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CURRENT RADIO SERIES God's Secrets   CURRENT TV SERIES Unchained

“If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.” --John 15:10 Friendships don’t just happen in our hectic lives. They take effort and discipline. And the same is true regarding our friendship with Jesus Christ. That’s why I want to share a few disciplines with you that will help you nurture your friendship with the Lord Jesus. Begin by reading the Bible every day. You see, when you and I open the Bible, God’s Word speaks to our hearts and into our lives. It sustains us and cannot fail us. Because it is inspired, inerrant, infallible, immutable, and it is unchanging! If the Bible is God speaking to us, then prayer is the way that you and I respond and speak back to him. So you need to pray to the Lord every day. As his friend, you have no secrets, so you can talk to him about everything. And here is one other discipline of friendship with Jesus. You must embrace a living community of faith. You see, a church is a gathering of the friends of Jesus Christ. And it’s impossible to love God without loving the friends of God. Purpose in your heart right now to be a good friend to Christ by reading his Word, praying to him, and embracing a community of faith, and you will find a friend, indeed. A GROWING FRIENDSHIP WITH CHRIST REQUIRES EFFORT AND DISCIPLINE.

The Riches of Jesus Christ

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.”
Romans 11:33–36

The benefits of salvation are beyond the ability of our limited human understanding to fully grasp. Those benefits, received because of God’s grace alone, change everything about this life and about eternity as well. The mercy God extends to us provides access to the full resources of Heaven—a staggering power and wealth that is available to us as children of the King.
Yet too often Christians live without tapping into what is available to them. We would be shocked if we heard that one of Bill Gates’ children were living on the streets in poverty, given the great wealth of their parents that they could call on for help. As children of God we have a far greater resource from which to draw. God does not promise all that anyone would wish, but He does promise to meet every need by His great power.
Someone wrote: “In Christ we have…
A love that can never be fathomed.
A life that can never die.
A righteousness that can never be tarnished.
A peace that can never be understood.
A rest that can never be disturbed.
A joy that can never be diminished.
A hope that can never be disappointed.
A glory that can never be clouded.
A light that can never be darkened.
A purity that can never be defiled.
A beauty that can never be marred.
A wisdom that can never be baffled.
Resources that can never be exhausted.”
 

Today’s Growth Principle: 

The greatest challenge you face presents no problem to the knowledge, power, and resources of Christ.