Preserving ourselves for the Lord – Rajesh Ramaswamy

Rajesh Ramaswamy
Preserving ourselves for the Lord
Preserving our salvation.
Matthew 25:13: keep watch because you do not know the day or the hour.
The devil shows me everything that is sin in me so I confess that the one in me is greater than He that is in the world.
Romans 12:1: To offer your bodies as living sacrifice, holy and pleasing and acceptable to God.
The problems I go through help me to be preserved for the Lord.
God wants us to be strong day by day, growing everyday.
Daniel 1:8: Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food.
Our life is preserved by God.
Psalms 116:6: The Lord preserves the simple hearted.
Psalms 145: God preserves all those who love Him. Being set on fire for God always.

Titus
We all are going to stand before the judgement seat of God.
God is faithful, are you? God controls everything in our life.
Isaiah 45:1,3,4. God is faithful even in difficulties but am I faithful in preserving my God.
Isaiah 45:6,7. God wants us to know that we have to worship Him
Isaiah 45:21, 22: God takes us through trials so we will rely on Him.
Life is easy when you are up on the mountain but when our faith is tested God wants us to rely on Him. God of the mountain is still God of the valley.

Nitish
God knows our shortcomings and He tests us in those areas where we are weak. We tend to forget the good things He has given us. We need to ask grace to face problems rather than asking God to take the problem away.

Jonathan
Psalms 119:9: How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to your word.
Genesis 39:6-9 How then could I do such a wicket thing and sin against God?
Phillipians 3:4-6, 12: when Paul met Jesus, he considered everything else as rubbish so that he might gain Christ.
Genesis 3:1: the devil is a master deceiver.
Genesis 3:6. Matthew 11:28: come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:29: Take my yoke upon you and learn from me.