Divine energy is power straight from the creator Himself. Not Him helping us. Not Him making us feel powerful. A day-by-day constant source of power enabling us to live with peace and trust where He has placed us. A stepping aside to let Him have an opportunity to express Himself through us in every situation, big or mundane by His resurrection power. Divine energy source Romans 8:11 The power/energy that raised Jesus from the dead is for the child of…
In the beginning, God created a perfect world. The two humans had all they needed. They even could walk and talk with their creator, Elohim, God. But…Evil stepped in and defiled that world and plunged it into darkness. Light sent to the world So God sent His Son, the Light of the World, to bring light to His world, to the people He created. This angered Evil. Forces were deployed to kill that Light before it had a chance to…
Tragedy – something really awful that didn’t need to take place; it could have been avoided Mortal – ending in death If a terrible tragedy could be avoided but isn’t and ends in death, we think of it as a mortal tragedy, right? Do we think of Easter as a mortal tragedy? It wasn’t. It was the biggest triumph of all. Jesus said, “It is finished.” He accomplished what He was sent to do. Greatest Mortal Tragedy The greatest mortal…
We fail because we trust ourselves. Andrew Murray Life can be very stressful at times. Even our ordinary life can be both stressful and boring bringing us to the point of despair. We wonder how we will ever get through it. Right? Many times at the end of the day we look back and wish we would have made better choices, was kinder and had not failed as a Christian. When we are drawing from our abilities or resources, it…
Anchored Living life anchored to a correct center or foundation will bring peace and calm, and hold us steady when all around us is in turmoil, troubled, disturbed, unsettled, and shifting. We will be aligned. Not our bodies dictating our feelings or behavior. Not our soul ruling us through our feelings which have no brain. Did you know feelings can’t think? They just feel. Allowing them to rule us is submitting our lives to unthinking emotions. Emotional rollercoaster. They will…
Father in Heaven, We pride ourselves on being grown-up, not childlike in our faith. Children can imagine things. They can believe things. We lose our ability to imagine as we grow up. There is so much in Your kingdom that we don’t see or imagine. We are so temporal minded. You want us to be child-like in our faith. Your kingdom is accessed by faith. Results of our prayer are seen by faith, by seeing beyond what we can see,…
Giving back to God is an act of worship. All He gives me I must continually give back to God to keep it pure, unclouded by my opinion, by other’s opinions, or tainted by pride. Keeping it free of entanglements Holding on to it lightly, loosely so it doesn’t become my possession and thereby possess me. Remembering what He gives me is to be turned around, reflected, to glorify Him. Whatever God shares with me must be poured out to…
Last August I was out walking and praying, pouring out my heart to God after receiving word that one of my brothers had died. As far as I knew, he hadn’t been living for God. (I had been praying for him for a long time.) You who know the truth understand my pain. Walking down that country road, I gradually ran out of words to express my grief and let calm wash over my troubled soul. Coming to a point…
“A whole person is God in a person,” Norman P. Grubb* The Liberating Secret by Norman P. Grubb, Zerubbabel Press, Blowing Rock, North Carolina, (1955) 2010, pg. 52. Not whole apart from God We were created with the ability to communicate with God and be in close friendship with Him. That connection was severed. Cut off. No life. Dead. We are not whole and can never be whole apart from God. God wants to restore it. However, we must admit…
Let me share with you what I discovered about my new identity. Like many born-again believers, I thought I was essentially the same person just saved and forgiven. Then it was up to me to live the Christian life the best I could and maybe over time I would develop a better character. I didn’t understand that I wasn’t the same person I was before my new birth, that all was new. My past influenced my life. Now I know…