Every choice we make in life has consequences. We must use wisdom that is given to us by God to choose wisely. That all begins with a fear of God. This fear is a reverence and respect for Holy God, but that fear can mature into a deep and abiding trust. Ultimately it is our trust in God that helps us make better choices.BE PART OF GOD’S MISSIONGIVE…

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"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." Matthew 6:33 When we put the things of God first in our lives, the other things fall into proper order. However, when we prioritize earthly things, we find ourselves anxious and full of worry. God helps us have better priorities. BE PART OF GOD’S …

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Ikthus Daily Word | November 30, 2023 | Thursday 1 John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” Seventh, there is a desire to please God and to live a good life because of what He has done for us. The realization of His love should make us not onl…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 29, 2023 | Wednesday 1 John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” Fourth, I have a sense of sins forgiven. I do not understand it, but I am aware of it. I know that I have sinned; “my sin is ever before me” (Psalm 51…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 28, 2023 | Tuesday 1 John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” I shall suggest to you ten tests that you can apply to yourself to know for certain that you know the love of God to you. Here is the first. It is a los…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 27, 2023 | Monday 1 John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” How can my joy abound? How can I walk through this world with my head erect? How can I come through triumphantly? Well, here is the main thing: I should …

Ikthus Daily Word | November 26, 2023 | Sunday 1 John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” John has gone on repeatedly writing about the love of God, and you notice how he never tires of doing so. “In this was manifested the love of God toward …

Ikthus Daily Word | November 25, 2023 | Saturday 1 John 4:14 “And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.” Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ clearly saves us, in the first instance, from the guilt and the penalty of sin. We are all guilty before God and before His holy law. We are guilty in His presen…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 24, 2023 | Friday 1 John 4:14 “And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.” The whole biblical meaning of this particular term should be put like this: Christ is the Savior as the result of something that He has done. We must get rid once and forever of the idea that we a…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 23, 2023 | Thursday 1 John 4:14 “And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.” “And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.” The whole Gospel in a phrase! This is the only time in which John uses the expression “Saviour” in …

Ikthus Daily Word | November 22, 2023 | Wednesday 1 John 4:14-16 “And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in lov…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 21, 2023 | Tuesday 1 John 4:15 “Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” John’s whole case is that you cannot believe that Jesus is the Son of God unless God dwells in you and you in God; that is his argument. “Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dw…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 20, 2023 | Monday 1 John 4:13 “Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.” How does this blessing come? Well, I do not see any evidence in the New Testament to support what used to be called a “tarrying meeting.” Some people had that idea. God had certain blessings to give…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 19, 2023 | Sunday Philippians 2:12-13 “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Are you aware of the fact that God is working in you? “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,” says Paul, “for it is God which worketh…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 18, 2023 | Saturday 1 John 4:13 “Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.” How do we have knowledge about God? “Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us.” How? The answer is, “because he hath given us of his Spirit.” So it all comes down to that in the last anal…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 17, 2023 | Friday 1 John 4:13 “Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.” We may know, and should know, that we are in a relationship to God and that we possess His life. That is the nature of the Christian life. “Hereby,” says John, “know we”—we know it, and we are certa…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 16, 2023 | Thursday 1 John 4:13 “Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.” We are reminded here of the nature of the Christian life. I am increasingly convinced that most of our troubles arise from the fact that our whole conception of the Christian life tends to be inad…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 15, 2023 | Wednesday 1 John 4:12 “No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.” God dwells in us. That is one of the grounds of my assurance, my certainty. “No man hath seen God at any time.” Very well, then, do we go on in doubt and almost in despair won…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 14, 2023 | Tuesday 1 John 4:12 “No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.” Why does God say, “No man hath seen God at any time”? Why does John suddenly introduce this idea of the invisibility of God? John does not say that we cannot love God except thr…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 13, 2023 | Monday Romans 7:24 “O wretched man that I am!” Self-sufficiency, self-consciousness—oh, to get away from the self! “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” (Romans 7:24). How can I get away from this wretched, ugly self I am always thinking about? Isn’t that the cry of eve…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 12, 2023 | Sunday 1 John 4:11 “Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.” The question is, what do you do about those people who seem to irritate you and are a problem to you and who really make things rather difficult? Here is John’s answer: “If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.”…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 11, 2023 | Saturday 1 John 4:9-10 “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” The apostle is anxious to re…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 10, 2023 | Friday 1 John 4:7-8 “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” “God is love.” No one can answer against that; one trembles even to handle it; it cannot be analyzed. I simply want to poi…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 9, 2023 | Thursday 1 John 4:7 “. . . let us love one another . . .” I do not hesitate to say that the ultimate test of our profession of the Christian faith is this whole question of our loving one another. Indeed, I do not hesitate to aver that it is a more vital test than our orthodoxy. I am the last man in the world …

Ikthus Daily Word | November 8, 2023 | Wednesday 1 John 4:2 “. . . Jesus Christ is come in the flesh . . .” What is the apostolic teaching concerning Christ? Now in a phrase in our text John gives us the perfect answer. John does not use words like this haphazardly. Listen to the way in which he puts it: “Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spi…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 7, 2023 | Tuesday Ephesians 2:20 “. . . built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets.” John’s whole purpose in writing his first epistle was to say to the early Christians, “Hold on to what I and the other apostles have told you.”You remember how he began. “That which was from the beginning, which we have hear…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 2, 2023 | Thursday 1 Corinthians 2:12 “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” An important reason for testing and trying the spirits is the evidence provided by the long history of the Church of the havoc that …

Ikthus Daily Word | November 1, 2023 | Wednesday 1 John 4:1 “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” The position of the Scripture is one that faces two extremes: The Spirit is essential, and experience is vital; however, truth and definition and doctr…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 3, 2023 | Friday 1 John 4:1 “. . . try the spirits . . .” How is this testing to be done? How are we to know whether certain spirits are true or false? There are those who claim that the gifts of the Spirit are absolutely essential, and that unless men and women are able to manifest certain gifts of the Spirit, they hav…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 4, 2023 | Saturday 1 John 4:2 “Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God.” The most important test is conformity to scriptural teaching. “Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God.”…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 5, 2023 | Sunday 2 Timothy 1:7 “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” The greatest test is that the true Spirit always glorifies Christ. Christ is always in the center; He is always given the preeminence. And the true prophet is not the man who talks about experie…

Ikthus Daily Word | November 6, 2023 | Monday 1 John 4:2-3 “Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and …

October 31, 2023 | Tuesday | A Christian Is a Spiritual Person 1 Corinthians 2:12 “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God.” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 30, 2023 | Monday | Assurance in Prayer 1 John 3:21-22 “Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumag…

October 29, 2023 | Sunday | Confidence in Prayer 1 John 3:21 “Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 28, 2023 | Saturday | What is Prayer? 1 John 3:19 “And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 27, 2023 | Friday | Hated by the World 1 John 3:13 “Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 26, 2023 | Thursday | The Divine Seed 1 John 3:9 “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him.” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 25, 2023 | Wednesday | Sinless Perfection 1 John 3:8-9 “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. . . . Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin.” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 24, 2023 | Tuesday | Look Forward in Anticipation 1 John 3:8 “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete

October 23, 2023 | Monday | Our Adversary 1 John 3:8 “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete…

October 22,2023 | Sunday | A Mighty Battle 1 John 3:8 “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete…

October 21, 2023 | Saturday | Delivered 1 John 3:5 “And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.” Devotional Source: Walking with God Day By Day Need Prayers? Click m.me/ikthusdumaguete