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12/26/20 Spiritual Integrity

“Walk where I tell you to walk. Do what I tell you to do. Live like Jesus lived. Delight in what I am doing, no matter what the outcome of your life might be. It’s called being a follower of Jesus. He is honored when you really act the way He acts because you said that you are going to follow His ways. It’s called integrity. It’s called obedience. It’s called praise.”

Matthew 21:28-31 NIV

28) “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’

29) “‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.

30) “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ’I will sir,’ but he did not go.

31) “Which of the two did what his father wanted?”

Mark 4:24 AMP

And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure [of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you – and more [besides] will be given to you who hear.

1 John 2:6 AMP

Whoever says he abides in Him ought [as a personal debt] to walk and conduct himself in the same way in which He walked and conducted Himself.

Our life in Christ is really pretty straight forward. We are supposed to act just like He acted. What really amazes me is that we, as followers of Christ who have the truth, often resemble the One we follow less than those who follow other gods and other ideas. They are full of zeal. We are filled with lethargy. They have their heart issues and causes as a priority in their lives. We place the desires of God far behind our own desires. They are strong in their beliefs and are willing to die for what they think is true. We have the truth and can still be fearful, doubtful, double-minded, and uncommitted.

Forgive me, Lord, for dishonoring You with my life,

Jim Corbett

12/26/20 A Witness to Many

I once heard a character in a movie state that people marry so they have someone to witness their lives. The more I thought about it, the more I saw it to be the world’s way of feeling valued and needed. People without the Lord continually attempt to find acknowledgment and purpose for their lives. They marry for their own good to satisfy an inner need of some sort.

One of God’s purposes for marriage is for the husband and wife to witness each other’s life so they can help each other become all they can be in Christ. They’re to observe each other’s spiritual needs so they can pray and encourage each other in the things of God. It’s the opposite of the way the world thinks.

We, as believers, are to marry for the good of the other. The world marries for their own good to fulfill their own needs. As Christian men, we are to lay down our lives for the good of our wives. Our obligation before the Lord is to love our wives as Christ loved the church. He died for the church. We are to die to our own desires daily for the good of our wives.

Let’s talk more!

Jim Corbett

12/25/20 Trained for the Season

“Some of you are becoming submissive enough to My Word and My heart that I can use you. You will soon be able to be a faithful friend to someone else. I will be able to trust you with one of My fragile hearts. I will also be able to trust you with special missions that need attention in My church. Too often I have given assignments, only to see them in need of repair when those I trusted chose not to follow My heart. That will not happen with you. You have proven your faithfulness. You have submitted to My will and have chosen My ways above yours many times. I have trained you for this end-time season. I am now about to move through you. Let’s enjoy this season together. I love you with a pure Father’s love. You are safe with Me as We move together.”

Amos 3:3 KJV

“Can two walk together except they be agreed?”

John 20:21 AMP

Then Jesus said to them again, Peace be to you! [Just] as the Father has sent me forth, so I am sending you.

Gal. 4:19 NIV

My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you...

I believe that in the near future, God is going to call upon those who have been in training to do some very important work. That is why so many sold-out believers have been going through times of great pressure. Seasons that are important to the Lord call for trustworthy people, who are completely obedient to God and totally dead to themselves.

Don’t wimp out. Embrace the trials that you are going through for the refiner’s fires that they are. The Lord is not only with you through them, but He desires to use you because you have been made more like Jesus because of them. That is why you are where you are. Love deeper. Forgive more. Submit to the Lord and crave intimacy with Father God. You will make it. It will be worth it. You are valuable and are being raised up for such a time as this.

Let’s go for it, Lord,

Jim Corbett

12/25/20 More Than You Know

As men, the training God is putting you through and the challenges you’re facing are doing more than simply making you strong and capable of holding your marriage together and raising your family. They have a much greater and more extensive purpose.

