Make Straight Paths for Your Walk

“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. Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.” (Hebrews 12:11-13 NASB1995)

Hebrews 12 begins with Paul (the presumed writer) addressing those who professed faith in Jesus Christ. And he was exhorting them to lay aside every encumbrance (hindrance) and the sin which so easily entangles, and to run with endurance the race set before them (the spiritual race God has for us to run), fixing their eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of their faith. Basically he was saying that they needed to put off everything in their lives hindering their walks of faith, including all sin, so they could live for God. 

And then he moved on to the subject of the necessary discipline of God in our lives so that we can walk worthy of God in surrender to our Lord in holiness and righteousness, and in obedience to his commands. And this discipline can be enacted in our lives in many different ways – through trials and tribulations to test our faith, through hardships and persecutions, through times of need, or in times of sorrow or pain and suffering. For when we face difficulties, if we respond correctly, they help us to mature in Christ.

Then, he gave another exhortation, which fits with his initial exhortation for them to lay aside everything hindering their walks of obedience to the Lord, and to forsake all sin, but especially the kind of sin that easily entangles (resulting in addiction to sin). They were to give it all up so that they might walk in obedience to the Lord on the path that our Lord has for all of us to go. But this message is for us today, too. We who believe in Jesus are to put sin to death in our lives so we can walk the path God has for us.

On the plus side of this, we are to strengthen our hands that are weak. And I always see hands in relation to our works, our deeds. If our works are lacking in faithfulness to God and in purity of devotion to our Lord, and if sin is what is being produced, instead of righteousness, then we need to strengthen what is good and is of God in our lives, and get rid of what is bringing us down (if that is taking place). And knees have to do with surrender of our lives to God, which also needs to be brought to maturity.

And then we need to make straight (righteous, godly, morally pure) paths (walks, lifestyles) for our feet, representing our walks of faith in Jesus as Lord of our lives. For this is the will of God for our lives. For if we do not, and we get slack, and we don’t remain diligent about living holy lives, pleasing to God, Satan will have a window into our minds wide open to tempt us to return to our sinful ways. But Jesus died and rose again to free us from our addiction to sin so we will now serve God in obedience to his commands.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:1-26; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10]  

Open My Heart  

An Original Work / July 2, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

“Be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil” (Rm. 16:19b).

Open my heart. Let Your truth in.

Make of me a servant, pure within;

Sing of Your praise all of my days. 

Let Your Spirit transform all my ways.

Jesus Christ died on a cross to

Save me from my sin.

“Repent of sin. Be cleansed within.

Obey all of His commands today.”

“Why do you doubt? Why do you fear?

Jesus Christ will wipe away your tears.

He cares for you. He feels your pain.

Die to sin, and life with Him you’ll gain.

Follow Him where’er He leads you.

Talk with Him each day.

Then you will know what He has planned

For your life before your world began.”

“Come unto Me, weary in heart.

Let My love and grace to you impart.

Believe in Me. Trust in My care.

Take your burdens to the Lord in prayer.

He will meet all of your needs, 

And give you peace within.

Rejoice in Him! Tell of His love.

He will give you comfort from above.”

https://vimeo.com/116072845

 

Make Straight Paths for Your Walk

An Original Work / March 25, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

In God There is No Darkness

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9 NASB1995)

This verse, taken from the Scriptures, is another that is largely being taught out of context, and it is being used to teach that all you have to do is to admit that you sinned, and all your sins are forgiven. Many people who are living in addiction to sin use this, thinking that if they just admit their sin or say, “I am sorry,” that somehow that makes everything okay. But the word “confess” means to voice the same conclusion as God about our sin, and to be in agreement with what God says about our sin. So let’s look at that.

“This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:5-8 NASB1995)

The word “Light” is used often in the Scriptures to signify Jesus Christ, God the Father, the truth of the gospel, righteousness, holiness, and godliness. All that is God and is of God is light. And darkness is the exact opposite of light. And the opposite of what is of God is what is of human flesh and what is of the devil. And the opposite of righteousness, holiness, and godliness is wickedness, immorality, sin. And the opposite of truth is lies. And there are many lies being spread in the name of God which are not of God.

