Morningside Devotionals

View on Vocaroo >> Following Jesus means that you give up pride and also along with giving up pride, you accept the fact that your strength Is weakness and that in your weakness? Christ is made strong at your strongest point. You do not have the ability to forgive your sin, you just don't.  In fact, we're sinners. Every person within the sound of my voice is a sinner. There is no such thing as a human being who is not a sinner.  There are people who claim that they do not sin, and it might be true, they could get away with a day, maybe possibly even 2 or 3 without committing a heinous sin, but they're sinners, because every person that is born of women as Paul says, is the sinner. Now, what that means is we do not have any sort of luxury to lay back in judgement, say, "Well, you know what, I haven't done that." And so, "look at me, how good I am", that's pridefulness, and when we go to God in prayer, if we've got pridefulness in our hea...

View on Vocaroo >> Not a project! Remember recount, recertify it's not a project. You can't do it as a project when you remember that's not a project. Those are memories, those are things that took place in your past; now; the accuser, will want you to remember sins of your past, and that's how, you know, that it's the accuser, they get reinforced. Because that cannot be the voice of the Holy Spirit. Why? Because your sins, if you ask Jesus to forgive you of them are gone, they're gone. Now, you say, well, Dana, that's not even real, because they still exist, I still remember them. True, and we are talking about remembering, but the accuser will bring them up, to point them out to you as things that you did, that were wrong.  The Holy Spirit will show you that those are things, that Christ has forgiven you of. So then we talk about recounting; well, how about recounting the level of forgiveness that was involved in that?  And this is what you see t...

View on Vocaroo >> It is interesting how powerful God is. He is all-powerful. He is EloHim, almighty God, he's singular. There is only one God. We can't in our Most vivid attempts at being limitless, even begin to imagine The beginning of a limitless, all-knowing power that is God and the interesting thing is, he defines himself through Jesus as truth and light and love.  Parts of our existence that we can come into contact with and know, maybe that was a very large part of messiah coming when he did? Luke, says in the fullness of time, maybe a very large part of that was to give us some human connection. The Holy Spirit is in you when you're born again, he is showing you and talking with you and living within you about the things that you know that you shouldn't do as Paul says, but the things that you should do, you don't do; so you're constantly moving in a direction.  Forward Paul says this one thing I know for getting the past. I move forward to the h...

View on Vocaroo >> Recertify is an idea that is inclusive in life. So you may hear some background noises in this recording, and we're leaving those in there on purpose. This is being recorded at my house out in my backyard. There's lots of noise going on, and that's life; there is lots of noise in life. There's lots of noises right now. The realm of Christianity. In the realm of religion in the realm of worship. By noise, I mean, whenever you have 2 or 3 or 4 or more people, saying something about their particular point or agenda regarding what it is that they believe is the right thing to do. If they each understand letting the other one, speak and when to stop speaking then you can make sense out of what they're saying, but if all 4 speak at one time, obviously, it's gonna just sound like noise. That's what I mean by noise, there's a lot of noise and what is that? The internet. Has brought with it a creative tool for transmitting ideas that...

View on Vocaroo >> My first exposure to the term certify came when I was preparing to teach the book of Romans, and I began to look at this term that crops up in Romans 9:22 Romans, 9:23, it shows up in Romans 16:26, now it's actually translated as certify in Galatians 1:11.  Says this, but I certify you brethren, that the gospel, which was preached of me, is not after man, that's Galatians 1:11. I ran into it in Romans, 9:22.  " What  if God, willing to shew  his  wrath, and to make G1107 ➔ his power known, G1107   (gnorizo, pronounced nor-ee-zo) endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction." H e's talking about those who were outside the Kingdom of God, who are fitted to wrath, for example, the Egyptians who had; they had a choice continually. Now, you say, well, how did the Egyptians have a choice? It was Pharoah, making the...

View on Vocaroo >> > There is a church called 2819. The pastors a fellow named, I think Philip Anthony Mitchell, I think Mitchell's on his last name there. He preaches as close to the bone about the reality of the power of God and our saviour, Jesus Christ, to forgive us, of all sins, to forgive me, of all my sins, and you, of all your sins, that we don't need to be fake with him. We don't need to be plastic with him we don't need to be hidden with him. He came and he suffered, and he died on the cross so that you and I could have freedom to go into a prayer closet, and to talk to him about things that are real to us and things that're real to others. The day is going to come when everything that we've done will be shouted from the rooftops when I read that in the New Testament.  (Luke 12:3) It freaked me out, man, cause personally, I thought my past was hidden my past sins were hidden all the wrongs that I had done I thought they were all hidden, nob...