Health, Wealth, and Prosperity??

The children of Israel of the Old Testament were living in exile in Babylon as a punishment from God for their rebellion against the Lord and for their unwillingness to heed his commands. And God promised them 70 years of exile before he would deliver them. But they had prophets in their midst who were deceiving the people into thinking that they would not have to be in exile the whole 70 years. So, they were not to listen to the prophets who were speaking lies to them, for they prophesied falsely in the name of God.

“For thus says the Lord, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:10-13 NASB1995)

And we have false prophets in our midst today who are teaching Jeremiah 29:11 out of context, and who are promising all people who profess faith in Jesus Christ that this is a promise of God to them of “health, wealth, and prosperity.” And many people have been duped by these false prophets, and they have been convinced that the more that they give to the institutional church, the more that God will bless them, but while many very wealthy pastors (false prophets) stack up all sorts of properties and possessions.

So, this is not a promise for us today of health, wealth, and prosperity if we give generously to the institutional church or to certain other “Christian ministries.” If it is at all to be considered as any kind of promise to Christians today, it must be seen and interpreted in light of the teachings of Jesus and of his New Testament apostles in the New Testament writings. For we are promised in the Scriptures that the life of a follower of Christ is a life of suffering and persecution and hardship, but one of spiritual blessing, too.

And the plans that our Lord has for us today are first of all that we must, by God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and now walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to our Lord and to his commands in holy living. And we must follow the leading of the Holy Spirit in our day-to-day living, for this is for our welfare, i.e. for our good, that we might have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God, which is the future and the hope of those whose lives are committed to Jesus Christ.

And if you would take a good look at our world today, and at our individual nations, I would suggest to you that our world and our nations and the church at large today are presently being faced with the judgment of God for the people’s rebellion against the Lord and for their unwillingness to heed his commands, but more specifically directed at those who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who are living worldly lives in the worship of what is not God. And so God is calling out to all who profess his name to repent and to obey God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

The Battle for Truth

Based off Malachi 1-4

An Original Work / May 18, 2013 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

I love you. Honor me.

Tell the truth. You’ll be free.

Sing My praise all your days.

I will give all you need.

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

Turn from sin; cleansed within.

Stand in awe of My Name.

Teach what’s true. Walk in peace.

Follow Christ, in His ways.

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

Show to God faithfulness.

Do not be adult’rous. 

Do not shed shallow tears.

Do not be insincere. 

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

I have sent messengers,

Who have giv’n my address.

They call for repentance,

And they warn of judgment.

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

I, the Lord, do not change,

So return – blessings gain:

Healing comes; joyfulness;

Freedom from your distress.

https://vimeo.com/117023801

Health, Wealth, and Prosperity?

An Original Work / February 24, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Be Wise. Don't Be Foolish

Proverbs 14:12,14,16,18 NASB1995

Proverbs 14:12: “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”

A way that seems right to someone does not necessarily have to be a way that they believe is right, just, and moral. It just means that they are content with the way that they are living, and either they do not care that the Bible says they will end up in hell, if that is how they choose to live, or they rationalize their way around that so that they convince themselves that God will not judge them for their sinful lifestyles (practices). 

Proverbs 14:14: “The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways, but a good man will be satisfied with his.”

What or who is a backslider? They who backslide are those who renounce and abandon both what they previously professed as truth and the one they claimed to follow. They once professed faith in Jesus Christ, acknowledged their sin, and asked for forgiveness, and began to do the kinds of things that Christians should normally do. But then they turned away and returned to their vomit, and went back to living in sin, and no longer live to please God.

And now they live for self and for self-pleasure, and not for God, and not in accord with the teachings of the Scriptures. For their desire is for their sin and not for God, because sin now has mastery over their lives. And if that is where they remain, and they do not repent and turn back to God, and they do not renounce their sin and now obey God and his commands, then they will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God, God’s word says.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

Proverbs 14:16,18: “A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is arrogant and careless.” “The naive inherit foolishness, but the sensible are crowned with knowledge.”

