Daily Nugget

                                                                            Focus!   An Incredible “Source” of Power.   Be careful “What you Think”, for through your Thinking “You Set the boundaries of your life”.  (Proverbs 4:23)   Our “Living” Has No Option But to Follow Our “Focus”! To Focus is “spiritual activity”; the spirit world controls the physical world.   Focus – Means to concentrate on God, His teachings, and His will.      It involves giving spiritual matters “priority” over worldly distractions.   Everything that is, started with “A Focus”, through “Thinking”. In the beginning, before God created the world, “He Said”.  Before we can say, we must focus.  Eve “focused” on the fruit before she ate it. ...

                                                                 The Examination!   Your Diet; “What Have You Been Consuming”?   Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside “cannot defile him”, since it enters not his heart (mind) but his stomach, and is expelled?” And He said, “What comes out of a person (mouth) is what defiles him”. (Mark 7:18-20)   Spiritual and physical health or sickness is traced back to “Consumption”.   When a person has a stomach sickness, the doctor will ask “what have you been consuming”?  When a person has a “spiritual sickness” it can been traced back to “What that person has consumed Spiritually”.  GIGO, “garbage in garbage out” or “God’s (Word) In”, “Godly (Living) Out”.  There is a term, “we are what we eat” (consume), this is ...

                                                                              Noise!   Words minus “Sincerity and Truth”.   Now therefore, “Fear the Lord”, serve Him in “Sincerity and In Truth”, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River in Egypt.  Serve The Lord.  (Joshua 24:14-15)   Love and Noise Can Never Dwell Together.   Our Daily Nugget starts with the words, “Now Therefore”.  Joshua had just finished reminding the people of all the mighty works that God did for them and how God made them victorious against all the armies that they defeated.  God has done mighty works for us and has made us victorious over many enemies.  God requires Sincerity and Truth.   “Therefore”, we should ...

                                                           Where are you “Going”?   Everybody is Going Somewhere!   Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His Voice and come out; “those who have done what is good will rise to live”, and “those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned”.  (John 5:28&29)   The Good and the Evil alike are both “Going Somewhere”.   Our Daily Nugget is telling us that those who “Do what is Good in life are Going To Be With Jesus”.  Those who “Do what is Evil in this life are Going To Be With Satan”.  Jesus, our Judge, has the complete knowledge of “all the good” and knowledge of “all the evil” we have done.     Salvation is not based on our “doing good”, our doing good is evidence of our...

                                                                               Grace.   There is “therefore”, No Condemnation.   At the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.  But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise, Grace would no longer be “Grace”.  (Romans 11:5-6) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which “Are In Christ”, “Who Walk (Live, Abide) Not After The Flesh”, “But After The Spirit”.  (Romans 8:1)   Grace, a free gift of God’s Favor. Walk means to Live, Abide, Continue, or Remain. God’s Grace is not a “Green Light” to Sin as much as we Like!   Our Daily Nugget is letting us know that the freedom from condemnation that comes with Grace is for those who Walk (Live) Not After The F...

                                                                  In Your Presence.   We enter God’s Presence through “Thinking”.   You “make known” to me the “path of life”; in “Your Presence” there is “fullness of joy”; at your right hand are “pleasures forevermore”.  (Psalms 16:11)   In Your Presence is Joy, Peace, Light, Help, Hope, Direction, Victory.   We enter and we exit God’s Presence through our Thinking Process.  Solomon said, “be careful ‘What’ you Think”, for through our Thinking, we set the boundaries of our life.  A heart/mind that is sinful and determined to live outside of the Bible’s instructions, cannot enter His Presence.   Our Thinking leads to life, “God’s Presence”; or to death, “Out of God’s Presence”. Do you feel that your life is without, joy, p...

                                                               Courage to “Say No”.   We can, Say No to Sin.   Yield Not to Temptation for Yielding is Sin!  (Romans 7:15) No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man; God is Faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation “He Will” also provide “the way of escape”.  (1 Corinthians 10:13)   Trusting in God gives us the Courage To “Say No”.   Our Daily Nugget is telling us how we are to look at and deal with the temptation to sin.  The “decision” to sin or not to sin starts “between our ears” through Thinking.  “What” are you Thinking?Our living follows our Thinking.  God knows if we “want to sin” or if we “want to say no”.   God would never command his c...

