Are We His Servants?

“But you, Israel, My servant,

Jacob whom I have chosen,

Descendant of Abraham My friend,

You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,

And called from its remotest parts

And said to you, ‘You are My servant,

I have chosen you and not rejected you.

‘Do not fear, for I am with you;

Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,

Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’” (Isaiah 41:8-10 NASB)

Who is biblical Israel today? What do the Scriptures teach on this?

“But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but ‘Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.’ This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.” Romans 9:6-8 ESV

“Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, ‘And to seeds,’ as one would in referring to many, but rather as in referring to one, ‘And to your seed,’ that is, Christ. Galatians 3:16 NASB

“If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:29 NIV

“…His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility... For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.” Eph. 2:15-18 NIV

“This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.” Ephesians 3:6 ESV

“Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.” 1 Jn. 2:22

More: [Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; Matthew 21:43; John 8:18-19,38-47; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 9:4-8; Romans 11:17-25; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:6; Colossians 3:12-15; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:9-10; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9] 

In summary, it is not those who call themselves “Israel,” as a political nation, who are biblical Israel. It is all who believe in Jesus Christ with God-gifted faith in him who are biblical Israel today (both Jew and Gentile). We who belong to Christ are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise. For in Jesus’ death and resurrection he destroyed the barrier that stood between Jew and Gentile and he made us one people of God via genuine faith in Jesus Christ. And that faith requires that we deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord Jesus in walks of obedience to his commands, in the power of 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] 

And we live in this world in a time of utter chaos when so many things are pointing straight to Revelation 13 and all the promises regarding the events of these last days before the return of Christ. If our eyes are open to seeing what is going on in our world, we can’t miss how many parallels there are to the prophesies of Scripture with regard to the events of these last days. Things are looking really bad, and the world is not going in a good direction. And we have political leaders who act like they are gods who have the right to covet and to steal and to murder in order to get what they want.

And if we are serving the Lord Jesus Christ with our lives, which will be evident by the things that we think and speak and do, in practice, and if we have died to sin, and if we are walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands, and if we are spreading the good news of the biblical gospel of Christ, we will be hated. We will be rejected, cast aside as unwanted, mocked, ignored, persecuted, falsely accused, lied about, falsely arrested, put in prison, and/or put to death because of our walk of faith. But we are not to fear what is coming, for our God will help us through it all. We just have to trust him.

His Tender Mercies 

An Original Work / January 26, 2014

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Fear not! I’m with you.

Be not dismayed!

God watches o’er you.

Trust Him today.

He’ll lead and guide you;

Give you His aid.

He’ll love and keep you

With Him always.

Walk in His footsteps.

He’ll lead the way.

Trust in His love;

Believe that He cares.

He will not leave you.

Faithful He’ll be.

His tender mercies

Now you will see.

Fellowship with Him

Throughout the day.

Tell Him your heartaches.

He’ll heal always.

Rest in His comfort.

He is your friend.

Your faith He’ll strengthen,

True to the end.

https://vimeo.com/379513308

Video Talk on the Same Subject:

https://youtu.be/CMTAFEK5jNk

Are We His Servants?

An Original Work / April 16, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Put On The Lord Jesus Christ

“Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed. The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.” (Romans 13:11-14 NASB1995)

We need to not only be awake spiritually to the things of God, and of what he requires of us in the way of thought and deed, in order that we will obey him, and so we will die to sin, but we need to be awake to what is going on in the world and in our nations and to what the Scriptures teach about the last days and the kinds of things which will take place. Because these things are happening right before our eyes every day. So much of it is so blatant that it is impossible to miss, unless we just aren’t paying attention at all.

And daily we need to be putting on the armor of God with which to fight off Satan’s evil schemes against us. And we need to be putting our faith into practice daily, living the life of a Christian as the Scriptures describe what our lives should look like. No longer should any of us be living in addiction to any such sins as are listed for us here. But all of us should be living in obedience to our Lord and to his commands in holy living, for the praise and glory of God, making no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.

