Fear Not, Little Flock

Based off Luke 12  

An Original Work / February 10, 2016

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Fear not, little flock,

Your Lord’s always near.

Jesus will come and

Wipe every tear.

Trust in His mercy,

Rest in His love.

He’ll give you comfort

From heaven above.

Our precious Redeemer,

Jesus, our friend,

He will be with us,

True to the end.

He will not leave you,

Faithful He’ll be.

Believe His promises,

Rest on His knee.

Our God, and provider,

He knows our need.

He’ll not forsake you.

Follow His lead.

He’ll love and comfort you

To the end.

Know, on His Word,

You can always depend.

https://vimeo.com/154896384 

Not Called of God for Impurity

“For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification. So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.” (1 Thessalonians 4:7-8 NASB1995)

 

The “gospel” message which is permeating the “church” here in the USA is largely not the gospel that Jesus taught and that his New Testament apostles taught. But it is a man-created diluted and altered “gospel” message intended to tickle itching ears and to appease human flesh and to not offend the ungodly of the world who they are trying to attract and to draw into their weekly “church” gatherings. So it is a half-truth (lie) “gospel,” not of God.

 

So, in this day and age when liars and lies abound, and when wolves in sheep’s clothing and charlatans and manipulators of truth and deceivers are all over the place, we must be very discerning people of God who are testing the spirits to see which ones are of God. And we must test what we are hearing against the Scriptures, taught in their appropriate context, and taught from reliable and reputable Bible translations, for not all are good.

 

For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification. In other words, we are not saved from our sins and on our way to heaven based on lip service only. By God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ we die with Christ to sin, and we are raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness, by the grace of God, in the power of God.

 

Thus, we are no longer to allow 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 is what we obey, it results in sanctification and its end is eternal life with God. And sanctification results in holy living, which means to be different (unlike) the world because we are being conformed to the likeness of character of Jesus Christ, by the grace of God, by faith in Jesus Christ.

 

So, if you are one who is professing faith in Jesus Christ with your lips, but you are still engaged in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord, and not in walks of obedience to the Lord in holy living, please know that the Bible teaches that you do not know God, you are not born of God, you are not in fellowship with God, and you do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God unless you deny self, die to sin, and obey God, in practice.

 

For the Scriptures do not teach that you can make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, and that you will have salvation from sin and eternal life with God, if your “faith” in Jesus is absent of genuine repentance (death to sin) and walks of surrender to God and to his will in obedience to God and to his commands in holy living. For Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught that faith in Jesus, which is of God, must result in self-denial, dying with Christ to sin, and walking (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord’s commands.

 

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

 

So, if you are still walking in deliberate and habitual sin, and not in walks of surrender to the will of God, in obedience to God and to his commands…

 

Broken Cord

 

An Original Work / August 29, 2018

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Your bond is broken with your Lord and Savior

And your testimony is separate from Him.

Your words not matching your actions today.

Repent of your sin and bow down and pray.

Live what you testify in truth always.

 

Purity’s lacking in your life and witness,

For you profess one thing, but other you do.

Not moral, spiritual. Still of the flesh.

Not living in truth to what you confess.

Lying about it puts you in a mess.

 

Living a lie is your practice, ‘tis true of you.

Masquerade righteousness – none of it true.

Your heart is not given to your Lord God.

Because of how you live, you are a fraud.

Turn from your sin and give your life to God.

 

https://vimeo.com/287303934

 

Not Called of God for Impurity

An Original Work / May 31, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

This is The Will of God

“Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more. For you know what commandments we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.” (1 Thessalonians 4:1-6 NASB1995)

 

As those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we are to be those who have died with him to sin, and who have been raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. For in Jesus’ death on that cross he put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in him, we will now die with him to sin and walk (in conduct) in obedience to his commands.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Eph 4:17-32; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24]

 

And as those who claim him as our Lord and Savior, and heaven as our eternal destiny, we are to be those who are living holy lives, pleasing to God. For it is God’s will and purpose for our lives that we live to please him in all that we are and do and say. For this is the will of God that we do what pleases him. And we are taught in the Scriptures what we must do and not do in order to live lives which are pleasing to the Lord, and not to the flesh.

