THE WATERFALL OF GRACE

GALATIANS 6:9 NLT 9 So let's not get tired of doing what is good.  At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up. When a farmer has planted seed in the ground, it does not produce a harvest the next day. There is a period of waiting. A time to stand in faith, knowing that the seed will grow and produce as it was created to do.  It takes faith for a farmer to bury expensive seed in the ground. But the farmer knows how God's system works. (Even if the farmer does not believe in God, it is still God's system he is using.) You plant the seed, you wait, and then comes a harvest that multiplies what you planted.  2 CORINTHIANS 9:10-11 NLT 10 For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you. 11  Yes, you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous. And when we take you...

1 CORINTHIANS 12:12 NKJ 12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.  Each individual believer IS also part of the Body of Christ, which is composed of all believers. (This is the work of God. Not something we "join.") Think how insane it would be for you to allow your hand to attack some other member of your body. It's just as crazy for us, as members of the Body of Christ, to attack other members.  ROMANS 12:4-5 NKJ 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Other members have different callings -- different functions. But your job is not to oppose them -- even though you may not understand them, or why they do what they do. Just leave that to the Head of the Body -- and do what He tells YOU to do.  You are not the Head of the Body of C...

LUKE 8:11 NKJ 11 "Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. A seed is powerful. As a seed begins to grow, it will push up dirt, rocks, etc. Whatever the obstacles are, God's Word planted in your heart will push them out of the way. A seed begins its growth in secret (underground). The only way to tell if a seed is growing is to dig it up, or wait for a plant to appear. If you dig up a seed, you may kill it.  A seed takes time to produce. No one expects a seed to produce a harvest the same day that seed is planted. Sometimes the Word of God seems to spring up and bear fruit immediately. Yet, if we knew the details, we would understand that the fruit of the Word grew in that person's life over time. A seed is persistent. A seed never gives up, but works day and night. Even when you are sleeping, the seed you have planted is working to grow and express itself in a fruitful harvest. A seed is not affected by other seeds. Whatever happens to other ...

ROMANS 10:3 NLT 3 For they don't understand God's way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God's way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.  It seems that humans are naturally intent on trying to prove to God that we are worthy of His acceptance and favor. All human religions are based on what we must do to please God. But true Christianity is based entirely on what God did for us through Christ Jesus. That is why it is called the Gospel (which means Good News).  PHILIPPIANS 3:9 NLT 9 and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God's way of making us right with himself depends on faith. God's way for people to be right with Him is based on the work of Jesus Christ. It is not something any human being can ever deserve or earn. It is purely a gift from God.  GALATIANS 2:16 NLT 16 Yet we know t...

JOHN 14:9 Jesus said to him, “…He who has seen Me has seen the Father…  Imagine the following scenario: A father tells his little girl, “Come here, girl. Mummy says that you have been playing by the roadside. Is that true?” “Yes, Daddy. I am sorry.” “Sorry? How many times have I told you not to play near the road? Come here! Lie down on the road and stretch out your legs!” Daddy drives his car over his little girl’s legs. You can hear the sound of bones being crushed and the poor girl screaming in pain! “Now, darling, you know that Daddy loves you. And Daddy did that to teach you a lesson, that playing by the roadside is dangerous.”  You are probably shaking your head in horror by now, wondering which sick father would do that. Yet, there are many Christians who believe that our heavenly Father does the same thing. They say that He gives people sicknesses, accidents, earthquakes and death to teach them lessons. But Jesus said, “If you have seen Me, you have seen th...

1 JOHN 4:8 8 The person who doesn't love does not know God, because God is love.  True believers in Jesus Christ are children of Love and citizens of the kingdom of Love. The God of Love is our Father, and He gave us His message of Love to share with all humanity (2 Corinthians 5:19-20). It is Good News! As God's children, He has placed His love in our hearts (Romans 5:5). JOHN 13:35  35 This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, when you love each other."  Today every follower of Jesus Christ is called to manifest God's love, just as Jesus did during His time on earth.  1 JOHN 2:6 NLT 6 Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did. Jesus already defeated the devil. But the Church, which is the Body of Christ, is still in a battle for the hearts and minds of people.  2 CORINTHIANS 10:4-5  4 Our weapons that we fight with aren't human, but instead they are powered by God for the destruction of fortres...