Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” ~ John 11:40 Many times, it was not that God wasn’t speaking to me, but it was about me not really wanting to accept what He was already saying and just walking with Him. The [...]
Archive for September, 2011
LOOKING FOR GOD TO SPEAK…
Posted: September 22, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: achieve, anxious, away, Bible, Christian, endure, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, quit, read, saint, Scripture, sinner, tired, today, toward, voice, walk, weary, word
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Joy vs. Happiness
Posted: September 16, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Christ, depressed, devil, emotion, enemy, faithful, feeling, happy, Jesus, joy, lie, Lord, peace, sad
Joy is not an emotion. It is a fruit of having faith in Christ so that when trials come, focus is not shaken in who He is (John 15:9-11). It is common to misunderstand and confuse the emotion of happiness with the eternal experience of joy. At times, even recently, I have struggled with my [...]
WHAT TO DO WITH HIM…
Posted: September 7, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: aware, change, Christ, content, destruction, God, grace, hand, Holy Spirit, Jesus, love, martyr, mercy, persevere, potter, prayer, pride, progress, redeem, relationship, renew, right, salvation, sanctification, understand, warning, wheel, wrong
What do you do with a man who in his very act of love destroys? What do you do with a man who, in pursuance of Christ, constantly falls short of being like Christ? What do you do with a man who has one of the deadliest cases of pride – the silent, unobvious, slithering type? [...]
Know the Truth for Yourself
Posted: September 5, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: doubt, everlasting, facts, faith, God, grafted, Holy Spirit, Jesus, know, lie, Opinion, salvation, Scripture, true vine, trust, truth
I woke up this morning thinking how frustrating it has been, at times, in my own past to have one understanding and then to come to a place where we are not sure what is true, let alone the rocking of an undoubted assurance of my salvation. However, the Lord drew me to His Word to [...]
CAN’T HEAR GOD’S VOICE?
Posted: September 1, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Christ, communicaiton, death, forgiveness, God, hard, hard to hear, hear, Holy Spirit, Jesus, pleasure, relationship, repent, righteous, sin, Talk, temporary, voice, Voice of Christ, Voice of God, Voice of the Holy Spirit
“…Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, ‘Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.’ ~ Hebrews 3:7-9 Sin makes your heart harden & difficult to hear [...]