 

[Romans 8:8; 2 Corinthians 5:9; Galatians 6:8; Ephesians 5:10; Colossians 1:9-11; 1 Thessalonians 2:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:1; 2 Timothy 2:4; Hebrews 11:6; Hebrews 13:6; 1 John 3:22]

 

For it is the will of God for us who believe in Jesus Christ that we live holy lives, pleasing to God, no longer under the control of Satan and the flesh, but now under the authority and control of God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. For to be sanctified is to be made holy, and to be holy is to be different, separate, unlike the world because we are being conformed to the likeness of character of Jesus Christ by the Spirit living within us.

 

So, as those who are of genuine God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in the Lord Jesus, we are to be those who abstain from sexual immorality, who learn to control our own bodies in a way that is holy and honorable, and not in lustful passion like those who do not know God, i.e. who are not of genuine biblical faith in the Lord Jesus, who have not died with him to sin and been raised with Christ now to walk in ways which are pleasing to God.

 

But sadly, in the present “Christian” culture at large here in America today, that is not being taught much at all, especially not as necessary for us to be of genuine faith and to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God. So, many professers of faith in Jesus Christ are still deliberately and habitually engaged in sexual immorality and in doing what is dishonorable, in practice, and who do not have control over their own bodies, for the flesh still rules.

 

And this is largely taking place on the basis of two main factors, I believe, the first of which is the massive number of people now who are believing in an altered and diluted gospel message which makes no requirements of them that they put sin to death in their lives and that they now walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands as necessary components of believing faith which saves and which promises eternal life with God.

 

And they are also not being taught that God is the avenger (punisher) of such things as this, who will administer just punishment on all who continue in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord, and who do not make obedience to God their practice. And this includes that God will punish all who give lip service to him but who are still walking in sin and not in obedience to his commands, and they will not inherit eternal life with God.

 

[Romans 2:6-8; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Galatians 6:7-8; Ephesians 5:3-6; Colossians 1:21-23; Colossians 3:1-17; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:23-31; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6,15-17; 1 John 3:4-10]

 

My Sheep  

 

Based off John 10:1-30 NIV

An Original Work / June 24, 2012 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

My sheep hear me. They know me.

They listen to my voice and obey.

I call them and lead them.

They know my voice, so they follow me.

They will never follow strangers.

They will run away from them.

The voice of a stranger they know not;

They do not follow him.

 

So, I tell you the truth that

I am the gate, so you enter in.

Whoever does enter

Will find forgiveness and will be saved.

Nonetheless whoever enters

Not by the gate; other way,

He is the thief and a robber.

Listen not, the sheep to him.

 

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,

Who laid his own life down for the sheep.

I know them. They know me.

They will live with me eternally.

The thief only comes to steal and

Kill and to destroy the church.

I have come to give you life that

You may have it to the full…

 

They know my voice, so they follow me.

 

https://vimeo.com/114938263

 

This is The Will of God

An Original Work / May 31, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Pleasing God

 

Oh, What a World, What a World

We live in a world full of sin and decay,

With voices of liars now much on display.

They ring through the halls of the internet sites,

In hopes that the people will now take a bite.

They’re taught in the “churches” now given to man

To follow his will and to obey his plan.

With marketing ventures they plot their abuse

Of Christ and the Scriptures, which they now misuse.

The stories they tell to the people to win

The people to their side, with truth not begin.

They create the lies for the people to tell

What not leads to heaven, but ends up in hell.

They give the impression that nothing’s required

By God for salvation and eternal life.

They, thus, give permission for people to sin

On purpose, in practice, and promise them heaven.

But God does not teach that, He does not tell lies,

The words that He teaches, on them we rely.

He teaches repentance, forgiveness of sins,

And walks of obedience for hope now in heaven.

So, we must believe Him, and not the lies tell,

And follow His leading, and not our heads swell.

Forsake sinful practices, obey His commands,

The truth of the Gospel on that now depend.

We live for the Lord, and we do what He says,

We refute the lies, and the truth we now tell.

