1 Sam 2:30 for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed. EVADE accepting anything that isn’t pleasing to God. When you avoid it, you are showing to yourself and to the world that you esteem God. Here are some things that God wants you to evade. […]
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7 ‘E’s’ that lead to ESTEEMING God, ‘ELUDE’
1 Sam 2:30 for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed. ELUDE THE ENEMY’S TRAPS: There are so many ways he can catch you and fould you up. Mentally – guard your thought life Spiritually – stay in prayer and in the Word, not in the […]
7 `E’s” that lead to ESTEEMING God, ‘ESTEEM’
(PART# 1 of the 7 `E’s” that lead to ESTEEMING God, ‘ESTEEM’) 1 Sam 2:30 for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed. Honor, Respect, Value, and Esteem are pretty much the same thing. Disrespect, dishonor, not value and despise are the opposite. Honor God and […]
The 6 ‘i’s Part 6
The6’i’s PART-6 (PART# 6 of the 6 `i’s” that lead to desp’I’sing God,‘INSULT’) 1 Sam 2:30 for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed. INSULTING IS EASY. WE CAN DO IT WITHOUT EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT. IN SOME WAYS, COMPLETELY UNINTENTIONALLY. FOR EXAMPLE, A FEW PASTORS […]
The 6 ‘i’s Part 5
The6’i’sPART-5 (PART# 5 of 6 “i’s” that lead to desp’I’sing God,‘IGNORE’) 1 Sam 2:30 for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed. Merry Christmas! God’s presence is what makes heaven heaven. God’s PRESENTS His Son and our salvation gets us there. What God wants for Christmas […]
The 6 ‘i’s Part 4
The6’i’sPART-4 (PART# 4 of 6 “i’s” that lead to desp’I’sing God,‘INTERFERENCE’) 1 Sam 2:30 for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed. In a nutshell, despising means disrespecting.. if you disrespect your fellow man, you are disrespecting God, because man is made in God’s image. 1 […]
The 6 ‘i’s Part 3
The6’i’sPART-3 (PART# 3 of 6 “i’s” that lead to desp’I’sing God,‘Intrusion’) 1 Sam 2:30 for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed Intrusion – To thrust or bring in without invitation. Proverbs 25:6. Put not forth yourself in the presence of the king, and stand not […]
The 6 ‘i’s Part 2
6’i’sPART-2 (PART# 2 of 6 “i’s” that lead to desp’I’sing God,‘Interruption’) 1 Sam 2:36 “for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed” ‘Despise’ means to regard as unworthy of one’s notice or consideration. The second of the six ‘I’s’ that lead to despising God is the […]
The 6 ‘i’s Part 1
The6’i’sPART-1 (Part# 1 of six “i’s” that lead to desp’I’sing God) 1 Sam 2:36 “for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed” DESPISE = TO ESTEEM LIGHTLYTO ESTEEM LIGHTLY = DESPISE If you really know me, you will know I am not naturally gifted to be […]
2020 Update
2020 update End of the Year/Christmas season update for the past year’s activities in 2020. This is going to be short because I don’t have any working computers, so I have to do it by my phone.This year has been exciting. I am involved three zoom Bible studies and even witnessing the exciting church plant […]
Anxiety
Anxiety Philipians 4:5 Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near. 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus People like […]
Wind Storms
WindStorms Matt 4:37 And there arose a great storm of wind I have been in WindStorms that literally lifted me off of my feet, or moved the car I was driving. The wind can be scary, but for me the scariest thing about windstorms is the noise they make, especially combined with the vibrations a […]
Honor
1 Samuel 2:30…for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed I like the old english spelling of the word honour because it is ‘our honour’. It’s ours to give or not to give. We honour God only because He deserves to be honoured. That is the […]
Door
John 9:11. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. My little sister came up to me around the year 2000 and said, ‘I found a new group called the “old doors”. It would have been pretty funny, […]
Matters
Ecclesiasticus 3:23 “Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand.” ‘Matters’ is a lofty word. Pompous people like to throw this word around because it’s fancy sounding. Pastors down here like to use it a lot. With internet, we have a hundred times the matter content that […]
Resistance
Romans13:2 “Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God” ‘Resistance’ has many meanings, like the word ‘power’. ‘Resisting power’ as a phrase has even more interpretations. Sure, authorities are power, as some translations suggest. We shouldn’t resist our president nor the police if we are followers of Christ. We are to obey our […]
