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Times When God Reveals His Understanding And Compassion

God knows you.

He knows everything about you.

At the times when you hurt and need someone to understand, God has compassion and He understands.

God's compassion and understanding is not just an idea.

God's compassion and understanding is not just an abstract intellectual thought.

God's understanding and compassion become a reality if you will let His reality become your reality.

God reveals His understanding and compassion in your reality when you can admit you need Him.

God reveals His understanding and compassion when you admit you cannot walk His path on earth alone.

God reveals His understanding and compassion when you lift up the burdens of your heart and ask Him to touch you.

God reveals His understanding and compassion when you see Him begin to walk beside you.

God reveals His understanding and compassion when you tell Him your life is unbearable and you need Him now more than ever.

God reveals His understanding and compassion when you are honest and truthful.

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Confronting Suffering

Because suffering hurts, we try to avoid suffering. Because pain hurts, we try to avoid pain. As simple as these statements sound and are, we must fully understand their impact and their meaning upon our life when we suffer. When we suffer, in the back of our mind we ask questions like, “Do I have to go through this, do I have to deal with this, and can’t I just avoid this?” When we suffer, we must learn to confront our suffering head-on rather than trying to avoid suffering. As long as we run away from the suffering, the suffering has us on the run, living on the run, and out of control. When we confront our suffering, at the very least we learn and grow from the act of confrontation. We also learn from our mistakes in dealing with suffering. This confrontation process is an example of hitting the problem of suffering head-on. We must deal directly with the pain, rather than trying to run away from the pain by using our mind. When we make up our minds to confront suffering, we put ourselves in control rather than letting the suffering control us.

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Christ's Suffering And Your Sacrifice

Do you suppose Jesus wanted to suffer and die upon the cross?

Do you suppose Jesus wanted to suffer, be tempted, and nearly die in the desert after forty days?

Do you suppose the early church martyrs and many of the martyrs since then wanted to pay the price of suffering and death?

How much of a price are you willing to pay for Christ?

We live in an age of luxury.

We live in an age encouraging, perhaps even demanding, we NOT sacrifice.

Are you willing to go against your protective human instincts and give your life for Christ?

We sit in an age where, in most places, we are comfortable in our Christian life.

We can sit in heated or air-conditioned sanctuaries.

We can sit on padded pews.

Most of us need not fear for our life or fear for our safety in any respect when we worship Christ.

What will you do when being a Christian is a threat to your life?

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Answers That Heal

The pain of life comes as surely as birth and death.

We have so many hurts in life surviving them all is a wonder.

However, we can survive and prosper from our hurts because Christ is always with us if we love Him.

In life, we want answers about why there are hurt and suffering.

We want God to speak boldly and forcefully to us.

We want God to give us a reason to keep on keeping on when our times of hurt and suffering come.

If we tune our heart into God's love, He is, at this moment, giving us answers to help us heal from our wounds.

As we seek out answers from others, from books, from literature, and from all kinds of sources of wisdom, the gentle touch of Christ heals us.

More than Christ's healing wisdom of the ages, Christ heals our broken life.

Christ's suffering and death assure the defeat of evil in the world.

Because of Christ suffered, died, and rose again, we can conquer the evil in this life.

In Christ's eyes we see His love carrying us over the hurt.

In Christ's eyes we find an eternal healing power overcoming our faulty body, our broken heart, and our hurting mind.

In Jesus, we find His answers giving us new life now and new life in eternity.

The Meaning Of The Cross

Unbelief The Greatest of All Sins

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Building Hope

Hope does not have to be a mysterious and elusive fact of life.

Anyone can possess hope and can increase the hope they have.

Hope can be possessed and increased because hope can be constructed.

Hope can be built-in our hearts, mind, and soul.

To build hope requires we look at the possibilities in our lives and see how probable these possibilities are.

We build hope in the following steps:

We consider an event possible…

We consider we can make that event probable…

We decide we want the event…

We make our plans and chart our course of action to make the event happen…

We have built real hope.

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Death Is Not the End

Death is the end although most people think so.

Everyone is wrong.

Our spiritual world is not flat.

The truth is we are all dying.

Our days are numbered.

Every day we live, we have one less day to do the will of God.