We suffer for telling the people the truth

Who live for themselves and who live now uncouth.

But we must be willing to suffer for Christ

And not let His gospel be taken by heist.

So die to your sins and now obey your Lord,

And live for the Lord who you now should adore.

An Original Work / May 30, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I Know That God is For Me

“..This I know, that God is for me.

10 In God, whose word I praise,

In the Lord, whose word I praise,

11 In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid.

What can man do to me?

12 Your vows are binding upon me, O God;

I will render thank offerings to You.

13 For You have delivered my soul from death,

Indeed my feet from stumbling,

So that I may walk before God

In the light of the living.” (Psalm 56:9-13 NASB1995)

 

How did David know that God was for him and not against him? Because his trust was in the Lord, and he listened to the voice of the Lord speaking to his heart, and he followed the Lord and his leading in his life. He was a man of God and a servant of the Lord who feared (honored, respected, reverenced, and obeyed) the Lord. He kept the covenant God had with his people, and he remembered the commands of the Lord, to do them (to obey them).

 

Did David ever fail to be who God wanted him to be? Yes! Did he commit adultery with a woman and then murder the woman’s husband? Yes! But did he repent of his sin to God? Yes! And did God restore him? Yes! But were there consequences for his sin? Yes! But God restored him and God still used him to be his servant. So this is not saying that David always led a perfect life, but it is showing that he repented, changed, and followed the Lord.

 

And we can know that God is for us and not against us when we repent of (turn from) our sins and we follow our Lord in obedience to his commands, which is what it means to have faith in Jesus Christ. For Jesus took our sins upon himself and he put our sins to death with him on that cross so that, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith him we might now die with him to sin and obey his commandments and follow in his ways, by the grace of God.

 

And when David praised the Lord, it was not with empty praise, giving lip service only to God while withholding himself from coming under God’s control. He was very thankful to God for who he is and for his relationship with David and for God choosing him like he did to be the King of Israel, and to lead God’s people, and for all that God did in David’s life. And because he was thankful to God, he served the Lord with his life and he obeyed God.

 

And because of his relationship with the Lord, and his confidence in God, he knew he had no reason to fear his enemies when they came against him, but he trusted in the Lord to work all things together for good. And he was serious about his service to the Lord, and his walk of faith in obedience to the Lord, and he wanted to please the Lord with his life. And so he gave his life to God as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, for he loved God.

 

And he was very thankful for his salvation, that the Lord delivered his soul from death, because of God’s grace, but also because David believed God, and he worshipped him, and he followed his lead, and he obeyed the Lord. For both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, God regards obedience as faith, and he regards disobedience and the practice of sin as unbelief (Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22).

 

And in the same way we can be saved by grace through walks of faith in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. For this purpose Jesus gave his life up for us on that cross that we might die with him to sin and now walk with him in obedience to his commands and to his will and purpose for our lives. For our lives are to be surrendered to the Lord to follow him wherever he leads us and to do all that he commands us to do. This is biblical faith!

 

But if we should decide to profess faith in Jesus Christ but then to continue living in deliberate and habitual sin, and not in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands, then we will not inherit eternal life with God.

 

[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 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 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 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

 

Seek the Lord  

 

An Original Work / July 20, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley

Based off Isaiah 55

 

“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.

Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,

And your soul will delight in richest of fare.

Give ear to Me, and you will live.

I have made an eternal covenant with you.

Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”

 

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him.

Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.

Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.

Freely, God pardons him.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,”

declares the Lord, our God.

 

“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.

It will not return to Me unfulfilled.

My word will accomplish all that I desire,

And achieve the goal I intend.

You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.

The mountains will burst into song… before you,

And all of the trees clap their hands.”

 

https://vimeo.com/379408296

 

I Know That God is For Me

An Original Work / May 30, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Don't Give Up The Fight!

5 “All day long they distort my words;

All their thoughts are against me for evil.

6 They attack, they lurk,

They watch my steps,

As they have waited to take my life.

7 Because of wickedness, cast them forth,

In anger put down the peoples, O God!

8 You have taken account of my wanderings;

Put my tears in Your bottle.

