What does your life feel like each day? Stressed? Is it fragmented? Do you feel torn to pieces? Is there so much going on that it feels like a spinning merry-go-round? We all have many roles to play – parent, student/employee, leader, wife/husband, brother/sister. We are made up of many roles which switch at a moment’s notice. Often we don’t finish one responsibility before another is pushing in on us. We begin to feel fragmented, torn to pieces, stretched beyond our…
What do we need to live a victorious Christian life? What do we need to make us true, fruitful, successful Christians? Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Everything we receive from God is part of Jesus. He doesn’t give us experiences apart from Jesus. The fruit of the Spirit is Jesus. Everything we learn from Him is what is already in Jesus. Revealing more and more of Jesus. It is releasing Him to live out Himself in and through us by giving Him…
Prayer Do you struggle with prayer? What is prayer? Would you like to go deeper? Prayer is: Worship – adoring the holy, incomprehensible One Conversation – two-sided conversation Sharing – we sharing our thoughts and concerns with God and He sharing His thoughts and concerns with us. Prayer is more than asking and giving thanks. It is communicating. It is sharing your inner most thoughts with your closest friend. It is your Friend sharing His innermost thoughts with you. God…
Annoyed When something irritates or annoys us do we rebuke it or do we surrender that to God to remove our irritated reaction? Is our spirit that is united with Christ’s spirit irritated? No, our spirit is one with the Spirit of Christ and wants what He wants. It is our flesh that is irritated. Flesh is enmity with God. It doesn’t want spiritual things. Don’t expect it to. We can’t reform our flesh. Our natural self, our flesh was…
The following is a quote from The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer. It is how he closes his short book and I thought it was worth sharing. It is my prayer and hope it is yours too. You can listen to the audio version online. Pursuit of God And, of course, it can be purchased in paperback. (The following quote is from audio version time stamp 3:08:20.) Above All Lord, I would trust Thee completely; I would be…
“You stand before God as if you were Christ because Christ stood before God as if He were You.” Charles Spurgeon Jesus Paid It All That is why He died. To stand in for us, to accept the full measure of God’s wrath on our sins. To pay our fines, our debt, the price for our acceptance. The price for our gift of approval from God. That is how much God loved us and loves us. His holiness couldn’t overlook…
Our center, our throne The center of our being is our throne room. That place deep inside each of us is our throne. We are masters of our own lives and naturally sit on that throne. Behind and underneath all we say and do is what drives us. Our center. Who we really are. Our desires. Not our brain. Our desires use our brains. Not the reverse. God’s throne in us But…that throne was designed for God, not us. We…
Is your Christian life empowered by the supernatural or not all that you had hoped for or expected? Is it empowered by the supernatural or by your efforts? Much of the time we Christians think that it is up to us to live the Christian life by our efforts. How many of us invite God into our lives then wonder why life does not go so well? We try harder. We pray more, read the Bible more, etc. We want…
Branch taken from former tree, our old life Grafted into a different tree, grafted into Jesus, receiving new life Our source of life is not from our natural abilities. That is flesh, carnal. Our source of life is the life of Jesus, the vine. Flowing through us. If the root is holy, the branch is holy. By faith, His life pushes out our old life. His life produces fruit. It is not our fruit. Our part is to stay (abide)…
What if everything we did was an act of worship to God from a united heart? Or is my heart divided? Just thinking today and letting it come through this keyboard… Divided heart We tend to divide our lives into secular and sacred. Ordinary secular life activities like daily tasks, employment, shoveling snow, washing dishes, home repairs and grocery shopping. And the sacred or spiritual part of our lives is spent in prayer, Bible reading and going to church. Is…