However, death is not the end, but the beginning.

Death is the start, not the end.

Death means light, not darkness.

Death is the power of love around us, not the absence of love.

Death is warm, not cold.

Death is safety, not danger.

In many ways we are blind to blind to God and his love.

We cannot see over the horizon so the earth looks flat.

In this life we cannot see beyond the grave, so death looks like the end.

However, Jesus said no, that death is not the end, and He not only said it, But He also proved it.

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Unlimited Hope

Jesus victory over death gives us unlimited hope.

With all the darkness in the world, there are many reasons to be pessimistic about this life and this earth.

Human beings are bent on self-destruction.

We now have the nuclear firepower to destroy the lives of every person on earth.

Other countries also have nuclear firepower, biological weapons, beam weapons, and other kinds of weapons to erase humankind from the earth.

In some countries that now have nuclear weapons there is now an active desire to use them.

However, because of Christ’s death on the cross and His victory over death, we can be optimistic about our future.

We can face death with optimism every minute, every hour, every day.

Christians have eternity in heaven to look forward to.

No matter how bad things are right now, or no matter how bad things get in the future, there is for us who have accepted Christ as our Savior, a great tomorrow that goes on forever and ever.

We have before us a glorious tomorrow beyond words to describe.

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A Look At Islam, Part 3

Finding And Keeping Hope Alive

Finding and keeping hope alive is not a passive mind game. Finding and keeping hope alive requires effort and work. The work required to find and keep hope alive deals with putting pieces of our heart, mind, and soul together. All the pieces of a gasoline engine have to be in place and in working order for the engine to operate.

The pieces of hope we must put together are;

(1) Vision

(2) Expectation or desire

(3) A map or plan to achieve the vision

(4) An illuminated soul from living in the Light. When these pieces are present and in working order, hope has been found and kept alive.

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A Key Ingredient Of Faith

A key ingredient of faith is looking forward.

Looking forward means directing your mind's eye or your mental vision into the future, not in the past.

It takes no faith to look back into yesterday.

It takes great faith to look forward to the next minute, hour, week, and year.

When you look forward, in faith and using faith, you can see in the future the attainment of what the Lord wills for you.

If you look forward to nothing, your faith is unused and you get nothing.

As a Christian believer, we look forward to that great day when Jesus returns or we meet Him on His heavenly shore.

In faith, using our faith, we should all look forward to the healing of our body, our mind, our spirit, and our relationships.

When we look ahead, we see Christ being with us in all our moments and we see situations being resolved through His power of love.

In addition, our faith is not passive, so our vision of the future includes living and serving Christ in our daily life.

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What Matters Most

At the root of everything meaningful in life is your connection to God.

You can say your connection or non-connection to God does not matter. However, being connected to God is what matters most.

Whether you are super rich or whether you are super poor, once you have your basic needs met, you need a connection to God.

You can try to fill your consciousness with all kinds of thoughts and ideas. However, your consciousness is like a vacuum drawing in ideas and thoughts.

However, your consciousness is never full.

No idea or thought in life will ever fill the infinite vacuum of your soul.

The only idea and the only entity in the universe able to fill the infinite vacuum of your soul is the infinite love of God through Christ.

While you are on the earth, you can get a glimpse of a full connection to God when you open your heart, mind, and soul to His love for you.

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Reaching Out In Trials

When we are besieged and under attack within the trials of our life, the natural activity is to not do anything or to pull back into a protective mode.

Certainly, the last thing we want to do when we are under attack is to reach out to help someone else.

When we are undergoing great trials, the first thing our instincts tell us to do is to get others to reach out to help us.

Yet in our faith and in our trust of God, we must go against our instincts and reach out to help others rather than having them reach out to help us.

When we are wounded, according to God's supernatural laws and ways, we are to reach out to heal others with no thought about our own pain.

How can we do this?

How can we go against our instincts?

How can we do what is so unnatural?

How can we reach out to help others with no thought of ourselves at a time when all we want to do is think about our troubles?

We can reach out to help others in our trials with no thought for ourselves only with supernatural help.

In the eyes of God and in the will of God, we are to always go against our human instincts and reach out to others in our trials.

