I Will Walk in Your Truth

“Teach me Your way, O Lord;

I will walk in Your truth;

Unite my heart to fear Your name.

I will give thanks to You, O Lord my God, with all my heart,

And will glorify Your name forever.

For Your lovingkindness toward me is great,

And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.”

(Psalm 86:11-13 NASB1995)

If we are those who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, via being 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, we should be those who are echoing the psalmist’s words to God. We should desire that our Lord teach us His ways so that we will walk (in conduct, in practice) in his truth and righteousness, by the grace of God, in the power of God, as we yield our lives to the control of the will of God.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For 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 these are the ways of God that he would have us to walk in them. This is the truth of God’s word and of the gospel of our salvation that we are to uphold and to follow after in obedience to our Lord. For we don’t “get saved” just so we can escape hell, be forgiven of all our sins, and so we can go to heaven when we die. For Jesus gave his life up for us on that cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will die to sin, and we will now follow him in obedience to his commands, as our life practice.

For the fear of the Lord is not about being afraid of God, but it is about us honoring God for who he is by giving him the respect, honor, and obedience that he so deserves and that he requires of us. If we fear the Lord we respect him and his word, and we take his teachings seriously and to heart to obey them, in practice, in the power of God at work within us. We believe in his promises, and in their conditions, and we also believe his warnings to us all that we must not return to walking in sin and not have eternal life.

And if we glorify the name of God, this is not empty praise just for the sake of appearing as though we honor him. This is not in lip service only. This is in surrendering our hearts, minds, and will to God’s plan and purpose for our lives in obedience to his commands and in following him wherever he leads us in doing his will and purpose for our lives. For he rescued us from the domain of sin so that we will now serve him with our lives in going where he sends us, in saying what he commands, and in doing his will for our lives.

[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] 

When I Was Walking

An Original Work / January 16, 2020

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When I was walking along the way,

My Lord was with me, and He did say,

“My child I’m with you. I hear you pray,

‘Oh, help me, Lord! Need You today!’”

He is my friend, near to the end.

Gently leads me. His servant be.

He helps me pray – knows what to say.

He’s all I need. On Him I feed.

When I am wond’ring of what to do,

He gently leads me to what is truth.

He is my helper. He strengthens me.

When I’m in want, supplies my need.

He comforts me with all His love.

Gives me His grace from heav’n above.

I heed His call to watch and pray,

To guard my heart throughout each day.

When He is calling to come to Him,

To let Him lead you, trust Him within,

How will you answer to Him today?

Will you say, “Yes, Lord, have your way”?

Do not neglect to let Him in,

Cleanse you from sin, made new within.

Leave all your sin, obey your Lord,

Trust in His Word – His mighty Sword.

https://vimeo.com/385888176

I Will Walk in Your Truth

An Original Work / January 31, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Abundant in Lovingkindness

“Incline Your ear, O Lord, and answer me;

For I am afflicted and needy.

Preserve my soul, for I am a godly man;

O You my God, save Your servant who trusts in You.

Be gracious to me, O Lord,

For to You I cry all day long.

Make glad the soul of Your servant,

For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,

And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.” 

(Psalm 86:1-5 NASB1995)

This was a prayer of King David, but I do not know if he was king at this time or not. David was a man of God who followed the Lord in obedience to his commands, as his life practice. He was not a perfect man, and there was a time in his life when he sinned against God and other humans grievously, but God used Nathan, the prophet, to point David to his sin, which then brought him to genuine biblical repentance. And I do not know if this Psalm was written before or after David’s moral failure, but God did forgive him.

Here David states that he himself was a godly man, so this was not the time in which he sinned grievously against the Lord. This was a time when his life was committed to obeying the Lord and to doing his will and to walking in his truth and righteousness. His heart and mind were surrendered to the Lord to do as he commanded. But it was also a time of trouble and distress, for he had enemies who sought to take his life, who did not honor God. But he had confidence that God would hear his prayer, and would answer him.

Now, perhaps some of us can relate to what David spoke of here and to some of David’s history. I know that I can. I also had a time of moral failure, but God brought me back around, and he forgave me, and not too long afterwards (4 years) he called me to writing down what he teaches me each day from his word and to post these writings on the internet. I can identify a lot with David’s heart and with his love for the Lord and with his desire to serve the Lord with his life, and with having people come against him, too.

But we read in the New Testament that if we follow Jesus Christ with our lives that we will be hated as he was, and that we will be opposed, mistreated, slandered, thought ill of, and persecuted for the sake of the name of Jesus, and for the sake of righteousness. We will have enemies if we are serious about our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord, and especially if we are verbal about our faith and the true message of the gospel of Christ which teaches us to die to sin and to obey God’s commands.

And when David wrote that God is good, and that he is ready to forgive, and he is abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon him, he was not speaking of giving lip service only to the Lord or just asking God for favors. For all who call upon the Lord must call upon him in truth with a sincere desire to have a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior, i.e. to truly repent of their sins. We must want to have our sins put to death so that we can now live for the Lord in walks of obedience to his commands.

[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] 

You are Loving and Forgiving 

Based off Psalm 86

An Original Work / February 19, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

You are loving and forgiving,

Jesus, Savior, King of kings.

You provided our redemption.

By Your blood You set us free.

You are gracious; full of mercy.

No deeds can compare with Yours.

Great are You; there is none like You.

Glory be to Your name.

Teach me Your way, and I’ll walk in it.

O Lord, I will walk in Your truth.

May I not have a heart divided,

That Your name I give honor to.

I will praise You, O Lord, my Savior,

For great is Your love toward me.

You have delivered me from my sins.

Your grace has pardoned me.

You, O Lord, are full of compassion,

Slow to anger, bounteous in love;

Faithful to fulfill all You promise;

Glory be to Your name above.

Hear, O Lord, and answer Your servant.

You are my God. I trust in You.

Turn to me and grant Your strength to me.

You are my comforter. 

https://vimeo.com/117066958

Abundant in Lovingkindness

An Original Work / January 31, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Put On The New Self

“So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.” (Ephesians 4:17-24 NASB1995)

In biblical times, the term “Gentiles” was associated with the ungodly, especially before Jesus’ death and resurrection, and prior to the apostles taking the message of the gospel to the Gentiles and many of them giving their lives to Jesus Christ to be Lord of their lives. And, in this context, it was being used in reference to the ungodly, and in reference to the kinds of lives which are lived by the ungodly of this world who are all those who have not died to sin and who are not obeying God, in practice, by faith in Jesus Christ.