So, what is this teaching us? Basically the message here is that if we are professing to be “in Christ,” to be in fellowship with him/God via a verbal acknowledgement of him as Savior, but yet we continue to live in deliberate and habitual sin, in wickedness, immorality, idolatry, and adultery, spewing forth lies, by habit (lifestyle), we are liars who do not practice the truth. So that negates the notion that we can just give verbal “confessions” of sin every time we sin and God/Jesus is going to keep forgiving us. You see?

And I am not saying that we all have to live perfect lives or we are cut off from God. But lack of perfection is never to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin against God and an unwillingness to submit to Christ as Lord and to obey our Lord’s commands, in lifestyle. For we are all going to be judged by God according to what we do and how we live in practice, by habit. And those for whom sin is their practice, and not obedience to God, they will not inherit eternal life with God.

[1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 5:3-6]

But if we walk (in conduct, in lifestyle) in the Light (God/Jesus, truth, righteousness, the true gospel message), and not in habitual sin, then we are in fellowship with God, and we are in fellowship with other people who are biblically in fellowship with God via dying with Christ to sin and being raised with Christ to now walk in newness of life in him in obedience to his commands. So, we can’t just say, “I’m sorry,” if sin is our habit and not obedience to God. We must live holy lives pleasing to God, in his power.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; Acts 26:18; 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; Colossians 3:1-17; 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]  

Being Made Right

An Original Work / September 8, 2019

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Jesus, lover of my soul,

Cleansed and saved me,

Made me whole;

Purified me, now new within.

By His grace, I’m free from sin.

Holy Spirit lives within,

Teaching me to walk with Him,

Guiding me each step of the way.

Living for my Lord each day.

Father God, He is my Lord.

Walk with Him in one accord.

Follow Him wherever He leads,

Living holy, Him to please.

Witnessing for Him each day,

Loving others in His way,

Telling them about Jesus Christ,

And how they can be made right.

https://vimeo.com/358879480 

In God There is No Darkness

An Original Work / March 25, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Pray in The Spirit Always

“With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.” (Ephesians 6:18-20 NASB1995)

What is prayer? It is open two-way communication between us and God, where we can speak to him, and he can speak to us, and we can hear him in our spirits and he can hear us and respond to us. And this can take place at any time of the day, in any location, with eyes open or shut, and while sitting, standing, walking, lying down, or kneeling. For the physical position of our bodies is not so much important as is the spiritual position of our hearts. We need to have hearts receptive to hear from our Lord always.

And to pray in the Spirit is to pray according to the will of God, not for selfish purposes, not to complain and gripe, not just asking for what we want, but seeking the will and purpose God has for our lives and for the lives of the people we know and love. So we pray for the salvation of loved ones. We pray for healing of the sick and afflicted. We pray for needs to be met. And we pray for the saints, i.e. those of faith in Jesus Christ who are different from the world because we are being conformed to the likeness of Christ.

We need to pray for our fellow Christians, for those who have denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who are walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands in daily living. For all of us are going to face trials and tribulations. All of us are going to be attacked by the enemy of our souls. We are all going to be opposed if what we are teaching others is the truth of the gospel and not the lies which tickle itching ears and which appease human flesh. So pray for one another for strength and perseverance and courage.

And we need to pray for all Christians who have wandered from the faith that they will be brought back to a right relationship with the Lord in holy living and in faithful surrender to the Lord in doing his will and in obeying his commands. And we need to pray for all who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who have never denied self, died to sin, and obeyed God and his commands, that they will have their hearts open to the truth, and that they will now, by faith in Christ, surrender their lives to the Lord to obey him in doing his will.

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).

