Having These Promises

“Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” (2 Corinthians 7:1 NASB1995)

What promises are being referred to here? What was said right before this?

“Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said,

“I will dwell in them and walk among them;

And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord.

“And do not touch what is unclean;

And I will welcome you.

And I will be a father to you,

And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”

Says the Lord Almighty. (2 Corinthians 6:14-18 NASB1995)

As followers of Jesus Christ, we are not to be partners (united, partakers) with the ungodly, with those who are not of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ. And the ungodly includes many people who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who have not denied self and died to sin, and who are not living for Christ in walks of obedience to his commands. But they are still living to please the flesh, still walking in sin, and they are not walking in obedience to God and to his commands. And they are making their own plans and are not following the ways of the Lord that he has for all of us to follow.

And this includes today’s “institutional church” which is unified (partnered, merged) with the world and with the ungodly via incorporating under the state as businesses which then are being marketed to the people of the world. For God forbids this. He forbids such unions as this, and he forbids turning his church, his temple, into a marketplace. And he is calling his people to come out from among such relationships as this so that they do not share in their sins, so they do not share in their punishment, and so God will receive them as his sons and daughters and he will dwell among them.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5] 

So, we need to take this seriously. For if we want to be the people of God, born again of the Spirit of God, forgiven our sins, and on our way to heaven, we need to be those who, by faith in Jesus Christ, and in his power at work within us, have cleansed ourselves of all defilement of flesh and spirit. We need to be those who, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, have denied self, died to sin, and who are now living to obey our Lord and his commands. We need to be those who are perfecting holiness in the fear of God, by the Spirit, in the power of God, according to the will of God.

And this does not make us perfect. And this does not mean that we will never sin (1 John 2:1-2). What it all comes down to, as taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, is that those of us who are of genuine faith in Jesus Christ must be those who, in the power of God, are denying self, dying to sin, and following our Lord in obedience, as a matter of life practice. We must be those who are listening to what the Scriptures teach us that we must do and not do, as those who claim to be in fellowship with God. And then we must stop doing what is evil, and we must be living to please God.

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 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. We must no longer 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.

[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] 

My Desire 

By Lillian Plankenhorn

My desire, to be like Jesus

My desire, to be like Him.

His Spirit fill me, His love o'erwhelm me;

In deed and word, to be like Him.

Having These Promises

An Original Work / April 5, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Why Did Jesus Die, Then Live?

 

So We Might No Longer Live For Self

“For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.” (2 Corinthians 5:14-15 NASB1995)

Jesus Christ, who is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – left his throne in heaven, came to earth, was born as a baby to a human mother, a virgin, and he was conceived of the Holy Spirit. Since he was not born of man, he was not born with a sin nature as we are, and although he was tempted to sin, as we are, he never once sinned. And he grew to manhood, and he, along with his 12 disciples, ministered to the people. He healed the sick, raised the dead, delivered people from demons, fed the hungry, comforted the sorrowful, and performed many miracles.

But Jesus’ mission on this earth was not just to perform miracles. He was here to preach the need for all of us to deny self, die to sin, and follow him in walks of surrender to his will in obedience to his commands. He taught that we must forsake our lives of sin and obey God. He taught that his followers are those who listen to his words, who heed them, and who follow him in obedience to his commands. And they are the ones who have the hope of eternal life with God. All who just give lip service to him only, who do not obey his commands, will not inherit eternal life with God.

[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Matthew 20:17-19; Matthew 26:26-29; Luke 9:23-26; Luke 17:25; John 1:1-36; John 6:35-58; John 8:24-58; John 10:27-33; John 15:1-17; John 20:28-29; Acts 26:18]

But Jesus was not here on the earth just to heal, and just to preach, but he came to die for us on a cross. For this was in God’s plan for him that he would be hated and rejected and put to death by his own people, of his own nation, i.e. by those who proclaimed faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who, in truth, is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. But in his death he put to death with him the sins of the entire world so that, by faith in him, we will deny self, die to sin, and obey him in practice. He paid the price for our sins so that we can now live free from sin’s control.

And please know that Jesus Christ did not require of us that we give honor to his death on that cross, and to his bodily resurrection, only one day out of a year, where we go through ritualistic exercises to proclaim his death and resurrection to the people of the world, especially if we make no mention of him until the next religious holiday. We who believe in him are to be sharing the truth of the gospel to the people of the world daily (consistently), but the truth that he taught, and not the “watered down” version being taught today which appeases human flesh and which does not offend the ungodly.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him, in faith, we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin and to self), and follow (obey) him and his commands, in practice. 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 if 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 the Father who is in heaven (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] 

Jesus, Rescue Me  

Based off of Romans 7:7-25 thru Romans 8:1-39

An Original Work / September 18, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Jesus, rescue me today.