Are they not in Your book?” (Psalm 56:5-8 NASB1995)

 

Persecuted for Righteousness’ Sake

 

This is a section of this Psalm of David on the subject of being persecuted by his enemies, who fought against him, who oppressed him, and who trampled upon him. And Jesus Christ, when he lived on this earth, promised us that if we follow him with our lives, in walks of obedience to his commands, no longer as slaves to sin, but as servants of the Lord, that we will be hated, persecuted, mistreated, falsely accused of wrong, cast aside as unwanted, rejected, have our words distorted, and be personally attacked by others.

 

And the very sad reality of our present day situation is that many of our enemies, who are against us, who cast us off as unwanted, who persecute us, and who do evil against us, are those who are supposed to love, protect, value, nurture, and do good to us, and not harm. And many of these who are our enemies, who treat us with disdain, are others who profess faith in the Lord Jesus, who could be our relatives, neighbors, friends, and pastors and elders of “church” congregations. And that is heartbreaking!

 

But Jesus said we would be hated and persecuted as he was. And his persecutors and his opposition came from his own family members, from his own people (the Jews), and from the rulers and people of influence and the teachers of the Scriptures in the temple of God and in the synagogues. So it should not surprise us if our persecutors are of the same nature, and not necessarily the people who make no professions of faith in Jesus Christ. And Jesus promised that family members would turn on us for our faith in him.

 

Now, where David spoke of his “wanderings,” he was not speaking in terms of wandering from the Lord in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord. He was speaking in terms of being persecuted to the point to where he was forced to flee, to move from place to place as an exile, a fugitive, without a permanent place to settle down and to live. And so he prayed to God that the difficulty of his situations, and the tears that he shed because of them, might be remembered by the Lord, and that God would comfort him.

 

A Present Day Example of This

 

Let me give you a present day example of this. For the “Christian” culture that we live in here in the USA is very worldly, and is largely being led by marketeers and their marketing schemes on how to draw in large crowds of people from the world into their “church” gatherings. Therefore, many “church” congregations have been turned into businesses being marketed to the world, and thus the character of God/Christ, and of his church, and of his gospel, are being altered to make them more acceptable to human flesh.

 

So, if you are a follower of Jesus Christ who takes God and his word seriously, whose life is committed to obeying the Lord and to walking in his ways, and to doing what he has called you to do, as a follower of Christ, and so you stand on the truth of God’s word, you are not going to fit in with today’s market-driven “church” congregations. And so you may find yourself being opposed and ostracized and invited to leave these gatherings and to go someplace else where you will be a “better fit.” So, you are in exile.

 

But you may find that every “church” you have tried in your community are all following the same marketing schemes and business models on how to “grow their churches,” and they are all partnered with (incorporated under) the state (the ungodly, the world), and so they are all busy doing what they think is going to attract the world to their gatherings. And so they may be being trained to “watch out for people like you, i.e. people with strong convictions,” and to make certain that they encourage you to go elsewhere.

 

Therefore, you are in exile. And you have cried many tears over the mistreatment that you received at the hands of those who were supposed to love you and to include you and to believe and to teach what the Scriptures teach as the truth of the gospel. And so you take your unjust suffering to the Lord in prayer, and he may show you a place where he can use you. And that is what he did for me. And the place he sent me was to the internet, where God is using me to share his word with the people of the world.

 

So, if you come up against a “brick wall” in your pursuit of following the Lord in obedience, then just pray and ask the Lord what he has for you next. Don’t let how others treat you determine who you become or what you end up doing with your life. And there was a time in my life when I did that, when I let the persecutions of others undo me. But the Lord was always there encouraging me to get back in there and to keep pressing forward and to not give up the fight just because it got much harder. So don’t give up!!

 

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 17:14; Rom 5:3-5; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

 

For Our Nation  

 

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

 

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

 

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

 

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

 

https://vimeo.com/379406352

 

Don’t Give Up The Fight!

An Original Work / May 30, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

In God I Have Put My Trust

“Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me;

Fighting all day long he oppresses me.

2 My foes have trampled upon me all day long,

For they are many who fight proudly against me.

3 When I am afraid,

I will put my trust in You.

