Entries Tagged as 'Christianity'
Deuteronomy 11: 8-14 Deu 11:8 Soon you will cross the Jordan River, and if you obey the laws and teachings I’m giving you today, you will be strong enough to conquer the land Deu 11:9 that the LORD promised your ancestors and their descendants. It’s rich with milk and honey, and you will live there [...]
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Tags: fertile ground·fertile soil·Holy Spirit working·maximum fruit yield·yield much fruit
God puts his people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness. -David Platt- I wish so much that I had realized this much earlier in my Christian life. It is so easy to look at troubles and trials as really bad [...]
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Tags: God's character·problems·trials·troubles·walk in obedience
This story made me really think about how much others are able to see God working through my life. It is true that someone is always watching what you do, and I want to make sure that the Holy Spirit is in control at all times. I don’t want the flesh to take charge and [...]
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Tags: child of God·Christina Queen of Sweden·family likeness·Gustavus the Great·heavenly father
Galatians 2: 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Paul was a person just like you. He [...]
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Tags: crucified with Christ·dead to sin·Holy Spirit control·material things
To the man who only has a hammer in the tool kit, every problem looks like a nail. Abraham H. Maslow So many times we try to solve a problem using the same technique or doing the same thing we have always done, knowing that way doesn’t work very well or might not even work [...]
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Tags: Hammer·Holy Spirit·nail·problem solved
1 John 4:16 Amplified Bible (AMP) …God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. I John 4: 18 AMP There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors [...]
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Tags: fear in love·God's blessing·love others·love people
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. Conformed – suschematizo to fashion alike or put on the form, fashion , or appearance of another Transformed – [...]
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Tags: conform·renew your mind·transformation
Prayer is the most powerful thing you can do to change your circumstances or solve problems that arise in everyday living. If you get into the habit of giving all the small things to God, when a burden comes along that is so huge you think you can’t stand under the load, you will automatically [...]
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Tags: importance of prayer·make the time·priorities·talk to God
Philippians 4: 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me. Below are the Greek meanings of the key words in the verse above: can do – to have or exercise force, literally or figuratively all things – all, any, every, the whole through – primary preposition denoting a fixed position in place, [...]
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Tags: depending on and walking in·open doors·strength·supernatural
I call it a “sudden inspiration or understanding” as if a light bulb suddenly turns on and you have light now that you have never had before about a particular thing. It seems so easy now and you wonder how you have gone this long without having this incredible understanding. After you get new [...]
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Tags: effort·inspiration·patience·plodding·steps