Listen while I bow and pray.

I need Your help to obey You;

Live for You always.

Meet me in my hour of need, Lord,

As I pray to You.

Help me walk in fellowship, Lord,

Living in Your truth.

Jesus, how I long for You to

Change my heart anew.

Father, God, my heart’s desire

Is to live for You this hour

In Your Holy Spirit’s power

Living in me now.

Teach me to walk in Your love, Lord,

Guiding me each day.

Help me to show love and kindness

To the lost, I pray.

Father, teach me to love others

As You love always.

Holy Spirit come in pow’r.

Revive our hearts in this hour.

Change our hearts to be like You, Lord;

Live for You each day.

Help us to forsake our sins, Lord,

As we humbly pray.

Teach us how to live for You, Lord,

Obey You always.

Holy Spirit come in power,

Revive us today. 

https://vimeo.com/126092919

So We Might No Longer Live For Self

An Original Work / April 5, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Eyes of Your Heart

“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” (Ephesians 1:18-23 NASB1995)

Our physical eyes are what help us to see, if our vision is good, but if it is bad, then it is difficult for us to see things. The same is true on a spiritual level. For this has to do with spiritual discernment and judgment which comes from what is stored up in our hearts. If what is in our hearts is bad, our judgment and discernment will be bad. But if it is good, and if it is godly, then we should have good spiritual judgment and discernment in making godly choices of the will. So this has to do with spiritual insight to see what is the will of God for our lives so that, in God’s power, we will now do his will.

So, what is the hope of His calling? What are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints? And what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe in Jesus Christ? The answers are found in the teachings of the Scriptures with regard to the gospel message of our salvation, i.e. our deliverance from slavery to sin, and our rebirth in Christ, and our empowerment of the Spirit of God to now live holy lives, pleasing to God, no longer as slaves to sin but now as obedient servants to God. We now have eternal life with God, via our walks of faith and obedience to God.

Scripture Summaries

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).

For 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 God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10) 

And we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; 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 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; 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] 

Pray, Pray, Pray  

Based off Various Scriptures

An Original Work / September 6, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Pray that eyes may enlightened be,

So they may know Christ.

Pray that they may Him better know,

Strengthened by His pow’r. 

Pray that they may grasp 

How wide and long

And high and deep

Is Christ’s love.

Pray that they may be filled

To the fullness of God’s love.

Pray with thanksgiving.

Pray for an open door for me,

So I may share Christ.

Pray when the gospel is proclaimed –

Shared with clarity.

Pray words are given me so

I declare the gospel fearlessly.

I pray for you to be active

Sharing your faith, too.

Pray continually.

We oft not know for what to pray,

So we ask for help.

The Spirit intercedes for us – 

Words cannot express.

Just keep on praying for the saints

With all kinds of requests to God.

Pray they may have faith to 

Please their God in ev’ry way.

Pray with joyfulness. 

https://vimeo.com/119259373

The Eyes of Your Heart

An Original Work / April 4, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Faithful in Christ Jesus

“Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are at Ephesus and who are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us.” (Ephesians 1:1-8 NASB1995)

To whom are these words being addressed? To the saints who are faithful in Christ Jesus. And who is a saint? A saint is someone who is a believer in Jesus Christ who, in the hands of our Potter God, is being molded into the likeness of nature of Jesus Christ and, thus, is in the process of becoming different from (unlike) the world in nature and in practice. We who have put our faith in Jesus Christ have, thus, been 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. 

And who are the faithful in Christ Jesus? We are believers in Jesus Christ who, by the grace of God, and in the power of God, are living holy lives, pleasing to God, in loyalty and devotion to our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. We are those who have been persuaded of God as to his holiness and righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die to sin and to live to God in obedience to his commands. Thus, in the power of God, we are living the life God has planned for us to live, and so we are serving him with our lives in doing what he has called us to do.

So, it is not everyone who professes with their lips that Jesus is Lord who are saved from their sins and have the promises mentioned here. For Jesus taught that if anyone would come after him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and to self) and follow him (in obedience to his commands). For if we hold on to our sin, and if we do not obey God in practice, then we do not have eternal life with God. For not all who call Jesus “Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the ones doing (obeying) the will of God the Father who is in heaven (Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For we who are of faith in Jesus Christ are chosen of God to be holy and blameless before Him. And to be holy is the same as what it means to be a saint, which has to do with us being different from (unlike) the world because we are being molded by God into the likeness of Jesus Christ, as we cooperate fully with God in his work of transforming us to be more like Jesus, and to live holy lives, pleasing to God. And to be blameless is to be righteous, which is to be made right with God in conformity with God’s will, which is to live honest, faithful, upright, godly, and morally pure lives.

