Pastor Mike Impact Ministries

Today, Saturday October 3 - We are told in Philippians 2:12&13 that we are to "work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in us, both to will and to work for his good pleasure."  That's interesting! We are to "work out" what God has "worked in."  God will always do His part to fulfill His will in and through our lives, but we must do our part too! &nb...

Today, Friday October 2 - The Reward of Discipline is Freedom!  Tom Landry, the great Dallas Cowboys football coach said, "The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they always wanted to be."  In much the same way, Christians are called to make themselves, by the Spirit's power, do what they would not naturally do - practice the Spi...

Today, Thursday October 1 - Jesus, in the early days of His earthly ministry, called twelve men to Himself to be His disciples!  These men, for the most part, were common ordinary men. They spent the next three years of their life following Jesus!  After His death, resurrection and ascension, they continued to follow Him the rest of their lives. They disciplined themselves to be with Jes...

Today, Wednesday September 30 - Who am I? Where am I from? Where am I going? What is life all about anyway?  These are questions we usually start asking sometime in our later teenage years.  And even as we get older, we need to remind ourselves again of the true answer to these questions!  I believe that God created us to worship and enjoy Him now and forever, and that is "the chief...

Today, Tuesday September 29 - "For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.  (John 1:17) How do we find, experience and enjoy the freedom that we are looking for in our life?  Two big words!  Grace and truth! And both of them are found in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  "For freedom, Christ has set us free!" (Galatians 5:1) &nb...

Today, Monday September 28 - Maybe you are like me, as over the years and especially in my early ones as a young believer, I did my best to be a "good" follower of Jesus Christ.  And it seemed that the harder I tried to do the right and good things I should do, the more discouraged I would get, as I failed time and time again.  Over the years I began to realized the "truth", that I can't...

Today, Sunday September 27 - Did you ever notice in Galatians 5 that as the Apostle Paul was encouraging the believers in Galatia to "stand firm in the freedom they have in Christ", when he mentions the evidence of the "works of the flesh," it is plural but when he speaks of the "fruit of the Spirit," it is singular? You know you are experiencing real freedom in life when you are walking and livin...

Today, Saturday September 26 - "For freedom Christ has set us free..." (Galatians 5:1) Real freedom comes at a great price.  One of the things we love about being an American is that we have opportunity to enjoy freedom and liberty in our country.  Thousand of men and women have died to purchase and secure this freedom  we have today!  But so many have been deceived to think th...

Today, Friday September 25 - Are you really free? It's rare that a day passes that I do not quote a passage of scripture from Hebrews 2 - "But we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for every man... Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, He himself likewise partook of the same things, tha...

Today, Thursday September 24 - The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 8:14, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God."  How can we know that we are walking and living in the Spirit so we are not "gratifying the desires of the flesh?" (Galatians 5:16)  The evidence will be the "fruit of the Spirit" such as love, joy, peace, patience.... etc....  If these attitudes...

Today, Wednesday September 23 - What does it mean to "walk in the Spirit, to live in the Spirit, to be filled with the Holy Spirit?" Years ago when I was attending Lynchburg Baptist College (1971-1975), I heard a chapel speaker make this statement I never forgot.  He said, "Being filled with the Holy Spirit simply means making the right decisions."  Jesus said that there are only two pat...

Today, Tuesday September 22 - I love America! The land of the free and the home of the brave!  Our forefathers fought and pay a great price to gain freedom from the tyranny of a king in England!  I'm convinced there is a deep down desire in every human heart to experience freedom!  To be free from the tyranny of another person.  To be free from an addiction to drugs, alcohol. p...

Today, Monday September 21 - Do you ever wonder why you can't do the right things that you know you ought to be doing?  The Apostle Paul addresses this problem in Galatians 5:17 "For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do."  The moment you b...

