Koinonia Worship Center and Village

Koinonia Worship Center and Village We are a non-denominational, Christian community-based church. Our Administrative Offices are M-F 9a
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09/14/2026

Monday, September 14

“No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man.” 1Co 10:13 NKJV

How to deal with temptation

You should deal with temptation in the same way you would deal with weeds in a garden. You can’t just cut off the tops of the weeds, because in a few days, they’ll be back. Similarly, saying, “I’ll just stop sinning” addresses only the externals. Another option is mowing the weeds all the way down to the ground, cutting off the shoots. Now the garden looks good and weed-free for a while, but it doesn’t stay weed-free. The only effective way to deal with temptation is at its root. The Bible says: “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make a way of escape.” What is God’s “way of escape” for you? Living in His Word and allowing His Word to live in you. Satan tempted Jesus three different times in the wilderness, but Jesus overcame him. How? Three times He answered, “It is written.” You need to know and use the Word of God in your encounters with temptation. The battlefield is in your mind. This is why Paul said, “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth” (Col 3:2 NKJV). It’s why he wrote this to the Philippian Christians: “Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things” (Php 4:8 NKJV).

09/13/2026

Leviticus 27:30; Malachi 3:8-10; 2nd Corinthians 9;4-8 (NIV
"God loves a person who gives cheerfully.'

09/13/2026

Sunday, September 13

“Pay close attention to yourself.” 1Ti 4:16 NAS

It’s you that God wants to deal with!

Paul told Timothy, “Pay close attention to yourself.” Preachers often preach to others the very things they themselves need most! If you want to know which battle they’re fighting, just listen to what they’re preaching. When God talks to them, they give it “an introduction, three points and a conclusion,” then pass it on to others. Sometimes they’re the first folks to resist a new move of God because of their position or concern for their financial security. When God begins to rock the boat, it brings both joy and conflict. It wasn’t easy for Moses to leave the comfort of a palace and spend forty years in the wilderness being trained. Imagine trying to explain that to your family and friends. Abraham left everything to follow God and become the father of a nation. It makes exciting reading, but would you like to have made the trip with him? It has been said that some people make things happen, other people watch things happen, and other people don’t know what’s happening. If you’re tired of getting nowhere with God and you’d like to break out, then get into His presence today and stay there until you’ve heard from Him. He may tell you to stay where you are, and if He does, you’ll have complete peace (See Col 3:15). He may tell you to get ready for something new, and if He does, He will equip you to handle it. If you’ve spent most of your life telling others what to do, the word for you today is, “Pay close attention to yourself.”

09/12/2026

Saturday, September 12

“We…are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord.” 2Co 3:18 NIV

You’re called to reflect Christ’s likeness

Our destiny has far less to do with what we do than it does with who we become. “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son” (Ro 8:29 NIV). And it takes many different experiences to bring that to pass. Hence Paul writes: “Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, ‘children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.’ Then you will shine…like stars in the sky” (Php 2:14-15 NIV). Paul likens us to shining stars, and the word shine means to reflect. The scientific term is albedo. It’s a measurement of how much sunlight a celestial body reflects. The planet Venus, for example, has the highest albedo at close to 0.7. In other words, nearly seventy percent of the light that hits Venus is reflected. On the other hand, the moon has an albedo point of only 0.07. Only seven percent of sunlight is reflected, yet it lights our way on cloudless nights. In a similar sense, each of us has a spiritual albedo. The goal? One hundred percent reflectivity. “We…who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” You cannot produce light; you can only reflect it. To be “conformed to his image” means we think like, talk like, feel like, and act like Him. It’s the character of Christ being formed in you until you reflect His love, His power, His patience, and His joy.