And to have redemption through his blood has to do with Jesus Christ sacrificing his blood for us on that cross to buy us back for God (to redeem us) out of our lives of living in slavery to sin so that we may now serve the Lord in walks of obedience to his commands in surrender to his will. So, this is about Jesus rescuing us out of addiction to sin so we will now follow him in obedience to his will and purpose for our lives. And this is what it means to be “in Christ,” to be rescued from our bondage to sin so that we will now serve the Lord Jesus with our lives. This is God’s work of grace in our lives.

Jesus, Rescue Me  

Based off of Romans 7:7-25 thru Romans 8:1-39

An Original Work / September 18, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Jesus, rescue me today.

Listen while I bow and pray.

I need Your help to obey You;

Live for You always.

Meet me in my hour of need, Lord,

As I pray to You.

Help me walk in fellowship, Lord,

Living in Your truth.

Jesus, how I long for You to

Change my heart anew.

Father, God, my heart’s desire

Is to live for You this hour

In Your Holy Spirit’s power

Living in me now.

Teach me to walk in Your love, Lord,

Guiding me each day.

Help me to show love and kindness

To the lost, I pray.

Father, teach me to love others

As You love always.

Holy Spirit come in pow’r.

Revive our hearts in this hour.

Change our hearts to be like You, Lord;

Live for You each day.

Help us to forsake our sins, Lord,

As we humbly pray.

Teach us how to live for You, Lord,

Obey You always.

Holy Spirit come in power,

Revive us today. 

https://vimeo.com/126092919

The Faithful in Christ Jesus

An Original Work / April 4, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

It is For Discipline

“It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.” (Hebrews 12:7-11 NASB1995)

God’s discipline is not necessarily a disciplinary response to wrongdoing, although it could be. It could be for purposes of training and instruction and nurturing that he allows us to go through trials and tribulations. And this is to teach us the ways of the Lord so that we will walk in them. And discipline is used to humble us to make us more receptive to his teachings. And this is to mature us in Christ in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord. And it is used to prepare us for God’s callings on our lives, to get us ready for service.

And in what ways might he discipline us? He may allow other people to come against us and to attack us or to accuse us falsely of wrongdoing, like Job’s friends did to him. He may allow us to be stricken with sickness or with poor health or some kind of physical ailment. Or he might allow us to lose a job and income and to struggle with how we will be able to feed our family. Or he may allow others to mistreat us and to persecute us because we stand on the truth of the Scriptures and the gospel that Jesus taught to the people.

All of these trials and tribulations, and many more, are for our good, to humble us, to teach us, to get us ready for service, to correct us if we are starting to go the wrong direction, and to draw us closer to our Lord in a greater seriousness of relationship with him so that he can use us for his glory to speak his messages to the people. For when we face trials, and our faith is being tested, it will either lead us away from God or closer to God than we ever were before, and to a greater and deeper dedication to him.

But God also disciplines those who are of faith in Jesus Christ but who have wandered to some extent from the seriousness of relationship with him they once had, or should have had. He may allow tragedy of a great magnitude to come upon his church who have gone the ways of the world in order to win the world to their gatherings and so they have diluted his gospel message to make it less offensive and more acceptable to the ungodly and to human flesh. For he wants to bring them to repentance and to renewed faith in him.

He may also discipline his wayward church severely for making the people of this world and the things of this world their treasure and their god and the one they follow in place of being followers of Jesus Christ committed to his service. For so much of today’s church has gone the ways of the world, and they have compromised with the world, and they are bowing to men in their deceitful scheming and treating them almost as though they are gods. And so they are not those who are following in the ways of the Lord above men.

And this goes right along with the letters to the seven churches in Revelation chapters 2-3. Jesus had good to say to 6 out of the 7, but 5 of those he also had words against. And he warned them of some kind of judgment if they did not repent and obey the Lord. Only one, the church in Laodicea, did he have nothing good to say of them. And many people see that church as representing the church (overall) of the last days. And Jesus is pictured as standing outside the door asking to be let inside into fellowship with them.

