Life By Faith Church, Meridian, Ok

07/09/2025

If my people who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

07/04/2025

06/23/2025

This one thing I know - He is my shield and my strength. Years ago during a difficult time in my life I was praying and speaking the scriptures about the armor of God. The Lord spoke clearly into my mind that He is my shield. He is standing between me and all the fiery darts of the enemy. He is my defender. I am to trust in Him and stay close behind Him. There is no protection or strength apart from Him.

06/14/2025

“But his officers tried to reason with him and said, “Sir, if the prophet had told you to do something very difficult, wouldn’t you have done it? So you should certainly obey him when he says simply, ‘Go and wash and be cured!’” 2 Kings 5:14

The reaction of Naaman to the prophet Elisha’s instructions is so like many of us in the church today. We talk big about our willingness to obey God no matter how difficult it might be. But too often it is in the simple things of everyday life that we drag our feet. Those simple things like mowing someone’s yard or taking a little time out of our day to visit a lonely person seem too simple to be God inspired. Surely His instructions will be bigger and more spectacular. Naaman was angry because God wasn’t moving the way he expected. It was too easy. He came close to missing his miracle because of his unwillingness to obey.

06/03/2025

“Being filled with the fullness of God is like a bottle in the ocean. You take the cork out of the bottle and sink it in the ocean, and you have the bottle completely full of ocean. The bottle is in the ocean, and the ocean is in the bottle. The ocean contains the bottle, but the bottle contains only a little bit of the ocean. So it is with a Christian.” A.B. Simpson

I don’t know about you but I want to be so filled with the Holy Spirit that when the world tries to squeeze me into its mold what comes out is Jesus.

05/22/2025

The Bible doesn’t say, “Give thanks to the Lord when you feel good.” It says, “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.” Our gratitude shouldn’t depend on how we feel, but on who God is—and He is good all the time. If you’re reading this, it means you woke up this morning—thank God for that! Thank Him for everything He has done, both big and small, for the blessings you see and those you don’t. Thank Him for protecting you from dangers you never even knew were there. Praise God, because there is always something to be thankful for.
- The Consecrated Woman

05/20/2025

Here is a remarkable promise: “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” (Romans 8:28)
You may know that you’re loved by God, but are you persuaded? Between the head and the heart, God desires to do His work in you…!
““But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives…” (see Job 19:25), Job said when he was tested and tried on all sides. Illness, grief, pain, suffering, spiritual attacks...and to top it all off, his wife was no help when, in her depression, she counseled him to “curse God and die.”
Job was encouraged neither by his circumstances nor his loved ones. And even his friends reproached him saying that if all of this had happened to him, it was surely because he had sinned against God…
But Job knew! He knew that his Savior lives and would rise up and take a stand for him. He knew that God would silence the enemy of his soul, the enemy of his family, the enemy of his health, the enemy that seeks only to steal, kill, and destroy. (see John 10:10)
I encourage you to hold firmly to this promise: “The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.” (see Romans 16:20) Have confidence! Your situation is temporary. God has already foreseen a way out.
You know in Whom you have believed: the all-powerful God, the Creator of the universe, the Lord of Hosts, the Good Shepherd, the Alpha and Omega...also known as the Lord God, the One Who is, Who was, and Who is to come, the Almighty. (see Revelation 1:8)
So be persuaded as well that you’re in His hand and that in Him, all things work together for your good!
Eric Célérier

05/19/2025

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
1 Corinthians 2:9

05/17/2025

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.
Psalm 19:14
When we truly desire to follow after God we will want Him to reveal to us the condition of our heart.
Lord, teach me your ways that I might be pleasing in your sight. Bring to my attention words and thoughts that do not honor and glorify you. Shine the light of your love and truth into the depths of my heart and reveal those things I need to change. Amen

05/16/2025

It isn’t always easy to do the right thing. There may be a price to pay. Alexander MacLaren, the great Scottish preacher, said it this way: “come what will of it, right is right, and sin is sin, that consequences are never to deter from duty, and that it is better to have a clean conscience and to be in prison than do wickedness and sit at a king’s table.”

The Bible says “So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin.” James 4:17

The right thing can take many forms. It may simply mean speaking out in the face of inhumanity. When we fail to do so we are participants. When we do so we may experience retribution.
We all have to search our own hearts. Most of all we must search the scriptures for God’s heart and mind.

FIRST THEY CAME
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me”. Martin Niemoller

05/16/2025

I know that this is a long post but I believe you will be blessed if you read it and think about what it means for you.

The lyrics to this song by the Gaithers reminds me of God’s love for me.

I stand amazed in the presence
Of Jesus the Nazarene
And I wonder how He could love me,
A sinner condemned, unclean.
How marvelous, how wonderful
And my song shall ever be.
How marvelous, how wonderful
Is my Savior's love for me.
He took my sins and my sorrows,
He made them His very own;
He bore the burden to Calv'ry,
And suffered and died alone.
How marvelous, how wonderful
And my song shall ever be.
How marvelous, how wonderful
Is my Savior's love for me.
When with the ransomed in glory
His face I at last shall see,
'Twill be my joy thro' the ages,
To sing of His love for me.
How marvelous, how wonderful
And my song shall ever be.
How marvelous, how wonderful
Is my Savior's love for me.
How marvelous, how wonderful
And my song shall ever be.
How marvelous, how wonderful
Is my Savior's love for me.

Ephesians 1:3-8 “All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. 4 Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. 5 God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. 6 So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.[a] 7 He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. 8 He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.”