We are to reach out to help others in our trials because when we reach out to help others in our tragedy and trauma, great and mighty supernatural things happen for others and for us.

We can only do what is truly unnatural with supernatural help.

When we reach out to help others in our trials, then blessings will flow.

The blessings will flow but not always as we want or when we want.

Sometimes the blessings may not flow at all in our lifetime.

However, the blessings will surely flow when we get to heaven.

In Heaven we are immersed in our Lord's healing stream of love and grace.

I know About Tomorrow

The Abundant Pardon

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Embraced With Love

Someone you may not know loves you so much and wants to be a part of your life so much you are wrapped up in the embrace of love. You have been wrapped up in the embrace of love every second you have been alive and you will be wrapped up in the embrace of love every second of your life until you die. There is no place on earth or anywhere in the universe where you are not embraced in love. There is no word, thought, or deed separating you from this embrace of love. You may not want the embrace of love but you cannot make the embrace go away. You may deny the embrace of love exists, but the embrace of love remains. You may lie to yourself and tell yourself there is no such thing as being wrapped up in this embrace of love, but the embrace remains. There is no event, there is no time, there is no place, and there is no circumstance on the face of this earth or within the universe of your existence separating you from this embrace of love. If you want, you can even be wrapped up in the embrace of love for eternity. And who wraps you up in this embrace of love? The person who wraps you up in love is the same person who completely forgives you and who completely loves you. You are wrapped up in the embrace of love by God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit who surrounds you and walks with you every second.

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Seeing Jesus

Revelation 1:7---Behold, He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

Someday, maybe tomorrow, you will be able to look up in the sky and see Jesus arriving upon the clouds as He comes back to us again. Millions of Christians for two thousand years have hoped for His earthly return. However, if He does not choose to return tomorrow you can still see Him with your spirit. Your spirit, not your eyes, connects you to Him in the here and now. Even if you physically saw Him in the sky, if your spirit was not surrendered to His will, you would not be in a state of communion and oneness with Him. Perhaps Jesus has not come back in all these years because He wanted you and others to upgrade your spirit so you see Him in His supernatural dimension right here, right now. No doubt, Christ has given the human race billions of chances to see Him by surrendering our all at the foot of His Cross. Christ does not care so much about whether you can see Him with your eyes. Christ cares only you love Him within your heart and your heart sees Him loving you in return.

A Look At Islam, Part II

REMEMBER!

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Stopping Illness

We can do many things to stop or lessen illness in our bodies. We can do many things to stop or lessen our getting sick. Most importantly, we can stop the illness from ravaging our life. We often think we have little control over illness and sickness already upon us. However, we can do a lot to help our healing. By living right, by eating right, by getting exercise, by getting regular medical check-ups, by praying every day, by keeping our heart, mind, and soul in top condition, we can hold off or lessen the effects of illness. Remember…we can help our healing. God gave us healing power over our life. When sickness or illness comes to us, we must not give up or give in. Our objective every hour should be to glorify God. When we fight back against sickness and illness, we are glorifying God. God designed you to be well. Satan wants you to be sick. The way our reality works, you can choose God or Satan. The way our reality works, we are not fans in the stands. We are all players on the field of battle. You can either choose God's team seeking wellness and health by active pursuit or you can choose Satan's team of sickness and illness by passively giving up and losing hope.

Great Is God!

Give Me New Life!

Teach Me!

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Our Vision Through Hope

Acts 23:6--- But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

Paul was on trial before the Sanhedrin and he was testifying on his own behalf. He was testifying about his hope when our bodies die, we have a chance to spiritually live forever.

Hope is such a wonderful fuel for the soul.

Hope is the fuel enlivening our imaginations and stirring our hearts. Hope motivates us and gives us visions. This hope in Christ gives us the courage to risk our life with calm, inspired hearts and a vision of heaven and eternity.

Too many of us look at our life and see a time when we will die, yet our hope in Christ should give us a vision into the future of our life which has no end with Christ.

Our hope in Christ gives us a vision of eternal glory with no end.

Instead of death we look forward to our day of glorious transformation.

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Keeping Your Focus Upon Christ

Each of us has the ability to think and focus our thinking on given subjects or ideas. 

