Sunday, May 31, 2020
Doubt Destroys Faith But True Faith Finds Christ
Mark 9:24---And
straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I
believe; help thou mine unbelief.
We all have
times when we suffer from unbelief.
We have
times of doubt.
God is
normally invisible to our eyes, inaudible to our ears, and untouchable with our
hands, so times of doubt do visit upon us.
In these
times when you think you cannot believe, then trust a little more in God's
power.
When you
trust a little more, big spiritual things start happening.
In times of
doubt, yield a little.
Yield up
your doubt to God, because He understands what you are going through and what
you need.
Sometimes
you may think God is not listening.
Sometimes
you may think He is not real.
When you
doubt, surrender a little of your soul.
When you
surrender, His power of love will fill you with certainty.
When you
have doubts and you think you cannot believe in Him, quiet your mind, sit with
God, and let Him tell you what you already know.
When the
prospects of coming close to God seem remote, try to see the littlest things
around you, for His majesty and His love are often seen in the little and
unseen things of each minute.
Lastly, your
faith does not have to be very big, because even when your faith is only the
size of a mustard seed, your faith can move mountains.
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Unbelief Is Real And It Will Steal Your Joy
Mark 9:24--- And straightway the
father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou
mine unbelief.
We have
times when we suffer from unbelief.
We have
times of doubt.
God is
normally invisible to our eyes, inaudible to our ears, and untouchable with our
hands, so times of doubt do visit upon us.
In these
times when you think you cannot believe, then trust a little more in God's
power.
When you
trust a little more, big spiritual things start happening.
In times of
doubt, yield a little.
Yield up
your doubt to God, because He understands what you are going through and what
you need.
Sometimes
you may think God is not listening.
Sometimes
you may think He is not real.
When you
doubt, surrender a little of your soul.
When you
surrender, His power of love will fill you with certainty.
When you
have doubts and you think you cannot believe in Him, quiet your mind, sit with
God, and let Him tell you what you already know.
When the
prospects of coming close to God seem remote, try to see the littlest things
around you, for His majesty and His love are often seen in the little and
unseen things of each minute.
Lastly, your
faith does not have to be very big, because even when your faith is only the
size of a mustard seed, your faith can move mountains.
Friday, May 29, 2020
God’s Wrath Can Be Good
A man lied
about who he was.
He
represented himself to be someone he was not in a business transaction.
At the time
this man committed this sin, he felt justified in committing the sin.
He had good
reasons for misrepresenting himself.
He even had
noble reasons for doing what was not in God's will.
However,
just after he did these wrong things, God spoke to Him and he listened to God.
God spoke to
him through his conscience.
When God
spoke to him through his conscience, the wrath of God fell upon him and he was
devastated by what he had done.
When his
conscience stabbed him and pierced his heart, he took action by telling the
truth to and apologizing to those people to whom he lied.
The end
result of this wrath was a good result.
The people
who were lied to got to see a godly man recant, become humble, and tell the
truth.
Their life
was impacted.
The end
result for the man who lied is he never repeated that sinful mistake again.
For you,
because you know this story, this man's wrath can also be good if you follow
this man's example and always do the right thing.
Further, if
you do not do the right thing and you make a mistake, learn from this man's
example, own up, apologize, and do not repeat the mistake again.
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Dealing With Being Separated
When the darkness falls, we will be
separated from people, things, ideas, and old but comfortable surroundings that
give us security.
There may be a torment of the soul,
and pain in our body.
For the person who has no faith there
is no future, only a dark tunnel that has no light at the end.
What a tragic future!
What a terrible present!
Without Christ, without an abiding
love of God through Christ springing up within us when the separations of life
come, there is a horrible ripping of the soul.
Even with Christ, when times of
separation come we are in deep pain.
Even Christ wept at the tomb of a
friend.
So none of us is immune from the grief of separation.
Yet we can all be healed from this
grief.
Oftentimes we cannot do anything about
the separations here on earth.
Separations come as surely as night
follows day.
However, we have a way to deal with
separations.
When we surrender our life and our
soul to Christ, we can look up to heaven and look within ourselves, both at the
same time and find the love of God pouring down upon us.
