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Sacrifice And Letting Go

In our daily walk with God and for God, God requires we make sacrifices. When Satan attacks us and we are in pain or when Satan attacks us and we lose people, we must let go and sacrifice our hurt to Him in order to heal. Letting go and sacrifice are in the same category of yielding up our lives to God's love, to His will, and to His mercy. Even the most traumatic of circumstances in our lives must be surrendered up or be given to God so we may heal from those circumstances. Sacrifice is the main requirement of our Christian faith. If you are willing to sacrifice your life for Christ's life in you, you will be totally overwhelmed with his love.

Luke 18:29–30---And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

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Dealing With Depression

You may not just snap out of depression.
Dealing with or getting rid of depression takes more than just snapping your fingers. Here are suggestions on what you can do when you are depressed. The list is not complete. You may have to find your own way and develop your own recipe.
Pray
Entertain yourself
Get to work on your mission
Banish Satan as much as you can
Praise God every hour
Count your blessings, name them one by one
Worship God
Touch God
Praise others
Touch others
Join a support group
Start a support group
When you get low or down, remember your mission for God
Remember Jesus is with you if you really want Him to be
Remember His Holy Spirit is a helper
See your doctor
See other people
Call your pastor
Call a friend
Call a family member

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Executing The Same Successful Efforts

When you are successful, keep repeating your successful efforts. As extraordinary as it seems, many people behave as if they cannot stand success. Many people do not repeat successful efforts. Instead of repeating successful efforts, many people want to continually try out new approaches rather than repeating successful efforts. There is a problem with trying out new approaches when a successful approach is already in place. Common sense should dictate we should always keep doing what is already successful. However, common sense does not always rule.

Our God Is A Great God

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The Guilt Is Gone

Colossians 1:14---In whom we have redemption…, the forgiveness of sins.—

Have you ever felt so guilty you couldn’t look someone in the eye? Guilt is tremendously motivating. While the possibility of feeling guilty may not stop us from doing something wrong, once we feel guilty, we’ll do almost anything to avoid being found out. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the famed fictitious detective Sherlock Holmes, once played a terrible practical joke. He wrote an unsigned letter and mailed it to twelve prominent men. It said, “All is discovered. Flee at once!” Within forty-eight hours all of them had left the country. Guilty!

Though people in our society rarely use the word “sin” in conversation anymore, we can’t get rid of guilt, and it has a powerful effect on us. Guilt weakens and destroys. It can create a sense of anxiety—a nameless, unknown fear. It can produce a depression that hangs over our heads like a black rain cloud. It can make us feel unclean, soiled, and worthless. It can give us such a poor self-image that we become our own worst enemies. Guilt can even create physical illness; after David sinned with Bathsheba, he said, “My bones grew old through my groaning all day long” (Psalm 32:3).

There is a difference between guilt and guilt feelings. You may have bad feelings even though you’re not guilty. Psychiatrists may help you get rid of guilt feelings, but they don’t know how to handle the guilt. Many of them don’t even like the word. They use “confused” or “mixed up priorities” instead. But the Bible says, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23) and “There is none righteous, no, not one” (Romans 3:10). Our guilt is so permanent, it seems engraved in granite. We cannot blame it away. We cannot push it down or trade it for another emotion.

We can get rid of our guilt in only one way—by asking Christ for forgiveness. Do you need to ask His forgiveness for something today? Confess to Him, and unburden your heart. Allow Him to wash you perfectly clean.

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Entertaining Strangers

Hebrews 13:2---Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Things are not always what they seem. People are not always who or what they appear to be. Look at this verse from a common-sense perspective. If God was going to send an angel into the world to do a special work…would God use an angel with wings and feathers or would God send an angel in the form of an ordinary person? To keep down undue attention, God would use the form of an ordinary person as an angelic disguise. From this verse, people you pass on the street, the person you stand in line with at the store, maybe even the stranger you sit next to in church, could be an angel. However, this verse is not about angels but about how we treat strangers. For many reasons, people we do not personally know need our care, concern, love, and attention. Strangers and others need to be enriched by us.

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Christ's Beams of Encouragement

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17---Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

In the depths of our disappointment and depression, when we are crushed and have given up any chance of victory, Christ beams His light into our life. In His light we find encouragement. Christ brings us a spiritual lift encouraging us to persevere and keep going against all odds. Christ and His marvelous Light rescue us out of the depths of our despair. In this world, there are many ways to fail. In this world, we need daily encouragement to walk Christ's walk of faith. In Christ, we have a friend who will not disappoint us or find fault with us. In Christ, we have an ever-present being shining His power into our heart and life. Christ forgives us when we have fallen short of His mark. Christ uplifts us and pulls us out of our dark circumstances. Christ calls upon us and encourages us to keep trying. When we want to give up, Christ's encouraging light of love prods us never to give up or give in.

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Find Out What Others Want And Help Them Get It

Within the bounds of morality and common sense, the key to success when you work with people is helping them get what they want. Find out what others want and show others how working or cooperating with you benefits them. To help others get what they want, you have to think as they do, ask them questions, and see the world the way they see the world. To be successful with others or to lead others you have to put yourself in their shoes. When you are selfish and filled with your ego, you think only of yourself instead of others. Truly, being unselfish is the key to success in every area of life, especially when working with others. When others find out you really do want to help them get what they want, they will regard you with esteem and they will value you. Admittedly, others will be selfish. However, by finding out what others want and helping them get it you have great potential in leading them. Most often, leadership failures occur because of selfishness. Good leaders are typically unselfish people.