As a Christian, one of your obligations to Christ is to hold Him as the centerpiece of your life. 

Every minute of every day for the rest of your life should be devoted to holding Him as your reason and purpose for living. 

Christ should be your focus when you wage the many battles of life. 

He should be your focus when trying to make decisions about your family, your job or career, your friends, your church, or any other matter. 

Yet, we know, in reality, we are distracted from holding Christ as the center of our life. 

Millions of thoughts, ideas, images, cares, worries, concerns, fears, anxieties, phobias, and doubts can assail you each day. 

Despite this attack upon you from outside your will, you can counter the distractions by willfully and purposely spending time in prayer and meditation each day. 

You can, each and every hour, pause for just a second to refocus your heart on Him.

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Our Cup of Overflowing Blessings…

Psalms 23:5 …my cup runneth over.

Blessings poured out in our life depending upon how we look at things.

Even in the middle of a battle, even in the presence of enemies, even in a place where the shadow of death hangs over us, our blessings overflow.

Our blessings are so great in number today, in this present moment, regardless of our circumstances, we hold the cup of our life overflowing with His love.

We can all be rich in spirit even when we are poor in money, things, and people. We can look up to God and see His divine power.

We can see His hands reaching out to us.

We can experience His love and peace in us.

We could count His infinite blessings in our life, but there is not enough time to count the infinite.

Thank you, Lord God.

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When We Think We Have No Choice

We may think we cannot do many things when we are burdened down and in great pain. We may think we have no choices. We may think there is no end to our plight. We may think we cannot deal with things as they are. However, when we are in the deepest darkness, we must be willing to admit we can be wrong and we must be willing to admit we can be deceived. When we think we have no choice, we must be honest. For when we have Christ alive within us, He gives us the power to do many things we cannot normally do when we are burdened down. When we have Christ in our life, our pain may not stop, but our victory over the pain can still be achieved. When we have Christ in our life, we have many more choices than we think we have if we are honest about how things are and what we have done and not done. When we have Christ in our life, there is for us a great and victorious end to our plight. In Christ, there are victories to be won every minute. In Christ, there are triumphant moments every moment. In Christ, we have won even when we seem to have been pounded down in utter defeat. In Christ, the trials and heartaches of this life grow dim as we come to Him seeking His healing love. In our life, there is more to life than the reality of our trauma and tragedy. In our life, we have a mountain of great power where we can go and kneel down in prayer. In our life, our mountain of great power is a place called Calvary. On Calvary, a place where Christ suffered more than we have suffered or will suffer, our victory over every moment of our trauma and tragedy was won. On Calvary, Christ died to set us free forever.

I Am So Blessed

I Ran Out Of That Grave

A Look At Islam, Wednesday Evening Bible Study

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Blessing of Christ's Compassion

Christ's compassion is pouring over us every moment. We cannot find Christ's compassion by physical or mental effort. We cannot find His compassion on our own with just our own effort. To receive Christ's compassion we must have the heart to receive His compassion. A heart able to receive Christ's compassion is a heart already giving compassion. Receiving Christ's compassion requires we open our hearts to Him and to others. We must open our hearts to His love for us. We must open our lives to His will. We must open our minds to His tenderness. To receive Christ's compassion we must not only open up our heart, but we must also be wise enough to close off our mind to the darkness seeking to destroy His touch within us. Receiving Christ's compassion means we open our arms to Christ because He opens His arms to us. To receive Christ's compassion we must give up our selfishness. We must then give in to His call upon our hurting heart to receive His love and Holy Spirit. We must give away His compassion in order to receive His compassion. In everyday life, the more compassionate and caring we are toward others, the more compassionate and caring Christ will be toward us.

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To Find God

To find God use your heart.

Use all your heart.

No half-hearted effort is permissible if you really want to find Him.

In your search you must all of your heart.

You cannot have half a heart find God.

Jeremiah 29:13 says, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”

In your search, do not make things harder or more difficult than they already are.

Keep things simple.

Finding the love of God is not a complex thing.

Be childlike.

Use your simple faith.

Use your heart and trust that He loves you.

Believe that He cares so much about you that He died for you and you will not be far from Him.