For salvation is nearer to us than when we believed. And what does that mean? It means that our salvation, which is a gift from God, is progressive salvation. We are saved (past), we are being saved (present), and we will be saved (future) when Christ returns and he takes his faithful bride to be with him for eternity. For we are all going to stand before God on the day of judgement and we will all be judged by our deeds. If sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, we will NOT inherit eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 9:23-26; John 8:31-32; John 15:1-12; Romans 6:16; Romans 8:24; Romans 11:17-24; Romans 13:11; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 15:1-2; Colossians 1:21-23; 2 Timothy 1:8-9; 2 Timothy 2:10-13; Hebrews 3:6,14-15; Hebrews 9:28; 1 Peter 1:5,9; 2 Peter 1:5-11; 2 Peter 2:20-22; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6,24-25] 

Time is running out. Not one of us is guaranteed today let alone tomorrow and the days following that. And giving lip service only to God is not going to cut it. Putting on a show of righteousness will not grant us eternal life with God, either. We must, by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to his commands. Sin must no longer have mastery over our lives. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death, but if obedience is what we obey, it results in eternal life with God.

For to lay aside the deeds of darkness, and to put on the armor of light, is what it means to be saved and to have eternal life with God. It means we have 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 righteousness in walks of obedience to God and to his commands. We now follow Jesus Christ with our lives in holy living and sin is no longer what we put into practice on a daily basis. For we want to please God with our lives.

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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Put On The Lord Jesus Christ

An Original Work / April 16, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

You Shall Not Murder!

“Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. For this, ‘You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,’ and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.” (Romans 13:8-10 NASB1995)

In the verses prior to this we learn that we are to be in subjection to governing authorities and we are not to resist authority. But are there biblical exceptions to this rule? YES! We are not to obey any authority that tries to get us to disobey God or to believe them over God. We are not to give our support to any authority which is acting against God’s commands and which is doing evil in the eyes of the Lord. Jesus and his apostles did not obey governing authorities who tried to persuade them to do what is against God’s will and against his commands regarding how we are to live.

So, when the Scriptures teach us that we are to not commit adultery, not murder, not steal, and not covet, then we are to obey those commands. So if a government authority tries to persuade us that it is okay for us to do any of those things, we must disobey that governing authority. And if any governing authority tries to get us to support them in what they are doing, and if what they are doing is committing adultery, murdering, stealing, and coveting, we are not to give them our support at all, no matter who they are or say that they are or claim that their motives are in what they are doing.

In the USA, where I live, we are under a governing authority which is in the process of murdering people of other nations and even people in their own nation. They are coveting and stealing what is not theirs to have from other nations, and they are lying to the people of their own nation about what they are doing and about what the people of other nations are doing, too, always trying to make themselves appear as the “good guys” who are rescuing us from the “bad guys.” But in reality they are the bad guys coveting, stealing, and murdering whoever they want, to get whatever they want from them.

And the same scenario is taking place via another nation which is supported by our nation and by a vast majority of “the church” in the USA. They also have murdered many people out of coveting what those people had so that they could steal from them what they wanted to possess. And the two nations together, i.e. those who are in positions of authority, are in the process of murdering many people in order to take from them what they want to possess because that is what they covet. So we are to have no part in any of that. We are not to support them in any way at all.

For, who are our neighbors? They are not just the people who live next door to us, but they are all people who live on this earth. And how are we to treat all people in the world? We are to love them. And to love is to do what is morally pure, upright, godly, honest, kind, and considerate of them and their needs. It is to pray for them, and to do good to them and not evil. We are to treat them as we would treat our own selves. So we are not to be those who give our support to those who do evil, who covet, who steal, and who murder to get what they want. But we are to love everyone everywhere.

[Proverbs 24:17-20; Proverbs 25:21-22; Matthew 5:8-12,43-48; Matthew 7:12; Luke 6:27-36; Luke 10:27; John 13:33-35; John 15:12; Romans 12:9-11,14-21; 1 Corinthians 13:1-8; 1 Corinthians 16:14; 1 John 4:7]

When I Am Afraid 

Based off Psalms 56-57

An Original Work / October 17, 2016 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When I am afraid, Lord, I will trust in You.

Your Word, Lord, I praise. I yield my life to You.

