Today you hear such appellation in marketing yourself, what is your brand? Beware; your brand may be your undoing! The tragedy of Judas Iscariot is such.
Today you hear such appellation in marketing yourself, what is your brand? Beware; your brand may be your undoing! The tragedy of Judas Iscariot is such.
An agreement that involves salt symbolizes one that is meant to be perpetual because of the use of salt as a preservative ,not corruptible, and indissoluble.
In the days of His earthly ministry, the Lord often repeated certain statements that bear serious lessons for us, but alas, we miss them!
Our pursuit of His favour and the battle against sin in our lateral relationships is enabled by the presence of the Holy Spirit as we call upon Him and rely on Him to strengthen us at all times.
The best definition I have yet come across yet for the word favour is ‘demonstrated delight’, receiving an act of kindness beyond what is due or usual.
James 1:2-4 practically demands that we allow the trying of our faith to run its course! Wow! Our emotional responses that cry for escape negate the principles of getting to maturity or perfection as the scripture puts it.
We must cultivate a profound sense of the divine holiness and of the wrath of God against sin, “for our God is a consuming fire.”
We ought to fear lest we should offend the Lord even while we are serving him; fear lest the sacrifice should be a blemished one, and so be rejected at the altar.
The angels veil their faces with their wings when they worship the Most High, and we must veil ours with humility.
To find grace is an act, to have grace is a state; to hold it fast is to make the act perpetual and the state continual – Charles Spurgeon
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