The ones who have made a way for themselves, which is not the way of righteousness, holiness, and obedience to God, and who have turned away from the Lord after professing to believe in Jesus Christ, and who are foolish and arrogant and careless in how they conduct their lives, are the opposite of the wise, the cautious, and the sensible who turn away from evil to follow Jesus Christ in walks of surrender to him in obedience to his commands.

For the wise who follow Jesus in obedience understand what the Scriptures teach. And they believe God. And they take God and his Word seriously to obey them. For they love God, and they want to obey him. They want to live for him. And they believe that if we go the way of our own flesh, doing what our own hearts desire, and if God’s word is not what we obey, that we will not have salvation from sin, and we will not have eternal life with God. 

[John 10:27-30; Romans 2:5-10; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 6:7-8; Colossians 1:21-23; Colossians 3:1-17; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; 1 Peter 2:24]

So, be wise, and obey God, and be not foolish and end up in hell.

As the Deer 

By Martin J. Nystrom

Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after You

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield

To You alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZv3jzOTE70

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Be Wise. Don’t Be Foolish.

An Original Work / February 23, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Fake Christianity

Proverbs 14:22,25,27,32,34 NASB1995

22 Will they not go astray who devise evil?

But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.

25 A truthful witness saves lives,

But he who utters lies is treacherous. (unfaithful, disloyal, deceitful)

27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,

That one may avoid the snares of death.

32 The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing,

But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

34 Righteousness exalts a nation,

But sin is a disgrace to any people.

Faith in Jesus Christ, according to the Scriptures, must result in genuine biblical repentance resulting in changed lives. By faith in Jesus Christ, a faith which comes from God, and not from human flesh, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin, and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as servants of God and of his righteousness in walks of surrender to God in obedience to his commands. 

So if, after we have professed faith in the Lord Jesus, nothing changes, our lives are not altered, there is no change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior, but we continue life as usual, still making sin our practice, and still living to please the flesh, and not to please God, then according to the Scriptures we are not of true biblical faith in Jesus Christ, and we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

Sadly, it appears that the majority of those professing faith in Jesus Christ are being taught a fake Christianity and an altered gospel message which gives them permission to keep living in sin and not in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands. For they are being taught that a mere verbal profession of faith in Jesus is enough to secure them forgiveness of all sins and heaven as their destiny, regardless of how they live. Just not biblical!

But we are warned all throughout the New Testament Scriptures that if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God’s commands, that we will not inherit eternal life with God, regardless of what our lips profess. So, if you are one who devises evil, who is unfaithful and deceitful, who makes wickedness, lying, and immorality your practice, and obedience to God, kindness, truth, and righteousness are not your practice, you don’t know God, in reality.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

The Letters 

Based off Revelation 2-3

An Original Work / December 17, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

To the angels of all the churches write:

These are the words of your Lord and your God.

I know all your deeds, and your witness, too,

And who holds to My words and tells what’s true.

I know all your hard work and your perseverance,

Yet I hold against you: you’ve forsaken Me. 

Listen to what I say to you.

You have people there who deny My name,

And who put the cross of Christ up to shame.

They entice the people to Me, profane,

And their worship of Me is all in vain.

They are so adult’rous as they chase their idols,

And you put up with them easily enough.

You give off an image of godliness,

But what you present is so fraudulent,

Or else you lack passion for Jesus Christ, 

So you look to others to tell what’s right.

I say turn from your sin, or you will face judgment.

He who overcomes will have eternal life.

Listen to what I say to you.

I know your afflictions and poverty;

How you suffer for your Lord patiently.

Do not fear the devil and company.

You be faithful to your Lord endlessly.

I know all your weakness and your dedication.

You have kept My Word and not denied your Lord.

I will write on you My new name. 

https://vimeo.com/114655138

Fake Christianity, Video

https://vimeo.com/1167392658

An Original Work / February 23, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Here Am I, Send Me

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!” He said, “Go, and tell this people:

‘Keep on listening, but do not perceive;

Keep on looking, but do not understand.’