Enemies pursue me, slandering Your Name.

Lord, have mercy. I trust in You. Hear my cry today.

Lord, I love Your Word. It comforts me today,

As I look to you, and bow my head and pray.

You are Christ, my Lord. You saved me from my sin,

That I may walk, Lord before You, purified within.

Steadfast is my heart, O God, I sing of You.

I will praise You, Lord. To You, I will be true.

Oh, how great Your love. Your faithfulness endue.

Be exalted, God of heaven. Glory be to You.

https://vimeo.com/187821104

You Shall Not Murder!

An Original Work / April 16, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Indeed They Have Heard

Romans 10:14-21 NASB1995

 

How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? 15 How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!”

 

16 However, they did not all heed the good news; for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

 

18 But I say, surely they have never heard, have they? Indeed they have;

 

“Their voice has gone out into all the earth,

And their words to the ends of the world.”

 

19 But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says,

 

“I will make you jealous by that which is not a nation,

By a nation without understanding will I anger you.”

 

20 And Isaiah is very bold and says,

 

“I was found by those who did not seek Me,

I became manifest to those who did not ask for Me.”

 

21 But as for Israel He says, “All the day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”

 

Translated to our world today, this isn’t just about Jew and Gentile. This is about people who have heard the truth of the Scriptures. They have heard the message of the gospel of salvation, i.e. the gospel that Jesus taught, and that his New Testament apostles taught, in the correct biblical context. So, it isn’t as though they have not heard. It isn’t as though they do not know. But it is that they do not heed the good news that they heard. They do not obey the gospel of Jesus Christ, but they choose their own path, instead.

 

And I wish that I could say that those like this are in the minority, that they are few in number. But it appears it is the other way around. It appears that those who reject the gospel that Jesus and his NT apostles taught, in favor of a more diluted and altered “gospel” which makes them feel good about themselves, are in the majority, and not in the minority. But we aren’t talking here about people who have no knowledge of God. We are talking about many people who profess to know God and to believe in Jesus Christ.

 

Some of them are Jews who have refused to believe in Jesus Christ as their Messiah, Lord, and Savior. Others are professing Christians who refuse to bow the knee to God and to obey his commands and to forsake their sinful practices. So they listen to the lies instead of to the truth so that they can keep on in their sinful addictions while still claiming heaven as their eternal destiny. They are those to whom God has stretched out his hands but who have remained disobedient and obstinate people who want to do their will.

 

But 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).

 

And 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 (see Titus 2:11-14). For 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. And it is those who practice righteousness who have the hope of eternal life with God.

 

So, please be students of the Scriptures who study them in their correct biblical context who are putting sin to death and obeying God in practice.

 

[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]

 

Your Heart  

 

An Original Work / October 24, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Tenderly He speaks, softly so.

Gently He calls - His will to know.

Won’t you invite Him in your heart?

Humbly accept Him now.

Bow before Him with contrite heart.

May you obey His will.

Seek Him with all your heart and soul,

And your heart, His Spirit fill.

 

Jesus died to free you from sin,

Giving you new life to begin,

Walking with Him ev’ry hour,

Obeying His commands.

Won’t you trust Him to be your Lord?

His grace you can’t afford.

Freely He gives you peace within,

When you turn from all your sin.

 

Live for Him ev’ry passing day.

Meet with Him; read His word and pray.

Serve Him in the way He leads you,

Doing all that He says.

Do unto others as you would

Have them do unto you.

Love them with Jesus love within you.

Your hearts to God be true.

 

https://vimeo.com/125864134

 

Indeed They Have Heard

An Original Work / April 15, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

What Does It Say?

Many people these days are using Romans 10:9-10 as “the gospel” message in its entirety. And they are translating this passage of Scripture to teach that all we have to do is to make a verbal confession of Jesus as Lord, and to profess belief in Jesus’ bodily resurrection from the dead, and thus we are saved, done deal, and on our way to heaven, regardless of anything we do from that moment forward. But that is taken out of context.

