God Gives Us The Victory

“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” (1 Corinthians 15:56-58 NIV)

All of us one day are going to die a physical death unless Jesus returns before that can happen and he takes his faithful bride to be with him for eternity. But death is not just physical. There is also spiritual death. Those who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, who remain in Christ in obedience to him until the very end, although we may face physical death in our bodies, we will live with Christ for eternity. But those who remain in their sins, making sin their practice, will die in their sins and not live with Christ.

Now, when this Scripture states that the strength of sin is the law, that is a difficult concept to understand, and even the old commentators struggle with its meaning. But it is not teaching that the commands of God are sinful or that they encourage sin. For our Lord’s commands forbid that sin should be our practice, and they teach that righteousness and faithfulness to our Lord must be our practice. But it is teaching that the strength of sin, sin’s evil nature, and the consequences of sin are made known to us by the law.

For, although we who believe in Jesus Christ are not under the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws, we are not to be lawless. God’s moral laws never went away, and obedience to his New Covenant commands are required of us of God as part of biblical faith which saves. For if sin is what we obey, and not God’s commands, then we are not in fellowship with Christ, we don’t know God, and we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God in heaven.

But obeying God’s commands and ceasing to make sin our practice are not something that we can do in our own flesh. For it is God who gives us the victory over sin and Satan and self. It is only because of what Jesus did for us on that cross that any of us can, by faith in Jesus Christ, deny self, die to sin, and obey God and his commands, in practice. For even the faith to believe in Jesus comes from God, is authored by God, is gifted to us by God, and is persuaded of God that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God.

Therefore, as those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we are to be steadfast in faith, immovable with regard to our faith in practice, always abounding in the work of the Lord. And what is the work of the Lord? It is the power to deny self, die to sin, and obey his commands, and it is living for him and for his will in the power of God. And it is following his leading in going wherever he sends us, and saying whatever he gives us to say, and doing whatever he commands we must do as his followers, for our toil is not in vain in the Lord.

[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] 

Wake Up!  

Based off Ephesians 5:1-21; Revelation 3:1-6

An Original Work / November 25, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead.

Your God awaits you to do what 

He says to you. 

Be not conformed to your selfish will.

Trust in the Lord. Do what He says. 

He will give you victory.

Do not walk in darkness; 

Come into the light of love.

Listen to your Savior calling

You to obey all His teachings.

Repent of your sin, and 

Christ will shine His love on you.

He waits patiently for you to

Heed His whispers to your heart.

Will you hasten to obey Him;

Not from Him depart?

Live your life from this day forward,

Walking in His love and mercy.

Let Him cleanse you of all your sins.

Dwell with Him today.

Do not insult God’s grace to you.

Do not make light of your sin.

Let the light of His truth come 

And free you from within.

https://vimeo.com/125863007

God Gives Us The Victory

An Original Work / April 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Be Careful That You Don't Fall

The people of Israel who were rescued out of slavery in Egypt, by God, via Moses, were in the wilderness for 40 years before a minority of them were able to enter into the Promised Land. Most of them did not get to go into the Promised Land and they did not get to enter into God’s eternal rest because of unbelief, i.e. disobedience. But a minority of them who were of genuine faith in the Lord, who believed God and did what he said, entered his rest.

“Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: ‘The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.’ We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. We should not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes. And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel. These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.” (1 Corinthians 10:6-11 NASB1995)

These were the offenses of those who did not get to go into the Promised Land and into God’s eternal rest. They were idolaters, revelers, drunkards, the sexually immoral, and those who tested Christ and who grumbled against God and against his servant Moses. For they were those who set their hearts on evil things and who did not set their hearts on God and on his Word and on obeying the Lord and his instructions (commands) to them. 

And these things occurred as examples to us to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. And these things happened to them as examples and were written down for us as warnings for us, so that we do not follow their example and do the kinds of evil things that they did, and so be rejected by God. For the Scriptures teach us that if sin and disobedience to God are what we practice that we will not inherit eternal life with God.

“So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!” v.12

So, what is this teaching us? We can’t just “pray the prayer” to receive Christ and now we are good to go to heaven, done deal, end of story. We can’t just make a profession of faith in Jesus with our lips and think we are now saved for eternity and heaven is now guaranteed us when we die. We have to deny self, die to sin daily, and walk in obedience to our Lord, in practice, if we want to have eternal life with God (see Luke 9:23-26).

