All in Adversity
We all tend to have a very healthy appetite for food. How is your spiritual appetite doing? Try these three keys to all spiritual hunger.
In these dark days before the return of Christ, God is looking for believers who walk in holiness. Here are three thoughts to keep in mind at all times so your lifestyle stays pure and godly in a compromised world:
It takes three wires to conduct electricity. It also takes three actions to bring the power of God into your situation.
The world is crazy about self-promotion. God’s mighty power, however, is revealed through humility.
Are you looking a mountain in the face? Does it feel impossible?
“Judge not.”
No Biblical phrase has been more overused (or abused). Was Jesus actually saying we should have no discernment? What actually DID He mean and how do we steer clear of breaking His commandment?
Here are the 8 signs of judgmentalism and how we overcome it in our own lives:
I hate cruise control. I hate it but I love it. But I hate it. It is so limiting. It requires me to go only at a certain pace. I love it because I can relax and just ride. I hate it because I want to get there ahead of the guy in front of me! In our world today, everyone is in a hurry. Patients are dying in hospitals because of the haste to move on to the next patient. Everyone is on the move. We are squeezing every second out of one activity to pour into the next one.
Against his parents strict orders, a little boy was sliding on his wood floors at home without his socks. A splinter lodged in his foot. He tried to ignore it, butafter several days of hobbling his mother demanded he slip his sock off. There, she saw the truth. She gingerly pulled the splinter out and he began his healing process. Do you have a splinter in your foot?
How many times do couples fight per year? A British insurance survey said 2,455 (that’s 7 per day!).
Out of 28 sources of fights, I picked out 10:
FEAR is the biggest enemy to your future.
It comes in many forms, mainly having to do with your future: failure, rejection, lack, or death (to name a few). Abram was mighty in battle yet his deepest fear was not having a successor.
How will you overcome the fears that limit you?
I’ve been there, haven’t you? A dead project. A dead dream. A dead relationship. A dead business. No hope.
I can look at some people and see defeat. They look like they have lost: Head down, shoulders slumped, eyes down.
How can you turn your pain into purpose?
Which eyes are you looking at your problems with: your natural eyes or the eyes of your heart?
A “soul wound” feels like an emotional sword. It is a deep, intense crying and pain. It can come from rejection, loneliness, depression, and many sources.
Here are some ways to confront a friend without becoming confrontational.
I don’t know about you but an argument is a hard thing for me. What’s hard about it? STOPPING IT.
Here are a three things to know about regaining your confidence after a colossal failure.
Just thinking about it should radically change our lives.
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO THANK THE LORD AND GIVE HIM GLORY FOR A SUDDEN TURNAROUND IN MY BODY. He deserves all the glory.