Other men need to learn the wisdom you’re gaining as God puts you through His school. Unsaved men will soon be reeling as all their handles of safety disappear, and they can find no stable footing or belief to see them through life. If those men give their lives to Christ, they will need guidance and direction from someone who can point them to God and His Word to fulfill their real needs.

As a man of God, you have a wonderful opportunity to help others. You’re being taught life lessons - not only for the good of your family, but for the benefit of other men around you. You have the privilege of sharing solid, foundational truth in a slippery world of changing values. You have trustworthy answers to desperate questions in changing times. You are needed!

Let’s talk more!

Jim Corbett

12/24/20 Always There

“I chose you! From the beginning, I knew that you would be with Me for eternity. Long before you even knew that I existed, I had you in mind for all of My future eternities. Since you were born, I have noticed you and wooed you to give your heart to Jesus. I devised ways that would turn you to Me. Now that you are Mine, how could you possibly conceive that I would give up on you, or leave you, or forget about your needs?

"When I first thought of you, I knew what it would take to make you all that you could be for your good for all eternity. Now that you are progressing toward that end, you need to know that I am confident that you will complete the task I have assigned to you. You will submit fully. You will become obedient. You will one day choose only My ways and set aside your ways. I believe in you. I will continue to set forth challenges to which you must respond. Your response shows your progress in becoming more like Jesus. Stay the course. Keep your heart soft to My will. I will never give up on you. I never make wrong choices.”

2 Samuel 14:14b NIV

“God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him.”

Jeremiah 1:5a NIV

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart…

I Thess. 2:4 AMP

But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the glad tidings (the Gospel), so we speak not to please men but to please God, Who tests our hearts [expecting them to be approved].

2 Timothy 2:12 NIV

…if we endure, we will also reign with him…

I Peter 4:12 AMP

Beloved, do not be amazed and bewildered at the fiery ordeal which is taking place to test your quality, as though something strange (unusual and alien to you and your position) were befalling you.

Rev. 2:26 NIV

To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations...

The idea that the Creator of the universe knew us before we were even born staggers our imaginations. The truth of that realized deep within us would change our lives. If we ever firmly believed that truth, we would cease from striving and look at all the events in our lives differently.

Let’s talk truth. Father God did know us before we were in the womb. Now that we’re born, He has been with us, helping us to see the need to surrender to Jesus. He knew the exact moment that we surrendered to the wooing of the Holy Spirit and gave our lives to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Once we surrendered, He began fulfilling His promise to make us like Jesus. Our time with Him is a short time compared to His time of noticing and caring about us. Our plans are considerably smaller than the plans that He has for us. He’s talking eternities; we’re usually dealing with days and moments.

Most of us have not taken the time to really see our Father’s creation model from His perspective. Knowing the beginning from the end, He obviously sees beyond the conclusion of our instant on this earth. When we were known by Him before we existed, He saw past this limited life in the flesh to our role as the priests and kings of His thousand years and whatever else He has in store for us.

We, on the other hand, are so focused on our physical needs and wants in this lifetime that we rarely see His participation in our lives as preparing us for our future role. We just want our needs met and our eternity secure on streets of gold. If the thoughts of His plans do come to our mind, our carnal mind thinks “lofty,” when it should be thinking honor and responsibility to grow up in our faith so that we glorify Him.

We forget that we are being formed into the character of Jesus for very specific purposes. We also forget that our Father in Heaven is very confident in His ability to overcome our flesh. As we progress, we are often shown how far we have come. We get to see in a very real way how our responses have changed when challenges are presented. Just about the time we feel that nothing in us is changing, that we are the same as we were years ago, something happens and we are proved wrong.

Somehow, in some unknown way, God’s work in us is proven to us. Our faith stands the test. Worry loses its grip. Forgiveness flows in a manner as never before. Fear cannot gain a foothold when our confidence in God stands firm. We make it when we would have failed a short time ago. How wonderful to know that even though we are often clueless, God is faithful!

Thank You for Your love to us, Lord,

Jim Corbett

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