Love Fulfilled Ministry

“ Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters;  and he who has no money,  come, buy and eat!  Come, buy wine and milk  without money and without price.  Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,  and your labor for that which does not satisfy?  Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,  and delight yourselves in rich food. .." (Isaiah 55). " Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price ." Buy is defined as to acquire the ownership of by giving an accepted price or consideration therefore; to accept or believe as true .[ 1 ] When we buy something we consider the price that we must pay, we accept this and purchase the thing we have considered worthy of the sacrifice we make in payment. W e can not buy, with money or price, redemption from t his tragic flaw we are born into. However Jesus paid the price for us, so we buy or accept through consideration, the Greek word is  logizomai.[ 2] ...

" that you might charge certain not to teach any other thing, nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: -- And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned ," (1 Timothy 1:3-5). Timothy was asked to abide in Ephesus so that he might charge others not to teach things that do not build up faith.  The Greek words genealogiais aperantois is usually translated to mean endless genealogies . [ 1 ]   Another translation of these words is; to   generate sayings unaccomplished .[ 2 ] Accomplished means completed; effected; established; complete in acquirement as in the result of training .[ 3 ] This meaning of  accomplished  fits with verse 7, that these people were desiring to teach but were not affirmed nor accomplished to do so. No matter what the translation a good summary is that  Paul is writing that teachers sh...

"O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down,  And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.  Even before there is a word on my tongue,  Behold, O Lord, You know it all.  You have enclosed me behind and before,  And laid Your hand upon me.  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;  It is too high, I cannot attain to it.  Where can I go from Your Spirit ? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there ; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold,You are there.  If I take the wings of the dawn,  If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,  Even there Your hand will lead me,  And Your right hand will lay hold of me.  If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,  And the light around me will be night,”  Even the darkness is not...