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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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WHAT IS SALVATION AND ARE YOU EXPERIENCING IT TOTALLY? NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 DICTIONARY DEFINES SALVATION AS "Appropriately in theology, the redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him everlasting happiness. This is the great salvation." WE CHRISTIANS ACCEPT THE FIRST STATEMENT "THE REDEMPTION" BUT WE ARE NOT SURE ABOUT THE LAST STATEMENT "EVERLASTING HAPPINESS".
Here, Mary makes a very clear distinction between her soul magnifying the Lord and her spirit rejoicing.
Our soul is the part of us that is considered to be our personality. It is our intellect, emotions and will. Our spirit is the part that gets changed at salvation and it is always operating in "love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance" (2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 5:22-23). That's true whether our souls (feelings and emotions) "feel" it or not.
Many believers wait until their emotions feel like praising the Lord before they enter in to worship. They think it's hypocritical to act like they are rejoicing in the Lord if they don't "feel" it. But our spirits are always rejoicing in the Lord. It's actually hypocritical...
I HAVE TRIED TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT GOD WILL DO FOR ONE, OR EVEN HAS DONE FOR SOMEONE, HE WILL DO FOR US ALL. PEOPLE HAVE A HARD TIME WITH THIS FOR SOME REASON. I AM GOING TO TRY TO MAKE IT MORE CLEAR WITH A FEW SCRIPTURES. I AM PRAYING THAT GOD WILL OPEN THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS WITH UNDERSTANDING AND THAT HE WILL GIVE ME THE SCRIPTURES TO USE.
WHEN GOD TOLD PETER TO GO TO JOPPA TO MINISTER TO CORNELIUS, A GENTILE, PETER, IN ACT 10:34 SAID "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons." I BELIEVE THIS IS WHEN PETER REALIZED THAT THE GOSPEL WAS NOT ONLY FOR THE JEWS. IF HE WILL DO IT FOR ONE, HE WILL DO IT FOR THE OTHER.
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There are many reasons why God's blessings don't always come to pass in a person's life, but the most frequent cause is simply unbelief on our part. There are no limitations on God's part. He is willing and able to do anything He has promised. The problem is with our believing.
The Lord has given every believer faith (Rom. 12:3). It was given to us at salvation through hearing the Word of God (Eph. 2:8; Rom. 10:17). It is a fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22). However, we must choose to exercise it.
Our faith is linked to our knowledge (2 Pet. 1:1-4). What we think on is how we will be (Pro. 23:7). The problem is not that we don't have faith. The problem occurs when we don't allow our faith to work because we don't keep our...
ARE YOU WALKING AS A CHILD OF LIGHT? IN EPHESIANS 5:8, PAUL TELLS US TO DO JUST THAT, "walk as children of light", AND IN MATTHEW 5:14, JESUS SAYS "Ye are the light of the world." WE ARE TO LIGHT UP THIS WORLD WITH THE LOVE AND KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS.
Upon hearing the greeting of Mary, John the Baptist leaped for joy inside his mother's womb (v. 44). A six month old fetus experienced unbridled emotion, voluntarily leaped for joy and was actually filled with the Holy Spirit.
It is no coincidence that the man Jesus called the greatest of all Old Testament prophets, was the only man in the Bible to be filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb (Lk. 7:28).
The anointing of God that breaks every yoke is simply the manifest presence and working of the Holy Spirit (Isa. 10:27). The Holy Spirit is the part of the Godhead that empowers us for service.
God is not asking us to live for Him. He is asking us to let Him live through us (Gal. 2:20)....
I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE GAME OF GOLF THIS MORNING AND WAS COMPARING A GOLF TOURNAMENT TO THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS I WAS THINKING OF IN THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD.
What a statement! If we just believed this, how different our lives would be!
From birth we are trained to know our limitations. You can't have this. Don't touch that. Don't put things in your mouth. You can't touch the fire. On and on the list goes.
As we grow up, it's actually a sign of maturity to recognize our limitations and learn to live within them. There are limits to everything. It's a fact of life.
But God has no limits. When we enter into the realm of the supernatural, we have to take off all the limits. We have to renew our minds with the truth that God is not like us. He can do anything.
We have an awesome God whose power is so great that we can't even comprehend it. He created the universe and it didn't even tax His ability. Yet many times we find ourselves wondering if our...