Sufficient. What does that mean? I looked it up to find similar words. Adequate. Enough. Do you feel like you have enough to do life or do you suffer (like many people) from inadequacy? As believers in Christ, we want to please Him, and yet so many times we fail, make a mess of things, find we are inadequate. Paul’s Sufficiency Apostle Paul dealt with an ongoing troubling problem and asked God to remove it. Did he claim it by…
Life can get overwhelming at times. We are encouraged to be strong. We can do it, etc. But, what if we can’t? Anxiety creeps in and we begin to worry. I give you good news. We weren’t meant to be strong. We weren’t meant to carry loads. We weren’t meant to meet all the difficulties with our own resources. That is not what we created to do. We were meant to be constantly connected to God who has unlimited resources….
Receiving salvation is what this new life is all about. Did you know it is all about receiving, not doing? What have you received from God? It is all about recognizing our needy state, our inability to earn God’s approval and placing our faith in what Jesus has done for us. It is not our attempts to reconcile ourselves to God, but it is Christ Jesus reconciling us to God through His death on the cross. “But as many, as…
Do you know that you are sufficient in Christ? That you have all you need to face anything in life? His grace is sufficient for us. It is enough. It is abundant, more than enough. Sufficient. Paul’s Sufficiency Apostle Paul dealt with an ongoing troubling problem and asked God to remove it. Did he claim it by faith to be gone? No. Did he search out scripture references to demand it be gone? No. He asked God, and God said,…
Supernatural Christian life? Really? Is your Christian life not all that you had hoped for or expected? Are you doing well in your eyes? Is your relationship with God based on how well you perform? Do you feel like you have failed your Savior? 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 invited God into our lives…