And the message for us today is the same as it was for those to whom it was given then, and that is that if we believe in Jesus Christ with genuine biblical faith in the Lord, we should no longer be living like we did before we trusted in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives. We should no longer be living as slaves to sin, in addiction to sinful practices, living to please our flesh, and not to please God. And we should not give ourselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, which many are doing.

We should not have learned Christ and his gospel that way. Yet that is the kind of “gospel” which many people are teaching today to the masses. They are telling them that all they have to do is to give a verbal profession of faith in Jesus, and in his death and resurrection, and now they have forgiveness of all sins and heaven is secured for them when they leave this world, but regardless of how they live. Few, it seems, are teaching that a life of deliberate habitual sin, in disobedience to God, leads to hell, not to heaven.

What all of us should have been taught as the gospel of our salvation is that, by 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 as servants of righteousness in walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands. By faith in Jesus we lay aside the old self, corrupted by the lusts of the flesh, and we are renewed in the spirit of our minds, by the grace of God, and we put on the new self, created in the likeness of God according to his holiness.

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).

[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] 

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

 

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Put On The New Self

An Original Work / January 30, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Church Working Properly

“And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.” (Ephesians 4:11-16 NASB1995)

Why did Christ give us some as apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers? It wasn’t so they would do all the work of the ministry, so that they would be regarded as “THE ministers,” and so they would be the ones doing all the preaching (prophesying). He gave them to us so that they would train us for the work of the ministry, but not with worldly means and methods and marketing schemes, but via the Word of God and what God instructs his church, the body of Christ, that we should all be doing.

“The Church” not only is not a building, and not a place you go to and then you leave until you go to it again, but it is not a place where the bulk of the body of believers in Christ sit as spectators while a handful of “professionals” do all the “ministering.” It should not be like going to a theatre. For the biblical church is the universal body of believers in Jesus Christ, and all of us are necessary to the proper working of the body, as EACH PART does its work. And our gatherings are to be participatory, not stage productions.

All of us who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, who have died with him to sin and who have been reborn of God to walk (in conduct) in obeying him and his commands, have been given spiritual gifts of the Spirit of God, and we have been assigned our body parts by God, and we each have a part in the proper working of the body of Christ. And we are to be speaking the truth of God’s word to one another, in love, for the spiritual growth of the whole body of Christ, which happens when EACH PART is working PROPERLY!

We speak the truth of God’s word to one another so that those who believe in Jesus will no longer be influenced and led astray by some humans who in their cunning, craftiness, and deceitful scheming teach false doctrines and altered gospel messages which do not teach the truth. We speak truth so no believer will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, too. And we are to stir one another up to love and good deeds. As well, we are to be helping fallen brothers and sisters in Christ back to biblical relationships with our Lord.

[Acts 2:14-18,42-47; 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 5:15-21; 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]

Servant of the Lord 

Based off Romans 1:1-17 

An Original Work / July 26, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Servant of the Lord;

For the gospel you’re set apart.

Promised through the prophets of old:

Jesus, Son of God.

Through Him, and for His name alone,

We receive His grace

To call people, Him to obey;

Coming from their faith.

Servant of the Lord,

For the gospel you’re set apart.

Promised through the prophets of old:

Jesus, Son of God.

You belong to Christ;

Loved by God, and called to be saints;

Serving God with whole heart and mind;

Preaching Jesus Christ;

Always praying for others’ needs;

Helping hand to lend;

Giving courage to others’ faith,

For the praise of God. 

You belong to Christ;

Loved by God, and called to be saints;

Serving God with whole heart and mind;

Preaching Jesus Christ.

Servant of the Lord;

Of the gospel, I’m not ashamed;

For salvation, power of God

To those who have faith.

In the gospel find righteousness:

Being right with God.

Turn from sin, and trust Jesus Christ.

By faith, live in Him.

Servant of the Lord;

Of the gospel, I’m not ashamed;

For salvation, power of God

To those who have faith.

https://vimeo.com/119511640

The Church Working Properly

An Original Work / January 30, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Worthy of The Calling

“Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” (Ephesians 4:1-3 NASB1995)

First off, what does it mean to be a “prisoner of the Lord”? Well, for Paul it meant two things, I believe. From what I understand, he was literally imprisoned at the time in which he wrote this, and he was imprisoned because of his service to the Lord Jesus and because he preached the gospel of Christ and of his salvation. Many of his writings, I believe, were during times when he was being held captive in some kind of imprisonment for the gospel of Christ. But somehow his letters were able to get to the people.

And some of you who are reading this may presently be being held in some kind of prison, or you may have friends and family members who are being held because of their declarations of faith in Jesus Christ and because they are sharing the truth of the gospel without shame or fear of reproach. Or you may be ostracized from people who now think of you as odd because you serve the Lord faithfully with your life, and so you may not have many friends, and so you feel isolated from people, which is kind of like prison.

But the second way in which he was a prisoner of the Lord was the same as we should be also, if truly Jesus Christ is Lord (Owner-master) of our lives. For we are no longer to claim ownership over our own lives, but we should now serve as servants of the Lord to do his bidding. Now he takes ownership of our lives, and we now live for him to follow him wherever he leads us. We no longer see ourselves as free to live however we want, for we were bought back for God (redeemed) by the blood of Christ, shed for our redemption.

Therefore, as those who now belong to God, in his service, no longer to live for the sinful pleasures of the flesh in deliberate and habitual disobedience to our Lord and to his commands, we are to walk (in conduct, in practice) in a manner worthy (suitable and fitting) of the calling with which we have been called. And that calling is the one Jesus gave to all who desired to follow him, that we must deny self, die to sin daily, in practice, by the Spirit, and walk in obedience to his commands, if we are to have eternal life with God.

And “with all humility” is lacking in pride and in self-importance. And “with gentleness” is with meekness, which is not weakness, but which is controlled and gentle strength, like Jesus modeled for us. And patience and tolerance are not to be accepting of sinful lifestyles in those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, for we are to exhort and encourage one another daily so that none of us is led astray by the deceitfulness of sin. And we are to speak the truth of the gospel to one another in love so that we all follow Jesus Christ in truth.

And being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace is not in encouraging one another to follow and to obey “wolves in sheep’s clothing” disguised as ministers of the gospel who are teaching lies to the people and who are trying to get the people to conform to the ways of human flesh rather than to conform to the ways of God and to the teachings of the Scriptures. Too many “pastors” are businessmen who are marketing “the church” to the world, so they are compromising the gospel message.

So, test the spirits to see which ones are of God, and test them against the Scriptures taught in their correct biblical context, and then obey 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] 

Fit for Service 

 

An Original Work / October 5, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Holy Spirit, come within us.