Today, Sunday September 20 - Bumps In the Road! We have all hit them from time to time.  And for sure, we all have had those occasions where we have hit them in the course of our lives!  In Acts 13 we read the story of a young man by the name of John Mark who hit a big bump in the road of his life.  He accompanied the Apostle Paul and Barnabas on their first missionary journey but o...

Today, Saturday September 19 - Jeremiah the prophet was warning the people of Israel, that because of their sins and disobedience to the commands of God, they would go into captivity in Babylon for 70 years. (Jeremiah 29:10-14) Of course, they didn't appreciate or receive his message very well.  We too don't want to hear that we will be punished for our sins and often resist God's promptings...

Today, Friday September 18 - Thanks so much for studying the names of God with me over these past several months!  It has been a great joy and encouragement to me as I've read and heard your comments.  As we earnestly seek the LORD we find true fulfillment, satisfaction, and success in life that can only be found in Jesus!  He is all we could ever need or want.  I trust you wil...

Today, Thursday September 17 - Jehovah-Shammah, The LORD is there.  We are told many times in scripture that "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom."  What does it mean to fear the LORD?  I believe that it means several things, but mainly it means to have a constant awareness of the presence of the LORD in your life!  You don't have to pray and ask the LORD to be with...

Today, Wednesday September 16 - Jehovah-Shammah, The LORD is There! We can take great comfort in knowing, believing and experiencing God by this Awesome name!  This name was given as a promise to a people who were in captivity and were despondent and discouraged!  They were reminded that "The LORD is there!" The is the testimony of so many people in the Bible.  Gideon is fearful and...

Today, Tuesday September 15 - Jehovah-Shammah, The LORD is There! Sometimes it appears that God has forsaken us and is not there for us in our greatest time of need!  But I want to remind you that He is always there simply because He is God and He is everywhere!  Our problem is that our sin has separated us from God!  But when we confess our sins and admit our failures and take resp...

Today, Monday September 14 - Jehovah-Shammah, The LORD is There.  This is the last compound name of God given to the people of Israel in the Old Testament.  It is found in Ezekiel 48:35, which is the last verse and last words in this book.  Ezekiel is writing to a people who are in captivity.  To a people who know that the Glory of God has departed from the temple in Jerusalem....

Today, Sunday September 13 - Jehovah-M'Kaddesh, The LORD Who sanctifies you!  The Apostle Paul, in his first letter to the church at Corinth wrote, "To the church of God that is in Corinth to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who are in every place...."  This church was one of the most carnal group of Christians in the New Testament, but Paul s...

Today, Saturday September 12 - Jehovah-MKaddesh, The LORD Who Sanctifies You! We can never save ourselves. It is only by God's grace and love that we are saved through the blood of His Son Jesus Christ! And we can never sanctifies ourselves either. Jesus, is our Sanctifier! But we must be submitted to Him and His will! 2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us that at salvation, we became a brand new creation!...

Today, Friday September 11 - Proverbs 27:1 "Boast not yourself of tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring forth." On September 11, 2001, 19 years ago today, 2,977 dear people woke up, got ready and went to work, probably never realizing that they would become a casualty on one of the most tragic days in American history! In that precious group of people who died that day, 343 were firefi...

Today, Thursday September 10 - Jehovah-Medaddishkhem - The LORD Who Sanctifies You! (Leviticus 20:7-18) Jesus said in Matthew 5:8 "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." God demands for His people to be holy and pure! The Apostle Peter reminded his readers in 1 Peter 1, "Be ye holy, for I Am holy, says the LORD." Jesus didn't come to make us happy, He came to make us holy. To be ho...

Today, Wednesday September 9 - Jehovah-Tsidkenu, The LORD our Righteousness!  The Bible teaches us that God is Righteous, which means He always does what is right and perfect.  He makes no mistakes!  The Bible teaches that we are just the opposite, and the best we can do, is still in the sight of God, like wearing a filthy and polluted garment. (Isaiah 64:6) "... Our righteousness i...