4 In God, whose word I praise,

In God I have put my trust;

I shall not be afraid.

What can mere man do to me?” (Psalm 56:1-4 NASB1995)

The Scriptures teach us, who have put our faith and trust in the Lord Jesus, that we will be hated and persecuted as Jesus was hated and persecuted, and that evil people will do evil things to us, sometimes because they are evil people who do wicked things to other people, and sometimes because of our walks of faith in the Lord Jesus and our testimonies for him and for his gospel truth. And these wicked people could be our own relatives or our neighbors or church pastors or elders, many of whom profess faith in Jesus.

But behind these evil people is Satan who is out to attack all whose lives are committed to following the Lord Jesus, and who are speaking the truth of the gospel in contrast to the lies which are so popular today. For Satan wants us silenced, and he is hoping that he can stop us, discourage us, make us afraid, and get us to stop trusting in the Lord and in his gospel message, so that we will cease with speaking the truth of the gospel and with refuting his lies which have become so widely accepted here in America (USA) today.

So, if or if not we believe in Jesus, we may be trampled upon by other humans. But in this context this is speaking of the enemies of those whose lives are committed to serving the Lord. And, again, the enemies spoken of here may be others who also profess faith in Jesus Christ but who are following after the ways of the world and the thinking of humans, and whose trust is in the lies of Satan and in marketing schemes which teach them how to attract the ungodly to their gatherings by doing what the world enjoys.

So, when we are being persecuted for our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord, and because we speak the truth, and not the lies, we are to call out to God in our distress, and lean on him and on his support, and trust him with our circumstances, believing in his sovereignty over our lives. And we are to recall that he promised us that these days would come and that we are not to be afraid of suffering for the sake of our faith in the Lord. For through suffering we learn obedience, we are humbled, and we grow to maturity.

What can mere man do to us? Just about anything that they determine in their hearts to do against us, but only as God allows it and as he puts limits on it. And why does God allow evil people to do evil things to us? Because to stop all evil he would have to do away with all human life, and because through what we suffer, if we trust in the Lord in our suffering, we learn determination, perseverance, spiritual maturity, obedience to God, and compassion for others who are also suffering at the hands of evil people.

These were God’s words to Jeremiah, which we can also apply to our situations today if our lives are surrendered to the Lord to doing his will:

“Now, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all which I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, or I will dismay you before them. Now behold, I have made you today as a fortified city and as a pillar of iron and as walls of bronze against the whole land, to the kings of Judah, to its princes, to its priests and to the people of the land. They will fight against you, but they will not overcome you, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares the Lord.” (Jeremiah 1:17-19 NASB1995)

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 17:14; Rom 5:3-5; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

For Our Nation  

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

https://vimeo.com/379406352

In God I Have Put My Trust

An Original Work / May 30, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Make Known His Deeds

“Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name;

Make known His deeds among the peoples.

2 Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;

Speak of all His wonders.

3 Glory in His holy name;

Let the heart of those who seek the Lord be glad.

4 Seek the Lord and His strength;

Seek His face continually.” (Psalm 105:1-4 NASB1995)

If we are those who are seeking after the Lord and his righteousness and his strength and his face continually, what should that look like in our lives? There should be evidence in our lives, in our thinking, our attitudes, our words, and our behaviors which demonstrates that this is a reality in our lives. It should be evident that we walk with the Lord day by day in following him in his footsteps, that we are being led of the Lord in what he has called us to do, and that we have died to sin and we are now obeying our Lord.

And to give thanks to him goes beyond just lip service. For if we are truly thankful for him, for who he is, for what he has done for us, and for all that he continues to do for us who follow him with our lives, then it should be shown by our actions towards him. We should be his sheep who are listening to his words, and who are following him in obedience to his commands, who are doing what he says we are to do, and who are not doing what he commands that we not do. For this is what it means to be his followers.

And to call upon his name is not something that we just do verbally, or that we only do by religious routines and rituals, or that we only do when we are in need of something, and we are hoping that he will supply what we need. For this has to do with being in relationship with him and having open communication with him 24/7 to where we hear him speaking to us and we are talking with him, and he is showing us the way in which we are to go, and so we are following him in the way in which he is leading us.

