Just a Guy and his Journey Back to God

Send us Fan Mail So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? Galatians 3:5 The hearing of faith is actually hearing with faith. Paul appealed to the Galatians’ own salvation to refute the Judaizers’ false teaching that keeping the law is necessary for salvation.  Salvation and the the Holy Spirit come not fr...

Send us Fan Mail Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Matthew 7:7-8 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read tha...

Send us Fan Mail So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. Galatians 2:16 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” Galatians 2:21 Jesus died on the cross for our sins. He died for the...

Send us Fan Mail But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me Galatians 1:15-16 Charles Spurgeon makes the point that often we focus on God's grace once we're converted, but we should also think about and cherish the grace we received even before we were saved. We do not attach enough importance to the Grace of Go...

Send us Fan Mail Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Matthew 11:29-30 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God...

Send us Fan Mail We're going to read the letter from Paul to the Galatians for the next week or so. In this introduction, we'll read some insights from the MacArthur Commentary and a couple of others. It will set the stage for the next few days as we go through this letter addressed to churches located in multiple cities. It is interesting to note, this is the only epistle that does that...

Send us Fan Mail Today is a short prayer for the new month, the nation, our families and our relationship. Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God. Let's speak the Word over our land.   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail The podcast has been on hold for a little while. It will begin again on Monday the 1st.    Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail Today is a short prayer for the new month, the nation, our families and our relationship. Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God. Let's speak the Word over our land.   Just a Guy and His World  

Send us Fan Mail  And it shall come to pass in that day  That the remnant of Israel,  And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob,  Will never again depend on him who defeated them,  But will depend on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. Isaiah 10:20 God holds Israel accountable and uses Assyria to that end. Assyria then becomes arrogant and God holds them accountable. I guess, I should...

Send us Fan Mail Hear my voice when I call, LORD; be merciful to me and answer me.  My heart says of you, “Seek his face! ” Your face, LORD, I will seek. Psalms 27:7-8 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God. Let's speak the Word...

Send us Fan Mail The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined. Isaiah 9:2 Have you ever been outside in the dark and couldn't see anything? When it was so dark, you stumbled around. Do you remember what it was like when you saw that first plash of light? The relief and happiness that swept over you?...

Send us Fan Mail Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 5:20-21 Charles Spurgeon prays the following in his book, The Pastor in Prayer, "And now we have a prayer to put up to Thee, Great God, a...

Send us Fan Mail And when they say to you, “Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? Isaiah 8:19 When faced with a challenge, I often run to friends and family for advice, but shouldn't the first place we turn be to God? He is the creator of all and wants what's best for us, aft...

Send us Fan Mail Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit. Psalms 51:10-12 Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered y...

Send us Fan Mail   O Lord, open my lips, And my mouth shall show forth Your praise. Psalms 51:15 Holy Spirit, please pray the perfect prayer through me, so I can praise God in the best way possible. Often, I feel as if my prayers are inadequate, but I'm grateful I can turn to Him and know they will always be just right. Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. T...

Send us Fan Mail Moreover the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11 “Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above.” Isaiah 7:10-11 Have you had to do something for God that you didn't want to do? Isaiah had to. As Spurgeon states, "Isaiah had a very heavy commission from God. He was to go and speak to people who would not hear him and t...

Send us Fan Mail Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before. Daniel 6:10 Lets let nothing stand in our way of praying to the Lord for our families, country and relationship.  Let's pray daily f...

Send us Fan Mail Woe is me, for I am undone!  Because I am a man of unclean lips,  And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;  For my eyes have seen the King,  The LORD of hosts. Isaiah 6:5 In Isaiah 6 we see a clear portrayal of what happens to a person in the mystery of the Presence. Isaiah, overpowered within his own being, can only confess humbly, “I am a man of unclean lips!” I rem...

Send us Fan Mail Have mercy upon me, O God,  According to Your lovingkindness;  According to the multitude of Your tender mercies,  Blot out my transgressions. Psalms 51:1 Let's pray daily for our nation, family and relationship with God. The spoken word is powerful. God spoke the world into existence and in John 1 we read that the Word was with God and the Word was God. Let's speak the...

Send us Fan Mail The vineyard of the LORD Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress. Isaiah 5:7 This scripture while addressing Israel, can also be addressing the United States. We have been blessed by God. He has been generous and kind. We gave Him credit, bu...

Send us Fan Mail Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions —it is by grace you have been saved.  And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in order that in the comin...

Send us Fan Mail And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy—everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem. When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning Isaiah 4:3-4 Kent Hughes says in his Preaching the Word C...

Send us Fan Mail O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise. For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise. Psalms 51:15-17 Contrite is defined as - Feeling regret and sorrow for one's sins or offenses; penitent. Le...

Send us Fan Mail See now, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support Isaiah 3:1 In 3:1 God says he is “taking away” something from his people. Then again in 3:18 he says he will “take away” something further. God knows how to enrich us through loss. Sometimes he takes away more than we wish he would, but only to give us more of himself forever. J...