Johnny Mays

A few thoughts to encourage the listener --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

A biblical definition of love is valued above that of a human definition because the Word of God is true and never varies with the culture and times. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Enjoy your friendships. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Today is our opportunity to focus on the most important things. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

A candid reflection on the need to be faithful to share the good news. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Christians claim to believe the Bible is God's Word. We claim it's God's divinely inspired, inerrant message to us. Yet despite this, we aren't reading it.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

A pretty good summary is found in 3 John 1:2: Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. Notice that God doesn't just want you to prosper in some things—He says all things! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

We need to examine ourselves and see where we have been, where we are, and where the Lord wants us to be.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

We can begin to participate in God's loving plan to recreate the entire cosmos in and through Jesus Christ. Your Time today is the road along which this loving plan of redemption proceeds in our individual lives and the history of this world.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

A new calendar year alerts us to the fact that we have been given a new beginning, the old year is past and the new year is before us. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

So, I want to be very clear: God's love is not at all like that. It is, instead, a gift, poured out extravagantly and indiscriminately on everyone. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

The Letter to the Colossians speaks of the "Son of His love," meaning that Christ in his love and power equips us with the Holy Spirit and his freshness.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

O come, let us adore Him O come, let us adore Him O come, let us adore Him. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

No wonder the angels sang out on that first Christmas day: “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth—yes is possible—on earth peace among those whom he favors!” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

The bright morning star represents the promise of a new day, it indicates that something better is coming.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Live today and everyday animated by the desire to make your Jesus smile, and never assume that there more Christmas seasons on the horizon.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

When they saw the star they rejoiced with joy.”  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Serving the Lord and experiencing the joy and blessings of being in His presence is a great wonder!  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

What a great faith the Lord worked in Joseph—first to believe in the coming Savior, but also to believe that he would be guardian/ foster father of that Savior.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

The True Spirit of Christmas will lead us like the shepherds, to bend our knees and find a quiet time to reflect how much love God has bestowed upon us. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Many of us would get serious about our relationship with Christ if we weren't preoccupied with careers, managing families, chasing goals and dreams, materialistic pursuits. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

To believe in Christmas is to believe in; Something supernatural. Something totally out of the ordinary. Something humanly unexplainable. Christians believe God invaded our world in the form of a tiny baby boy.  That's a stunning thought, if you think about it, which we rarely do. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Isaiah 41:10 NIV  “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Soon we will celebrate the central miracle of the Christian faith: the birth of Jesus Christ. Theologians call this the Incarnation, which means “to take the form of human flesh.”  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

What the shepherds did change their lives. They became new creatures in Christ Jesus. What the Gospel did for them, it will do for you! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

At Christmas we take the time and make the effort to acknowledge our fellow man in the manner that we should all year long.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

When the angel said, “Nothing is impossible with God” (Luke 1:37), Mary took a deep breath and replied, “May it be to me as you have said.” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

We should not be surprised that after all these centuries, the family is still a central focus at the time when we are celebrating the birth of the Son of God. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Christianity is not what Jesus taught us to do, but what he would do for us. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

If our goal this Christmas is to worship Jesus, then I doubt very seriously we will be dissatisfied with our experience. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

When we abound in our generosity, thankfulness is the natural response. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Gratitude should impact both our relationship with God and our relationships with other people. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

It is the possession of the Christian alone; there is no peace for anyone who does not possess Christ and who is not resting on the finished work of Christ for salvation, thereby “making peace through his blood, shed on the cross”. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Evil people are what will make these last days so terrible. There will be many in the church who profess Christianity but look nothing like their Lord and Savior.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Every day declare what the Bible says: “God encompasses me with favor like a shield. Everywhere I go, everything I do, I am favored of God” Psalm 5:12 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

All Christians go through times of heartache and trouble. But we never have to suffer alone. Christians: God will always be with us, and one reason why is because Jesus Christ wants to heal our broken hearts. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

According to the prophet Jeremiah, the spiritual heart is so innately wicked and deceptive that one cannot even understand his own heart--but God does! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Why is it important to test our beliefs to determine the truth of what we believe? Satan is a deceiver. We must know the truth! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Today I want us to think about the idea of the Christian Soldier - the committed believer living faithfully in a tough world. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand". --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

The problem with putting our lives in the hand of Fate. Fate does not guarantee that the pain will end someday. Fate does not personally care about you. Fate is just fate. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

The more we get to know God through simple conversation the more we will love and trust him. Then when it seems there is nothing else we can do, our praying will be an important kind of action for us.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

The Bible tells us that the greatest power that can be in man is God, then and only then does the Bible say…Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

Thus our Creator did not simply turn back the clock in Jesus' death -- He eliminated it. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty—     the one who always was, who is, and who is still to come.” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

What's the secret to greatness? It's a repentant, trusting, serving, and humble heart. God doesn't look at the outside but at the heart.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

This miracle you received though silent and invisible, is one of the greatest possible miracles. It gives us the chance to be part of the family of the all-powerful Creator God. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

God's care means you don't have to give into despair or be paralyzed by fear, His presence allows us to continue our journey in life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

People get ready there's a train comin' You don't need no baggage, just get on board All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin' You don't need no ticket, just thank the lord. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support

The man after God's own heart is concerned that his mind is renewed and his heart changed until he can think as God thinks and feels as God feels. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnny-mays0/support