Cleanse our hearts, 

and from sin free us.

Make us holy vessels fit 

for service to the King.

Fill us with Your love and power.

Anoint us within this hour

To be living witnesses 

For Jesus Christ, our King.

Our praise to Him bring.

Father God, our heart’s desire,

Come and speak to us in power.

Revive our hearts to obey You;

Live for You always.

May we love and serve You only,

Walking with You; 

Not a phony.

May we always tell the truth,

And show integrity.

Your true servants be.

Jesus, Savior, sanctify us.

Purify our hearts within us;

Be transformed into Your likeness,

Holy unto You.

May we always listen to You

Speaking Your words 

Now within us.

May we heed Your counsel to us;

Follow You today.

Do all that You say. 

https://vimeo.com/113979906

Worthy of The Calling

An Original Work / January 30, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Cut it Off and Throw it Out

“If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire, [where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.] If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than, having your two feet, to be cast into hell, [where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.] If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.” (Mark 9:43-48 NASB1995)

I am of the personal opinion that this passage of Scripture should be taken more figuratively, rather than literally, and here is why: Cutting off a hand or a foot, or gouging out an eye, doesn’t necessarily change a person’s heart. And it does not guarantee a change of one’s behaviors, thoughts, attitudes, and/or words. Only a heart transformation of the Spirit of God, resulting in us dying with Christ to sin and being raised with Christ to live no longer as slaves to sin, but as servants of righteousness, produces a heart change.

And in the Scriptures, the word “hand” is often used to symbolize our deeds, our actions, and our behaviors. And the word “foot” is often used to represent our walks, i.e. our daily habits, practices, and lifestyles. And the word “eye” is often used to signify our insight, discernment, and judgment. So, if our deeds, our practices, and/or our discernment are not of God, but they are of the flesh, so they are not godly, but worldly and immoral (sinful), by faith we need to cut them out of our lives via genuine biblical repentance.

Our lives must now be surrendered to Jesus Christ in submission to his will and purpose for our lives. And he must now be Lord of our lives, and no longer our flesh. Our dependency now must be in the Lord and in his word to guide us in the way that we should go. And daily we must be putting sin to death, by the Spirit, in our refusal to give in to any temptations of the enemy, and we must be walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands, in the power of God alive and at work within the hearts of those who love God.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For 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).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; 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 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Video Talk on Same Subject

https://youtu.be/bozEMcKEzGc

Cut it Off and Throw it Out

An Original Work / January 29, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Gospel According to Christ and His Apostles

Scripture Summaries

Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

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

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

Additional Scriptures

[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; 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 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22] 

An Original Work / January 29, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Serving God and Loving Others

Mark 9:33-37 NASB1995: They came to Capernaum; and when He was in the house, He began to question them, “What were you discussing on the way?” But they kept silent, for on the way they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest. Sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.” Taking a child, He set him before them, and taking him in His arms, He said to them, “Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me.”

How were children generally regarded by adults in Jesus’ time on the earth? From what I understand, they were not of much regard at all, and they were considered more as a bother or as a nuisance or as those who they had to endure, but they were not welcome or included among the adults (or just among the adult males). Women were not regarded by men much higher than children, from what I recall, and were often treated more like they were slaves, as though they were beneath men, rather than treated with value.

But Jesus treated both women and children with dignity, with love, with compassion, and with caring. He held the children in his arms and he ministered to them. And he took time with the women, and he listened to them, and he had conversations with them, and he included them in the ministry, and he honored them for their walks of faith in obedience to the Lord. And he healed their diseases, and he answered their questions. He treated neither children nor women as though they were less than men.

Now, whether you are male or female, the goal in life is not to “one up” the other to gain superiority over anyone. It is not to be about who is better at this than someone else, or who has more money or more power or more prestige. Men should love their wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. And pastors are to lead by example, not with an iron fist. And women are to treat their husbands with dignity, and yield to their positions as head, but never to submit to what is sinful (immoral/wicked).

[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]

And all of us, no matter who we are, should not be trying to prove ourselves superior to the other, hoping to outrank or to outthink the other just to prove we are the best. All of us should humble ourselves and surrender our lives to the control of God as Lord of our lives. All of us should have that child-like trust in the Lord to where we submit to his Lordship over our lives and yield to his wisdom. All of us are to come under the authority of God and to be thankful for his grace which not one of us deserves, in our own flesh.

[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] 

In Harmony  

Based off Romans 12:9-21; 1 Peter 3:8-17

An Original Work / September 2, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Love each other truly. 

Cling to what is good.

Hate all that is evil. 

Never lack in zeal.

Serve the Lord with fervor. 

Joyful in hope be;

Patient in affliction; 

Praying faithfully.

Honor one another. 

Live in harmony.

Share with all God’s people

Who are found in need.

Do not be conceited.

Sympathetic be.

Love, and show compassion

In humility.

Keep your tongue from evil.

Peaceful you must be.

Honor one another.

Live in harmony.

God sees who are righteous;

Listens to their prayers.

But He’s against evil – 

Is His to avenge.

Do not fear what they fear.

Suffer patiently.

In your hearts, make Christ Lord.

Serve Him faithfully.

Honor one another.

Live in harmony.

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Serving God and Loving Others

An Original Work / January 29, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

With or Without Honor

 

One Baptism

“There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” (Ephesians 4:4-6 ESV)

Now, regarding this ONE BAPTISM, I am finding that there are varied opinions on this subject, and that most seem to favor water baptism as the one baptism, but there is a problem with that theory. For many people are baptized with water in the name of Jesus Christ who have never been reborn of the Spirit of God and who do not know God because they do not obey him, but they have continued in their sins. They are just going through a religious ritual. And then there are the cases when people were saved and filled with the Spirit prior to water baptism (Acts 10:44-48).

And then we have John the Baptist’s words when he stated: “As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” (Matthew 10:11-12) So, the indication here is that the baptism that we receive from Christ is not of water, but of the Spirit, in death to sin and living to righteousness.

“Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.” (Romans 6:3-7). 

So, this is a spiritual baptism. And this can take place apart from water baptism, as well as water baptism is no indication that this spiritual baptism has ever taken place at all. So, I believe that our water baptism is more of an outward sign of an inward faith which has already taken place, and that this baptism into death (Romans 6) is of the Spirit of God, so this is also the baptism of the Spirit, since there is only ONE BAPTISM. And the only one that can literally bring about death to sin and living to God and to his righteousness is the one done of the Spirit and not of water. See:

[Matthew 3:13-17; Matthew 10:11-12; John 1:29-34; Mark 10:37-39; Acts 9:15-18; Acts 10:44-48; Acts 18:7-8; Acts 22:12-16; Romans 6:1-7]

Taken from “One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism”

An Original Work, Originally posted June 29, 2024 on various sites

Partially Modified January 30, 2025

Reposted in part January 28, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Jesus Calls Women, Too

John 4:27-30,39-42 NASB1995: At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?” So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and said to the men, “Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?” They went out of the city, and were coming to Him…

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all the things that I have done.” So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. Many more believed because of His word; and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.” 

