“But the fruit of the Spirit [the result of His presence within us] is love [unselfish concern for others], joy, [inner] peace, patience [not the ability to wait, but how we act while waiting], kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.” [Galatians 5: 22-23] Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, […]
Matthew 15:17-20 (Jesus speaking) “Do you not understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated? But whatever [word] comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this is what defiles and dishonors the man. For out of the heart come evil thoughts and plans, murders, adulteries, sexual
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Do you ever find yourself at a loss for words? Me? Rarely… rarely. It’s not that I’m not surprised by what we all do and say, it’s more that I typically also have a reaction… one, that I’m pleased to say, I’ve learned to not always articulate. However, the actual shock/surprise/ jaw dropping response resulting
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Are you living with blame… or shame… or both? Is your past continually slapping you in your face? Are you a candidate for the old sing-song rhyme: ‘nobody loves me, everybody hates me, guess I’ll go eat worms’? Granted, not an appetizing rhyme but one that totally dates me. The point in this – how
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“Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you;,,,” [Matthew 7:7] Are you an ask-er? Do you keep on asking? Do you receive? Do you know HOW to ask? “Therefore let us [with privilege] approach the throne of grace [that is, the throne of God’s gracious favor] with confidence and without fear
Know what this means? who it refers to? After a cursory study of this phrase, I thought it referred to God’s chosen people – the Jews. Then in one scripture I saw that it referred to us (Gentiles) “Once you were not a people [at all], but now you are God’s people; …” [1 Peter
This will probably sound like the strangest comment/question I’ve ever posed … have you ever thought that your harvest field was the churched? Have you ever considered that the person sitting next to you in church may not be saved? In fact they may never have thought about salvation because it so rarely is preached
There’s a great quote that says: “Be Yourself! No matter what people think… God made you the way you are for a reason. Besides, an original is worth more than a copy.” [Priya Alice?] True. Do you believe this about and for yourself? Regardless of whether you acknowledge it or not… you did NOT evolve
“For though we walk in the flesh [as mortal men], we are not carrying on our [spiritual] warfare according to the flesh using the weapons of man. The weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying sophisticated arguments
Did my last word in the previous post leave you hanging? It was meant to. My point is that we sometimes don’t read to the end of the sentence… or put the verse in context with what came before it and what comes after. And AND is a big word as are the other conjunctives.
Just write down any questions that you may have and I will get back to you in a jiffy!
