Today's Good News

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MAR. 8 – JOSHUA 1:9

3/08            JOSHUA 1:9

9 This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

BE

Be strong.

Be courageous.

Do not be afraid. 

Do not be discouraged.

The Lord is with you wherever you go. 

Trust in the Lord. 

MARCH 7 – JAMES 5:13-16

3/07            JAMES 5:13-16

13 Are any of you suffering hardships? You should pray. Are any of you happy? You should sing praises. 14 Are any of you sick? You should call for the elders of the church to come and pray over you, anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 Such a prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make you well. And if you have committed any sins, you will be forgiven.  16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

NOW

Now is the time to connect with the Lord.

What do you need?

Tell Him.

Praise Him.

Follow Him.

Pray to Him.

Listen to Him. 

Jesus is God’s everything. 

MARCH 6 – JAMES 4:13-15

3/06            JAMES 4:13-15

13 Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” 14 How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. 15 What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”

LIFE

Life is not yours to command.

It slips away. 

Suddenly you are at life’s end. 

Jesus is Lord, is He your Lord?

Bend the knee to Jesus right now while He can be found. 

MARCH 5 – JAMES 4:7-8

3/05            JAMES 4:7-8

7 So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.

STEP

Step into heaven and keep your heart focused on Jesus.

Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Do not try to walk in the Word and the World.

Give Jesus your undivided loyalty. 

You will change and become more like Jesus. 

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.

Walk in Him in humility and power. 

MARCH 4 – JAMES 3:8-10

3/04            JAMES 3:8-10

8 but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison. 9 Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God. 10 And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right!

WATCH

Watch what you say.

Surrender your mind and your mouth to the Lord. 

Give Him your obedience.

He will guard your tongue. 

MAR. 3 – JAMES 2:14-17

3/03            JAMES 2:14-17

14 What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone? 15 Suppose you see a brother or sister who has no food or clothing, 16 and you say, “Good-bye and have a good day; stay warm and eat well”—but then you don’t give that person any food or clothing. What good does that do?
17 So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.

TALK

Talk is cheap.

Doing requires real effort and constructive faith. 

We put our faith to work and let it control our hands and feet.

We make our faith active and let it control our resources. 

Love one another.

Do for others as the Lord does for you. 

Be Jesus in action. 

The world needs Jesus. 

MAR. 2 – JAMES 1:22-25

3/02            JAMES 1:22-25

22 But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. 23 For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror. 24 You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. 25 But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.

WORK

Work at your faith.

Learn the Lord’s rules and do them. 

It is one thing to know and not do-just fooling yourself. 

It is a faith walk to do what the Lord says. 

Half obedience is no obedience. 

Confess you sin, change, do. 

Jesus loves you. 

MAR. 1 – JAMES 1:2-7

3/01            JAMES 1:2-7

2 Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. 3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
5 If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 6 But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. 7 Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
ASK

Testing our faith isn’t fun but it does produce growth.

Ask the Father for help.

Ask the Father for strength.

Whatever else you need be sure to ask the Father. 

Focus on Jesus-no divided loyalty-faith in Him.

He will see you through.

Jesus will never abandon you.

One day soon you will experience the end of the testing.

Your joy will be complete-you now know He will see you through the trial. 

By faith we walk.

Our journey is straight to Jesus. 

Walk worthy.

Walk in faith.

The Lord Jesus loves you. 

FEB. 29 – EPH. 1:5

2/29            EPHESIANS 1:5

God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.

ADOPTION

I am a child of God.

He has adopted me into His family.

It was a grace gift.

I claim that gift by faith.

I walk in Him by faith.

I talk with Him and listen to Him by faith.

The Holy Spirit guides me and I believe it by faith.

One day I will stand face to face and see Jesus.

Praise the Lord that marvelous day. 

FEB. 28 – 1 JOHN 3:1

2/28            1 JOHN 3:1

See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.

BLIND

The world is blind to the Lord.

They do not see Him nor do they believe in Him.

The hate us for claiming Jesus as Lord.

Stand your ground.

Pray for the lost.

Glorify God by the things you do. 

Love others and care for them the way the Father cares for you.