Morningside Devotionals

View on Vocaroo >>   One of the hardest things to keep in mind when you're talking about a process of remembering, especially when it comes to discipling, bringing people to Jesus, bringing them back to Jesus; disciples learners, they may apply to you, they may attach to you because you; and they; get along they're your friends. They're your loved ones, they're your family, they're the people close to you. They're the people that know that you sin. They're the people that have seen your sin, they know your secrets that you don't want other people to know.  But guess what, Jesus said ultimately, they're going to be shouted from the rooftops, so the idea that you need to think that you can keep anything secret from God is a joke but that you would keep anything secret from Jesus, is a worst kind of cynical reprise by the accuser! The devil who would love for you not to confess your sin to Christ. If he can convince you the confessing your s...

View on Vocaroo >>   Remember, not just that God blesses us, but remember the various ways that God blesses us and then remember that with the idea of passing that on.  One of my all time favourite companions was a fabulous poodle by the name of Sophie, she was absolutely amazing, she seemed to always be smiling and tolerating our human ways and she was beautiful, because she would be clear across the field of tall green grass and she would see me come out on the; Tarmac, and she would just come running, bounding across that field. And you remember that this beautiful coal, black, beautiful poodle, and she would just come bowling in the sun with the Christ joy, that's a visual that you remember with the sunlight, the just; the gaity of her presence.  Remember, not just that God blesses us, but remember the flavourings of the blessings. Remember the power of the blessings. Remember the moments of the blessings? Remember the people. God blesses us with people God b...

View on Vocaroo >>   I promise you, in the future, we're going to go to video, but I'm honestly trying to spare you having to see this face. It's bad enough to get old. It's way worse to have all of these wrinkles implemented by God to humble you; anyway, Hey; that and the fact that it used to have hair, and now it just has air. So Making disciples using a process of remembering recounting and recertifying, you could almost substitute the term retelling for recertifying? But certify is used in the New Testament, and I thought Paul using it was just a real kind of a shocker, but a real testimonial to how thoughtful Paul had become? How about the depth of what it means to work with people in bringing them back to Jesus continually? (Galatians 1:11) And we are really focusing in this first chapter on remembering and the fact that remembrances have an odd characteristic to them, and that characteristic is this, if you remember something in a good frame of referen...

View on Vocaroo >> There is something going on today in our culture that is so destructive. And so contemptible and so dangerous, and yet so hidden that the maliciousness of it is subtle, so subtle?  Matthew wrote in his gospel that Jesus said don't fear them which killed the body. But rather fear the one who who can destroy both. You know, don't fear those which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear Him, which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Now That's Matthew 10: 28.  That's not our normal perspective. Oh, thanks to our culture today, you have a very pervasive, let's say preaching of the God of love, which is true, that's how God defines Himself, but YehWeh, JosHua, Elohim; that God; said in the Old Testament to the Prophets, that his ways aren't our ways. His thoughts aren't our thoughts. He's as far distant, from the way that we humans are as is an unimaginably distant way; unavailable thought we ...

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...