Real Life Church: God is the God of the Bible

In James 1:2-4, it tells us to consider it, what is the IT? The IT is our trials, we are to suppose to count it all joy and not as an enemy. To consider it joy requires a complete dependency on the Holy Spirit of God.

Righteousness is defined as conformity of heart and life to the divine law. We are made Righteous and Righteousness are credited to us. God Himself is our Righteousness and He made Jesus to be Righteousness in us. When we are righteous we live without fear, before God and before man.

Our ability to love is determined by our awareness of Love (His) love. As we become acquainted with God's love for us, it stirs up the love within us and allows us to release the love to flow out of us. As our awareness of being loves increases our capacity to love increase

A joyful life is a life lived according to the Divine Design. Joy is the outward manifestation of the inner experience of grace. We should have pure, unadulterated, all-encompassing, thorough joy!

In the Bible, the word peace can refer to the absence of conflict, but it also points to the presence of something better in its place. The Word of God infuses Peace into your being. Becoming people of peace means participating in the life of Jesus, who reconciled all things in heaven on earth, restoring peace through his death and resurrection.

In the Old Testament, there are two main Hebrew words translated as hope. They are yakhal and qavah which means "to wait for". Hope is about waiting and expectation. It's God's past faithfulness that motivates hope for the future.

Joy is a spiritual quality that is internal. Joy is an attitude God's people adopt, not because of happy circumstances but because of their hope in God's love, grace and promise. We must choose JOY cause it is the will of God that we be joy-filled. 

Some people think that Christians should not have Christmas lights and trees, but have you ever thought about Jesus is the Light of the world and that the scriptures talks about all types of trees, like  evergreen and olive trees. So why shouldn't Christian use the things that God gave us as long as we are not worshiping them.

According to a popular belief, the man behind the famous Santa Claus story is actually a saint, a believer and follower of Jesus Christ. His generosity resulted in his immortality.

Is God's desire lack, insufficiency, scarcity OR is His will abundance, bountifulness and plenty? Our overflowing prosperity is prepared but not predestined.