Monday’s Blog: Ignite The Fire In Your Spirit – Backsliding
But if I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,†his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.
—Jeremiah 20:9
We continue our series on igniting the fire in our spirits. Follow this link if you missed any messages in this series. I am using this series in my next book: Escaping Boredom in Christianity. I am also using some of your comments in my book. I ask a couple questions at the end of each post. Feel free to answer whatever the Lord puts on your heart. Your comments are greatly appreciated.
This week I want to talk about backsliding. We all go through times when we don’t feel as close to God as we would like to. It’s important to know when we are drifting away from God, and how to find our way back to Him.
I wrote a message last year for SRL Ministries about the dangers of letting a little yeast into our marriages. I explained how we should never take our marriages for granted. If we get too comfortable in our marriages we may start to let our guard down. This applies even more so to our walk with Christ.
There are many things the Bible warns us to be on guard against. Here are a few:
- Rebellion – “Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke 21:36).
- False teachings  – “Therefore, dear friends, since you already know this, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position†(2 Peter 3:17).
- Losing faith – “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong†(1 Corinthians 16:1).
- Allowing our trials to lead us to sin – “Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap†(Luke 21:34, NASB).
- The Satan’s deception – “Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour†(1 Peter 5:8, NLT).
- Our hearts (most important) – “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life†(Proverbs 4:23).
This week I want to focus on sin, and guarding our hearts.
When things are going well in my life, and I am comfortable with my relationship with God, I have a higher tendency to let my guard down. When my guard is down, I start to let the “little†sins slide (what we would considered “little”). Once I allow the “little†sins to go unchecked, I become weak to the “bigger†temptations.
For example, the Bible informs us: “Out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander†(Matthew 15:19). When we don’t stand guard against wrong thoughts (sexually immoral, hateful, slanderous, etc.) we allow them to take root in our hearts.
Hebrews 2:1 says, “We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.†The little things God warns us against matter, because they subtly pull our hearts away from God. The further our hearts drift away from God, the less discernment and power we have to turn from sin.
I once heard a preacher say, “We are dangerously far away when we can sin with little conviction. We should run home to the Father as quickly as we can.â€
The Bible says we have died to sin (Romans 6:2). Sin can no longer have control over us. So when sin does have control over us, and we care very little about it, we are in a dangerous place. We need to quickly repent and run back to God.
In the first message of this series, I shared the different classes of boredom in Christianity. Sadly, one of the most common classes we see today is the divided heart class, which is what the Bible calls “luke-warm†believers. A luke-warm Christian allows what they consider “little†sins to keep their hearts from being fully committed to God. This is one of the most dangerous places to be, as Revelation 3:16 explains:
“I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.â€
Jo Huddleston shared in her book, Amen and Good Night, God: “The lure of the lifestyle I left behind beckoned through my boredom with a sweet, clear voice. Boredom must be one of Satan’s most powerful and subtle weapons. He made my old ways look as attractive as ever. And so inviting. It would have been easy today for me to have stepped across seduction’s thin line and into the arms of worldly pleasure.â€
Satan makes sin appealing. Proverbs 7:25-26 warns against adultery, “Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths. Many are the victims she has brought down; her slain are a mighty throng.â€
But verse 21 shows how appealing Satan makes it: “With persuasive words she led him astray; she seduced him with her smooth talk.â€
Verse 22-23 says how he followed her, “little knowing it will cost him his life.â€
Adultery isn’t the only sin Satan lures us with. We may think a “little†lie, a “little†gossip or slander, holding on to a “little†anger or resentment, filling our eyes and minds with a “little†junk (immoral music, books, movies, etc.) doesn’t hurt us. After all, so many others are doing worse things and they seem to be doing fine.
When confronted with sin, one woman retorted, “Well, pastor so and so was doing it too.†We are responsible to live according to the Word of God, not according to what others are doing, even if they are Christian leaders. Jesus is our example. If He wouldn’t do it, we shouldn’t do it.
Every act of disobedience is a step further away from God. Those “little†things matter much more than we realize.
Kerry Johnson wrote in one of her blogs: “I’ve found the more I seek God and His word, the less I desire things of the world.â€Â That’s true. The more we follow God and His Word, the more we will desire to obey Him. But the more we give into our flesh, the more we will desire sin.
I’ve heard people say, “But it’s too hard to turn from sin. I just can’t.â€
With God’s help we can turn from ANY sin, if we want to. Sometimes sin has such a stronghold on us that we don’t want to turn from it, even though we know it’s pulling our hearts away from God and hurting us.
