If… “Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” – Matthew 6:8 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” – Matthew 7:7 “Your heavenly Father (will) give good things to those who ask him.” – […]
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The tragedy is this: not so much that Adam ate the food, but that he ate the food for its own sake, apart from God, to be independent of God. Believing that food had life in itself and thus make him to be “like God.” He put his faith in food.
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The reason why so few receive inward light and freedom is that they cannot wholly renounce self and follow Christ.
of a bigger problem: selfishness. Contemplate what it would be like: if we welcomed every baby as the miracle it is. if we provided loving support for teens that get pregnant, instead of shunning them. if we respected life as we should we would love as we are capable.
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Quiet yourself and dwell on an area of your life that causes you stress. Surrender. Admit to the Lord that you can not handle it on your own. Ask him to give you what you need to move forward. You may feel his peace right away, or it might come later. It will come Never
“How unreasonable it is to pray that God’s will be done, and then not promptly obey it when he calls us from this world! Instead we struggle and resist like self-willed slaves and are brought into the Lord’s presence with sorrow and lamentation, not freely consenting to our departure, but constrained by necessity. And yet
"Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap. For that day will assault everyone who lives on the face of the earth. Be vigilant at all times and pray that you have the strength to
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So trials like these, unbearable as they may seem, eventually become light, and the soul becomes anxious to suffer again if by so doing it can render the Lord greater service. And, however numerous may be our troubles and persecutions, if we endure them without offending the Lord, but rejoice to suffer for His sake,
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"One must pass through solitude and dwell in it to receive God’s grace. It is there that one empties oneself, that one drives before oneself all that is not God, and that one completely empties this little house of our soul to leave room for God alone. In doing this, do not fear being unfaithful
This world undermines our trust in God. Attachment to stuff of this world brings temporary pleasure. Our heart is made for God (and will not rest until we find Him) when we become attached to something not of God, the result is fear. Fear of loosing., fear of the future, fear of the unknown. All
