The day with dianne Louise

For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith. Romans 1:17 HCSB https://bible.com/bible/72/rom.1.17.HCSB The righteous shall live by faith, not manipulation, pushing self forwards saying look at me! Righteousness is found in death to fleshly cravings for glory and prominence. I can know this but not practice this! Why?? The revelation has not captured my heart yet. My heart still belongs to self. Have mercy Lord!!!

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek. For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith. Romans 1:16‭-‬17 HCSB https://bible.com/bible/72/rom.1.16-17.HCSB God's righteousness, His way of being right, is revealed through the gospel. The word 'gospel means good news. What is this good news? The news about Jesus being God's answer for the penalty of sin, and His answer for the need of a new way to live. Sin was the problem. It prevented us from coming to God. It broke fellowship with God. Sin is doing things our way, the selfish way. Repentance and asking Jesus to be our saviour and Lord is us accepting God's way. God 's way through the gospel is good news indeed. It is a river in the desert, a cool breeze in the hot sun, a shady tree. It is warmth in the cold, refreshing to the tired and weary. Go...

One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation. Romans 10:10 HCSB https://bible.com/bible/72/rom.10.10.HCSB Believing in the heart produces righteousness, confession with the mouth produces salvation. Two different things and places produces two different things but both are needed for a new Christian, and an ongoing growing Christian. Believing and confession work together to produce the Lord's desired son or daughter. Paul said at the beginning of the book of Romans: for I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God's power for salvation to everyone who believes, first the Jew, then the Greek. (1:14) Being willing to share the gospel means we are not ashamed of it. Sharing the gospel is a confession of our mouths. Come alive, come alive, come alive dry bones. Jesus is the life! Amen!

One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation. Romans 10:10 HCSB https://bible.com/bible/72/rom.10.10.HCSB Believing impacts the depth of who we are.  It is not a cursory event, but rather a life changing ongoing process. My beliefs are evident in my life. If I believe Jesus is my saviour, I will act like it rather than behave as if I am my own saviour. Confession also is an ongoing process. Whilst I might initially come to Christ and confess Him as saviour,  I show Him as Lord by the ongoing confessions of my mouth. So, both believing and confession are ongoing and life changing processes. Amen!

Do what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:9 HCSB https://bible.com/bible/72/php.4.9.HCSB A good leader encourages you to emulate them. They are a good role model. Whereas, bad leaders leave those beneath them determined not to behave like them. However,  to find a good role model they will have to seek out that person. It would have been much better for that model to have been there already. I see sons determined not to be like their dads. Yet, being not like their dads is harder  unless someone else gives them the pattern. Paul had been a good leader and provided a good role model.  He had the right to encourage the Philippian Church to follow his lead. Be a good model! Amen!

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die — ever. Do you believe this? ” John 11:25‭-‬26 HCSB https://bible.com/bible/72/jhn.11.25-26.HCSB Max Stahl, film producer, died today after a long battle with cancer. Whilst we may revere him as a good bloke, how will God see him? I don't have that answer,  but I know today he faced the Lord. Was it a shock, was it a warm welcome, was it horrifying? Each of us will face this same experience. No matter what others think of us, in eternity it is what the Lord thinks that matters. It is the one who does the will of the Father who will be welcomed in. On earth we may be caught living to please ourselves or our fans, but what about our eternal Lord? Lazarus, Jesus friend died, but was raised again by Christ. Both of Lazarus' sisters believed in eternity and that they would see their brother in God's kingdom, but Jesu...

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die — ever. Do you believe this? ”John 11:25‭-‬26 HCSB https://bible.com/bible/72/jhn.11.25-26.HCSB Jesus was speaking these words to his good friend Martha as He arrives to find Martha's brother dead in a tomb. He was about to raise Lazarus from the dead and was establishing Martha's faith. Martha's responds with: "Yes Lord," she told Him,  " I believe You are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world." However, previously Martha had chided Jesus for being late with, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother wouldn't have died. Yet even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You." Next Martha's sister Mary came and the conversation was similar. Jesus became angry in spirit and deeply moved. He asked where they had placed Lazarus. When there He comman...