For salvation is not lip service only. Because Jesus Christ, in his death on that cross, put our sins to death with him, by faith in him we are now able to die to sin and obey God as a matter of life practice, by his grace. And in his resurrection he conquered death, hell, Satan, and sin on our behalf so that, by faith in Christ, we can now live victoriously over sin in the power of God. For Jesus died to change us, to transform us, and to make us more like him.

[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

Be Careful That You Don’t Fall

An Original Work / April 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

In All Your Ways

Proverbs 3:5-7 NIV

 

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart

    and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways submit to him,

    and he will make your paths straight.

Do not be wise in your own eyes;

    fear the Lord and shun evil.”

 

If we trust in the Lord with all our heart, it means that our lives are surrendered to him. We have submitted to him as Lord (Owner-Master) of our lives, and our will now is to do his will. We want to do what pleases him, and we do not want to do what is against him and against his commands. Our whole being is given over to him. So, we want to obey him in doing whatever he asks of us and whatever he requires of us all who are following Jesus Christ with our lives. For our whole being is now sold out to God!

 

And if we lean not on our own understanding, that means that we do not make it up ourselves as we go along the way. It means, too, that we don’t trust in other humans to tell us the truth, but we test what they say against the Scriptures, but in the appropriate biblical context. For many liars exist who are teaching the people a false gospel created by deceivers and manipulators who take the Scriptures out of context and twist them to teach what they do not say if taught in the correct biblical context.

 

The NIV says, “In all your ways submit to him..” Most all other translations say, “In all your ways acknowledge him..” If you go to the interlinear you learn that it says, “In all your ways ‘know thou him.’” And then the Pulpit commentary says that this is “not a mere theoretical acknowledgment, but one that engages the whole energies of the soul and sees in God power, wisdom, providence, goodness, and justice.” So, what does that all mean, and why is it so important that I should bring that to your attention?

 

Because in the English language the word “acknowledge” can mean nothing more than a nod of the head or a verbal confession or a mere acceptance that someone or something exists. But it doesn’t necessarily mean agreement or acceptance or participation in any form. But “submit” to, or to “know” him, have much stronger messages of full participation with the Lord and with his commands and his gospel message. For if we submit to God we surrender our lives to him in obedience to his commands, in his power.

 

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).

 

And then he will make our paths straight. And our paths are our lifestyles, the way we live day in and day out, one day after another. And “straight” means upright, godly, morally pure, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. But God requires our full cooperation. For this doesn’t happen if we choose to keep going our own way, living life however we want to live it. We must submit to God and to his commands, and surrender our all to our Lord to doing his will his way, and not our way.

 

For we are not to be wise in our own eyes, thinking we know what is best for us. And we are not to listen to the lies being spread in the name of “the gospel” in our day and time. But we are to honor, respect, value, submit to, and obey our Lord and his commands. And he says that to come to faith in him that we must deny self, die to sin daily, and follow him in obedience to his commands. For if we go our own way, instead, and continue in sin and in rebellion, we will not inherit eternal life with God. So take this seriously!

 

[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]

 

To Be Like Him 

 

Based off Scripture

An Original Work / March 16, 2014 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Crucified you are with Jesus.

To be like Him, oh, you’ll be,

Because He died at Calv’ry,

So from sin you’d be free.

Oh, what joy He brings into your life,

Giving life with Him endlessly.

 

Oh, what plans He has for your life.

Share the gospel faithfully.

Show the people He loves them.

Now His witness you’ll be.

Tell the world of sin about Jesus,

How He died for them on a tree.

 

Purifying hearts, He saves them,

Who believe on Christ, God’s Son.

Turning now from their idols,

New lives they have begun.

Jesus saves from sin; we’re forgiven.

Over sin, the vict’ry He won!

 

When He comes again to take us

To be with Him evermore,

There will be no more crying.

Gladness will be in store.

Heavens joys will now overtake us:

We’ll be with our Lord evermore.

