CONVERSATIONS WITH BROTHER RED

THESE ARE THE CONVERSTIONS I HAVE HAD WITH OUR DEAR BROTHER RED WHO LOVED YOU DEARLY

ROMANS 1:15-16 SO I AM EAGER TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO YOU FOR I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL, FOR IT IS THE POWER OF GOD FOR SALVATION TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES, THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW HIM

ISA 54:13 AND YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE TAUGHT BY THE LORD AND GREAT WILL BE THEIR PEACE

JOHN 3:15-17 THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM MAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. “FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT IN ORDER THAT THE WORLD MIGHT BE SAVED THROUGH HIM.

ISAIAH 40:28 HAVE YOU NOT KNOWN? HAVE YOU NOT HEARD? THE LORD IS THE EVERLASTING GOD, THE CREATOR OF THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. HE DOES NOT FAINT OR GROW WEARY; HIS UNDERSTANDING IS UNSEARCHABLE.

ROMANS 12:1-21 I APPEAL TO YOU THEREFORE, BY THE MERCIES OF GOD, TO PRESENT YOUR LIFE AS A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY AND ACCEPTABLE TO GOD,

ROMANS 5:10 FOR IF WHILE WE WERE ENEMIES WE WERE RECONCILED TO GOD BY THE DEATH OF HIS SON, MUCH MORE, NOW THAT WE ARE RECONCILED, SHALL WE BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE.

ROMANS 10:17 SO FAITH COMES FROM HEARING, AND HEARING THROUGH THE WORD OF CHRIST.

JOHN 15:13-15 GREATER LOVE HAS NO ONE THAN THIS, THAT SOMEONE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. YOU ARE MY FRIENDS IF YOU DO WHAT I COMMAND YOU. NO LONGER DO I CALL YOU STRANGERS FOR STRANGERS DO NOT KNOW WHAT HIS CREATOR IS DOING; BUT I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS, FOR ALL THAT I HAVE HEARD FROM MY FATHER I HAVE MADE KNOWN TO YOU.

JOHN 14:9 JESUS SAID TO HIM, “HAVE I BEEN WITH YOU SO LONG, AND YOU STILL DO NOT KNOW ME, PHILIP? WHOEVER HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE FATHER. HOW CAN YOU SAY, ‘SHOW US THE FATHER’?

JOHN 14:6 JESUS SAID TO HIM, “I AM THE WAY, AND THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME.

MATTHEW 11:28-29 COME TO ME, ALL WHO LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN FROM ME, FOR I AM GENTLE AND LOWLY IN HEART, AND YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.

WHY DID WE HAVE THESE CONVERSATION? THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW THE GOD I SERVE THIS DAY CHOOSE CHRIST

TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE

EPHESIANS 3:7–21      

THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL REVEALED

THIS GOSPEL I WAS MADE A MINISTER ACCORDING TO THE GIFT OF GOD’S GRACE, WHICH WAS GIVEN ME BY THE WORKING OF HIS POWER.  TO ME, THOUGH I AM THE VERY LEAST OF ALL THE SAINTS, THIS GRACE WAS GIVEN, TO PREACH TO THE GENTILES THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST,  AND TO BRING TO LIGHT FOR EVERYONE WHAT IS THE PLAN OF THE MYSTERY HIDDEN FOR AGES IN GOD, WHO CREATED ALL THINGS,  SO THAT THROUGH THE CHURCH THE MANIFOLD WISDOM OF GOD MIGHT NOW BE MADE KNOWN TO THE RULERS AND AUTHORITIES IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES. THIS WAS ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL PURPOSE THAT HE HAS REALIZED IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD,  IN WHOM WE HAVE BOLDNESS AND ACCESS WITH CONFIDENCE THROUGH OUR FAITH IN HIM.

PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL STRENGTH

 FOR THIS REASON I BOW MY KNEES BEFORE THE FATHER,  FROM WHOM EVERY FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH IS NAMED,  THAT ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY HE MAY GRANT YOU TO BE STRENGTHENED WITH POWER THROUGH HIS SPIRIT IN YOUR INNER BEING,  SO THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL IN YOUR HEARTS THROUGH FAITH—THAT YOU, BEING ROOTED AND GROUNDED IN LOVE,  MAY HAVE STRENGTH TO COMPREHEND WITH ALL THE SAINTS WHAT IS THE BREADTH AND LENGTH AND HEIGHT AND DEPTH,  AND TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST THAT SURPASSES KNOWLEDGE, THAT YOU MAY BE FILLED WITH ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD.

 NOW TO HIM WHO IS ABLE TO DO FAR MORE ABUNDANTLY THAN ALL THAT WE ASK OR THINK, ACCORDING TO THE POWER AT WORK WITHIN US, TO HIM BE GLORY IN THE CHURCH AND IN CHRIST JESUS THROUGHOUT ALL GENERATIONS, FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.

REASON TO BELIEVE

 MARCH 28, 2019

ISAIAH 54:13

THIS WEB SITE IS FOR ALL THE YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN, WHO OUR LORD AND SAVIOR HAS GIVEN US THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE PART OF THEIR LIVES.

DOUGLAS CHAPELS MINISTRY HAS ONE PURPOSE, TO PROCLAIM, ENCOURAGE, STRENGTHEN THOSE WHO CALL UPON CHRIST AS LORD AND SAVIOR. THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD TO THOSE SITTING IN DARKNESS

JESUS SAID I, AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD JN 9:5

ISAIAH 54.13 AND ALL YOUR CHILDREN SHALL BE TAUGHT OF THE LORD; AND GREAT SHALL BE THE PEACE OF YOUR CHILDREN. 

JOHN 14:6 I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME.

ROMANS 8: WHAT THEN SHALL WE SAY TO THESE THINGS? IF GOD IS FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US? HE WHO DID NOT SPARE HIS OWN SON BUT GAVE HIM UP FOR US ALL, HOW WILL HE NOT ALSO WITH HIM GRACIOUSLY GIVE US ALL THINGS? WHO SHALL BRING ANY CHARGE AGAINST GOD’S ELECT? IT IS GOD WHO JUSTIFIES. WHO IS TO CONDEMN? CHRIST JESUS IS THE ONE WHO DIED—MORE THAN THAT, WHO WAS RAISED—WHO IS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, WHO INDEED IS INTERCEDING FOR US. WHO SHALL SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF CHRIST? SHALL TRIBULATION, OR DISTRESS, OR PERSECUTION, OR FAMINE, OR NAKEDNESS, OR DANGER, OR SWORD? AS IT IS WRITTEN,

NO, IN ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM WHO LOVED US. FOR I AM SURE THAT NEITHER DEATH NOR LIFE, NOR ANGELS NOR RULERS, NOR THINGS PRESENT NOR THINGS TO COME, NOR POWERS, NOR HEIGHT NOR DEPTH, NOR ANYTHING ELSE IN ALL CREATION, WILL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.

ISAIAH 58: VS 12 AND YOU ANCIENT RUINS SHALL BE REBUILT; AND YOU SHALL RAISE UP THE FOUNDATIONS OF MANY GENERATIONS; AND WE SHALL BE CALLED THE REPAIRER OF THE BREACH THE RESTORER OF STREETS (FOR THE CHILDREN) TO DWELL IN

THE GOD WHO JUSTIFIES THE UNGODLY.