Month: June 2021

Weekly words of encouragement

He Gives Loves If We Admit Our Need – Weekly Words Of Encouragement

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You, Lord, are forgiving and good,abounding in love to all who call to you. Psalms 86:5 (NIV) We do not have to sin-free to call upon God and receive his love. He knows we sin and he wants to forgive. He is thoroughly good and his forgiveness is part of this goodness. He will not respond to our prayers with condemnation for our faults. Instead, he encourages us by only requesting that we have a repentant heart that seeks forgiveness. And he asks that we admit our weakness and needs by calling on him, trusting that he is the Supreme Helper. If we come to him this way then we can expect him to apply his love to us. If we are suffering, then he will be near us and help us to bear up under it and perhaps deliver us. He will provide peace and hope regardless of our Continue Reading →

Good or bad habits

Do You Have A Habit That Harms Your Relationships?

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It is important to take time to consider the ways in which our habits and behaviors harm people around us. The harm may not even be intentional, but if we allow a harmful habit to continue then we are responsible for the damage it causes. Sometimes our habits harm others in the sense that they keep us from projecting God’s goodness and blessing to others as we otherwise could. Our actions obscure God’s light shining through us like mud on a window obscures sunlight. What does God think of this? How will he judge your life? How do you want your biography to read when you enter the next age of the New Creation? So what do we if we have a bad habit that is harming our relationships? What if we have prayed and tried to break it but we can’t make much progress? Obviously, such habits are opposed Continue Reading →

wound of love

Living With A Wound Of Love

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We will naturally desire to experience the sweet love of our Beloved, and this is good. Wouldn’t it be sad if we did not desire this? Thus, our challenge is to desire to experience the love of the Beloved in this life as well as the next, while at the same time completely letting go of control of making that happen and being content if we don’t experience it. Instead, we focus on walking in the Spirit, Christformation and doing God’s will. This is one of the great challenges of the Christian life. It may take an entire life to fully embrace this tension. We should enjoy spiritual pleasure as long as God provides it, as long we as focus on God and not the pleasure. This means we do not cling to the pleasure. The spiritual hedonist focuses on their own will being done (their desire for pleasure) while Continue Reading →

Weekly words of encouragement

We Have All Good Things – Weekly Words Of Encouragement

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For the LORD God is a sun and shield;the LORD bestows favor and honor.No good thing does he withholdfrom those who walk uprightly. Psalms 84:11 (NIV) This Psalm encourages us by reminding us that God enlightens the world of those who walk with him. He is a blanket of light like the sun, making all good things visible so that we know God’s reality. And he is a shield of protection for his followers, protecting our hearts from the Enemy and from the destruction of sin. He gives us favor by dwelling in us by his Spirit and giving us an eternal destiny in his utopia. In the next age he will honor us, glorify us and give us grace (1 Pet. 1:13). In that day he will not withhold anything good from us but shower us with all of his blessings. We will live in a New Eden, where Continue Reading →

Weekly words of encouragement

All Nations Will Belong To God – Weekly Words Of Encouragement

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Rise up, O God, judge the earth,for all the nations are your inheritance. Psalms 82:8 (NIV) This Psalmist is asking God to judge the earth, especially rulers who are partial to the wicked and support oppressors. Like the Psalmist we all want such practices to end permanently. Then the Psalmist declares a most encouraging word. “All the nations are your inheritance.” This means that ultimately the nations will belong to God. How will this happen? After he judges the citizens of all nations, those who pass judgment will remain with God. And God will gather members from every nation to himself. These people will be the true representatives of their nations and the truly redeemed and restored citizens of those nations. At the end of this age all these nations will be reunited with God in his community: After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that Continue Reading →