In Christ, with Christ, and because
of Him, there is always a unity or bond between us and Him.
No matter what kind of separations we
must undergo here on earth, Christ comes to comfort us and console us if we
open our lives to Him.
We must not deny that separations
hurt.
We must express our sorrow,
especially to God.
For when we are torn apart, it is
always God who listens and it is He who is always working to help us.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Are You Confined And Imprisoned Within Your Life?
Galatians 3:22--- But the scripture hath concluded all
under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them
that believe.
But the Scriptures declare that we
are all prisoners of sin, until we receive God's Amazing Grace.
But the Scripture imprisoned
everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Christ could impart everlasting
life.
We may be confined and imprisoned by
the physical limitations and circumstances of our life.
However, when we are confined we can
always choose the circumstances of our heart, mind, and soul.
A man's or a woman's ultimate quest
in life should be to rise above their physical limitations and circumstances.
Our ultimate quest in our life should
be to live as fully as possible in spite of our circumstances.
Each person's ultimate victory in
life is to live a full and fruitful life in heart, mind, and soul regardless of
physical limitations or circumstances.
Some of us may never be able to make
the physical limitations and circumstances of our life go away.
We may always have to live with these
limitations and circumstances.
However, when we choose to control
and command the circumstances of our heart, mind, and soul, then hope has a
chance to flourish.
When hope flourishes then our life
can flourish no matter where we are or what the circumstances of our life might
be like.
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
How Do You Act When Nobody’s Watching
Romans 12:21--- Be not overcome of evil, but overcome
evil with good.
The story is
told of a fellow who worked for the shoddy Construction Company.
One day,
while building stairs, his boss put hay bales inside the wood forms.
They poured
concrete over the hay.
The owners
were away and never knew.
Five years
later, the hay had rotted, the stairs were hollow, the concrete cracked, and
then collapsed, but the contractor had vanished.
The owners
got stuck with having to pay for a new set of stairs. The dishonest company got
away with it that day.
Eventually,
however, their poor reputation drove them out of business.
On the other
hand, a newspaper described a Florida man who found $1700 in a purse.
He gave it
to the police and refused the reward.
He could
have pocketed the cash, and nobody would have known.
Turned out,
half the money belonged to a single mom who had saved money for a year to take
her son to Disney World.
No money
meant no trip.
The other
half belonged to the boy’s grandfather, who had pinched dollars from his
disability checks to pay off his mechanic so they all could have a car.
The Florida
man might have pocketed the cash; instead he said, “It wasn’t mine.”
Integrity is
how we act when nobody is watching.
Nothing we
do is hidden from God, even when nobody’s watching how we act, God sees and
remembers.
Integrity
doesn’t cut corners.
Monday, May 25, 2020
Love Makes The Difference In Life
John 3:16--- For God so loved the world, that he
gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
Love makes
every life better no matter what the length of life.
You will
touch lives more deeply if you experience love in your life.
You will
know peace and serenity beyond imagination if you let yourself be immersed in
love.
To be immersed
in love is the pinnacle of every life and the ultimate achievement in every
circumstance.
To possess a life full of love, let go of the anguish of your circumstances and let love
come in.
Not
everything happening in your life is a tragedy, not even the bad things have to
be bad if you let love come in.
Let go of
the pain, let go of the fear put within you by Satan.
Let
unconditional love flows into your life no matter who you are, where you are, or
the nature of your circumstances.
When love
flows into your life, blessings will also flow into you. Moreover, when love
flows into your life, your blessings will flow out to others.
When you let
love come in, what you get is a more abundant life.
If you think
of what you are going to get out of life, you get nothing because there is no
prosperity in selfishness.
All the
selfish "getting" in the world will never fill the void within you.
The void
within you caused by any adversity can only be filled with love.
To let go of
your pain, open the door of your heart and you will see yourself differently.
To let go of
your pain, open the door of your heart, and you will see yourself as loved, you
will see yourself as loving yourself, you will see yourself as one who is ready
for greatness.
You will see
yourself as one who is strong.
When you let
love fill the void within you, you will know God.
You will
live in His peace.
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