09/10/2026

Addendum to
How Weakness Becomes Strength

09/10/2026

Thursday, September 10

“Remember well what the Lord your God did.” Dt 7:18 NIV

Recall your past victories

The ability to recall the past is one of the most powerful functions of your brain. And when you recall past victories, you rekindle the courage, joy, and sense of accomplishment associated with the victory. You can never underestimate the power of an experience to re-inspire faith. From the parting of the Red Sea to the fall of Jericho, the Israelites had numerous miracles God had performed on their behalf. And He had cautioned them about forgetting His mighty acts: “Remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear” (Dt 7:18-19 NIV). If you’ve allowed Satan to give you “experience amnesia” and have forgotten those times of divine intervention in your life, why not recall someone else’s testimony? Faith can come from more than one direction. Recall the good things God has done for your friends, acquaintances, and coworkers. Miracles are exciting, no matter who the recipient is. And if God did it before, He can certainly do it again. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” (Heb 13:8 NIV). When something in your future feels threatening, stop and remember God’s goodness to you in the past. Recall a time or incident in which He brought you out of a difficult situation that you thought you’d never get through. The word for you today is—recall your past victories.

09/09/2026

Wednesday, September 9

“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” 2Co 5:21 NIV

Healing for shame and condemnation

Shame and condemnation are two weapons Satan will use to torment you. They will steal your rest and sap the joy out of your life. What’s the answer? Begin to see yourself as God sees you. “God made him [Jesus] who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” When we are aware of our shortcomings, how is it possible to believe that God sees us as “righteous” and wants us to see ourselves that way too? Because when you became a Christian, God placed you “in Christ”; therefore, you are always accepted by Him. “Since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ro 5:1 NIV). The word justified means: “just-as-if-I’d never sinned.” And that’s how God sees you twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred sixty-five days a year, all the way from the new birth to the New Jerusalem. Plus, Jesus understands your struggles since He dealt with them Himself. He “understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most” (Heb 4:15-16 NLT). Confession: “Jesus took all the shame and condemnation for my sin on the cross, and I am in right standing with God because I’m ‘in Christ’!”

09/08/2026

Tuesday, September 8

“James…to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings.” Jas 1:1 NKJV

Lessons from James (3)

James addressed “the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad,” those early Christians who had fled Jerusalem. The Greek word James used to describe this is “diaspora,” from which we get the word “dispersed.” The picture is of someone scattering seeds. After the martyrdom of Stephen in Acts chapter seven, the Christians in Jerusalem came under increasing persecution from the Roman Empire. They refused the Romans’ demand to confess “Caesar is Lord.” Instead, they insisted that there was only one Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus, the Bible informs us, “They were all scattered…except the apostles” (Ac 8:1 NKJV). James wrote to believers who had to leave their homes, their jobs, their properties—everything. Talk about stress! Yet God permitted them to experience the scattering and the resulting stress for a purpose. Had these believers stayed in Jerusalem, chances are the gospel would not have spread so completely through the known world. Everywhere these early followers of Jesus were scattered, they shared the Good News of Christ’s redemptive work, and in just one generation, the gospel had spread throughout the Roman Empire. That’s why James wrote to the church that was “scattered abroad”: “Count it all joy when you fall into various trials” (Jas 1:2 NKJV). Their uprooting from Jerusalem resulted in the planting of the church throughout the known world. “Our God turned the curse into a blessing” (Neh 13:2 NKJV). With God, short-term pain can lead to long-term gain. He uses setbacks we sometimes don’t understand to fulfill His purposes. Is that what’s happening in your life right now? Trust God; He knows what He’s doing!

09/08/2026

Monday, September 7

“A doer…will be blessed in what he does.” Jas 1:25 NKJV

Lessons from James (2)

North of Israel and teeming with aquatic life of many kinds, the Sea of Galilee is a beautiful blue. South of Israel is the Dead Sea, and it’s called “Dead” for a good reason: There’s no life in its stagnant water. What makes these two bodies of water so different? First, the Sea of Galilee has an inlet: the Jordan River flows into it. On its southern shore, the Sea of Galilee also has an outlet: water flows through the Great Rift Valley. Like the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea has an inlet: the Jordan flows into it. But the Dead Sea has no outlet; it takes in but does not give out. This is the theme of the book of James. Vibrant believers not only take in, but they also give out. They put the word they receive (input) into action (output): “If anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does” (Jas 1:23-25 NKJV). James warns us not to become so heavenly-minded that we are no earthly good; that it’s not enough to read the Scriptures, but we must also look for practical ways to put them into practice each day. His message could be summed up in the famous Nike slogan: “Just do it!”

09/06/2026

John 15: 5-8 (NIV)
"If a man remains in Me and I in him, he will bear much fruit."

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