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

Pray in The Spirit Always

An Original Work / March 24, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Gift of God

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23 KJV)

This one (singular) verse is one of the most misquoted and misinterpreted passages of Scripture in the New Testament related to the gospel of our salvation. They do teach that we who are born into this world with sin natures will die in our sins if we do not believe in Jesus Christ to be our Lord and Savior, which is true. But then they say that the (“free”/not in Greek) gift of God forgives the sins of all who profess faith in Jesus Christ which then promises them eternal life with God, but regardless of lifestyle lived.

They add in the word “free” to make it sound as though all they have to do is to profess faith in Jesus Christ and now all their sins are forgiven and that heaven is guaranteed them upon death, end of story, and that nothing is required of them other than a profession of faith in the Lord. But if they read all of Romans 6, they should see that the “gift of God” is not just forgiveness of sins and a promise of eternity with God based on a profession of faith in Jesus Christ only. It is deliverance out of our slavery (addiction) to sin.

“For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.” “Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.” “Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?”

“When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:6,12,16,20-23 NIV)

Our salvation (God’s gift to us) is deliverance out of our addiction to sin, and it is a new life in Christ Jesus in death to sin and in living to God and to his righteousness in walks of surrender to his will in obedience to his commands. All this comes from God, but it must be lived out in our daily lives in the power of God as we cooperate with God’s work of grace in our lives. For his grace is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives (Titus 2:11-14).

And yet we have so many people today professing faith in Jesus Christ who are convinced that a profession of faith in the Lord is enough to seal for them forgiveness of all sins and eternal life with God but while they continue in deliberate and habitual sin against our Lord. Many of them are addicts to pornography, sexual immorality, adultery, idolatry, homosexuality, lying, cheating, stealing, drunkenness, and many other habitual sins. But they believe that God has saved them and so they are good to go to heaven.

And some of these addicts to sinful practices are pastors of church congregations, or they are elders or deacons or other people of influence within the gatherings of the church. And in some cases they are leading their flocks to believe that they will not be judged of God for continuing in deliberate and habitual sinful practices, in direct defiance to our Lord and to his commands. And so they put a stamp of approval on those within the church gatherings who are living in sin, giving them a spiritual blessing.

But we can’t live in the world of sin, knowingly and deliberately choosing what is sinful by habit, and be those who know God, who love God, who are called of God to his service, and who have the hope of eternal life with God. As Romans teaches us, if sin is what we obey, and not obedience to our Lord’s commands, we will die in our sins. We will not have eternal life with God. So, the gift of God is deliverance from addiction to sin and the empowerment of God to walk in obedience to his commands in daily life.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; Acts 26:18; 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; Colossians 3:1-17; 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]   

Your Love Offering  

An Original Work / September 13, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Thank You, Lord, for Your love,

Dying on a tree,

So we’d be forgiven,

Live eternally.

Thank You for Your kindness, 

Your love offering, 

When You shed Your blood,

So we could be set free.

Thank You, Lord, for Your cross,

Dying for our sins,

So we’d live in vict’ry,

Purified within.

Thank You, Lord, for Your life

You gave for our sin,

Giving us a new life,

We’re made whole within.

Thank You for Your mercy.

You paid what we owe.

When we turn from our sin,

Your grace freely flows.

Thank You, Lord, for conq’ring

Death and sin and hell,

So we’d walk in freedom,

With You now to dwell.

Thank You, Lord, that You will

Soon come for Your bride.

Perfectly You made her

To with You abide.

Thank You for Your Spirit;

Our God, three in One, 

Giveth us salvation,

Through God’s only Son.

Thank You, Lord, for Jesus!

He’s our King of kings!

He will reign forever!

Our praise to Him bring!!

https://vimeo.com/126318258

The Gift of God

An Original Work / March 24, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I Heard His Word

God’s love to me, it did impart

His written Word, right from the start.

From infanthood I heard His Word.

From birth on up His Word I heard.

 

In Sunday School, Church service, too,

And Wednesday nights, His Word was due.

