What’s there to be grateful for? Would you be grateful for what I’ve been through? Gratitude is not a reasoned response to how good my present condition is making me feel. I am commanded to be grateful always FOR everything! Ephesians 5:20 Gratitude is the act of worship that: sees beyond my present or past […]
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WHAT DO YOU WANT?-ASK!
The Lord asks the blind man what he wants, it was obvious, but he wanted the man to exercise faith by asking. He tells the king to ask him for something, anything, and the king says “No, I don’t want to presume.” Then the Lord gets angry and says, “If I tell you to ask, […]
When the devil attacks, it is often useful to concede his observation but not his conclusion. For example, he will point out “you are too weak ” and then conclude that you might as well go ahead and sin, since you will just fall in the end”, OR,” try try try to be stronger” OR, “hate […]
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HASHEM = THE NAME
Isaiah 48,11 For MY own sake, even for MY own sake will I do it. For how should MY NAME be polluted , and I will not give MY glory to another. When I seek elsewhere for the things that flow from the names of GOD, I give HIS glory to these other things. It is […]
The devil loves to grab a delicious worm and stick his hook into it to spoil it. That doesn’t mean that the worm is no good. In like manner the new age people like to take one of God’s good ideas and twist it to the point that we faithful followers of Jesus are leery […]
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WISDOM
Everyone wants wisdom and to be considered wise. Not everyone wants to admit that their natural thoughts are not already wise. People all believe that they have common-sense, but the truth is that common sense is extremely rare. They add knowledge to knowledge and this does not produce wisdom but rather makes them puffed up. […]
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HUMILITY
God blesses the humble person and resists the proud. If I humble myself in the sight of the Lord, he will lift me up. But what is humility? Try to define this yourself, but do not confuse humility with humiliation which is admitting how messed up and weak and foolish I am and being filled […]
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GUILT
People try to handle guilt by: balancing it with blame or minimizing the wrong promising to pay for their wrong trying to balance it with good deeds or by comparing with others whom they deem to be worse etc. etc. They are puzzled by the guilt’s capacity to hang on and weigh them down and […]
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GRACE
Grace is: the free gift from God to me of what I desperately need to deal with the power of sin, but could generate none for myself, but if I now accept it my only reasonable response would be to give him my all. Mercy helps me benefit from the consequences of sin, Peace allows […]
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FAITH
Ask most Christians what faith is, and they will tell you that it is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. Well, this is how one can tell that faith has been exercised – it strengthens and makes more solid the invisible hopes that pull us forward. It is the evidence […]
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