I just love this passage of Scripture! First, I love how Jesus spent time talking with this woman who he knew to be a Samaritan, who Jews usually did not associate with, who he knew to be a woman, and who he knew had had several husbands and the one she was presently living with was not her husband. He took time with her to gently explain to her the truth of who he was, and the truth of the gospel of our salvation, and what the future held for all who put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ to be Lord of their lives.

Not only that, but he intentionally asked her to call for her husband, knowing that she did not have a husband, but in order to open a further conversation with her with regard to what was coming next, after Jesus’ death and resurrection (although he did not specifically mention that). He let her know that the worship of God would no longer be in any specific physical location, but that we would worship God “in spirit and in truth,” in our inner beings, via biblical faith in Jesus Christ. And he let her know he was the Messiah.

But Jesus’ intention went beyond just sharing with her the gospel and to let her know that he was the Messiah, the Christ who was to come. For he who knew all about her knew that she would then go and tell the people of her town, including the men (or primarily or only the men), all about her conversation with Jesus, and that she would invite them to come and see the one who is the Christ. And he knew that, because of the woman’s testimony, that many people would believe in Jesus as the Savior of the world.

So, Jesus didn’t ignore her because she was a woman, or because she was a sinful woman, but he spoke with her gently, and he taught her the truth of the gospel, and then he used her to bring many more people to faith in Jesus Christ, because he knew that she would believe him, and that she would spread the good news to the people, including to men, and that because of her testimony many more people would trust in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of their lives. And that is awesome!! She was willing!

And that truly ministers to me because I am a woman, and I did have a time in my life when I was out of the will of God, but God didn’t give up on me, and he brought me back, and then he sent me to the internet to share with the world the truth of the Scriptures and the gospel of our salvation, in truth, in the manner in which Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught it, and not how it is so commonly being taught today in a very twisted way which does not represent the true gospel of our salvation from sin.

And this ministers to me, too: For all the times in my life where I was walking by faith, and I was obeying God, which was the majority of my life, I kept getting mistreated by men, many of them serving as pastors, who had no regard for me, for I was a woman and I didn’t have credentials that made me important in their sight. And so some of them misjudged me because of my sincerity of faith in the Lord and my seriousness of purpose in speaking the word of the Lord, and many of them just cast me aside as a nobody.

But Jesus did not! He loved me! And he had a plan and a purpose for my life, just as he did for the woman at the well. And it was to use me to share the truths of God’s word with the people of the world, which includes men, via writing down what he is teaching me each day during my times spent with him in his word, and placing these writings on the internet for anyone to read who will read what the Lord gives me to write. So, although I was mostly rejected by men, God called me, and he is using me for his glory.

[Matthew 26:6-13; Matthew 28:1-10; Mark 5:25-34; Mark 16:1-8; Luke 2:36-38; Luke 7:36-50; Luke 10:38-42; Luke 24:1-12; John 2:1-11; John 4:1-42; John 8:1-11; John 20:1-18; Acts 2:17-18; Acts 21:9; 1 Corinthians 11:5]

Jesus Calls Women, Too

An Original Work / January 28, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

In Spirit and In Truth

John 4:21-26 NASB1995: Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

If you have not read this story before, I encourage you to read it in its full context (John 4:1-42), but I will try to summarize it for you here:

Jesus was on his way to Galilee, and he had to pass through Samaria. Now, traditionally Jews had no dealings with Samaritans who were a mixed race of Jews and Gentiles. The Jews traditionally despised the Samaritans, and often they would go around Samaria rather than to walk through it, from what I understand. So for Jesus to walk through Samaria, and then to have a conversation with a Samaritan woman at a well was highly unusual. But he asked her for a drink of water, and then they talked for a little while.

And Jesus used this opportunity to share with her the message of the gospel, essentially. And he used the subject of water as a catalyst to speak to her of living water which has to do with our salvation from sin and our eternal life with God and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our lives via biblical faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of our lives, in death to sin and in walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands, all in the power of God. This water refreshes us spiritually and it makes us new in Christ Jesus.

Then Jesus told the woman to go call her husband, fully knowing that she had no husband, that she had had five husbands, and the man she was living with presently was not her husband. And after she confessed to him that she had no husband, Jesus declared to her what he knew of her history. So she perceived that he must be a prophet. And following that she stated that her people’s fathers worshipped in the mountain where she was located, but the Jews claimed that only in Jerusalem was the place of worship of God.

What Jesus said to her next is very relevant to our lives today and to the church today. For, when Jesus Christ died on that cross, and he rose from the dead, and he ascended back to his Father in heaven, and he sent his Holy Spirit to indwell his followers, the physical Jewish temple of God was no longer the holy temple of God. Now God, by his Spirit, lives within all who believe in Jesus Christ, and we now are the temple of God. Absolutely no physical building is “the church,” but we who believe in Jesus are the church.

So, we do not have to go to any specific location to worship God. We now worship him in spirit and in truth in any location or day of the week or time of day. For he dwells within us, his body. So no building called “church” is “the house of God.” We who believe in Jesus Christ are the house of God. No room in those physical buildings called “church” is the sanctuary of God, and we are not standing on holy ground when we enter into a physical building or into a particular room in that building, which is not of God, but of man.

So please understand that the church is not a place you go to and then you leave until you go back the next week. The church is the body of Christ who by faith in Jesus Christ were 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 our Lord, by his grace and in his power. And we can meet together anywhere, even on the internet, or via a phone call, or via a video chat. Meeting is what matters.

But not just the fact that we meet together, but with what purpose we gather together, whether or not our purpose is biblical. For the Scriptures teach that we are all ministers, and that we all are to minister to one another, and we all are to be teaching, counseling, exhorting, and encouraging one another in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord and away from all that is worldly and fleshly and sinful. And we are to be warning each other against all that is false so we can follow after the truth.

[Acts 2:14-18,42-47; 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 5:15-21; 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]

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

 

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In Spirit and In Truth

An Original Work / January 28, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Pray At All Times

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

What is prayer? It is talking to God, yes, but it is also listening to God. Prayer is not a one-way but a two-way conversation with our Lord. And the Scriptures teach that we are to pray without ceasing, not only meaning being regular and consistent in our prayers with God, but in having open communication with our Lord 24/7 to where he can speak to us at any time of day or night, and we can speak to him at any time of day or night, no matter what else is going on around us. For prayer is communion with God.