 

https://vimeo.com/89237609

 

Video talk on the same subject

 

https://youtu.be/OMsIVXwxU0U

 

In All Your Ways

An Original Work / April 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Body of Christ

1 Corinthians 12:18-25 NASB1995

But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. If they were all one member, where would the body be? But now there are many members, but one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable, whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

The church is not a place we go to once or twice a week where we sit in rows in chairs or in pews, and then we sing songs picked out by one person, and then we listen to a sermon taught by one person, and then we go home until the next week. We, the people of God, are The Church, the Body of Christ. And all of us who have died with Christ to sin and who are walking in obedience to our Lord are the ministers to the rest of the body of Christ. And we are to be encouraging one another daily so we won’t be deceived by sin.

And all of us who are walking by faith, in obedience to our Lord, letting him guide and direct our lives, are necessary to the proper working of the body of Christ. We are all necessary! And not one of us should consider ourselves not necessary. And we should not treat one another as though we are not necessary to the proper working of the body of Christ. For God has gifted us all with spiritual gifts, and he has assigned all of us our body parts within the universal body of Christ, and we are to be doing what God has assigned.

For me, my body part is to write down what the Lord teaches me each day from his word and to post these writings on the internet. And the Lord brought me here, for there was no room for me in these institutional market-driven “churches” of today where a few select people do all the ministering while the rest of us sit as spectators. I was not wanted because I spoke the truth of the gospel in places where so many have diluted the gospel to appease human flesh. So God placed me where he could use me.

So, all of us who claim Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of our lives, who are walking in obedience to his commands in holy living and no longer as slaves to sin, should pray and ask the Lord to show us our body parts so that we can function in those necessary body parts for the encouragement and strengthening of the rest of the body of Christ. And we won’t all be the same, and we won’t all have the same gifts or functions, but we are all still necessary. And so we should make room for one another, shouldn’t we?

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Acts 26:18; Romans 10:14-15; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:11-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20; 1 Peter 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

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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The Body of Christ

An Original Work / April 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Unshakably

So, on November 29, 2018, the Lord Jesus led me to begin to write a new song. Now, that is not a simple task, even for a song that is home recorded, or especially for a song that is amateurishly home recorded, whatever the case may be. For, this one took four days to write from beginning to end. And I am being led of the Lord here to share that process with you, because it is related to the message of this song and to life, in reality. So, here goes:

The Process

First the Lord leads me to write a new song. Then, I sit at the keyboard (piano) and plunk out a tune as I hear it in my head, which sometimes needs to be refined once I have it all written down. Then, I handwrite the notes down on a music score sheet. And it isn’t just that I have to know the notes to write, but I also have to know the timing and the key signature and if the song begins at the beginning of a measure or in the middle. And I don’t always know this immediately, so I sometimes have to ask for help.

Once that is done, I pray and I ask the Lord for lyrics to go with the tune, and then he pours those lyrics into my mind, or he gives me Scriptures to read, which then he shows me how those fit with the notes to the song. And so I handwrite or I type those lyrics, which also may need some minor tweaking, from time to time.

Then is the task to decide what chords go with those notes, and I usually have to use a book and the internet to help me with that if the chords go beyond just the basics. Then, once I have the chords chosen for each song measure, I have to select how those chords will be played out in the song, either as solid chords or as arpeggios, which are “the production of the tones of a chord in succession and not simultaneously” (M-W Dictionary). 

Generally, I have two base lines and then the melody line, so I have 3 lines of musical notes to write and to blend together in harmony, one with another. And that does not always work the first time around, so this process may take a lot of tweaking until the notes sound right together and the harmonies are good. And, I also have to figure out the introduction to the song, musically speaking, and how the song will end, too.

Then, I put the notes into a computer song writing software package. And there I also put in the lyrics and the chord notations, so there are quite a few intricate steps just in this process alone, which I have to remember how to do each time, which can be complicated when there are updates to software packages, and if there is a span of time in between songs.

I also have to choose the instrumentation for each of the 3 parts to the song, and computer generated instruments are not the best sounding nor is there generally a sustain pedal to blend notes together, and so sometimes it sounds like “plunk, plunk.” But it is what I have to work with and what I can afford, so that is what I use. And so I play with the different instruments to try to find the best combination of instruments for that particular song.

