PASTOR DARRYL BAKER
teaching you how to walk in the light of god's word
Faith & Love
1 Timothy 1:14
…and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus.
When we are born again there are two very important elements that we find in our relationship with Jesus Christ. They are faith and love. Once born again we are given a measure of faith and the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts. God gives us these two new elements so that we can begin to live a whole new way of life. We are to learn how to walk by faith and walk in the love of God. We are to take the measure of faith God gives us and continue to develop and use our new faith. Simply put, faith believes in and acts as if the Word of God is true. Walking by faith is walking by what God’s Word says and not what your circumstances say. Feeding on the Word is vital to your faith walk for this is how faith continues to come. But you must act upon the Word to walk by the faith you have been given. We are also to walk in love, treating others the way we want to be treated no matter how they treat us. This to requires action on our part based on the love of God that is now in our hearts and not acting upon our fleshly outer man. Faith is dependent on this love for faith works through love. Receiving Christ as your Lord means to receive a whole new way to live your life here on earth. A life of faith and love.
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Spiritually Minded
Romans 8:6
The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
How you view things in this life determines whether you will walk in death or life. Death refers to that which came as a result of sin, and leads one to be separated from life, which is defined as the God-kind of life. If we continue to live our lives with our minds governed by the way our flesh sees things and not God, we will not experience the God-kind of life He has for us here. Stop seeing things in this life from the world’s viewpoint, instead see what God sees. Man sees sickness, God sees healing. Man sees defeat, God sees victory. Man sees hopelessness, God sees hope fulfilled because He sees all things through what Christ has done for you. The more we take on the attitude of God through the promise of His Word, seeing things as God sees them, the more life and peace we will walk in.
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Give Thanks
1 Thessalonians 5:18
…in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
God’s desire for us is to see His will manifested. A key to seeing God’s will manifested is in thanking Him for what He has done for us through Christ Jesus. Thanksgiving is a key to faith. To walk in God’s promises you must see what He has promised in His Word as already done for in the eyes of God everything you have in Christ is already an established fact. You are redeemed, you are not going to be. What God promised us in Christ was established 2000 years ago through His death, burial, resurrection and ascension. So to live a life of thanksgiving don’t focus on what you see in the natural, focus on what God’s Word has said, and start thanking Him for what He has already done for you through Christ Jesus. Those who are grateful (full of gratitude), will be faithful (full of faith).
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Be A Wise Virgin
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
There is no doubt that Jesus will return to catch away those who are ready. Jesus said to watch and pray to be ready. He taught a parable of 10 virgins that relates to His return to catch away those who are ready. Five were wise and five were foolish. To become a virgin (pure) one must be born again. The wise virgins not only had their lamps lit (which represents one who is saved) but they also had an extra jar full of oil. The foolish had their lamps lit, but their jars were not full. This jar being full means they remained active in pursuing God and the things of God. The foolish were instead consuming their time with worldly things and not therefore actively pursuing God. These foolish virgins tried to get the wise virgins to give them some of their oil, but you can only get it through your relationship with God. The wise were ready for Christ’s return and went with Him when He came, but the foolish were left behind. Don’t be a foolish virgin who has accepted Christ but is not walking with God but instead chasing after the world. Jesus is coming!
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Look To Jesus
Colossians 1:28
Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
The word “perfect” means complete. It is not other people, things you own, nor your status in life that makes you complete. It is Jesus Christ and Him alone that makes your life complete and that is why they preached Christ to everyone. When we try to find our worth in what we do, what other people think of us, or in what we have in the natural we are always going to feel incomplete because in doing so we are trying to find our worth in the creation and not our Creator. It’s not a selfie you take that everyone likes, nor getting compliments on something you’ve accomplished that makes you who you are. It is Christ who makes us what we are, a new creation. So look to Jesus, not the world, other people, nor things in this world, and you will have all that completes you.
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Truth Sets You Free
John 8:31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.
John 8:32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
God’s Word will only help you to the degree that you hear, receive, and act upon it. God’s Word spoken brought into existence everything we see. There is nothing more powerful than the Word of God. His Word is a prevailing force. The word prevail means to prove more powerful than any opposing force, to be victorious. In Acts 19:20 scripture says that the Word continued to grow mightily and prevail. This was a result of the disciples teaching the people what God’s Word said. The more that Word grew and came alive in the hearts of those who heard it, the more that Word prevailed in and through their lives. To get God’s Word in us we must hear it, speak it, meditate on it, and live it. For those who do, this prevailing force the Word of God, will work in and through your life, proving itself more powerful than any opposing force, and it will help you to live a victorious life.
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Don’t Limit God
Luke 5:4-6
4 When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your NETS for a catch.”
5 But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the NET.”
6 And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking.
God is always willing to do more than we realize. What a powerful story of how Peter for allowing Jesus to use his boat wanted to bless him. After fishing all night and catching nothing the Master tells them right where to drop their NETS to catch fish. Peter responds telling Him they had fished all night catching nothing. This is as if to say I am the fisherman, you are the preacher, I know how to fish. But Jesus knows how to do all things good. Peter not having full faith just lets down one NET. Of course they catch so much fish they have to call for their friends boat to help. God is only hindered in blessing us to the degree we can believe. He is only limited by our faith, not His willingness or ability. God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all we ask or think. It is us to what we can believe God for.
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Forget The Past
Philippians 3:13-14
13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
A key to moving forward into all God has for your life is to forget what is behind. If you hold on to your past you will remain there. In the Old Testament the first generation of the children of Israel once delivered out of Egypt keep looking back to Egypt and they did not go forward into the promise land God had for them. Only Joshua and Caleb let go of the past and were therefore able to enter the promise God had awaiting them. Stop thinking about, talking about, and focusing on your past and what is behind you. Stop seeing the person you used to be and start seeing in scripture who God has made you to be. Leave the past, yours and others where it belongs, behind you. When you let go of the past you can then move forward by faith into what God has promised for you.
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Never Alone
Ephesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
No believer should ever feel like God is far from them, for we have been reunited with God through Christ Jesus. We are one spirit with the Lord and He will never leave you nor forsake you. The sin nature that stood between us and God has been washed away by the blood of Jesus. It was this sin nature that separated us from God, and all that He is. Jesus said that for those who put their faith in Him that He and the Father would come and abide in them. He has done so by sending the Holy Spirit to come and live in us. This is one of the reasons we no longer have any reason to live in fear for greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world. The devil and all his demons are no match for God, and He lives within every born again believer. So there is no reason to live in fear of the powers of darkness, nor should you ever feel lonely for all who have received salvation have the Spirit of God living in them. Don’t fall for these deceptive lies, instead walk in the realty of the truth by declaring to yourself that greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world, and He will never leave me nor forsake me.
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God Has A Plan
Ephesians 2:10
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
God has already prepared a good plan for you to walk in. To walk in God’s plan all we have to do is follow the pattern we have in Jesus. Jesus acted, spoke, and thought like the Father. We look to God’s Word and we begin to act like our Heavenly Father. His Word reveals to us how we as born again children of God should live. As we look to His Word we also begin to talk like God talks, saying who God says we are in Christ Jesus and saying what we have in Christ as well. Scripture teaches us our words are a major part of determining where we will go in the future. We must also start thinking like God thinks, seeing ourselves as God sees us. We must renew our thinking to the fact we are a spirit being with a soul living in a body. When we start acting, talking, and thinking like God, we can learn of and walk in the plan He has already prepared for us.
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Pastor Darryl Baker
Join me each day as we dig into the scriptures and share God's wisdom that will help you grow in your walk with God.