Luke 18:16–17---But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

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Our Reason to Hope and to Believe

At the time of man's fall in the Garden of Eden, God saw our dilemma of how we have no hope in our life. 

God sent Christ to audibly tell us and visibly show us there really is a power of Light and Love. 

God sent Christ from God's very heart to show us He loved us. 

However, in the darkness of our sin, we crucified Him. 

Christ came to tell us and show us there IS a reason to hope and believe in the future. However, we did not believe Him and we tortured and murdered Him. 

Christ came as a living example of God's love, but we rejected Him. 

After we crucified Him, Christ came back from death not to get even with us or mete out a form of punishment against us, but to love us and forgive us. 

Christ came back from death not to make us pay a terrible price for what we had done. Christ came back to assure us our life can go on after death in the glory of Heaven, or in the horror of hell, depending upon whether we accept Him as Savior and Lord.

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Your Destiny In Life

Your destiny in life may not be a specific street address. Your destiny in life may have nothing to do with standing beneath the Eiffel Tower in Paris, standing on top of the Statue of Liberty in New York City, or walking along the top of the Great Wall in China. Your destiny in life may not have anything to do with being in a specific place at a specific time. Your destiny in life is more general than being in a specific place at a specific time and also more difficult. Being at a specific address at a specific time is generally easy. Fulfilling your destiny in spiritual terms is a great deal more difficult. Your destiny from the time you are conceived until you leave your earthly body is to be a child of God. We do not always want to fulfill our earthly destiny because being at your home address is so much easier than being a child of God. To get to a specific street address at a specific time may be difficult, but in most cases, getting to the street address is humanly doable. To be a child of God is a great deal more difficult because to be a child of God we must renounce part of our humanity. To be a child of God we must turn away from the part of our life making us a sinner as we turn to God. Arriving at your home address is much easier than rejecting our sinful self. Our destiny is to reject part of our sinful self and be children of God. As we reach our destiny in life we must kneel at the foot of the cross of Christ. If every human being on earth were to reach their destiny, all human beings on earth would meet at the foot of His cross. His cross is the ultimate address at which we are supposed to arrive. His cross is the ultimate address at which we are to live out our life.

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Perseverance and Courage to Stand Against Every Evil

Many people want to deny evil exists in the world. For many people, denying evil exists in the world is easier than trying to stand against evil. Christians must make commitments if they want to lead victorious lives against evil and darkness. Christians need perseverance and courage to be victorious over the evils wanting to destroy us. Lasting perseverance and courage against evil are possible only through Christ.

Having Christ alive within you is necessary to muster up perseverance and courage. One of evil's ways of destroying you is to erode your perseverance and lessen your courage. Evil wants to make you give up and be fearful. With Christ, you can find the courage to stand against evil in all its forms because you know He is with you. In Christ's presence, you can find a reason for living. Your reason for living then gives you the power to fight against the dark ways of evil. Christ gives you power and courage when you experience fear, doubt, or anxiety. With Christ living in your heart, you can live in perseverance and courage as you glorify God while you do battle against the evil one.

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Worry and False Ideas

If we do not have enough to worry about in the world, we can make up things to worry about. We can cook up false scenarios, we can devise false reasons, and we can imagine all manner of false ideas to add to our present worries. We can invent false ideas over which we have no control and then we can worry about the false ideas we invent. This kind of thinking sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? However, we can and will exhibit ridiculous behaviors to make ourselves unhappy. To combat worry, we must live in and tell the truth. We must live in and tell the truth even when the truth hurts. False ideas or wrong ideas can feed our minds with darkness…the darkness we only imagine to be real. Don't you have enough to worry about without piling false ideas and untrue thoughts upon your heart and soul? To come to grips with what is really in your life, lift needless burdens from your heart and soul by stopping your worry habit over imagined darkness. If you look back, what you worried about in the past either did not come to pass or what you worried about did come to pass but you survived. Even if you do not survive if you have accepted Christ, your ultimate future in Heaven is worry-free.

