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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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Choose To Focus On All That Is Good
Mark 14:38 'Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.'
Temptation is linked directly to what we think upon (Heb. 11:15). Temptation has to be entered into. We can avoid temptation by avoiding thoughts that generate temptation (Prov. 23:7). Since it is impossible to not think, we cannot just try to reject the negative thoughts in this world, but we must choose to think on the positive truths of God. This is where prayer comes in.
In prayer, we have our minds stayed upon God and therefore, are not receptive to thoughts that conceive temptation. Temptation or sin must be conceived...
DO YOU FEAR ABOUT THINGS YOU CAN'T CONTROL? YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS THE WORK OF THE DEVIL, DON'T YOU? HE USES FEAR TO GET YOUR MIND OFF JESUS. DON'T LET HIM GET AWAY WITH IT. FEAR STARTS IN THE MIND AND YOU CAN'T BE FEARFUL ABOUT SOMETHING YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT. GOD HAS A LOT TO SAYS ABOUT FEAR. ONE IS FOUND IN 1ST JOHN 4:18 AND SAYS "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love."
His Fathomless Pain
Luke 22:44 'And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.'
It is interesting that Luke is the only one of the gospel writers to mention that Jesus' sweat was as great drops of blood. This is probably because Luke was a physician (Col. 4:14), and therefore, this had special significance to him.
There have been documented cases of people actually sweating drops of blood under extreme emotional pressure. This might explain why Luke is the only writer to mention the angel strengthening Jesus. Just as when Jesus encountered Satan during His forty days of...
He Is Our 'abba'
Mark 14:36 'And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.'
Although God was referred to as our Father in the Old Testament, Jesus' frequent use of this title brought a whole new understanding of our relationship with God. Jesus referred to God as His Father, and He spoke of God as being our Father as well. This infuriated the religious Jews of Jesus' day who considered it blasphemy to call God their Father, because they understood that to mean they were equal with God.
We are instructed to call God our Father, revealing the kind, gentle, loving nature of our...
HEBREWS 11:5-6 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that...
Seek The Will Of God
Luke 22:42 'Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.'
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY. ACTS 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. JUST CONSIDER FOR A MOMENT WHAT IS MEANT BY BEING "BORN AGAIN". IT MEANS YOU WON'T GO TO HELL. THAT ALONE SHOULD BE A GOOD INCENTIVE BUT THAT IS NOT ALL. WHEN YOU ARE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT, YOU HAVE POWER. I MEAN REAL POWER. THE...