Once this is completed, then the song is exported to a wav file. That is then imported into a recording package called Audacity, which has had new upgrades, and so I am still trying to learn the nuances of the changes to that. Then, I begin the process of recording the song with my old rusty voice which has definitely seen better days, but it is what I have, and so that is what I use. And, God planned it that way, too. But, I may make an error and then have to go back and fix it, and there are just all kinds of things that can go wrong with this part, too.

Also, I often find that the blend (balance) of the 3 parts does not always sound the same on the song writing package as it does once it is in Audacity, and which it is once it is saved as an MP3, so there may have to be some tweaking along the way in this process, too. So, I often have to go back and forth between the song writing package and Audacity and the MP3 until I get the right balance between parts, which doesn’t always come out perfectly.

So, now I have the song written, and I have my voice recorded with the music, and now I have to put that MP3 into a PowerPoint slide presentation, which I also had to create at some point in this process, and that has its complications, too, for that also has had new upgrades I am still getting used to, and so there is some trial and error involved there, as well. And a lot of this is just tedious organizational work, kind of like data entry, and that can get very tiring, too.

Ok, so once the MP3 is in the PowerPoint slide, I must record the MP3 into the slide presentation, and things can go wrong with that, too, which they definitely did this time, as well as I had a big problem in the writing of the song, too, on that software package, when the instrument panel disappeared and I could not get it back. 

But all throughout this I just prayed, “Lord, this is your song. So, if you want this written, I pray you will help me to solve these issues.” And one of the things the Lord had me do, too, was to ask for my husband’s help, because he was in IT for over 40 years, so he knows this stuff, or he is really good at problem solving and figuring it out, too, and I greatly appreciate his help. And he did help me solve the two big issues I had this time. So, thank you so much, Rick! 

So, once the PowerPoint presentation is completed, then it is saved as an MP4 and then it is uploaded to Vimeo which then provides me with a link to the song so that I can then share it with all of you. Whew!!

It’s About Life!

But what the Lord was showing me through this whole process is that this is a lot like life. I mean, don’t we have all kinds of processes we have to do every day, and some of them go wrong? And sometimes we don’t know what to do? And oftentimes everything we try doesn’t work and we may even feel like breaking down crying or hitting something, depending on our personality makeup or whether we are male or female.

But this is also a lot like our walks of faith, too. Everything does not go smoothly, at least for me it doesn’t. Sometimes I hit roadblocks along the way which temporarily may keep me from moving forward in a particular direction. Sometimes the things that used to work don’t work like they did before. People get angry with us. We get rejected. We get hurt. We have to work through and pray through issues. We need help. We need direction.

But not only do we need to pray and ask God for his help, instead of getting angry or afraid, but we need to call on one another and ask them for help, too, and not feel that we need to go this alone. For, we are the body of Christ because we need one another. Not one of us has it all together, and we were not intended to go it alone. So, we ask for prayer, or for counsel, or for help, because we need that, and it humbles us, and that brings us together as a body, and it helps others to feel they are needed, too.

So, instead of becoming anxious, we pray, and we ask for help, but then we allow the peace of Christ to rule in our hearts. And we keep surrendering it all to the Lord, and we keep rejecting worry and frustration, and we put on trust, faith, peace and joy, instead. 

We don’t let these roadblocks or these obstacles stand in our way or to take us out, but we pray them through and we trust the Lord with them, and with whatever it is we are hoping to accomplish. We remain steadfast in faith, unwavering, and we hold unshakably to the hope which we profess, no matter what goes wrong, and no matter what opposition we may face, because we know that our God is absolutely in control, and he has this handled. We just have to believe him, and cast all our cares on him.

Unshakably

Based off various scriptures

An Original Work / November 29, 2018

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Cast your cares upon your Lord.

Come to Him all you who’re weary.

Know that He will give you rest.

Take His yoke upon you and learn from Him

And you’ll find your rest. For His yoke is easy

And His burden’s light. It’s His to bear.

Find the peace of Christ in heart.

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts,

And be then so thankful. And the peace of God

Which is beyond all we can comprehend

Will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ,

For He is Lord of all.

Hope in God will not betray.

Let us hold unshakably to the hope that 

We now profess. For the One who promised hope

Is faithful to His ev’ry word.