And what does it mean to pray in the Spirit? It means if we are praying for our fellow believers in Christ, our prayers should be being led of the Spirit. And if we are not certain of God’s will in any given situation, I believe we should pray, along with our requests, “Yet not my will but Thine be done,” as Jesus prayed to God the Father in the garden. The Scriptures teach us the will of God, so according to the teachings of the Scriptures we can pray in the will of God, but where his will is not defined we may not know his will. 

Now who are the saints? They are not all those designated as such by a particular religious organization, according to their criteria. But they are all who by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ 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 now as servants of our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. They are all who are now walking according to the Spirit and no longer according to the flesh.

So, if we are to be praying for the saints, we are to be praying for our fellow believers in Jesus Christ who in God’s power have denied self, died to sin, and who are walking in obedience to his commands. And this doesn’t necessitate that they are all presently walking with the Lord as they ought. So, for some of them we may be praying that God will increase their faith and bless their ministry, while others we may pray for them to come to their senses and to forsake their sins and to return to fellowship with Jesus Christ.

And if we are praying for those we know who are sharing the message of the gospel with the people of the world (and this is not limited to just pastors and missionaries, but to all believers in Jesus Christ who are sharing the gospel), first we should make certain that “the gospel” message they are sharing is the same as what Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught, and not these watered down “gospel” messages so many are teaching which are leading people to hell on the promise of heaven, because they teach lies.

For just because someone claims they are a “Christian” or that they “believe in Jesus,” or that what they are sharing is “the gospel of Christ,” it does not mean necessarily that they are that or that they are doing that, in truth. For it is very popular these days to say, “I believe in Jesus,” and then to expect forgiveness of sins and a guarantee of heaven, and then for those who “believe” to never surrender their lives to Christ, to never make God the Lord of their lives, to never depart from theirs sins, and to never obey God.

So when you pray for others, test the spirits to make certain that they are truly of God. Test them against the Scriptures taught in their correct biblical context. For many liars and deceivers are pulling Scriptures out of context and are teaching them in ways which are antibiblical and anti-God. And people by the masses are listening to these liars and they are following the lies, and many have convinced themselves that they are secured for entry into heaven even if they continue living like hell and never obey God. 

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).

[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] 

An Original Work / January 27, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Full Armor of God

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

So, what is the armor of God? And how do we take up the full armor of God? Well, it isn’t some kind of religious ritual we go through. And it isn’t just in the words that we speak. And it isn’t reciting the written words in some kind of ritualistic religious exercise. But it is done in every day practical living, i.e. in putting the word of the Lord into practice in our daily lives. So, it is all that God has provided for us to live holy lives, pleasing to the Lord, in service to our Lord, and in spiritual warfare against our enemy, the devil.

For what are the devil’s schemes against us? His main goal is to get us to distrust God and his word and to believe the lies being spoken in the name of Christ and in the name of the gospel. He wants us to believe that faith in Jesus Christ requires nothing of us other than a verbal profession of faith in Christ and an acknowledgement of belief in Jesus’ bodily resurrection. He wants us believing that we are not required of God to die with Christ to sin and to walk with God in obedience to his commands, by the Spirit.

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).

So, we must cling to the truth of God’s word, and we must refute the lies of the enemy coming from the mouths of some pastors and book authors and famous people and evangelists and actors and government heads. For so many people today are teaching a half-truth (false) gospel created in the minds of human flesh via removing Scriptures from their appropriate context and twisting them to say what they do not say if taught in the correct biblical context. And many people are following the lies all the way to hell.

So, if we are putting on the armor of God daily so that we can fight against the schemes of the devil, then we need to be students of the Scriptures, taught in the correct biblical context, who are putting them into practice in our every day lives. We must be those who have, by faith in Jesus, died to sin and who are now walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands, all in the power of God, and not in human flesh. And we must be those who are sharing the truth of the gospel with others for their salvation from sin.

And we must be living righteously, in surrender of our will to the will of God for our lives, no longer living as slaves to sin but as servants of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our faith in Jesus Christ must be biblical faith which is of God and which convinces us of our sinfulness and of our need to die to sin and to obey our Lord and his commands. And we must stand strong in our faith and on what the Word of God teaches, in context, so that we can refute the lies of the enemy and share with the people the truth from God’s holy word.

[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] 

To My Beloved  

Based off I Peter 5:6-9; Ephesians 6:10-20; James. 4:4-10

An Original Work / November 14, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Be strong in the grace of Christ, and

Put on His full armor in your fight

Against the enemy of your souls,

And resist him with all your might.

Take up the shield of your faith within you.

Salvation’s helmet – you put it on.

Put on the belt of truth, 

And walk in the Spirit,

And you’ll not be ashamed.

Love your Lord Jesus; call His Name. 

Call on your Lord and Savior, Jesus, and

Make Him Lord and King of your hearts.

Obey all of His teachings He has given

To you to follow in all His ways. 

Repent of your sins. Return to your God.

Follow Him where’er He leads you now.

Humble yourselves in full

Surrender to His will

For your lives today.

Bow before Him, and humbly pray. 

Be strong in the grace of Christ, and

Obey your Lord in ev’rything, always

Keeping His teachings in your hearts near you.

Walk with Christ in ev’ry way.

Resist the devil. He will flee from you.

Draw near to God, and He’ll be near you.

Wash your hands you sinners

And double minded.

Weep and wail o’er sin.

With Christ, your new lives begin.

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The Full Armor of God

An Original Work / January 27, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Be Strong in The Lord

“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:10-12 NASB1995)

What should it look like if we are “strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might”? It doesn’t mean being purposefully obnoxious with the full intent to hurt others. It doesn’t mean we go around yelling and screaming at everyone in a rant. Strength is not about being a bully. For when I am weak, then am I strong in the strength of the Lord. It does mean being determined to hold to the truth of the Scriptures, and to not compromise with the world, and to speak the truth as Jesus spoke it, and to live what we say we believe.

It means we do not give the devil a foothold in our lives, and we are not chameleons who blend in with our environment in order to be liked by other humans. We are not double-minded people who sway back and forth, as on a teeter-totter, who go with the crowd so that others will not think that we are weird. And it has nothing to do with how many Scripture verses we have memorized or how scholarly we are in biblical Greek or how good we are at public speaking. It has everything to do with being led of the Holy Spirit.

