Amazing

Astounding

Awe-inspiring

Awesome

Astonishing

Amazing

A book that could foretell the future would certainly be an amazing book, wouldn’t it?  And, that’s exactly what the Bible does.

 Astounding

Although the book was penned by many different human scribes who wrote what God inspired them to write in their own style, the book has an astounding wholeness and continuity of thought in it.

Awe-inspiring

Through the thousands of years of mankind’s existence, the words of this book have continued to be awe-inspiring to people in all nations and of all cultures.

Awesome

God’s awesome Master Plan of salvation is revealed through the words of this book, especially as they describe God’s great love and the wonderful work of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Astonishing

It is astonishing to realize this book has survived many, many desperate and wicked attempts to destroy it.

Actually, this book (the Bible) is an A+ book.  Why not take a fresh look?  Enjoy all of its accounts, action, advice, agreements, authority and much, much more.

Let the BIBLE SPEAK to you.

Many women have asked about what they can do for God’s Church.  They want to be more involved.  They want to be useful and to feel useful.  Frequently, they invest time and energy in doing a wonderful and generous physical service.  However, they would especially like to do something that is spiritual, also.  They wonder if they can ever have a real spiritual part.  And, the answer is YES!  Here is one way.  Let’s now let the BIBLE SPEAK!

In the Church of God at Corinth, there were Brethren who were very concerned (“zealous” KJV) about spiritual gifts.  So, God inspired the Apostle Paul to focus attention on a very important concept relevant to spiritual gifts.  Paul wrote about edifying or building up the Brethren God had called into His Church in several New Testament books.

Building up the Church of God is most certainly needed in this end-time generation, maybe even more so today than in the early New Testament Church.  So, what can we glean from Paul’s writings?

Notice the emphasis God places on each one of us having a part in edifying or building up God’s Church spiritually.  In numerous Scriptures we find exhortations to edify each other.  God tells us (men and women) to “excel” at it.

1 Corinthians 14:12 
Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

Romans 14:19 
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

 1 Corinthians 14:26(b)
 Let all things be done unto edifying.

Ephesians 4:12 
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

1 Thessalonians 5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Romans 15:2 
Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

Ephesians 4:29 
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Notice that the edifying is to affect the whole body and, it is to be done in love.

Ephesians 4:16 
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Clearly, edifying one another is part of our calling.  God has given us both the opportunity as well as the responsibility to be a part of this edification.

Edifying one another in love is truly an important spiritual assignment!

This sounds like a simple enough question.  Right?

For those who have already experienced truly walking with God by faith, the answer is a resounding, “Of course He does!”

God created us to SUCCEED…it’s His will for us!  His plans and His thoughts about us are ONLY good.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

As we think deeper about this question of success, we come to realize that real success can only be achieved when we apply ourselves to things that are righteous and in the will of God.

Yes! God wants both our short-term success AND our long-term success!  To assure us that we can achieve those two ends, God has already invested His most precious asset in us!  And, He continues to invest in us daily.

When we understand God’s agenda (i.e., His plan and His will), we are well on our way to a lasting success designed and being worked out by the Sovereign, Almighty God Himself.

One day, all the world will be offered the experience of true success.  Yes!  Success is on its way!

Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.