And a time is coming soon (I don’t know how soon) when we are going to see the events of the book of Revelation taking place in our day. I believe we can already see some of them, especially the ones spoken of in Revelation 13, already alive and active in our day and time. And I believe it is getting ever closer to the time when we are going to see the judgments of God on the church and on our nations, or most especially in the USA. For the USA is not what our rulers claim her to be, but the opposite of what they profess.

[Matthew 24:1-51; 1 Corinthians 15:51-52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18; 1 Timothy 4:1-5; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 2 Peter 3:1-18; 1 John 2:18-25; Jude 1:17-23; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 6:9-14; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13; Revelation 18:1-24; Revelation 19:1-21; Revelation 20:1-15; Revelation 21:1-27, etc.] 

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.

Listen to what I say to you.

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

It is For Discipline

An Original Work / April 4, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Do Not Grow Weary and Lose Heart

“For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,

Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;

For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines,

And He scourges every son whom He receives.” (Hebrews 12:3-6 NASB1995)

In our walks of faith in the Lord Jesus, in obedience to his commands, we should not get disheartened and discouraged when temptation arises, or when we are persecuted for the sake of righteousness. We should not allow the opinions and mistreatment of others to set us back, or to get us to give up and to cave to the temptation to sin or to withdraw and to back down. And we should not seek after human approval above the approval of God. But we should look to the example of Jesus, so we do not lose heart.

For Jesus Christ faced all kinds of persecutions and mistreatments and false accusations against his character when he lived on this earth. And he was not well received by the masses among his own people who proclaimed faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who, in truth, is God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and Holy Spirit. But not only did they not receive him, but they fought against him, and they sought to discredit him, and eventually they plotted his death on a cross, carried out by the Romans.

So, instead of “jumping ship” as soon as things get harder and more difficult to endure, or as soon as any temptation overwhelms us, we should look to Jesus Christ, “the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God,” who “endured such hostility by sinners against Himself,” and who “resisted to the point of shedding blood” in his “striving against sin.” He is our example to follow (see Hebrews 12:1-4).

For, as long as we live in these flesh bodies we are going to face difficult circumstances to test our faith. We are going to face temptation to sin or to withdraw or to back down and to run away when things get harder to endure. Or we are going to be tempted to give up the fight and to yield to the enemy. And we may even be tempted to go back to living in sin rather than to fight off the enemy’s temptations, believing all is hopeless. For Satan is very clever and he knows our weak spots, and he will hit them hard.

So, the encouragement here for us all is to resist the devil, to not give into temptation, to not give up the fight just because it got harder. And if any of you are still holding on to sin, still letting it have control over your life, what is being stressed here is that Jesus Christ endured that cross for us when he took our sins on him, and he put them to death with him so that we can, by the grace of God, and in the power of God, be delivered from slavery to sin so we can now serve the Lord with our lives in obedience to his commands.

Yes, we are going to go through hardships and trying times to test our faith. And God allows us to go through trials and tribulations to strengthen us in our walks of faith in obedience to him and in endurance. We need the discipline of the Lord in our lives to keep us humble, to make us more like Jesus, to make us more compassionate towards others, and to strengthen us in our commitments to serve God with our lives and not the flesh and not the devil. So don’t give up!! Keep on walking in the power of God!

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 16:33; Acts 14:22; Romans 5:3-5; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 3:7-11; 1 Peter 1:6-7; 1 Peter 4:12-17; 1 Thessalonians 3:1-5; James 1:2-4; 2 Corinthians 1:3-11; Hebrews 12:3-12; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

Our Eyes on Jesus 

 

Based off Hebrews 12:2-13 

An Original Work / April 23, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus.

Our faith starts and grows in Him,

Who for the joy set before Him

Endured all our sin.

Scorning the shame of the cross,

He sat down beside God above.

He was willing to die for us,

To save us, in love.

Think about the opposition

He endured from sinful men,

So when you go through life’s trials, 

You stay strong within.

Knowing all He went through for us

Helps us not grow weak of heart;

Not grow weary; don’t give up;

And not from Him depart.

In your struggle against sin’s ways,

Resist not to shed your blood.

Have you forgotten the words 

God spoke to us in love?

“My child, don’t ignore it when

The Lord corrects you; do faint not,

Because the Lord disciplines those

That He loves, of God.”

God rebukes us all for our good;

Share with Him in holiness.

It produces a harvest of

God’s own righteousness.

Therefore, strengthen all within you

That is weak and might give way.

Stand firm in the faith God gives you;

Trust Him and obey. 

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Do Not Grow Weary and Lose Heart

An Original Work / April 3, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love