 

“But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.” (Romans 10:8-10 NASB1995)

 

So, what is the context here? It is concern for the salvation of the Jews. For just because they were physical descendants of Abraham, it did not make them children of God. And it was the salvation of the Gentiles by faith in Jesus Christ. For, in Jesus’ death and resurrection he did away with the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws. And he made Jew and Gentile one people by faith in Jesus Christ, one people of God, saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

 

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; Matthew 21:43; John 8:18-19,38-47; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 9:4-8; Romans 11:17-25; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:6; Colossians 3:12-15; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:9-10; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]

 

“Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation. For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge. For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.” (Romans 10:1-4 NASB1995)

 

So, what is the point here? The Old Covenant law was now done away with. But God’s moral laws were never done away with. For you cannot have righteousness and salvation without obedience to God and to his New Covenant commands, many of which are carry overs from the Old Covenant, but which are God’s moral laws, not the liturgical and ceremonial laws. So we don’t become lawless by faith in Jesus. For if sin is what we obey and not God’s commands, we do not have eternal life with God (see Romans 6).

 

And what does it mean to believe? The Greek word for belief is pistis, which means to be persuaded, in this case to be persuaded of God. For the faith to believe in Jesus is not of our own doing. It comes from God, it is gifted to us of God, and it is persuaded 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 follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. For we cannot even come to faith in Jesus Christ unless God first draws us to Christ.

 

[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Hebrews 12:1-2; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Peter 2:24]

 

And this belief must result in righteousness. So, what is righteousness? It is the approval of God, i.e. what is deemed right by the Lord, i.e. what is approved in His eyes. And the Scriptures make it clear that what is approved by God is what is holy, just, faithful, morally pure, upright, honest, decent, and obedient to God and to his commands. And he disapproves of all that is sinful, wicked, evil, immoral, and disobedient to his commands. So faith must result in a life being purified by God, committed to obedience to God.

 

And our confessions of Christ as Lord must result in genuine biblical salvation. And Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross to save us, to deliver us out of our slavery (addiction) to sin so that we will now serve our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. Therefore, if we have not denied self, died with Christ to sin, and been raised with him to now live holy lives, pleasing to God, in obedience to his commands, then we are not of genuine biblical faith resulting in genuine biblical salvation.

 

Who Believes?  

 

Based off Isaiah 53

An Original Work / October 3, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Gospel message, who believes?

Jesus Christ died on a tree,

Saving us from all our sin,

So we might be cleansed within.

 

Had no beauty found in Him,

That we should desire Him.

Man of sorrows, suffering;

Crushed for our iniquities.

 

Surely He has borne our griefs;

From our sadness, brings relief.

Bore the stripes; forsaken, He,

So forgiven we might be.

 

We, like sheep, have gone astray,

Each of us turned his own way.

Jesus calls, “Repent today;

My commandments, now obey.”

 

Jesus said, to come to him,

We must die to all our sin.

Crucified with Him, we live,

Walking in His righteousness.

 

Suff’ring servants, we will be,

Taking His identity on us,

When confessing Him

As our Savior, Lord and King.

 

https://vimeo.com/115517757

 

What Does It Say?

An Original Work / April 15, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Death and Resurrection

The main subject matter in 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, is that of the resurrection from the dead. There were people professing faith in Jesus Christ among them who were being convinced to reject the teaching on the resurrection from the dead, which meant they believed that Jesus Christ was not resurrected from the dead. But the gospel of our salvation rests, not only on Jesus’ death on that cross, but on his resurrection from the dead, his ascension back to heaven, and his sending of the Holy Spirit to indwell his followers. So disbelief in Jesus’ resurrection equals worthless faith.

 

“Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company corrupts good morals.’ Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.” (1 Corinthians 15:33-34 NASB1995)

 

It is important to note here that we cannot “pick and choose” which parts of the gospel message to believe and which parts to reject. But it is also critical to note here that we must study the Scriptures in their full and applicable context. For many people these days teach a false gospel message which they get from taking Scriptures out of context and by twisting them to make them say what they do not say if taught in the correct biblical context. So “bad company” here are those who corrupt the teachings of the Scriptures for whatever they wish to gain, usually having to do with habitual sin.

