Welcome to the brand new Love and Lordship website. The Love and Lordship message and ministry exist to help you know who you are in Christ and build strong, healthy relationships…friendships, marriage, family, Church! Navigate the site to find videos, podcasts and written resources to help you as you build every relationship on the Love and Lordship of Jesus!
“For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.” 1 Corinthians 3:9
In the last several weeks our focus has been on how significant and valued we are in Christ…our identity in Him! We are grafted in by grace through faith as branches in The Vine, appointed and chosen to bear His fruit; we are God’s masterpiece recreated in Christ to do the good works He’s prepared in advance for us to do in His strength; we are literally a holy… Read More
“You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.” John 15:16
Building on the significance that we have and are in Christ as God’s masterpiece and as a branch in The Vine (Christ), we find that we are specifically chosen by God and appointed to bear fruit. None of us was or… Read More
“I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5
Knowing and Loving Who You Are in Christ
We have explored and revealed that we are fully accepted in Christ and we’ve been working through the reality that we are secure in Him. As we wrap up this Truth of our security and safety in Christ we look at the fact that, as a… Read More
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear or timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline (sound mind).” 2 Timothy 1:7 (NLT)
If last week’s post didn’t light a fire in you, then your woods all wet (as Brother Wayne B. Smith used to say). How awesome is it that God has recreated us in Christ for specific purposes that align with His Kingdom will and that He will finish what He started. However, we must remember that He will never force the… Read More
“Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.” 2 Corinthians 1:21-22
Here’s one of the most powerful and fulfilling promises that we have in Christ…I (You) am (are) established, anointed and sealed by God with the promise and presence of The Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 1:21-22)! In all these promises that we’ve been talking about as our identity in Christ, as well as so… Read More