Sufficient. What does that mean? I looked it up to find similar words. Adequate. Enough. Do you feel like you have enough to do life or do you suffer (like many people) from inadequacy? As believers in Christ, we want to please Him, and yet so many times we fail, make a mess of things, find we are inadequate. Paul’s Sufficiency Apostle Paul dealt with an ongoing troubling problem and asked God to remove it. Did he claim it by…
Lord God, I have experienced such highs in Your presence and have walked in cold darkness wondering what happened. Where did the feelings go? Why do You seem so distant? I thought that I had achieved a place of spirituality that would carry me only to find the euphoria evaporating and my default setting of flesh still active and ready to assert itself when the feelings died down. What happened? Why can I not stay in that bubble of euphoria?…
Throughout all time, there has been a sanctuary, a safe place, from which to live life.
Remember the last time you did or said something that you as a believer shouldn’t have? Our flesh, our natural self, can catch us off guard and trip us up. We can fall flat on our face. Stunned. Surprised. And embarrassed. What happened? How is it possible? We are Christians, right? We have been connected to Jesus like a water hose to the tap. We are born again, new creations. So, how can we still think such thoughts, say such…
Why do we fail? As new believers we are full of excitement, anticipation, and will power. Experiencing God’s grace and mercy is such a good feeling we think will last forever now that we are reconciled to God. But that is a feeling. Feelings don’t last. Feelings aren’t trustworthy. Feelings are subject to circumstances. Not reliable. After a while, life settles down and we once again are walking out our life this time as a member of God’s family. But…
The life of a Christian is not a difficult life, full of fighting off temptations, being holy, or required obedience. Joyful trusting Rather it is a life of joyful abandonment to God surrendering the control of our life to Him. Trusting Him for the outcome of our life. Trusting Him for our future, our tomorrow, our next month, our next year. See Matthew 6:25-34 Trusting Him to provide the friends we need, the finances we need, jobs we need. Trusting…
You, complete God made you to be you, not anyone else. He wants you to be completely you, and that can only be with Him in you, completing you. Apostle Paul tells us in Colossians 2:10 that we are complete in Jesus Christ. Without His Life in us, we are missing key parts, namely Himself. You are a temple of God You are not to compare yourself with other people. They are not who you were created to be. Each…
Divine energy is power straight from the creator Himself. Not Him helping us. Not Him making us feel powerful. A day-by-day constant source of power enabling us to live with peace and trust where He has placed us. A stepping aside to let Him have an opportunity to express Himself through us in every situation, big or mundane by His resurrection power. Divine energy source Romans 8:11 The power/energy that raised Jesus from the dead is for the child of…
Anchored Living life anchored to a correct center or foundation will bring peace and calm, and hold us steady when all around us is in turmoil, troubled, disturbed, unsettled, and shifting. We will be aligned. Not our bodies dictating our feelings or behavior. Not our soul ruling us through our feelings which have no brain. Did you know feelings can’t think? They just feel. Allowing them to rule us is submitting our lives to unthinking emotions. Emotional rollercoaster. They will…
Giving back to God is an act of worship. All He gives me I must continually give back to God to keep it pure, unclouded by my opinion, by other’s opinions, or tainted by pride. Keeping it free of entanglements Holding on to it lightly, loosely so it doesn’t become my possession and thereby possess me. Remembering what He gives me is to be turned around, reflected, to glorify Him. Whatever God shares with me must be poured out to…
