a good thing to add to your emergency kit Watchman Nee was discouraged. Each morning he would concentrate on acting dead to sin all day and acting more alive to God. At the end of the day he would examine how he had done–not so well. He spent 40 days fasting and praying to try […]
Years ago, I was glancing through a Sunday school paper and enjoyed a report from a chronically depressed lady. She probably had Bipolar II which is mostly depressed and some highs but she fluctuated a lot. She found herself in an “up” period and realized that, in the past, she would have hoped that it […]
We know it’s not smart to “sweat the small stuff” but does that mean it’s OK to sweat the big stuff? The truth is that I shouldn’t sweat anything. Well, maybe it is alright for me to sweat being obedient, sweat moving my body members according to a growing picture of God’s principles in action. […]
Some ideas to turn “burdens” into the opportunities, to become the “more than conquerors” that God intends me to be, (for I am his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works that he prepared for me and prepared me for). Ephesians 2:10 Start my day the night before. The Jewish day began at sundown. […]
Philippians 4: 6-13 God never expects me to create a vacuum by just trying to quit a negative. He wants me to put of the old by putting on the new. So what would the opposite of worrying look like? Be anxious for nothing, NOTHING- the first thing I do is say “YES, BUT! in this case […]
Only when done God’s way are they restorative Yes, by God’s grace, I have actually used this tool to apologize and boy is it painful. But anything I might do to make the apology less painful would have ruined it. However, afterwards I feel clean and restored in my relationship with God and usually get […]
People were always telling the Lord to shape up and do things their way. When I think that I have a genie in the bottle god, I will always be upset at him because He is a very bad genie. The Lion of the tribe of Judah is not a tame lion! He does not […]
Did you ever notice at the rock concert how everyone fights to sit at the back and leave all the front seats empty? Or was that at the ball game? Come to think of it, it was at church wasn’t it? When we were homeschooling, I noticed the children constantly asking, (if not in these […]
Let your moderation be known unto all men. Philippians 4:5 God designed me to taste and see that things are good and pleasant and then want them again in his time and in moderation. First comes curiosity from watching others and then comes tasting and, when it is pleasant, dopamine is released and this primes […]
OR THE COMPLEX SEAT OF GODLY PASSION? As the story goes–the “primitive” passion brain developed first and then the bizarrely complex layers of the cortex later. So why are we attempting artificial logic but not artificial emotions. I’ll tell you. Passion is essential, and even more complex than thinking. We are born with the lymbic […]
verlebellmd.com 