“Render the hearts of this people insensitive,

Their ears dull,

And their eyes dim,

Otherwise they might see with their eyes,

Hear with their ears,

Understand with their hearts,

And return and be healed.” (Isaiah 6:8-10 NASB1995)

All of us who believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord (Owner-Master) and Savior of our lives are called of God to be his witnesses in taking the message of the gospel of Christ to the people of the world, even to others who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who are not living what they claim to believe. And we are to make disciples (followers) of Christ of people of all nations, teaching them to put sin to death, by the Spirit, and to obey all that our Lord commands. 

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; Luke 9:23-26; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 10:14-15; Ephesians 2:10; Ephesians 5:11-14; 1 Peter 2:21,29; 1 John 2:6] 

And we who are followers of Jesus Christ, as his disciples, should be those who will answer the call of God to go into all the world and to make disciples of Christ of people of all nations, teaching them to obey our Lord’s commands. But it isn’t just to the unsaved that we are to speak the words of God and to give out his messages. But it is also to the church and to many who profess the name of Jesus but who are living worldly lives.

And sometimes we must speak some pretty strong words because they are dull of hearing, and they are not listening to the Lord and to his messengers. But they are going their own way, doing their own thing, without regard for the teachings of the Scriptures and for the warnings given by God should any of us choose to go our own way and not the ways of God. And so we must give them the warnings of God should they reject his teachings.

And sometimes sarcasm is used in the Scriptures to bring home a point such as what I believe is the case here in verse 9. For certainly the speaker is not encouraging the people to not perceive and to not understand, but this language is used to get across a message. And it is to let them know that if they continue on their chosen course of not listening, and of not paying attention, and being unwilling to understand, it will not go well for them.

And the result is found in verse 10, for again God’s message to the people is not that God approves of them going their own way and doing their own thing while ignoring God and his commands, as though they will not face his wrath. But he has his messenger speaking the truth of God’s Word to the people even knowing that they will not listen and that they will close their minds and hearts to the truth and that they will not repent and so be healed.

Thus, the people cannot claim that they never heard the truth, or that they were ignorant, as though no one had told them. So, as the Lord’s servants and messengers, we should continue in giving out the truth of God’s Word to the people, even to those we know are not listening right now, because God’s Word will not return empty, but it will accomplish what God desires and achieve the purpose for which God sent it (see Isaiah 55:11).

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For lip service alone will not secure you heaven, but you must obey God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

Then, when I answered the call,

“Here, Lord, send me.”

You sent me to where I must be.

Your mercy held me, did not fail me.

All this, You had planned, to use me.

And, when all trials and scorn

Came to test me.

You gave me all that I would need.

You strengthened me so I’d not fail You.

Your kindness blessed me, it touched me.

And, when I needed the church 

To lift up me,

To hearten me so I’d not fail,

You blessed me with folks who would love me.

Their presence with me, Your praise hailed!

Here Am I, Send Me

An Original Work / February 23, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Know The Truth

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

“They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.” (1 John 4:1,5-6 NASB1995)

What do false prophets or teachers or preachers do that is false? They speak lies to the people as though what they are saying is from God when it is not from God, but it is from the flesh of humankind. And how is it that it seems as though most people who profess faith in Jesus Christ do not recognize the lies for what they are? It is because the lies are a careful and meticulous blend of truth and lies made to appear as truth, and because they are not testing the spirits against the Scriptures (in context) to discover the lies.

But it isn’t just that. Many are they who prefer the lies, because the lies give them permission to keep living in deliberate and habitual sin without conscience and remorse and biblical repentance, and absent of obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice. For the lies promise them that they are permanently saved from the punishment of all sin, that all their sins are forgiven, and sometimes that God can’t even see when they sin, and that by God’s grace they have the guarantee of eternity in heaven with God.

So, this is why we are encouraged here that we are not to believe every spirit, and that includes not believing everyone who calls himself Reverend or Pastor or Elder or Deacon or Prophet or Evangelist or Apostle. For they don’t all speak the truth. Probably most of them are not teaching the gospel taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context. So we need to be students of the Scriptures who study them in their biblical context so that we can discover any lies we have believed.