For if we are strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might, it has everything to do with the Lord and not with us or our opinions. We can only be strong, as this talks about, as our lives are surrendered to the Lord to do his will, in submission to his Lordship over our lives, in walks of obedience to his commands, as empowered by God and not by human flesh. But it does have to do with us being consistent and trustworthy and steadfast and immovable with regard to holding to the truths of God’s word, by his grace.

For we can only stand against the schemes of the devil if we are following the ways of our Lord and we are doing as our Lord commands, in practice. We can only stand against the devil’s schemes if we are willing to be hated, rejected, mocked, slandered, and cast aside as unwanted for standing on the truth of God’s word, even at the hands of the scholarly and the educated who have credentials and thus deem themselves superior to us who are lacking in fleshly credentials. We cannot be intimidated by them at all.

I am certain there are all kinds of scholarly people out there bearing their credentials who have a whole lot of head knowledge but their lives are not surrendered to Jesus Christ to doing his will, but they are busy performing before other humans in order to be accepted by them. And so they are not strong in the strength of the Lord, and they are not able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil, for their trust is in the flesh and not in the Lord. And so many are following marketing schemes instead of God’s plans.

So, just saying that worldly credentials do not necessarily equal godly lives committed to the will of God and to the truth of the Scriptures. So, just because someone goes by a title, it does not mean that person even knows the Lord intimately. What God is looking for is those who will humble themselves before the Lord, in submission to him as Lord, who are willing to forfeit the things of this world in order to serve the Lord with their lives in being his witnesses and in sharing the gospel truth without compromise.

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).

[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] 

For Our Nation  

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger

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

Be Strong in The Lord

An Original Work / January 27, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Overcoming Obstacles

“But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, ‘God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.’” (James 4:6 NASB1995)

I was in third grade in elementary school. I was called to a meeting of adults in the basement of the school. They asked me if my parents ever fought. Next thing I recall is that I was sent back to second grade. They said I was not ready for third grade. I didn’t know it then but I had difficulty with reading comprehension, which no one tried to correct. And I did poorly in any school subjects that required reading. And I graduated high school with a 1.4 GPA (D average), and I started college reading on a fourth grade level. 

In college I did well in my music classes, but anything involving reading I did poorly in, again. I did take a class to help me in my reading, and I did get up to 7th grade level. After about 3 years of college I realized I was not going to be able to graduate, and so I took a typing class, and I got a clerical job. Then I got married, and we started a family, and so now all my work was either at home, or it was volunteer work in the church gatherings (usually clerical work or in music), or in the community, or at my children’s schools.  

My father told me once that he could probably find something to talk about with me, “even though you are not as intelligent as my other children.” And I had pastors who criticized me because of my love for the Lord, and because of my desire to serve the Lord with my life, and because I stood on the truth of God’s word, and I would not compromise truth, and I would not tell lies. One pastor told me he was warned about people like me, i.e. “people with strong convictions,” and he wanted me to let him be God’s voice to me.

Throughout my life I kept getting the “smack down.” Sometimes I felt like a basketball being continually slam dunked into the hoop, or like someone drowning who was pushed down underneath the water with the intention to drown me and to silence me. Satan was fighting very hard against me to destroy my life and to keep me silent and to dishearten and to discourage me so that I would run away and give up. And there were times when I did, in fact, run away and give up. But God didn’t give up on me. He had a plan.

And get this! God took a woman, then of 54 years old, who had poor reading comprehension, who had been rejected over and over, and told that she was a nothing and that she was to shut up and to follow man’s ways of doing things. And he called me to his service. And he had me reading all kinds of news articles and historical and medical and scientific articles which I would never have imagined myself comprehending, for he was showing me my world so that I would have an idea of what is going on in the world today.

And he had me reading the Scriptures from beginning to end, over and over again, and writing about passages of Scripture I would never have comprehended before. And he was making the word of God practical and applicable to our world today. And then he had me start writing songs (never done this before) and poems (not like any I had ever written before) and doing video talks (I’m not a public speaker) and making Christian memes, and giving testimonies, and none of this was possible in my own flesh!!

And all this was God’s grace to me! All of this was God doing in my life all that I would never even have thought of or dreamed of doing ever, and all that I would never have imagined possible. The proud? They put me down. They rejected me. They cast me aside as worthless and not worth their time. And many of them still do. But God humbled me through those experiences, and he taught me to depend on him in all things, and to believe him, that he could do with me and in me what I would never have thought possible EVER! 

So, the Lord is leading me to write this today to encourage anyone reading this that our God is the God of the impossible, and he can do in the lives of those who humble themselves before him what they would never have imagined possible for them to do, because so many people treated them as though they were not worth their time, as though they would never amount to anything. But God chose the despised and the unappreciated and the weak and the rejected to shame the strong.. (see 1 Corinthians 1:26-31) 

An Original Work / January 26, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

If The Lord Wills

“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.’ Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.’ But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.” (James 4:13-17 NASB1995)

Now, there is nothing wrong with making plans. For some things we have to plan in advance so that we are prepared and so that other people who are part of those plans are informed, and so that we can set a date, and put it on our calendars. What is wrong is when we exclude God from our plans, i.e. when we don’t inquire of him first to make certain these are his plans or that they do not contradict with his plans, and/or when we presume that we have the right to chart our own course and to go our own way, absent of God.

And what do I mean by that? Well, God made us, and he has a plan for our lives, and as those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we are to be those who are following his plan for our lives. We are not to be deciding our own course, going our own way, making all our own decisions, presuming that whatever we have planned is under our control, and that life is going to go the way that we decide, and that God is going to be okay with that. That shows arrogance on our part and that we are not surrendered to God.

We need to pray often, “Nevertheless, not my will, but Thine be done.” We need to learn to inquire of the Lord to make certain that our plans are in line with his plans. And even if we have plans, we must make room in our minds and hearts for the reality that life doesn’t always go the way that we have planned, but life can be unpredictable, and we need to be able to go with that when life as we know it changes directions. And I have learned to say more often, “Lord willing, we will do this or that,” thus resting in my Lord.

When we see our lives as those who are followers of Jesus Christ, and we see that he is our shepherd, and that we are to be following his leading, it helps us to keep in perspective that he should be the one running our lives, and not us. And so we should be inquiring of him as to what direction he would have us go next, and then we should be going wherever he sends us in doing what he has for us to do, and in saying whatever he gives us to say. For this is what it means to be a follower of Christ, with him in the lead.