And if we are making known his deeds among the peoples, then we are sharing with other people his words to us via the Scriptures, and we are speaking the truth, in love, to them, and we are not speaking the lies which are so popular today. We are sharing with the body of Christ and with the world the truth of the Scriptures, and of the gospel of our salvation, in contrast to the lies which are being spread in place of the truth. And this is our practice, and we will not shrink from this in order to be liked by others.

And to glory in (praise) his holy name is not to be a ritualistic performance or a religious practice which is empty of actual heartfelt praise to the Lord, for we praise him more by what we do than by words that we speak, especially if those words are disingenuous. For we can speak and sing praises to God with our lips but then deny him by our actions, and that is not genuine praise. That is not giving him glory if we then turn around and choose to live however we want in doing whatever it is we want to do.

So, we need to be those who are seeking after our Lord and his strength and his face and his righteousness and his will for our lives, in truth, with a heartfelt desire to do what pleases him, in practice. And then we must be those who are walking in obedience to his commands, in holy living, and who are no longer walking (in conduct, in practice) in sin. For if we profess his name with our lips, but then we continue living in deliberate and habitual sin against him, and not in obedience, then we will not have eternal life in him.

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

Seek the Lord  

An Original Work / July 20, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley

Based off Isaiah 55

“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.

Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,

And your soul will delight in richest of fare.

Give ear to Me, and you will live.

I have made an eternal covenant with you.

Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him. 

Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.

Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.

Freely, God pardons him.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,”

declares the Lord, our God.

“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.

It will not return to Me unfulfilled.

My word will accomplish all that I desire,

And achieve the goal I intend.

You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.

The mountains will burst into song… before you, 

And all of the trees clap their hands.”

https://vimeo.com/379408296 

Make Known His Deeds

An Original Work / May 29, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

God's Lovingkindness and Compassion

“Bless the Lord, O my soul,

And all that is within me, bless His holy name.

2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,

And forget none of His benefits;

3 Who pardons all your iniquities,

Who heals all your diseases;

4 Who redeems your life from the pit,

Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion;

5 Who satisfies your years with good things,

So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.” (Psalm 103:1-5 NASB1995)

 

This is a Psalm of David, who was a man of God, who was writing about the relationship we who are followers of God (of Christ) have with God. And the things he wrote about in this Psalm (in the Old Testament) are taught under the New Covenant in the New Testament, too, so we can apply these truths to our lives today. And what he said is that God’s lovingkindness and his compassion are on those who fear God, who obey his commandments.

 

So, what David wrote here is not to be taken out of context and applied broadly to all who profess faith in Jesus Christ. These promises of God, and the benefits he provides, are for all who obey him, who do what he says, who honor him as Lord (Owner-Master) of their lives, and who are no longer walking in sin, making sin their habit. Same thing is taught all throughout the New Testament writings. We must obey God to reap his benefits.

 

And this has nothing to do with “works salvation.” For not one of us, in our own flesh, can do anything to earn or to deserve our own salvation. Even the faith to believe in Jesus is not of our own doing, but it comes from God, it is persuaded of God, and it is gifted to us by God. But God persuades us of his righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die to sin and to now walk in obedience to his commands in holy living, by the grace of God.

 

So God does not pardon the sins of the unrepentant who refuse to bow the knee to God in humble surrender of their lives to him in submission to his will and purpose for their lives. And their lives are not redeemed from the pit if they are still living in the pit, deliberately and habitually engaged in what is sinful and disobedient to God. You cannot just say you believe in Jesus and then expect God to forgive you of your sins if you won’t die to your sin.

 

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..

 

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..

 

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

 

And we are all going to be judged by God according to our works:

 

“He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.” (Romans 2:6-8 ESV)

 

So, we who profess faith in Jesus Christ must die with Christ to sin, and now we must walk (in conduct, in practice) according to his commands, by the grace of God, in the power of God, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, who is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And God will pardon our sins, and he will redeem our lives from the pit of hell, and he will crown us with his lovingkindness and grace.