Therefore, with minds that are sober,

Set your hope on Christ’s return.

https://vimeo.com/304024613

The Lovingkindness of God

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;

I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,

Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,

Otherwise they will not come near to you.

Many are the sorrows of the wicked,

But he who trusts in the Lord, lovingkindness shall surround him.

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous ones;

And shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.” 

(Psalm 32:8-11 NASB1995)

When we trust in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives, he does not give us a quick pass and then let us go to have to figure it all out by ourselves from there on out. He counsels us. He guides us in the way that we should go, and he instructs us in what we need to do and to not do. And if we surrender to his will, and submit to him as Lord, and so we deny self, die to sin, and we now choose to obey God, in practice, in his power, and not in the flesh, he will empower us to live holy lives pleasing to him, no longer controlled by sin, but under the control of God as our Lord and Master.

Sadly, that is not what many professing Christians are believing and putting into practice. Many of them are like the horse and the mule who have no understanding who are still living in bondage (addiction) to sin. Many of them, in fact, are being taught that God does not require them to die to sin and to obey God in practice, for they call that “works salvation.” Or else they just make up their own excuses for why they are still living in addiction to sin and for why they are not living in obedience to the Lord and to his commands. And it is because they are trying to do it in their own flesh.

And that doesn’t necessarily mean that any of them are literally trying not to sin, although they might be, for many of those who are the addicted to sin are also liars, con artists, tricksters, manipulators, and actors who pretend one thing while they do another. So, “trying” to not sin may be just one of their excuses they use for why they are still deliberately and habitually sinning against God and against other humans, and for why they have not been able to “figure out” how to have victory over sin and to walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands in holy living. For God made the way!

Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but that doesn’t mean that everyone who is wicked actually feels sorry for their sins. And it doesn’t mean that life is going bad for them, either. But what came to mind here is King David’s confession of his sins in verses 3-5 in this chapter and how he talked about his sorrows when he did not repent of his sin. But then he acknowledged his sin to God and God forgave him. I had a similar situation in my life some time ago where I was drawn into sin, for a time, and then God brought me back and he restored me and he changed me, and now he is using me.

And when we truly repent of our sins, and we now obey God, and not sin, the lovingkindness of God surrounds us, and there is nothing at all in this world like that. There is nothing in this world that compares to when you are at peace with God, because you have denied self, died to sin, and you are now obeying God, in practice, in his power, and sin no longer has dominion over your life. For this is what it looks like to be righteous and upright in heart. It means that our lives are now aligned with God and with his will and purpose, and we are now being used of him to help others to obey him, too.

[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] 

Songs in the Night  

An Original Work / December 18, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.” Acts 16:25 NIV ‘84

Lord, I praise You forevermore.

You, my Savior, I now adore.

Hope in heaven awaiting me,

Because You died at Calvary.

I have been forgiven,

And I’m bound for heaven.

Jesus set me free from

All my sin, I say.

I will praise Him always!

Lord, I love You for all You’ve done:

Overcame death, my vict’ry won!

Jesus saved me, and now I’m free!

I rejoice in His love for me.

I will walk in vict’ry!

My sin is but hist’ry!

I am free to please Him

With my life today.

I will love Him always!

Lord, I thank You for giving me

A new life bought at Calvary.

Loving Jesus, I meet with Him.

Tender mercies now flow within.

Lord, I am so thankful;

Through my Lord, I’m able

To sit at His table;

Fellowship with Him.

I will thank Him always!

https://vimeo.com/379484387

Video Talk on the Same Subject

https://youtu.be/80sCNzCouPM 

The Lovingkindness of God 

An Original Work / April 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

God Can Do What We Can't

“For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before God. But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written, ‘Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.’” (1 Corinthians 1:26-31 NASB1995) 

Now, I am going to share with you a little bit of my own testimony here, not because I think highly of myself, for I am well aware of where I was when God delivered me out of some darkness and he eventually called me to this ministry. So there is no pride in what I am about to share. But I want to give you a personal example so you know how to apply the message here to your own lives today, just in case you don’t already know what this means and how to apply it to your life. So I will just give you some personal examples.