[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] 

An Original Work / January 26, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Have Thine Own Way, Lord

 

https://vimeo.com/401213349

Through Him Who Strengthens Me

“Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.” (Philippians 4:11-13 NASB1995)

I live in the USA, in the state of South Carolina, and right now we have been hit with some pretty severe low temperatures for a southern state, and we have been having some snow storms and some ice storms, as well. And it appears that about 23 US states and nearly 200 million people are being impacted by this storm. And large numbers of households are presently without power to heat their homes and to cook their meals and to communicate with the outside world. And, if we were to lose power, I would not be able to write my daily devotions and to post them on the internet. 

But I do not know the extent of the damage that this storm has created throughout all these US states at present, but definitely some areas got hit much harder than others. So far we have not suffered any damage to our apartment home, but with the coming weeks’ worth of below freezing temperatures there is the possibility of people’s water pipes freezing and of causing flooding in people’s homes. We did experience this in our apartment in December of 2022 when the water pipes froze in the apartment above us which then flooded our apartment, and we were displaced for a week or so.

The biggest danger here, though, would be for people who had nowhere else to go, and who had no heat to warm them, and who might die in the below freezing temperatures we are expecting here for the next 7 days, it seems. We do have family we can go to if we lose our power, so I think we will be alright, but not everyone has family they can turn to in times such as these. Not everyone has a shelter available where they can go to get heat and food and a place to sleep out from underneath the freezing temperatures. And my heart goes out to them who have no place of refuge, nowhere to go.

And then we read Paul’s words here. And in other passages of Scripture he shared with us some more of the circumstances in which he found himself where he was stoned and left for dead, and where he survived multiple beatings and three shipwrecks and several imprisonments and hardships and many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure, with enemies pursuing him wanting him dead, and much more (see 2 Corinthians 11:23-29). And God got him through every one of those difficulties, and Paul kept on speaking the truth of the gospel of Christ.

Now, when the world falls apart all around us, and we lose the comforts this world has to offer us, and our lives get turned upside down, well, that is the norm for a lot of people in this world. Not everyone has the comforts of living somewhere where they have heat to warm them and a comfortable and warm bed to sleep on and food enough to fill their bellies. So, if we lose those things, even just temporarily, we should think of all those who have none of that, and yet many of them survive. And we should give God thanks for what we do have, by his grace. And we should not grumble.

I like Paul’s words here, and I have lived by them, but not always, and I must still live by them. I must be content with whatever circumstances God allows to come into my life, that he has allowed them for my good, and that good will come out of them in my life and in the lives of people whose lives are touched by mine. I do know what it is like to live on little, and on plenty. I have never gone hungry, but we didn’t always have much. But in whatever circumstances God allows to come into my life, I can survive them in his strength. And if I should die in want, it is God’s will to then take me home.

[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]

Sing Praises  

Based off Psalms 6-9

An Original Work / November 30, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Sing praises to the Lord!

Tell of His wondrous works.

Afflicted, they cry out;

The Lord will not forget; 

The needy, not desert.

The Lord’s our refuge now;

A stronghold when we fear.

The Lord will ne’er forsake

The ones, who Him pursue!

Sing praises to the Lord!

With all my heart I sing.

I will rejoice in Him;

Sing praises to His name;

Tell of His wondrous works.

My shield is God Most High.

He saves those who believe

In Jesus Christ, God’s Son.

His grace has pardoned you!

The Lord accepts my prayer!

The Lord has heard my cries.

He is so merciful.

He heals my anguished soul.

The Lord has made me whole.

Give thanks unto the Lord.

Give praise unto His name.

Our Lord is righteousness.

Sing praises to the Lord!

Sing praises to the Lord!

https://vimeo.com/118438651

Through Him Who Strengthens Me

An Original Work / January 26, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Who Am I?

Recently I joined an internet site called Substack. So the Lord led me to give a brief summary of my life to introduce myself to people who do not know me. Those who know me already probably know all of this, but I am sharing it across all platforms in case God has someone else intended to read this:

Who Am I?

Me? I was born Susan Jane Thorn on December 31, 1949, at 6:10 p.m. in Akron City Hospital, in Akron, Ohio, USA. My parents were also natives of Akron, Ohio, both born in 1914 and were married in 1945, two months following the end of WW2. I was brought up attending the gatherings of the church on Brown Street, in Akron, affiliated with the Christian & Missionary Alliance. Other than my Aunt Betty’s house, the church gatherings were my home away from home, which I dearly loved. I loved the teachings of the Scriptures and learning all I could about Jesus Christ. And my heart’s desire from early on in my life was to go wherever God sent me to do his will.

At about age 7, I was at camp at Beulah Beach in Vermillion, Ohio, on Lake Erie, and I was sitting on a hard camp bench listening to the minister preach the gospel and to give an invitation to repent of my sins and to follow Jesus with my life, which I did. I sat there with tears streaming down my cheeks, fully aware of my sins, and with a strong desire to have those sins removed from my life so I could follow Jesus with my life. Now, I was a child, and I was not perfect, but I was also not rebellious. I was raised by an abusive father and by my mother, as good as she was, who was largely emotionally distant. So I cried a lot, and I prayed much for God to help me to do right.

I had two older brothers and two younger sisters, and one of my brothers and one of my sisters have since left this world. And in the 22.5 years that I lived with my parents we lived in 11 different houses, all but one of which I have memories of. And all 53.5 years that I have lived with my husband we have lived in 19 residences in 5 states and in 10 cities. So, I am now living in my 30th residence in my 76 years of life. And in my childhood I attended 3 different elementary schools, 2 junior high schools, and one high school, all in Akron, Ohio, plus I was a music major at the University of Akron. And that is where I met my husband to be, Rick Love, who I married in 1972.

And in the 53 years since my husband and I have been married we have birthed 4 children, and have gained 4 children-in-law, 14 grandchildren, 2 grandsons-in-law, and 2 great-granddaughters. And most of them live not far from us at all and so we are able to see them somewhat frequently, which is a blessing, indeed. We are a close family, and so we have much to be grateful for to God. We are not a perfect family, though. All of us have made mistakes, and some of us worse errors than others. But I am very thankful to God that, when I fell, he was there to pick me back up, to put me back on my feet, and to give me a new voice with a new task before me.

In 2004 the Lord called me to write down what he teaches me from my times spent with him each day in his word and to post these writings on the internet. So that is what I have been doing almost 22 years now, and full-time for 20 years. And then he added on song writing and poetry and video talk devotions and Christian memes, and a few short testimonial books, too. And none of this I had done before with the exception of a few poems early on in my life and me teaching the Scriptures beginning at age 16, first to children, then to youth, then to women, with some gaps here or there, and now on the internet for the people of the world to read. All glory to God!

That is a summary of my life here on this earth.

