Encourage Every Day Discovering Grace Weekly - Making The Most Of The Time We Have Left Written by Eileen R. Jacobs “Take care, brothers and sisters, that there will not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. But encourage one another every day, as long as it is still called “today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” - Hebrews 3:12-13 NASB Welcome to 2024, my dear Friends! This ought to be an exci

Doing Good Through Our Union With Christ Romans 12:21 (Part 9)

In this article, we’ll be dealing with the second most important attitude to have when serving the Lord … “Hate.” Yes, this is accurate.

Love Without Hypocrisy - Romans 12:21 (Part 7) Written by Eileen R. Jacobs Dear Friends, Thanks so much for joining us in this series on all that is “good.” If you have been following along in this series, we’re getting ready to bring you the seventh article covering the exhortation given to believers in Romans 12:21, “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” (We apologize for the long delay in releasing this particular Discovering Grace Weekly. The revelat

Doing Good Together - Romans 12:21 (Part 6) Written by Eileen R. Jacobs Dear Friends, We’ve been meditating on Romans 12:21 for the past five weeks or so. We are embarking on the 6th article in this series, as we want to continue learning what it means to “...not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Since this is a command in the New Covenant, we want to understand how to successfully walk this out by the Spirit’s power and Divine energy that Christ Jesus suppl

Doing Good Through Jesus - Romans 12:21 (Part 5) Written by Eileen R. Jacobs Dear Friends, Welcome back to our fifth article in our series on all that is “Good.” We’ve been meditating on the verse in Romans 12:21, “Do not be overcome and conquered by evil, but overcome evil with good.” This has been a very timely verse for us to incorporate into our daily lives, as there are so many people suffering from fear, depression, discouragement, uncertainty, poverty and sickness. If

Deciding To Do Good - Romans 12:21 (Part 4) Written by Eileen R. Jacobs Dear Friends, We are back for a fourth article discussing all that is ‘Good” and how to “...not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” In our first article in the series, we took the time to define from Thayer’s Greek Lexicon that the word “overcome” means “to conquer, overcome; to carry off the victory; to come off victorious.” Now, in our key verse, we are first instructed to “...not be o

The Source Of All Good - Romans 12:21 (Part 3) Written by Eileen R. Jacobs Dear Friends, We are back teaching our series focusing on all that is “Good.” With all of the deception, darkness, and evil hypocrisy surrounding us currently, we all need to redirect our attention to that which is honest, right, and overflowing with integrity, and start by making “Good” a priority in our homes, schools, work places, the market place, with our neighbors, in our places of leadership an

Only God Can - Romans 12:21 (Part 2) Written by Eileen R. Jacobs Dear Friends, In our last Discovering Grace Weekly, we began a series on the verse in Romans 12:21, “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Our concentration was primarily on the first portion of the verse which encourages us...“Do not be overcome by evil.” We’ve come to understand that this is impossible to do by yourself. However, if you have received the eternal life of God, through faith

He Has Overcome - Romans 12:21 (Part 1) Written by Eileen R. Jacobs Dear Friends, We are ready to resume our Discovering Grace Weekly teaching letters for this upcoming year, so I want to begin by encouraging us with the word “Good!” Keep this word in your mind all week long. Meditate on it throughout your day, post it around your house or office, and let your mind get renewed to this hopeful, dynamic and marvelous word. It was one of the first words spoken in the record of

Written by Eileen R. Jacobs Dear Friends, I don’t know about you, but I’ve had to daily ward off the spirit of discouragement. Just when I think things in our world are going to start improving for the better, then a twist and turn for the weirder appears and I find myself baffled again. Between having to rely on the Spirit to discern whether the news I hear is truth, and having to re-educate myself as to our Constitutional due-processes, or dealing with things in my own per

Written by Eileen R. Jacobs Dear Friends, I am so glad we have come into the Christmas season. Despite all that is still swirling madly around us, I sense that magical lightheartedness that usually accompanies Christmas time. This season is different for me, though. Like so many in the Christian community, I feel in my heart the sensing of another Advent nearing. What is such a comfort to me is the well documented fact that the Scriptures prophesied about the coming of the

Written by Eileen R. Jacobs Dear Friends, Many people I talk to are becoming more and more aware of how easily the simple things we’ve all depended on for so long, the things we have come to blindly trust, like our elected leaders and unbiased news, are being manipulated in our current times. Understanding and learning the truth is becoming harder and harder. Some are in denial that deception could be so widespread and blatant, and some are literally in fear of what may be i

I believe the Lord will be uncovering some things shortly that may be disconcerting for Americans and the rest of the world...