                                                                           It’s Yours.   Do you want it?    Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, “believe that you ‘have’ received it”, “and it will be yours”.  (Mark 11:24) Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  (Matthew 7:7) It’s yours for the Asking!   We should “believe” that we “have received” what we ask for in prayer, even before we receive it.  The word “ask” in Greek implies a humble request or petition.  Jesus said to God, “I know you always hear me when I pray”.  Let us say to God, “I know you ‘always’ hear me when I pray”.     If you do not believe like this, “Ask God to Bless you to Believ...

                                                                           Planted.   Be “Planted for “Prosperity” and “Right Living”.   “He” shall be like a tree “Planted” by the rivers of water, that bring forth it fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever He does shall prosper.  The ungodly are not so, but like the “chaff” which the wind drives away.  (Psalms 1:3-6)   Let us “desire” to be the “He” in our Daily Nugget and God will make it so.   We are either the “He” or the “chaff” in our Daily Nugget, “That Choice Is Ours”.  We make this choice every day, throughout each day; led by the Holy Spirit or led by the demonic spirit.      Scripture describes the “He” and the “Chaff”. Blessed is the one who d...

                                                                              Ascend!   Can You Ascend?   Who may “ascend” the mountain of the Lord?  Who may stand in His Holy Place?  The one who has “clean hands and a pure heart (mind)”, who does not trust in an idol or swear by a false god.  (Psalms 24:3&4)   Continued Sin Prevents us from “Ascending”!   Our natural position is not good; sin has made us an enemy of God, unable to dwell in His Holy Place.  We “Ascend” the mountain of the Lord to His Holy Place by having a Spirit of “Sincerity and Truth”.  People who love money, for money has become their idol and their false god, cannot ascend and stand in God’s Holy Place.   Though Shall Have No Other “god” Before M...

                                                                            Friend! Rejoice with our New Friend.   So now we can “rejoice” in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us “Friends of God”.  (Romans 5:11) Greater “Love” hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his “Friends”. (John 15:13)   We are no longer enemies, “We Are Friends”. Imagine life surrounded by Friends, now imagine life surrounded by Enemies.   Our Daily Nugget are the disciples Paul and John letting us know that we can now rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God as “God’s Friends” and that “No One” can Love anybody more than to “Lay Down His Life for His Friend”.   We have great reason to Rejoice because we are now Friends of Go...

                                                                 Worthless Religion!   The Tongue Told the True Story.   If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. (James 1:26) Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the “Righteousness of God”.   (James 1:19-20)   The Bible says, “The Mouth Speaks What the Heart/Mind Has Been Filled With”.   Listen to this conversation between two people. You don’t know what is in my heart!  I really do know what is in your heart.  How do you know what is in my heart?  “You Just Told Me”.     The mouth speaks what we have filled our heart/mind with....

                                                                      What’s New?   New Creatures are “New Creatures”.   So, from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.  Though once we regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a “New Creature”: old things “are passed away”; behold, “all things are become new”.  (2 Corinthians 5:16&17)   You say you are a New Creature; “What’s New”?   A tremendous change occurs when a person becomes a “New Creature” in Christ.    We cannot be an Old Creature and a New Creature at the same time; the change is instantaneous, like it was with Paul.  The Bible refers to this as being a “lukewarm” person.  Jesus will spit the “lukewarm” perso...

                                                         Purpose of “The Word”.   God’s Word lead to life, Man’s Word lead to death.   Your “Word” is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.  (Psalms 119:105)   For “The Word of God” is “Living and Active”, sharper than any two edge sword, piercing to the division of the soul and of spirit, of joints, and of marrow, and “discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart/mind”.  (Hebrews 4:12)   God’s Words are to make us “Be Good”, not to make us “Feel Good”.   New Creatures no longer are to live based on “man’s words”; for man’s words lead to death; therefore, we need to “Repent”.  To Repent means that no longer do our words determine how we live because we no longer place any Faith in our words.  This is also called “Humility”...