Sue J Love, Christ’s Free Servant

Dwell on These Things

“Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.” (Philippians 4:8-9 NASB1995)

So many liars, and so many lies there are today being spread rapidly throughout the world, and in the name of truth, and in the name of the gospel of our salvation, and in the name of God. So much deception and so many deceiving spirits now dwell among us and are in most anything we see on the internet or on television. So much twisting of the Scriptures to pacify human flesh and to make addictive and habitual sin acceptable and tolerable among those professing faith in Jesus Christ, too. And this should not be!!

There is so much that is dishonorable, unrighteous, impure, hateful, disgusting, of bad repute, and totally lacking in anything of excellence and worthy of praise in the eyes of our Lord. And this is not happening just out in the fleshy world, but this is happening within the gatherings of what are being called “the church,” too, and among their leadership and their congregations. For so many are adopting Satan’s lies and are continuing in their sin, and are not walking in holiness and in obedience to our Lord.

So, as those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, our focus is to be on believing and living the truth of God’s word and in rejecting the lies of our enemy Satan which are being taught to the people by marketeers who are “wolves in sheep’s clothing” within the gatherings of what are called “churches.” So, this necessitates that we be students of the Scriptures, as led by the Spirit of God, who study them in their correct biblical context, and who apply their truths to our daily lives in living godly and holy lives for the glory of God.

We are to be truth tellers and not those who spread lies in order to make people feel good. We are to be honorable in all that we are and think and do. And we are to be pure of heart, mind, and body, in all sincerity and in daily practice. We are to be those who live, in practice, what we claim that we believe, and who are not hypocritical in belief and action. This does not mean we are perfect and that we will never fail to live up to what we profess, but it means that obedience to God, and not sin, is our practice.

[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] 

For Our Nation  

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger

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

Dwell on These Things

An Original Work / January 25, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Gentle in Spirit

“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:4-7 NASB1995)

In good times or in bad times, we are to rejoice in the Lord always. We are to give thanks to the Lord in all things and give him praise, honor, and glory. For what good is it if we grumble and complain over our circumstances? It serves no good purpose, and it only brings us and other people down. For God never promised us an easy life, did he? No! He promised us that life would be hard, and that we would be hated and persecuted as Jesus was hated and persecuted, if our lives are surrendered to doing God’s will.

And what does a “gentle spirit” look like? It should look like Jesus Christ in character, in word, and in deed. And, although Jesus was meek, he was not weak. He did not compromise truth and righteousness so that other people would like him, and so they would approve of him. He was strong against lies and liars, i.e. those who spoke falsely and who were hypocritical in their speaking and in their actions. And he spoke strongly against turning the temple of God into a marketplace, i.e. a place of business. And he was right!

So, being gentle in spirit is being kind and loving and compassionate, but it is also standing on the truth of God’s word and speaking the truth of the gospel to the people of the world when so many are now compromising the gospel message in order to be liked by other human beings. For what good is it if we lie to people in order to make them feel good? It is not good if we give them a false gospel message which makes them feel good, on the promise of heaven, but while it sends them straight to hell. Not kind at all!!

And what is the peace of God? It is also not a compromise of truth and righteousness in order to make other people feel good. The peace of God is in truth and righteousness and in doing the will of God. For as long as we continue to live for the flesh and in sin we cannot be at peace with God and we cannot know the peace of God in our own hearts and minds. For we know the peace of God in our lives when we surrender our lives to the will of God for our lives, and we submit to doing the will of God and to living for 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] 

An Original Work / January 25, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

But a New Creation

 

The Church, The Body of Christ

“Those who desire to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, simply so that they will not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.” (Galatians 6:12-13 NASB1995)

Now this is not usually a subject that we have to deal with in today’s Christian culture among Gentiles (non-Jews) who believe in Jesus. But "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." (2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV) So, let’s look here at how this might be applied to our lives today, shall we? 

What is the underlying message here? Those who desire to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to do what? Well, the first thing that came to my mind is that they try to compel you that you have to be in a building called “church” at least once a week, usually on a Sunday morning, and that you have to sit in a pew or on a chair, and usually as a spectator, except you may be allowed to sing along with the songs previously chosen by the music director. Then you listen to a sermon, and then you go home.

And they call that “church.” And they often misquote Hebrews 10:25, for they presume that the “assembling together” of the believers is to be on a Sunday morning in a building called “church” where they mostly sit as spectators and then they go home and resume life as normal until the next week. So, if you have a biblical perspective of what is “the church,” and of what our biblical gatherings should look like, and so God has called you to come out of any unbiblical gatherings, they may think of you as a heathen.

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

But the church is not a building called “church.” We who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of our lives, we are the church. We are the body of Christ, and as his body, we are to be ministering to one another. The church is not something that you go to once a week for a “church service” where you really have nowhere to use your body part which was assigned to you by God, in your area of spiritual giftedness, for the encouragement of the rest of the body of Christ, which is what it talks about in Hebrews 10:24-25: 

“And let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.” (NASB1995)

Body of Christ: [Acts 2:14-18,42-47; 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 5:15-21; 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]

And I am certainly not saying that it is wrong to go to a building called “church” to gather with other believers in Christ to sing songs of worship of God and to listen to the preaching of the word. The point of this is that what that describes is not the biblical body of Christ operating as the body of Christ in ministering to one another, as each part does its work, which is the point of the message in Hebrews 10:25 and these other verses above. And choosing to not attend those “church services” does not make us heathen.

For the whole purpose of the church, the body of Christ, is that we might help one another to grow together in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord in holy living. And it is to warn each other against false teachings and the lies of the enemy, and to warn against the deceitfulness of sin, and to help one another to live for Jesus and to be his witnesses. And that can happen on any or every day of the week in any appropriate location, which includes the internet, which is where I am finding my Christian fellowship.

And going back to this passage in Galatians 6:12-13, perhaps many of the “church people” who try to shame you into attending their weekly services are not following the Lord Jesus in obedience to his commands in holy living and in the forsaking of their sins, but they may be living very fleshly and worldly lives. And they may not be out in the world sharing the truth of the gospel with the people of the world, and perhaps they are not gathering together to help one another to walk in holiness, for the glory of God.

So don’t be intimidated by others who may or may not be walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands who think you need to attend a weekly gathering of people in a building called “church.” Get together with other believers in Christ wherever you can, and encourage one another in your walks of faith in obedience to the Lord. Use your spiritual gifts for the glory of God and for the encouragement of the body of Christ in the body parts assigned to you by God wherever God has you, even on the internet.

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 Church, The Body of Christ

An Original Work / January 24, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love