In Bible studies, backyard clubs,

No Bible lessons did we snub.

 

In Youth group and in Pioneer Girls,

And Youth for Christ, His Word made clear.

And Bible quizzing, memorized

His Word by letter, not deny.

 

In college, in I. V. C. F.,

We learned the Scriptures, they our Ref.

At Beulah Beach, our Christian camp,

We heard His Word, God’s Word, our Lamp.

 

Then on to teaching, teach His Word,

The gospel message, Word I heard.

For fifty years He’s had me teach

The truth He taught me, folks to reach.

 

All glory to my God and Lord,

For His hand on my life outpoured.

His grace to me goes way beyond

What I deserve. I stand in awe.

 

An Original Work / March 23, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

P.S. I.V.C.F. stands for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

Enduring Trials and Tribulations

“Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” “Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.” (James 1:2-4,12 NASB1995)

Trials and tribulations are part of life. We all have them, not all of us all of the time, and not all of us to the same degree as one another. But life has its difficulties as well as its rewards. It has its blessings and its misfortunes. But for the follower of Jesus Christ, these trials serve a good purpose. For they test our faith to see if it is genuine. And if we respond correctly to the trials, they produce in us endurance which leads to spiritual maturity in Christ. 

Not everyone responds to their trials in all the same ways. Not everyone who professes faith in Jesus Christ sees their trials as a gift from God to help them to come to maturity in Christ and to be strengthened in their faith. But they see their trials as a bother, a distraction, a nuisance, a misfortune, and something to fight against or to give in to in a way which leads to sin rather than to increased faith and perseverance, perhaps out of anger against God.

And I am certainly not saying here that we should just cave to the trials and to let them conquer us. We can certainly pray for deliverance and for healing and for miracles. We can pray for God to intervene on our behalf and to deliver us out of the difficulty. But at the same time we must surrender to the will and purpose of God, saying, “Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done.” And we must be willing to learn what we need to learn through it all.

For suffering is to produce in us endurance, character, and hope. If we are insulted for the name of Christ, we are blessed. If we are taken as prisoner, and if we are brought before a court of law for our testimonies for Jesus Christ, that will be our opportunity to bear witness to the gospel of our salvation. And some of us will be delivered up to death by friends and/or family members because we speak the truth of God’s word to the people.

In all that we suffer for the sake of knowing Jesus, and for the sake of the gospel of our salvation and for our testimonies for our Lord, we are to remain steadfast in faith and not ever give up. And God uses these times in our lives to make us more like Jesus, and so that we can encourage others in their suffering. For all that we suffer for our faith teaches us to not rely on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. So we put our hope in the Lord.

[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]

We Will Sing!  

Based off The Psalms

An Original Work / December 4, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I will praise You, Lord, among all peoples.

I will praise You for all that You have done.

I called to the Lord, and He heard my cry.

He turned weeping into a song of joy!

I will sing praise to my Lord all my life;

I will sing praise to my God evermore.

I will praise You, Lord, for Your mighty works,

For Your love is great, reaching to the heav’ns.

O my Strength, I sing my praise unto You,

For Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

I will sing praise to my Lord all my life;

I will sing praise to my God evermore.

Shout with joy to God all who’re on the earth.

Say to God, “O how awesome are Your deeds.”

The redeemed sing praise to their Savior, King, 

For He saved them all in His righteousness.

We will sing praise to our Lord all our lives;

We will sing praise to our God evermore.

https://vimeo.com/114678287

Enduring Trials and Tribulations

An Original Work / March 23, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Spiritual Warfare

This is about spiritual warfare. And this is letting us know how we can win the battle against the enemy of our souls. We cannot win the battle in our own flesh. We have to put on the armor of God daily with which to fight off the evil attacks of the enemy Satan, i.e. the devil. For he is a con artist, a trickster, and a magician with all sorts of sleight of hand tricks up his sleeve. He has all sorts of schemes which he attempts to use against us. So, we have to take up the armor of God daily if we are going to win this battle. 

“Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” (Ephesians 6:13-17 NASB1995)

Truth

If we are going to win this battle against the devil (Satan), the enemy of our souls, we have to be the people of God who are living the truth of his Word, and who are speaking the truth of his Word to the people, and who are truth tellers, in practice, who are not liars by habit. Too many people today, in the name of Christ, are speaking lies to the people to make them feel good about where they are, even if they are living in deliberate and habitual sin against God. All that does is open the door wide for the devil to control.

Righteousness

We must be the people of God who, in the power of God, are walking (in conduct) in righteousness, i.e. in what is deemed right by the Lord, i.e. in what is approved in his eyes. This can clearly be seen by us in the teachings of the Scriptures provided that we are reading them in their appropriate biblical context and that we are willing to hear the truth and to reject the lies. 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 our Lord’s return (Titus 2:11-14).

The Gospel

We need to be students of the Scriptures who study them in their appropriate biblical context so that we can know the truth of the gospel and so that we can reject the lies which are gaining so much ground these days. And then we need to be living the gospel message ourselves before we go out sharing it with the people of the world. But we must be diligent to make certain that what we are regarding as “the gospel” is the one taught by Jesus and by his apostles, and not the “feel good gospel” being taught today.

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).

Faith

And faith is not something we can make up in our own minds. Faith comes from God, it is persuaded of God, it is authored and perfected by Jesus Christ, it is not of our own doing, of our own flesh, and we cannot even come to faith unless God the Father first draws us to Christ. And faith is divine persuasion, the persuasion of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to deny self, die to sin daily, and to walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands, all in the power of God.

Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Romans 6:1-23; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Hebrews 12:1-2 

Salvation

And our salvation, which is a gift from God, is not merely forgiveness of all sin and the hope of eternal life with God. For Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross to deliver us out of our slavery to sin so we will now serve our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. We are saved from our addiction to sin so we can now be slaves of God and of his righteousness. So, if we continue living in sin, making sin our practice, and if obedience to God is not our practice, we are not saved, and eternal life is not ours.

Word of God

We have to be students of the Scriptures. If you are reading this, you obviously have access to the internet, and you can find the Scriptures on the internet if you do not have a written Bible in your possession. But make sure you choose a trustworthy translation of the Scriptures, for many of these more modern ones take much liberty in teaching what is not of God. And then we must read the Scriptures in their full biblical context, for many lies are being taught from Scriptures taught out of context. And don’t rely on other humans to tell you the truth. Test everything against the Scriptures.

And when Satan is coming against you, to attack you, to confuse you, to make you doubt God or his word, please go to the Scriptures and read them in context, verse by verse and chapter by chapter and book by book. And use the Word of God to fight off Satan’s evil attacks against you. Use the truth of the Scriptures, taught in context, to refute the lies of the enemy which are spreading like wildfire these days. Speak the truth in opposition to the lies, and you will gain the victory over the enemy of our souls. 

Your Word  

Based off Psalms 119

An Original Work / December 27, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Praise You with an upright heart as

I learn of Your righteousness.

I seek You with all my heart;

Do not let me stray from Your law.

I have hidd’n Your word in my heart

That I might not sin against You.

Open my eyes that I may see

Wonderful things in Your word.

I am a stranger on earth.

I have chosen the way of truth;

My heart is set on Your word.

I will walk about in freedom,

For I have sought out Your truth.

Teach me knowledge and good judgment, 

For I believe in Your law.

Your hands made me, and they formed me;

Give me understanding, Lord.

I put my hope in Your word.

Your word is a lamp to my feet

And a light unto my path.

You are my shield and my refuge;

In Your word I put my hope.

My heart trembles at Your word, Lord.

May my lips o’erflow with praise.

May my tongue sing of Your truth, Lord.

Your salvation, Lord, long I.

Your word, Lord, is my delight. 

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Spiritual Warfare

An Original Work / March 23, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love