Of course I don’t necessarily personally know you… But really… if you’ve accepted Jesus as your personal Lord, you can’t say that I don’t know you. Actually, I know a great deal about you. Let me tell you what I do know. I know that: 1. … you are no longer the wretch you were, but now you are […]
I know I chunter on a great deal about application. It’s important! Because how do you really know you know unless you understand? And how do you understand the knowing without ‘testing’ your understanding by expressing it – applying and incorporating the ‘know’? Simply: learning leads to knowledge which leads to understanding which is evidenced in your
A few questions: You do realize you ARE in a battle – yes? Do you know your enemy? Do you feel equipped? Do you believe ‘you win’? There are other questions, but these are essential ones. A few answers: “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world
Explain to me, if you can, why we always seem to focus on what we don’t have rather than what we do! Silly really. When we do this we don’t maximize what we have, only moan about what we don’t. And that gets us even further behind/removed from what we should be seeing and doing. Yes, our
A comment by Joyce Meyer got me to thinking… what, exactly, is ‘rest’? Somehow I’m beginning to think it’s not what we think it is. My message to me is – don’t always define words the way the dictionary does. It isn’t always the best definition. Always know it but also know the spiritual. Also,
You can place in the [ ] whoever – including yourself. However, how often have we heard this phrase spoken about someone we know, knew? How often would we hear it uttered about ourselves? And what does this say about who we are??? (And yes, I do realize I talk about our witness, multiple times… always
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“So faith comes from hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the [preaching of the] message concerning Christ.” (Romans 10:17,AMP) Do you know and understand what you hear? Or do you listen to the first half of the sentence and assume you know the rest? Or maybe you simply aren’t interested in what’s being said?
you know? You really can’t be chastised, or held accountable for what you don’t know. BUT… And this is a gigantic BUT, #1 this also requires you to learn, to grow, to refine who you are and what you do. Ignorance only goes so far. AND, #2 if you were wrong, to not repeat the
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Since it’s my spiritual birthday today, I wanted to write a more personal blog/post. The theme. Mission, is undoubtedly implicit in nearly all of my writing, but this one speaks directly to this. There is a high correlation between Mission and ‘making a difference’, which is obvious. But when you consider your Mission you need
“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead,
Just write down any questions that you may have and I will get back to you in a jiffy!
