Pastor Mike Impact Ministries

Today, Saturday March 20 Romans 12:5-8 – You Have Been Gifted We often say of a person who appears to be multi-talented and especially good at accomplishing certain things, “They are so gifted!” Well, I have good news for you! You are so gifted too! I do not think that we have even began to imagine how gifted we really are if we have been born again into God’s family. If only, by the grace of God,...

Today, Friday March 19 Romans 12:5-8 – Fulfilling Your Purpose In Life “So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; he who exhorts, in exh...

Today, Thursday March 18 Romans 12:5-8 – United in One But Uniquely Different “So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; he who exhorts,...

Today, Wednesday March 17 Romans 12:3-5 – Our Relationship With Others For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in...

Today, Tuesday March 16 Romans 12:1-2 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Today I want to summarize our...

Today, Monday March 15 Romans 12:1-2 – Living Life in God’s Will I am pretty sure that there is nothing more important in all the world than to know and to be living in the perfect will of God. How can you know the will of God? How can you be sure you are living in the will of God? Romans 12:1-2 is key to the answer to these two questions. It really begins in the first chapters of Romans that are...

Today, Sunday March 14 Romans 12:1-2 – God’s Way to Success No one wakes up in the morning and immediately begins to think, “I wonder what I can do today to be a lousy failure.” God has made all of us with an innate desire to be successful. We have a natural desire to be loved and accepted. And God has given us a very clear formula in His Word that gives us the path to genuine fulfilment, success...

Today, Saturday March 13 Romans 12:1-2 – “Transformed Through the Word” You are what you think! And you determine what you think about! You will think about those things that you have chosen to intake into your mind. If you are watching certain programs on TV all the time, that’s what will be on your mind. Have you ever heard, “Garbage in, garbage out?” A.W. Tozer said, “If you want to know what k...

Today, Friday March 12 Romans 12:1-2 – “Renewing Our Mind” Today we are so busy with things in our fast moving world that our minds become so cluttered we feel overwhelmed, confused and frustrated. And we can’t remember where we put our iPhone, and after looking for a couple of minutes we finally find it in our hand!!!! That really happened to me! Maybe it’s a sign of old age too! If there was eve...

Today, Thursday March 11 Romans 12:1-2 – A Renewed Mind Every part of the body is so vitally important to be able to live and enjoy life the way God intended. To lose any member of your body, such as your arm, leg or hand, would definitely be a tragedy and force you live life differently.  To lose one of your five senses, such as your sight or hearing, would also change things drastically for...

Today, Wednesday March 10 Romans 12:1-2 – A Transformed Life Life is about relationships! God created us to have a relationship with Him. After God created man, He created woman to have a relationship with the man and God. God created the family and society to enjoy relationships with each other.  We are naturally relational and from the very beginning of our lives we desire to be close to so...

Today, Tuesday March 09 Romans 12:1-2 – Body, Soul and Spirit These two verses captured my mind and attention as a brand-new believer fifty years ago, the first time I read them! They definitely motivated me to dedicate my life, my body, soul and spirit to the Lord. There are two basic reasons that God can ask us to give Him our lives! The first is that He created us and gave us our very being and...

Today, Monday March 08 Romans 12 – A Living Sacrifice On March 7, 202, Perpetua, a 25 year old Christian, who had just given birth to a baby, was thrown to the wild beast that gored her to death, in a Roman arena in Northern Africa because she would not recant her faith in Jesus Christ. She became one of the earliest martyrs for her faith in Christian history who inspired countless others to live...

Today, Sunday March 07 Romans 12:1-2 – Our Duty and Service “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” In all...

Today, Saturday March 06 Romans 11 – Our Faithful and Merciful God Romans 9 through 11 are often called the “parenthesis” chapters. In Romans 1 to 8 Paul has been talking about our great salvation, justification and the righteousness of God that can only be received and found by faith! And then, all of a sudden, the subject seems to change and Paul is discussing his passion and desire for his peop...

Today, Friday March 05 Paul begins this chapter with a question that is really at the heart of these three chapters (9-11). Romans 11:1-2a “ I say then, has God cast away His people?...”   Then Paul answers his own question: “ Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew….”. The practical applica...

Today, Thursday March 04 Romans 10 – The Greatest Cure Paul is dealing specifically with his people, the Jews, and how he desires for them to be saved by faith and not by trying to establish their own righteousness by keeping the law. But this chapter also gives us one of the clearest statements in the New Testament on how God’s righteousness and salvation can be shared with all the peoples of the...

Today, Wednesday March 03 Romans 10 – Salvation By Faith Alone If there is one thing the devil does more than any other, it is to deceive us into thinking that God’s way of salvation is too complicated to understand and obtain personally. If he can’t keep us from the truth of the Gospel, he makes us think that we need to do something to be worthy enough to receive it. And on top of it, there are s...

Today, Tuesday March 02 Romans 9-11 – Loving Our Own The Apostle Paul was considered by many to be a traitor to his own people, the Jews. As you study the life and ministry of the Apostle Paul it is clear that his calling and work was mainly to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles. But several times in this Book of Romans, Paul defends and declares his great passion and love for his...

Today, Monday March 01 Romans 9-11 – What About Israel? One of the biggest questions that probably received the most discussion, and yes sometimes, generated the most heated arguments, when I was in Bible College, was about how to reconcile the sovereignty of God and the free will of man. It is obvious that both of these doctrines are taught throughout the Bible. Paul is dealing with the question,...

Today, Sunday February 28 Romans 9 - God is Sovereign! It might appear to some that Romans 9-11 are out of place. Paul has been dealing with sin (1-3), with salvation (4-5), with sanctification (6-8), and now he jumps to talking about Israel and their election as God’s chosen people. Why didn't he move from the doctrinal teaching of Romans 8 to the practical duties given in Romans 12-15? A careful...

Today, Saturday February 27 Romans 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither...

Today, Friday February 26 Romans 8:31-34 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?  He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?  Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also...

Today, Thursday February 25 Romans 8:31-34 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?  He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?  Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is al...

Today, Wednesday February 24 Romans 8:28-30 One of the most encouraging things to remember and believe, is that God is always at work, He is sovereign in all His ways, and He will never let me down or forget me! I’m convinced that is exactly what these verses are teaching us! Romans 8:28-30 “ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called acco...