Hope, Faith & Love

1 Hear the word of the LORD, you Israelites, because the LORD has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: “There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. 6 my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. ”Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children. ~ Hos 4: 1,6 ~ How do we pray in tongues? 1. Jas 1:2 - Ask the Lord for Holy Spirit. 2. Your desire from the heart to speak in tongues 3. Just open your mouth How do we receive this as a gift from God? 1. By the grace of God 2. Hearing of God’s word (Act 10:44; Act 11:15) 3. Laying of Hands (Pray for) as in the example of Saul (Act 8:17; 9:17-19), Act 19:6 4. Ask for it What are the benefits of in praying in tongues? 1. Rom 8:24-28 1. Lightens the burden 2. The Spirit intercedes for us; especially in times we are not able to express th

" that which we have seen and heard we declare unto you, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. " 1Jn 1:3 In my devotion time and bible study, I have been hitting 1 John, yup this tiny book somewhere before Revelation and see this book in a new light. I have been having a ball with my study group doing the first chapter so far. As I sat down last night to put some of my thoughts on paper. This is the thought that came to mind: Sometimes we are so focus on spiritual things that we forget the people and sometimes we are so focus on the physical, we forget God. In the old days, the monks would take vows of silence and hide away in some desolated place in the Himalayas, substaining from any interaction with the world or people to focus on the spiritual things. Thinking this will get them to a new level of holiness, but here John expresses that true fellowship needs to include both God and the people

6So Jesus went with them. He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. 7That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed. 8For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." - Luke 7:6-8 - Driving in today, there was an advertisement for house-cleaning service with a genie doing his magic and bang! The house is clean. Then it had me thinking. I was wondering what happened to Aladdin after he won the princess. Had he have turn into a big, over-sized, spoil brat who gets everything he wanted, exchange that magic carpet for a magic Jet plane and make that pet monkey of his talk? Oh I can go on with this one all day. IMHO, having a genie is th