Relationship

Since review is the price of knowledge we should often remind ourselves of the first and greatest commandment in the Bible. When someone asked Jesus to designate the most important commandment in the Bible, our Lord immediately quoted Deuteronomy 6:5, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” Then our Lord unhesitatingly declared that this is the first and greatest commandment. Let’s often remind ourselves that this commandment states the goal of keeping all commandments found in Scripture. Therefore, we hate every impediment to loving Father, Son and Holy Spirit more. We shun everything that diminishes our affection for the Lord.   Living with the first and greatest commandment in mind makes us more than conquerors through him who loved us and gave himself for us!

What does God look forward to?  Your presence in his courts!  No, I’m not referring to moving to heaven.  God looks forward to sharing private time with you as you worship, praise, magnify and glorify him.  The Lord likes being appreciated; he enjoys being paid attention to; he longs to interact with your spirit.  Don’t you recall Zephaniah 3:17?  “The Lord, your God, will take great delight in you;…he will…rejoice over you with singing.”  Yes, the Creator of everything created you for himself.

Set a time goal for being alone with the Lord.  15 minutes? 20 minutes?  Adhere to your goal everyday and you will experience God’s presence.  Soon, you will start looking forward to your time with the Lord just like he excitedly anticipates being with you!

Be greatly encouraged,

Pastor James Fields

You can use our Scripture Sheet Praise for the Lord to start off your time with our heavenly Father.

Leaving Prayer, Entering Communion is another great tool for fellowship with God.  You can purchase this book on our website here.

God loves hugging his earthly children.  He expresses his immeasurable affection for us by embracing us.  Our human desire to hug family members and close friends merely reflects the joy Heavenly Father receives when he hugs us.

How can we give God the thrill of hugging us? …

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Love makes us want to help the one we love. Therefore, it should be easy for us to desire to be a helper for our spouse. Regrettably, it doesn’t always work that way. We are so self-centered we concentrate on how our spouse helps us and overlook opportunities to be a helper to them. But this self-centeredness can be eliminated. In fact, that’s one of God’s reasons for creating marriage—to deliver us from self-centeredness. …

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“Sometimes I feel like a pastor’s widow,” Delores mentioned.

I was a young pastor working six days a week from early morning until late evening. I rarely came home for lunch since I viewed lunch as a great time to visit with guys in my church. Appointment after appointment filled my day, and visitation consumed most of my evenings. It never dawned on me that my wife sometimes felt like a pastor’s widow. …

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“Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen,” 1 Timothy 1:17.

From the very first session of the scuba diving class I took, our instructor emphasized that you never dive alone.  In fact, he paired all of us into buddy teams.  For the entire semester we always entered the pool with our buddy and carried on our training with our friend at our side. …

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The Bible is an absolutely phenomenal manual for successful marriage! Why?  Because each command to either husband or wife reveals your spouse’s need. …

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