If
Deuteronomy 28:1IF thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: IF is a word used 1,595 times in the KJV/if/conjunction (introducing […]
Patience
Galatians 5: 22-23 ‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law’Berean Study Bible Words are thought containers. They are designed to bundle up a bunch of useless letters (individually), put them together and send them as a thought (idea) […]
Truth
——espanol abajo—— Ephesians 4:15 “But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, evenChrist:” Missionary-ville is a small town. I have a european missionary friend over the years. He would always kind of embarrass me because wherever he went he would get upset and yell at people. Like […]
Perfect
—— español abajo—— MATTHEW 5:48 BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT EVEN AS YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT.: THIS ISN’T AN OPTIONAL STATEMENT. Jesus said ‘be perfect’, it’s a commandment. I always said as an excuse, *until now*, THAT NO ONE’S PERFECT. But Jesus commands us to be perfect. That means it’s possible. Jesus also […]
Forget
—— español abajo—— PHILIPPIANS 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, FORGETTING THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Talk about forgetting […]
Entrenched
Entrenched —— español abajo——- 1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. As we age, we absorb things. I think the more we ‘absorb’ the more we ‘entrench ourselves’. Like aged whiskey in a wooden keg, or a steak cooked extra slowly over mesquite, […]
Shame
——-español abajo———- Hebrew 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne. I gew up thinking that shame was a Christian word. Every self righteous person that […]
Obededom
OBEDEDOM—–SPANISH BELOW—— 1 Chronicles 13:14 “And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had.” This is my favorite story in the Bible. Everywhere that I teach it, lives are changed. I teach it because I […]
I
I IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BITTER AND BETTER` MIKE MACINTOSH GOD IS WITH US. WE MUST BE WISE BUT NOT AFRAID. WITH THESE PROBLEMS THAT ARE GOING ON (I WON´T DIGNIFY IT WTH THE WORD PANDEMIC, IT´S SOMETHING EVIL, BUT THERE´S A LOT MORE GOING ON THAN MEETS THE EYE THAN A BAD FLU) . […]
New Normal
(espanol abajo) Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. 2020 can still be the best year of our lives! A landmark time of victory in our lives, where we […]
Blessings
Blessing or curse, you choose! Note from Million Friends. We are all healthy. Praise God not a sniffle or a cold among any of us nor the children we work with. We are still working towards opening the orphanage. The feeding centers are stronger and more relevant than ever. Our daily Discipleship Course, English Class […]
Say
(espanol abajo) “let the weak say I am strong” Joel 3:10 I really dislike the expression ‘I’m just saying’. Just like I also don’t like kids pointing toy guns at me and saying pow pow. It’s the same, kids use toy guns to practice murder, not having seen what a gun can do to someone […]
Covet
(espanol abajo) UPDATE ON MILLION FRIENDS BELOW Exodus 20:17 Thou SHALT NOT covet. A good question to ask yourself if you concerned about coveting something is, “AM I CONTENT WITHOUT IT?” If the answer is no, you are coveting something and coveting is 99% of the time a sin. If someone says they don’t sin, they […]
Holiness
—- español abajo——- SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE ON WINNERHOME FOR AT-RISK KIDS Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: What is holiness? What does a holy person look like? Many people, including myself, picture a holy person as an extremely uptight, judgmental, unapproachable person who is […]
Jews
——español abajo——- 1 Corinthians 9:20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; The Lord recently has really been convicting me about stereoptyping. I’ve basically stopped describing […]
Doubt
(—–español abajo—–) James 1:6….But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. This morning was one of those mornings when you wake up unsure, doubting yourself or your calling. Well, maybe that never happens to you, but with […]
Fear
——español abajo——— Psalm 34:4: I sought the Lord, and He heard me, And delivered me from all my fears. If you truly fear God, you’ll fear nothing else. Fear is a perversion of faith. Faith is excited about the future. Fear dreads the future. The world teaches us to fear. The Holy Spirit teaches us to […]
Yield
——español abajo———— *update on Winnerhome for at-risk toddlers below* Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. You serve who you yield to. If you are not yielding to the […]