And we should not base our faith on what we have always heard is the truth, just because so-and-so said it, or just because it feels good and it is comfortable to our ears and fits with our preferred lifestyles. So, if someone teaches something contrary to what we have always believed, we should not write it off unless we have done the due diligence to test it against the Scriptures. For many of us out there, speaking the truth, are being ignored because the majority prefer the lies which feel good and tickle itching ears.

But by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

Arise and Shine 

Based off Isaiah 60

An Original Work / March 6, 2014 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Arise and shine; your Lord has come.

Allow His light to flow through you,

For many walk in wickedness.

Show them the way to life anew.

Arise and shine. Your Lord loves you.

Lift up your eyes, and look about.

Some do believe, while others doubt.

Believe in all God’s promises.

The many will, In Christ, find rest.

Lift up your eyes, and you’ll be blessed.

Arise and shine; salvation comes

To all who trust in Christ, God’s Son.

Forgiven of their sins, they’ll be,

When they repent on bended knee.

Arise and shine, so all will see.

Lift up your eyes, and see your Lord.

He will revive his church, forlorn.

Though humans have forsaken you,

They will find Christ, and walk in truth.

Lift up your eyes; God honors you.

https://vimeo.com/88371130

Know The Truth

An Original Work / February 22, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Love Which God Has For Us

“We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.” (1 John 4:16-18 NASB1995)

What is this love being spoken of here? The Greek word is agápē, and it speaks of love which centers in moral preference, which prefers what God prefers, which is all that is holy, righteous, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. For God is love, and so he is holy, righteous, honest, and faithful in all that he is and does. And so the love which he has for us is also pure, upright, and godly.

So, how was God’s love for us demonstrated to us? God the Father sent Jesus Christ, God the Son, who was the only begotten Son of God, to the earth, to be born as a baby to a human mother, but conceived of the Holy Spirit, and not of man. So he was not born with a sin nature as we are. And when he lived on the earth as God incarnate (in the flesh), he never once sinned. And so he became our perfect lamb sacrifice for our sins.

And in Jesus’ death on that cross, and in his bodily resurrection, he made the way for us to die with him to sin and to be raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as servants of righteousness in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands. By God-persuaded faith in our Lord Jesus we can now walk in freedom from bondage (addiction) to sin and live holy lives, pleasing to God, in his power.

So, if we who profess Jesus Christ as Lord and as Savior of our lives abide in his agápē love, it means that we are acting in accordance with his love. We are upholding, obeying, and conforming our lives to all that is of God, and to all that is morally pure, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. We are no longer walking in sin, making sin our habit, but now serving our Lord and doing his will, in his power, is what we live for.

Therefore, we have confidence on the day of judgment, not because we gave lip service to God and made a verbal profession of faith in Jesus Christ, but because, by God-persuaded faith in our Lord Jesus, we were crucified with Christ in death to sin, and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as servants of our Lord and as slaves to his righteousness, by his grace and in his power.

So for those who have given only lip service to the Lord, and whose lives are not surrendered to the Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, but who are still making sin their practice, living to please the flesh, and not living to please God, they do not have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God, but the dreadful expectation of eternity in hell. For they have rejected the truth of God’s word and have chosen to believe the lies, instead.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

You Loved Me

A song based off the poem by the same name @ Original Works

Music and lyrics by Sue Love @ Original Works & Tosin Iyawo Ogaga

Vocals by Tosin Iyawo Ogaga & Sue Love

An Original Work / December 3, 2019

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When I was lonely and afflicted,

You were there to pick me up.

You took me in Your arms,

And You held me tenderly.

Your love embraced me.

Your grace sustained me.

When my heart cried out to You

In my fear and my despair,

You never turned away,

But You let me know You loved me.

Your grace forgave me.

You did not shame me.

Then, when I answered the call,

“Here, Lord, send me.”

You sent me to where I must be.

Your mercy held me, did not fail me.

All this, You had planned, to use me.

And, when all trials and scorn

Came to test me.

You gave me all that I would need.

You strengthened me so I’d not fail You.

