Study Desk

Like the Good Book says, "God has given him control over everything." When it says "everything" is under his control, it goes without saying that Jesus does not control God. God is the one giving Jesus the authority.

I hope you have heard of Stephanus and his family. They were among the first cowboys to ride for the Lord in Greece. They have devoted their lives in service of God's people. I urge y'all

If we ride for Jesus, we're gonna experience the same suffering he did during his ride. But his daddy comforted him and he will do the same for us.

We truly felt like God was preparing us for death. It was that bad. But God had another plan. He let us suffer that bad to show us how often we depended on our own strength instead of his. He raises the dead and sometimes we couldn't even raise our heads.

Jesus never seesawed with his yes's and no's. Jesus is the one Silas, Timothy, and I talked to you so much about. Jesus is the "yes" in God's greatest promise.

He branded us as his own by giving us the Holy Spirit to ride with us and in us. The Holy Spirit was the down payment on all the great things he has promised his cowboys.

I think the time has come for everyone to forgive him and let bygones be bygones. If you don't, he might sink into such a despair that he won't be able to find his way back.

But I tip my hat to God! He has put his word in our hearts and we spread the good news like a sweet perfume everywhere we go.

He signed us up as day hands of a new agreement from himself to his cowboys. This new agreement, or code, is not a set of written rules, but a written promise on our soul by the Spirit.

We aren't like Moses, who hid his face with a wild rag when he came off the mountain. He didn't want them to see the glory that had already started to fade away.

Our faces don't hide behind wild rags to keep people from seeing the glory of God. We show the Lord's glory, not in our faces, but in our hearts and in our lives that are being changed to be like his. As we change more and more, there is more and more glory that belongs only to the Lord—who is the Spirit.

God has mercifully given us a spot on his outfit. He assigned us this work to do and we never give up.

We can tell you stories about ourselves, but it's only to point you toward God. We don't preach about ourselves. We preach that Jesus is the boss and we are his cowboys who ride for his brand.

It's true! This light shines in our hearts, but this gift is like a treasure in an old worn out feed sack that could tear open at any moment. God did this on purpose to show it's his power that sustains us, not what we can accomplish.

We're all going to stand in front of Jesus and give an account of the things we did on his spread. We will then receive our reward or our damnation based on what we did down here.

When anyone believes his death was for their life, they begin to live for something other than themselves. When they start riding for the brand, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised back to life just like we will be.

We represent the brand in all we say and do. God is spreading his message through his cowboys. We tell it just like Jesus told us to when we say, "Quit your sorry ways and come back to God!"

God swapped his perfect son for our sorry ways so we could be right with him through what Jesus did for us.

I feel like a father who has given everything to his kids, but they show no gratitude or love. Pop your dallies on whatever is holding you back and open your hearts to us.

Jesus and the devil ain't pards, so how can you still ride with someone who sneers at God and his ways.