Happy Sabbath! / What day is the Sabbath?

    Hi , everyone! I hope all of you have had a wonderful week! Today, Saturday, is the day appointed by God to be our day of rest. We are to spend the 7th day of the week to in worship and praise of our creator, GOD! 
     
     Exodus 20:11 says : " For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth,the sea,  and all that is in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." 


       It is important to keep the true Sabbath because..... Exodus 31:13 says : " Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you." 


      Sunday, the first day is also mentioned in the Bible . Matthew 28:1 says : " In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene , and the other Mary to see the sepulchre ."   The dictionary definition of Sunday is as follows:  " the first day of the week, observed as the sabbath by most Christian sects." ( taken from Dictionary).


     Jesus even kept the Sabbath in His death. He died on Friday, rested on Saturday, and rose on Sunday. 


     If the day was changed , wouldn't Jesus tell us in the BIBLE? Hebrews 4:8 says : " For if Jesus had given them rest, then would He not afterward have spoken of another day?" If Jesus told us in the Bible that the Sabbath is the seventh day, Saturday, if it was changed , wouldn't He tell us? He wouldn't want us to be deceived.


            Don't take my word for it, study it out! Study the Bible for yourself and let the Holy Spirit guide you!


               Happy Sabbath, friends!


              
       

I am BEAUTIFUL

         Hello! Good Morning! Sorry about the long space between blog posts! I have been comtemplating this very post for a while, but today's the day! I have done a post similar HERE, but I feel it's time to do it again! 


        What does it mean to be beautiful? Your looks? Your heart ? Or both? The world looks at the outside, the LORD looks at the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7 says : "........for man looketh on the outward appearance , but the Lord looketh on the heart." 

        Psalms 139: 13 says : " I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well."  Do you KNOW that you are BEAUTIFUL? God made YOU and me , and if He created us , we can be assured that we are BEAUTIFUL! 

       But do you know what came make us even more beautiful? Glorifying God with our heart and our bodies. Having a pure heart is what really should matter most to us! 


       I hope you all have a wonderful day , and remember: YOU are BEAUTIFUL because JESUS made YOU!

I will praise THEE ,for I am fearfully and wonderfully made !

Psalm 139: 14

                                                   I will praise THEE 

                                    for I am fearfully and wonderfully made,

                                               marvelous are Thy works;

                                          that my soul knoweth right well!

Brotherly Love

   Hi there! Hope you all have a had a great week! All this week I have been thinking about JOY , Jesus first, Others second, You last. It really is a very important concept. So, that's where I got the idea for this post. here it goes!

            The title of this post is " Brotherly Love" . What does it mean to truly love your brother? Let's look at Roman's 12:10 " Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another." Preferring one another .......... That means putting others first! Like in the JOY acronym! We are not to                         be selfish , always putting ourselves first. We are called to be unselfish, "preferring" one another! We are to put JESUS first ultimately, then others. Brotherly Love also means giving of yourself, always looking to help others. Let's love our "brothers" today and always!

These girls love their brother! ( Petey, second from left)

   

1 Peter 2

1 Peter 2

1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

 ²As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

 ³If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

 ⁴To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,

 ⁵Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

 ⁶Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

 ⁷Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

 ⁸And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

 ⁹But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

 ¹⁰Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

 ¹¹Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

 ¹²Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

 ¹³Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

 ¹⁴Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

 ¹⁵For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

 ¹⁶As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

 ¹⁷Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

 ¹⁸Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

 ¹⁹For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

 ²⁰For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

 ²¹For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

 ²²Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

 ²³Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

 ²⁴Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

 ²⁵For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Happy Father's Day to my Dad!!!!!

         Good Morning, Friends! I hope you have been doing well! Today is Father's Day! On this day every year, we celebrate our fathers.

        So, I thought I would share a Bible verse on Fathers. It  is Exodus 20:12 " Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. "  We are to honor our parents. But, what does it mean to honor?  www.dictionary.com gives this meaning for honor : " to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents." So we must respect our fathers! ( and our mothers , of course! )  We must show them respect and honor. They have a responsibility to God on how they raise us! And us children don't make it very easy!

         So, today , let's honor our fathers! Let's honor our Dads. After all, " Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a DAD!"

        Have a wonderful day! Let's celebrate our dads!

Grace, a gift from GOD

            Hi, Everyone! Hope you are all doing well! Please pray for me as in a couple of days I am going to be taking a college entrance exam at my local community college! Please keep me in your prayers! Thanks!

           Today's post is on grace. Today , I have been thinking a lot about this subject. What is grace? What does the Bible say about it? Here we go! Let's look at a few Bible verses on this subject.

           Grace is a gift . Ephesians 2:8,9 " For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works , lest any man should boast."

           We are sinners in need of a SAVIOR! He gives us grace.  He shows mercy upon us if we will confess our sins and ask for forgiveness.

          But , grace does not give us an excuse to sin. Romans 6:1,2 says : " What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin , that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we , who are dead to sin, live any longer there in?"

               To be continued.......................................