 

[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 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

 

Broken and Contrite  

 

An Original Work / May 13, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

I come before You, Lord, my Savior,

With humble heart and crushed in spirit.

I bow before You, I implore You,

Heal my broken heart, I pray.

Love You, Jesus, Lord, my master,

You are the King of my heart.

Lord, purify my heart within me;

Sanctify me, whole within.

 

Oh, Lord, I long to obey fully

The words You’ve spoken through Your Spirit.

I pray You give me grace and mercy,

Strength and wisdom to obey.

Father God, my heart’s desire,

Won’t You set my heart on fire?

Lord, cleanse my heart of all that hinders

My walk with You, now I pray.

 

Oh, Jesus, Savior, full of mercy,

My heart cries out for understanding.

I want to follow You in all ways,

Never straying from Your truth.

Holy Spirit, come in power,

Fill me with Your love today.

Lord, mold and make me;

Your hands formed me;

Live Your life through me, I pray.

 

https://vimeo.com/118841304

 

God’s Lovingkindness and Compassion

An Original Work / May 29, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Lord's Righteous Deeds

 

Toward Those Who Fear Him

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,

Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

9 He will not always strive with us,

Nor will He keep His anger forever.

10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins,

Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him.

12 As far as the east is from the west,

So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

13 Just as a father has compassion on his children,

So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

14 For He Himself knows our frame;

He is mindful that we are but dust.

 

15 As for man, his days are like grass;

As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

16 When the wind has passed over it, it is no more,

And its place acknowledges it no longer.

17 But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him,

And His righteousness to children’s children,

18 To those who keep His covenant

And remember His precepts to do them.” (Psalm 103:8-18 NASB1995)

 

The promises given here parallel over to the New Covenant promises, with the same stipulations. They are not for everyone who says they believe in Jesus, who profess his name with their lips, but then who continue to live as they did before in deliberate and habitual sin against God, and not in walks of obedience to the Lord (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23). But the promises are for all who fear the Lord and who keep his commands.

 

For those who fear God are those who revere, respect, honor, believe, and obey him, who take God and his word seriously, to heart, and who believe in what his word teaches, which includes the promises of God, both of rewards for obedience, and judgment and hell for disobedience. And so they are those whose lives are surrendered to the Lord to do his will, who are walking in obedience to his commands in holy living, and no longer as slaves to sin.

 

So, by faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, not of the will nor of the flesh of humans, but which comes from God, and is persuaded of God, and is gifted to us by God, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin, and we are raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. Thus sin must no longer be our practice, but obedience to our Lord is what we do.

 

And this is not a claim of absolute sinless perfection once we place our faith in the Lord Jesus (1 John 2:1-2), but it is a promise to us that our sins are forgiven, and now heaven is our eternal destiny if we are those who fear God, who listen to our shepherd, Jesus Christ, who walk in his ways and in his truth and righteousness, and who do as he commands, in practice, for this is the will of God for our lives (Romans 6:1-23; John 10:27-30).

 

But if we fall back into living in sin, making sin our practice, and not obedience to God, and that is where we remain, living for sin and for self and for self-pleasure, and not for God, the Bible makes it clear that we will die in our sins and we will not have eternal life with God, regardless of what our lips profess. And that is why there are so many warnings to the church in the Scriptures against falling back into sin, and of its consequences.

 

Nonetheless, there is a massive number of professers of faith in Jesus Christ who are convinced that their professions of faith in the Lord are going to secure them forgiveness of all sins, and heaven as their eternal destiny, but regardless of how they live their lives on this earth. And one day they are going to stand before the Lord and he is going to say, “I never knew you! Depart from me you workers of lawlessness,” you who would not obey God.

 

So don’t read this Psalm out of context and convince yourselves that you will not be judged by God but you will be let into his heaven based on lip service only. And don’t write off the teachings in this Psalm because this is Old Testament, for the same principles are taught us in the New Testament, under the New Covenant. If sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, then we are not saved, and we don’t have eternal life with God.

 

[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 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

 

For Our Nation  

 

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

 

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

 

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

 

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

 

https://vimeo.com/379406352

 

Toward Those Who Fear Him

An Original Work / May 29, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love