 

For the gospel of our salvation teaches us that Jesus Christ (the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) gave his life up for us on that cross to put our sins to death with him, and he was resurrected from the dead victorious over sin, death, hell, and Satan, on our behalf, so that by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ we can now die to sin and live for God in walks of obedience to his commands, in holy living, by his grace, in his power. This is what our water baptism represents, this death to sin and a resurrection to new life in Christ to be lived in obedience to his commands.

 

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.” (1 Corinthians 15:58 NASB1995)

 

[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]

 

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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Death and Resurrection

An Original Work / April 15, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

But By the Grace of God

The apostle Paul was writing to the church in Corinth, and he was sharing with them the critical nature of us, who profess faith in Jesus Christ, holding fast to the word which he preached, putting it into practice in our daily lives. And then he shared the first part of it (not all of it) which had to do with Jesus’ death and resurrection and his appearing to many people before he went back to heaven to be with God the Father. And Paul was the last one to whom Jesus appeared, although I believe that was after Jesus’ ascension, and it was not in bodily form as with the others, but it was like in a vision.

 

“And last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also. For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.” (1 Corinthians 15:8-11 NASB1995)

 

What was Paul’s reaction to Jesus appearing to him? It was one of humility and of full recognition that he was totally unworthy to be called of God because he had persecuted the church. And I identify with that in feeling totally unworthy to be called of God to his service because of a time of moral failure in my past life. Now, I have not been called to be an apostle or a prophet, but God called me to write down what he is teaching me each day from my times spent with him in his word, and to post these writings on the internet, which I’ve been doing, “yet not I, but by the grace of God with me.”

 

I am not here each day doing what I am doing for my own self glory. I know full well that I am totally undeserving of God’s grace and mercy and to be called of him to such a ministry as this. So I am humbled that God would choose me and that he would use me in the way he has been using me in other people’s lives for the past 22 years. And I am fully reliant upon the Lord to lead me and to guide me in the way in which he would have me to go. By the grace of God I am what I am and who I am doing what I am doing each day for the salvation of human lives and all for the glory of God.

 

And this is not a competition to see who can do better than the other. So this is not guided by the flesh and by marketing schemes and tricks and tools. I am not here to gain a huge following or so that people will like me. I know that when I share the truth of the Scriptures that more likely it will turn people away from me, not toward me. So I have nothing to gain in the flesh. I also know that some people will hate me, and will disapprove of what I do, and they will think I am nuts or radical or whatever. And some people will attack me and/or lie about me, for they want to silence me. I get that.

 

I make no money from what I do, either. All my time given to this ministry is volunteer time. Any expenses I incur come out of my own pocket. So I profit nothing from this – no money, no popularity, no self-glory, no large followings, and not many friendships. But what I gain is the peace in knowing that I am in the center of God’s will, doing what he has called me to do, and that God is using this for his glory and purposes in other people’s lives throughout the world. So all glory goes to God and not to me for any good that is accomplished through the ministry to which God has called me.

 

[Luke 21:13; Romans 5:3-5; 2 Corinthians 1:3-11; 2 Corinthians 4:17; Hebrews 12:3-12; James 1:2-4; 1 Peter 1:6-7; Revelation 3:19]

 

When in The Stillness  

 

An Original Work / September 26, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

When in the stillness of this moment,

Speak to me, Lord, I humbly pray.

Be my desire, set me on fire,

Teach me to love always.

Help me to walk in fellowship with You,

Listening to You; sit at Your feet.

Whisper Your words to me,

Oh, how gently, guiding me in Your truth.

 

While we are waiting for Your blessing,

Lord, in our hearts be King today.

Help us to live for you ev’ry moment,

List’ning to what You say.

May we not stray from your word within us,

Help us obey You, Lord, in all things,

Walking each moment, Lord, in Your presence,

Our offerings to You bring.

 

Help us to love You, Lord, our master;

Be an example of Your love,

Helping the hurting, lift up the fallen,

Showing them Your great love.

Teach them to love You, follow You always,

Bearing their cross and turning from sin;

Walking in daily fellowship with You,

Making You Lord and King.

 

https://vimeo.com/126984144

 

But By the Grace of God

An Original Work / April 14, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love