In speaking hastily to issues on which we don’t have the mind of Christ we stumble and sin against God and also reveal who we are, Christ’s or the world’s or ourselves!
In speaking hastily to issues on which we don’t have the mind of Christ we stumble and sin against God and also reveal who we are, Christ’s or the world’s or ourselves!
Have you ever noticed the difference in the reactions of Zecharias and Mary to the messages delivered by the same angelic messenger in Luke 1?
The mind is the most easily accessed part of man and is the battleground for the possession of the whole man! The eye, ear, nose, mouth, and touch are the five gateways to the mind.
The human soul was created by God and nothing can remove that stain that separates the soul from God but the precious blood of Jesus Christ.
God, I invite your searching gaze into my heart. Examine me through and through; find out everything that may be hidden within me.
Must we confess, utter and repeat all the negatives being spewed out of the media? Have we forgotten the admonition of the Lord to take heed of what and how we hear?
In such times as we are faced with, we need to do a self-check that fear has not chained us within gates of complacency! Are we cowering behind the questions and streams of internal debates; the challenges of “What if this or that happens”?
If there was a time that you will be considered odd for not worrying, it is now. Does Matthew 6:25 make sense in the prevailing circumstances in the country? Certainly!
If you live in guilt today because of yesterday, how will you have the strength to live in victory? Shake off the guilt and move forward.
You can be religious and be lost! In Acts 17 the men who met at Areopagus were described as ‘very religious in every way’ yet their devotions were to various idols.
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