since church work is the most important work there is, you can expect fierce opposition from the enemies of the Church.
“Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?" - Mark 7:18.
Jesus taught that it's the things you think and say that render you unclean, not what you eat or drink.
"Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?" - Acts 7:26.
You are part of the family of God; that makes your fellow believers also your brothers and sisters in Christ.
"If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?" - Matthew 6:30.
There is no need to worry about your provision, for God has promised to take care of you.
"How long will you love delusions and seek false gods?" - Psalm 4:2.
It's idolatrous to worship God as you would want Him to be, and not according to the truth of who He really is.
"How long shall I stay with you and put up with you?" - Luke 9:41.
With faith it's possible to please God; without faith it's impossible to do so.
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" - Psalm 22:1.
God cannot bring you to where you want and need to be until you admit to where you actually are.
"... was it really for me that you fasted?" - Zechariah 7:5.
Fasting is an important spiritual discipline but must be done for the right reasons to obtain any benefits.
“Why do you stand here looking into the sky?" - Acts 1:11.
Your focus is to be on your work on earth, rather than speculations concerning what may happen when the end comes and Jesus returns.
"Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me" - Malachi 3:8.
The prophet equated those who did not give to God's work were actually robbing Him!