I was a slow learner with a reading comprehension difficulty. Although I was in 3rd grade, they decided to put me back to 2nd grade because I was not ready for 3rd grade. So I passed 2nd grade twice, but they never solved my reading comprehension difficulty or helped me to not be a slow learner. But I did okay then in grammar, spelling, and general math, and music. But I was horrible at anything that involved reading comprehension, or speed, or advanced math. So I graduated high school with a 1.4 GPA (D average). 

We were a poor family, my mother, my father, my 4 siblings and me. And I was abused by my father. I did not have much self-confidence at all, except maybe in the few things I was any good at. So I was not particularly outgoing, and I definitely was not popular, although I did have a few friends. I was fairly quiet and I was a fearful child. I did okay singing in front of people, though, for I loved to sing. But I did horrible in reading, and I was a slow learner, so I didn’t put forth much effort to try to learn some things.

Now, I was a student of the Scriptures from early on in my life, but I had a difficult time understanding them, too, until I got a NASB Bible in place of the KJV Bible, and then I began understanding much more. But when it came to world history or politics or anything going on in the world, I didn’t even try to understand it all. I just believed what our government said and what the news media said, and I voted a straight party ticket not really knowing at all what I was voting for. So I was ignorant about a lot!

Now I did have some paying jobs, and I did well in them as long as they did not require speed, and as long as what I had to learn was not too complicated, for I was a dedicated worker who gave the best I had to whatever job I had. So, I wasn’t stupid. I was just a slow learner who had a reading comprehension problem, which a class in college helped me to overcome to some degree. I went from reading on a 4th grade level to reading on a 7th grade level, so that did help me when I got paying jobs.

But Then The Lord Called

But then the Lord called me to write down whatever I was learning from him during my quiet times with him in his word and to post these writings on the internet. I had never done anything like that before, so I had to learn, so I had to read and to comprehend what I was reading. And then the Lord led me to study about my country’s history, and he had me read articles about science, government, history, and all sorts of subjects I would never have read before. And I began learning so many things I never had a clue about before, for the Lord was helping me to understand what I was reading.

And then he called me to songwriting. I had never done that before, although I had majored in music in college, and had written very few simple tunes for a class assignment. And I had a ton of stuff I had to learn about songwriting and about how to share the songs, and it was a long tedious process, but the Lord helped me to do it. And then he had me begin writing poems (no music). I had written a few poems in my past life, more for myself and not for public consumption. But they were not anything like the ones he has me write, and never as many, and so this was another step.

And then he had me start making video talks, and public speaking is not my gift, but he gave me the courage and the strength to do it, and so I did. And then he had me start writing Christian memes, and I had to learn how to do that. And he had me write a couple of short books sharing my testimony, and I had not done anything like that before, either. None of this was in my comfort zone or what I would have ever considered to be my “gifted” areas. I felt ill equipped for most of it, but I obeyed the Lord, and I did what he said, and he provided me with what I needed to accomplish his purposes.

But that does not make me a professional at anything, in the eyes of the world. I am not some well-known popular person. But God still uses me. For he does not look on the outward appearance, but he looks at what is stored up in the heart. He did not call me because I was great, for I wasn’t! He called me because he was great and he knew what He could do through me for his glory if I would let him do it, which I did and am still doing. And that is what this Scripture is talking about. So, obey God, and let him use you, even if you stutter or you are slow or whatever. For God can work miracles.

Not by Might  

Based off Zechariah 4

An Original Work / March 29, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

“Not by might, and not by power,

But by My Spirit,” says our Lord, God.

“Mighty mountain, O what are you?

Before Christ you will become level ground.”

The hands of our Lord, Savior God,

Formed the foundation of His church.

He alone will complete the work

He began in His servants’ hearts and minds.

Who despises small beginnings?

Much can be done in Christ’s strength within.

Be of courage, and trust your Lord.

All sufficient He is for all your needs.

Opposition and apathy:

Holy Spirit will set us free!

We can be overcomers in our faith

In our Lord, and our Savior, King.

Don’t be troubled by God’s timing.

He has ev’rything in His command.

Hasten to obey His commands fully,

Trusting Him to work all for good.

Not by might nor by human strength,

But by God’s power; strength within;

My dependency now on His working

His will in me in righteousness.

https://vimeo.com/125492229 

God Can Do What We Can’t

An Original Work / April 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love