Loving Grace Ministries

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Then bring near to yourself Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, to minister as priest to Me” Exodus 28:1   Probably most often, when people hear the words “priest” or “minister,” the automatic assumption in one’s mind is, “priest to the people” and “minister to people.” So it is enlightening, to say the least, to see that in Scripture when God first uses the word’s “priest,” and “priests” (as we

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, ‘Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel: “You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagle’s wings, and brought you to Myself. Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “After his [Abram’s] return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s valley). And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God most High” Genesis 14:17-18   This is the first time the word “priest” appears in the bible and it is in reference to the person of Melchizedek.    This appearance of

Today’s Word Of Encouragement from Wayne: “This I recall to mind, therefore I have hope. The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:21-23   For the past two days we have been looking into this passage from Jeremiah’s Lamentations concerning God’s never failing and never ceasing lovingkindnesses and compassions towards us, that they are indeed new every morning and that

Today’s Word Of Encouragement from Wayne: “The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23   Hallelujah, our Lord God is so faithful to us! Yes, “Great is Your faithfulness!”   In this case, from this Scripture in Lamentations, God’s great faithfulness is expressed to us through His daily giving us His brand new “lovingkindness” and “compassions.”   Beloved of God, st

Today’s Word Of Encouragement from Wayne: “Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day” 2 Corinthians 4:16   “Being renewed day by day” reminds me of a popular song from the late nineteen sixties titled Day By Day, written by Stephen Schwartz.   The lyrics went, “Day by day, day by day, O dear Lord three things I pray - to see Thee more clearly, to love Thee more dearly, to follow Thee more nearly, day by

Today’s Word Of Encouragement from Wayne: “Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day” 2 Corinthians 4:16   Certainly the singular great treasure of our lives is Christ Jesus Himself, Who lives within us, “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). He is our peace, our joy, our strength, our comfort, our light, our abiding fellowship, our healing, our wholeness, our way, our truth, our life, in

Today’s Word Of Encouragement from Wayne: “Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.” 2 Corinthians 4:16   Do you ever worry that you may be losing heart as a Christian, as you go on living the Christian life in this present world?   If so, then here is your blessed remedy, a gift from God to you. It is this - your “inner man is being renewed day by day.”   Losing heart, according to the wisdom in this

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “But now we have been released from the law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter” Romans 7:6   Yesterday we saw, in reference to our being in a New Covenant, that “the letter kills, but the Sprit gives life” (2 Corinthians 3:6).   Today, in this verse from his letter to the church at Rome, Paul wrote “that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in ol

Today’s Word Of Encouragement From Wayne: “Our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life” 2 Corinthians 3:5-6   This verse of Scripture tells us that, as true Christians, we are in a “new covenant” which is “of the Spirit” and that “the Spirit gives life.”   Therefore, by contrast, we also see that the old covenant is “of the letter” and “the letter kills.