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Praying When You Are In Pain

Revelation 21:4--- And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

We have a wonderful God. We have a loving God who loves each of us in a personal and special way. When we pray we must try to remember how Christ is within us and does not want us to feel pain or sorrow. Our God has a wonderful world waiting for us. His words give us a vision of a new world where our current burdens will be no more. When we pray, we can pour out our pain to Christ who knows all about our pain and suffering. Christ Jesus, our blessed Savior, comes to us in our darkest hour and shows us a new order of life in our future. Pain has a way of making everything seem meaningless. However, when we pray to Jesus and ask Him for hope, then He comes to us and gives us the assurance our pain is only temporary. He instills in us knowledge and wisdom showing us the night will soon fade away because the dawn is almost here.

A Brand New Start

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Investing Your Hurting Heart In Jesus

God is not the source of your pain, hurt, or heartbreak. Jesus will not hurt you. Jesus did not come into the world to hurt, but to heal. In Jesus, you can trust, you can hope, and you can believe. In Jesus, you are safe and saved if you accept Him into your heart. As you make the first gestures of reaching out and wrapping your heart around Him, He begins to work to heal your hurt. Your work of investing your hurting heart in Him is the most critical and challenging work of your life. Investing your hurting heart in Him is what He wants you to do. He wants you to push your hurt on to Him by investing your total self and total life in Him…especially when you hurt. If you invest your total self in Him, if you push all you are over to Him, He will lighten your burden. When you go to Christ with a hurting heart, miracles do happen. Remember Christ is already within you. He is living and alive in you this minute no matter how much you hurt. The hurt and darkness you can feel push your attention away from Christ’s love, even though His love is alive within you all the time. Your hurt is real, but whatever emptiness and aloneness you feel is a deception because you are never isolated. No matter how much you hurt, you are never, ever, ever alone because Jesus is always with you.

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Our Encouraging God

Philippians 1:13-14--- So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

What a mighty God we serve!

What a creative Creator we serve!

What a useful and helpful God we serve!

Paul is bound in chains but the very chains supposed to keep him quiet and stop a religious revolution are encouraging others.

Your chains, your difficulties, your problems, your traumas can be used by God if you let Him work in you and through you.

The burdens you bear can be dedicated to God.

When you truly turn the chains and burdens put upon you by Satan into a renewed dedication to serve Christ then the incredible will happen in your life.

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Inner Peace

Inner peace is not just the absence of inner war and conflict.

Inner peace is the presence of God's love, care, kindness, and compassion within your heart.

So many people do not have inner peace.

They, unfortunately, they try to find inner peace in drugs, alcohol, relationships, careers, hobbies, and numerous endeavors only to come up empty and lost. Inner peace is not found in some kind of selfish endeavor.

You find inner peace by surrendering up and giving up to God all you have and all you are.

God loves you and cares for you.

God gave up the life of His the only son so you could have eternal life.

What seems important in the world causing you so much conflict, war, chaos, and turmoil is not really important.

The most important quality of life is having inner peace with God.

When we have inner peace with God, whatever uncertainties we have or whatever doubts and questions we have are all put to rest.

When we have inner peace with God, we may have questions but the questions are of little real importance.

When we have inner peace with God, we have answers instead of questions.

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Hope Within

Just as God is within you, so is hope.

Hope is within you because God is within you.

Whenever you think there is no way at all you can fix problems, get answers, or climb over the obstacles of your life, look within you.

You should not look within you as some kind of meaningless exercise.

You should look within you because of all the promise, all the hope, and all the great expectations you could ever possess come from within your heart.

Hope does not just pop into your head from a TV commercial or in any form of advertising.

Hope appears in your life because there is within you this instant a great reservoir of living hope called Jesus.

All the good things, all the good thoughts, all the good deeds, all the good imaginations come from hope and hope is from God.

Hope is within you because God is within you.

When you begin to think there is no way out, contact God within you and realize there always has been and there always will be a way out with God.

When circumstances appear to be hopeless in your life, you may be facing the greatest opportunity for hope to come alive ever to exist in your life.

In the natural world, the most hopeless circumstance is when someone dies.

In the supernatural world, the greatest moment of hope is the moment just before someone dies because in the next moment, there is eternal life come to life.

Hopelessness turned into hopefulness is not confined just to death turned into eternal life.

Hopelessness is turned into hopefulness every time you reach within your heart to God.