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 HIS WORD…or…MY WILL? What are we basing our lives on? Do my feelings, that influence my will, have preeminence or is it God’s Word that shape decisions and action as I follow Jesus?  What will you do? What will you approve of and why? If God has set holy boundaries around human sexuality, it is because the Lord of creation knows what decisions and actions will make for human flourishing. He is not a “killjoy”. He invented sexual intimacy. He wants that physical union to be grounded in a covenantal lifelong commitment between a man and a woman. That is where the benefits flow, where grace undergirds.  Deciding to do your “own thing “ without reference to God, His ways, and His sovereign right to the whole of you, you cannot expect God’s blessings. He will not reinforce rebellion and hard-heartedness. You cannot expect God’s blessing on your life if you don’t care what God says. You cannot avoid the consequences of thinking you know more about your life than the One who cr...
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 CONFIDENCE Jesus Christ stated clearly, numerous times, that He would be crucified, die and be raised from the dead three days later. It happened just as He said. So, if you are ever tempted to question anything Jesus said, remember His resurrection. His Word is good, reliable and eternally true!
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  Isaiah 2:5-6  Come, descendants of Jacob,      let us walk in the light of the  Lord ! 6  For the  Lord  has rejected his people,      the descendants of Jacob, because they have filled their land with practices from the East      and with sorcerers, as the Philistines do.      They have made alliances with pagans. This is a word of warning to the church! Spiritual practices from "the East" are forbidden by God because those "ways" are not grounded in God alone. They are at best syncretic, adding to what God has said and done, as if we just need one more bite of that fruit from Eden so that we need trouble God any more to become fully human. The "ways of the East" rely on human initiative. It is human pride that says, "Yes God is good. But I need more than what He has provided in order to "know myself" and to flourish. There is a demonic "pragmatism" that looks at Eastern reli...
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 HOW I CAN KNOW Only the Word made flesh can interpret the Word of God written. He told us that the Holy Spirit would reveal to us what the He is saying and has always been saying through the pages of the Bible. The Holy Spirit reveals Who does the saving of a human heart. It is never human effort or initiative. God alone saves and redeems! Isaiah 1:18 “ Come now, let’s settle this,  says the   Lord .  “Though your sins are like scarlet,  I will make them as white as snow.  Though they are red like crimson,   I will make them as white as wool." Notice, God is the One who saves, redeems, cleanses, and makes a human being whole again. God says, "I will..." not, "Say, can you give me a hand in pulling this salvation thing off?"
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  ENDURANCE 2 Chronicles 20:20 "Put your trust in the Lord your God and you will endure." The race of our living days here on earth is a long-distance run, a marathon. Being given a new heart and a new Spirit, we have been given a new Life to be lived. We are to fix our eyes on Jesus as we run. He will never run so far ahead that we can't see His footprints before us, His hand waving us onward. That is why we can run with perseverance the race He has set before us. Yes, He has a purpose for us to live into, reason and meaning are found in Him as we follow Him in the race He has set before us. Be assured that He knows the end from the beginning. Nothing will ever catch Him off guard.  The One who called us out of death into Life has given us the living resurrection power of the Holy Spirit, our strength and anointing to run and not be weary, to walk on and not faint.
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 ONE AND DONE Jesus Christ has paid by His substitutionary sacrifice, the just judgement against the rebellion of the human race once, for all time. There was nothing we could do or ever add to what Jesus has done. There was nothing I or anyone else in all of human history could do to pay the debt of our sin. Being spiritually dead, I needed as does every human being, help from outside ourselves and the reality of our spiritual deadness. What is dead can never alter the fact of its deadness. Salvation is of the Lord God alone. Christian, you fight your daily fight of faith, love and an obedient heart FROM VICTORY. You do not fight FOR the victory of the Cross of Christ Jesus. He has already won the victory so that we might believe and receive what we could never earn nor deserve. Christian, you fight FROM victory, not for it!
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 IN MINISTRY If you have received a ministry, a call from the Lord to service in His Name, you must come to know and accept as fact that the need is not the same as the call.  The needs placed before you are opportunities to exercise God's call on you.
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