Your kindness blessed me, it touched me.

And, when I needed the church 

To lift up me,

To hearten me so I’d not fail,

You blessed me with folks who would love me.

Their presence with me, Your praise hailed!

And, when I walked through the valley

Of the shadow of the death,

And tears flowed from my eyes,

Still Your kindness was there for me.

Your touch, it healed me.

For I believed You.

When now I think about the ways,

Of the many, many ways

That You in Your great love

Show me that You’ll always care for me,

My heart, it thanks You,

And gladness fills me, fills me.

https://vimeo.com/377807796

The Love Which God Has For Us

An Original Work / February 22, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Teeter-Tottering

When I was a child I played on a playground, and one of the playground apparatuses on which we played was called a “teeter-totter” or “seesaw.” Here is a description of what it was like: “It is designed for two people to sit on opposite ends and ride up and down, with one person rising while the other descends, often by pushing off the ground.” (source Google AI). 

And yet to “teeter” and to “totter” means to stagger, waver, sway, falter, stumble, and flounder. And a person who teeters is like a person who sits on both (opposite) ends of the teeter-totter, continually going up and down in opinion, thought, words, action, and behaviors. And the Bible refers to them as the “double-minded” who have two souls, whose hearts are divided between God and the world, and who vacillate between good and evil.

But you can’t serve sin and God at the same time. You cannot be devoted to your sinful addictions and love God, too. The two don’t mix. You cannot be a follower of Jesus Christ if you are still walking in sinful addiction and if you are unwilling to let go of that addiction to serve and to obey God fully with your lives. And your sinful addiction may be immoral living, or it may just be laziness, apathy, and pure selfishness with a desire to please self over all.

And the Scriptures teach us that those who teeter, who are the double-minded, who are unstable in all their ways, should not expect to receive anything from the Lord when they ask, for they do not ask in faith. And all who are double-minded are instructed to cleanse their hands (deeds), and to purify their hearts. For no one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.

[James 1:5-8; James 4:6-8; Matthew 6:24; Romans 6:1-23; Acts 26:18]

A Two-Edged Sword

But when we serve the Lord faithfully with our lives, and we are his servants and messengers in taking the truth of the gospel of Christ to the people of the world, we are going to have the double-minded opposing us, trying to get us to follow them, instead, or trying to discredit us so that others will not believe us. And they will have an alternative light, i.e. to the light of the gospel that Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught, in context. 

But we are not to let their opposing ideas and diluted gospel messages, and their attacks on us and on what we are teaching dishearten or discourage us, or keep us from speaking the truth of God’s Word to the people that they need to hear. For if what we are sharing is the penetrating power of the truth of God’s Word, which cuts deep, penetrating the soul, and which reproofs, warns, and convicts the sinfully double-minded, we will be opposed.

And we may find that we are losing friends and followers. And people who once seemed to like us will begin to distance themselves from us. And some of them may end up hating us and being bitter against us, and they may attack us or gossip about us or slander us. But time is short, and many professers of faith in Jesus Christ need to repent of their sins and obey God in practice or they will not have salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

[Hebrews 4:12; Revelation 2:12; Ephesians 6:17; Galatians 5:16-24]

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

Fit for Service 

 

An Original Work / October 5, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Holy Spirit, come within us.

Cleanse our hearts, 

and from sin free us.

Make us holy vessels fit 

for service to the King.

Fill us with Your love and power.

Anoint us within this hour

To be living witnesses 

For Jesus Christ, our King.

Our praise to Him bring.

Father God, our heart’s desire,

Come and speak to us in power.

Revive our hearts to obey You;

Live for You always.

May we love and serve You only,

Walking with You; 

Not a phony.

May we always tell the truth,

And show integrity.

Your true servants be.

Jesus, Savior, sanctify us.

Purify our hearts within us;

Be transformed into Your likeness,

Holy unto You.

May we always listen to You

Speaking Your words 

Now within us.

May we heed Your counsel to us;

Follow You today.

Do all that You say. 

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Teeter-Tottering

An Original Work / February 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love