Welcome- you have found my personal “guidance” page. I’ve selected do and don’ts for each of the promises and included them below. Please understand these might be quite different from what you’d select from the scriptures. With that in mind, I hope you find them helpful…
BELIEVE is Christ, – told and works in Father’s name bear witness. HEAR AND FOLLOW
NOT Ask if Christ, more plainly described
John 10 27-29 … My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
RESPOND TO REVEALED – See and interpret sign of times. Jesus as Son of living God.
NOT- Only see sign of sky, and ask for sign from heaven. leaven of pharisees
Matthew 16:15-19 … He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
SEEK KINGDOM. Serve God. Life more than meat/ body clothing. Father knows needs
NOT worry about food/cloths or serve matter
Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Church
of God
and cherishes
by Christ
perfect love and fullness
Church
understand will of God; filled with Spirit; sing with others, make melody to Lord in heart; thankful; submit to one another
NOT unwise, drunk
Ephesians 5 25 Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
live self controlled, upright, godly lives in present, waiting for appearing of glory of God and Savior JC
NOT ungodliness and worldly passions, impatient
Titus 2:13–14 (ESV)
11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who 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.
of God
Put on – mercy, kindness, humbleness, meekness, longsuffering. Love – perfect bond. Let peace of Christ rule in heart
NOT (Put off)- anger wrath, slander, malice
Colossians 3 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body.
In one Spirit. All members necessary, each plays part. God pleased.
NOT Thinking self not important .
1 Cor 12
13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. … foot not part of body… 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. …
Honor what God honors; one suffer all suffer; one honored all rejoice
NOT think others not needed, dissension
1 Corinthians 12: ESV
18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. 27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
and cherishes
Hold fast to Head. As received Christ remain, walking in rooted, built up
NOT captive by philosophy, deceit, human tradition rules (but shadows)- self made religion
Colossians 2 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished
by Christ
Put off old self/life and be renewed in spirit of mind, put on new self, created after likeness of God.
NOT walk in futility of mind, dark b/c hardness of hearts
Ephesians 4 15 … into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped
perfect love and fullness
Speak the truth in love and grow in all things into Head.
NOT Not children, tossed about with doctrines, cunning, waiting to deceive
Ephesians 4 7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. … 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
live good lives, others see good works
NOT acts of sinful desires
1 Peter 2 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
All in awe, shared all, gave, met
NOT not gladly received word or mock
Acts 2 42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
In CJ, faith working thru love matters
NOT religious observation
Gal 5 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
If another sins restore them in spirit of gentleness/ watch so not tempted
Examine own work and rejoice in it
NOT boast in another’s work/ don’t allow self to be tempted
Gal 6 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Consider how to stir to love/ good works
NOT forsake meet together
Heb 10 24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
kind, tenderhearted; speak only which builds up, to give grace to hearer
NOT bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander, and malice
Ephesians 4:29-32 esv
29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
**This mode of care may also includes rebuking another, prior to forgiveness, if they have sinned against you, based on Jesus’ instruction in Luke 17:3-4.
Confess sins. if suffering pray, if cheerful sing. if sick call for help. NOT swear oath on heaven or earth
James 5 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.