I talked to a woman once who was living with her boyfriend. She was a Christian. She knew God didn’t approve of her situation. She knew she was disobeying Him. She felt the conviction. She was uncomfortable. But she said she couldn’t stop. I encouraged her that she could stop. She could either move out, or go to court and get married right away.
God says He will ALWAYS give us a way out of sin. Sadly, we don’t always want to take His way out.
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.
—1 Corinthians 10:13
Heavenly Father,
We praise You for never letting us be tempted beyond what we can bear. Help us to turn from sin and turn to You. Help us never to be cold, or luke-warm. Keep that fire burning hot in our spirits for You! Help us to be on guard against the little yeast Satan uses to lure our hearts away from You. Keep our hearts filled with You so there is no room in it for things of this world.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen!
 Questions for my book:
Can you tell when your heart is drifting away from God?
The times when you’ve felt distant from the Lord, what were the causes?
*I appreciate your responses. I will not use any personal information in my book (name, email, website, etc.). Remember to come back next week as the series continues.
*If you have never accepted Christ as your Savior, please click on the “SALVATION†tab at the top of the website. Don’t wait another day!
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Monday’s Blog: Ignite The Fire In Your Spirit – Dare To BELIEVE!
But if I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,†his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.
—Jeremiah 20:9
Before we continue our series, I want to announce the Kindle version for my book “You Can Have a Happy Family” will be FREE on Amazon Wednesday and Thursday (2/8-2/9) to celebrate National Marriage Week. If you know anyone who needs encouragement in their marriage, please spread the word by using the share tab below.
We continue our series today on igniting the fire in our spirits. You can follow this link if you missed any posts in this series.
This week I feel led to talk about unbelief since it’s the main cause of unfulfillment in the body of Christ. Unbelief is like a fire extinguisher. Nothing will put out the fire in our spirits quicker than unbelief.
Since following Christ, God has continued to work with me on my attitude. Just when I think I’ve got it all together, God shows me a part of my attitude that still needs to change. Lately God has been showing me that the root cause of a bad attitude is unbelief. My pastor shared a similar message yesterday about how bad behaviors are caused by bad beliefs. He said behind every self-defeating behavior is a lie that we are believing. And to stop defeating ourselves we must stop deceiving ourselves.
My neighbor is a Christian, but she’s always very doom and gloom. She has some medical problems, and her husband is in a nursing home. When I saw her last week, I asked how her husband was doing. She kind of rolled her eyes and said, “He’ll never get better.†So I asked how she was doing. She said she had to go for surgery in a couple days and she seemed pessimistic they would find cancer.
To try to lift her spirit, I mentioned some miracles I’ve seen God do in people’s lives. I shared how some have gone to the hospital for surgery and were sent home because the doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with them. I thought she would disregard what I said, but surprisingly, she recalled the same thing happened to her father when he was scheduled for cataracts surgery years ago. She said the doctor sent him home because they couldn’t find anything wrong with his eyes.
By drawing her attention away from her problem and encouraging her to focus on what God could do, I believe it sparked a little faith in her heart. The day after her scheduled surgery, I sent her a text asking how she was doing. Amazingly, instead of being negative, she said she was doing well, and thanked God that there was no cancer!
Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
—John 11:40
Sometimes we say we believe God, but our actions tell Him differently. When we murmur and complain to everyone about our problems, we are telling God we don’t trust Him. When we handle our problems our way instead of God’s way, we are telling God our plan is better than His. When we complain to God, begging Him to answer our prayers, we are telling Him we don’t trust He will.
I used to be the queen of doubt. It used to drive my husband crazy. He would always say, “How could you have so much faith at one moment and then when circumstances change you lose it, just like that?†I’d read a passage in the Bible, get all excited and tell my husband how much I trusted God. No sooner would I share it with him, than I’d get tested with a trial that related to the verse and quickly lose faith.
James 1:5-8 says, “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.
Why is it so hard for us to believe God will answer our prayers? I believe the main reason is because the world tells us different. The world’s ways are contrary to God’s ways. It’s sometimes hard to believe God’s promises when we are constantly bombarded with deception.
It’s been almost three years since God called me to the ministry of writing. The devil has sent a lot of deception and people to come against me to try and stop me. In the last year, it’s been a struggle to keep my faith with so many voices telling me different.
My husband has been supportive for the most part. Yet lately I’ve felt as though he thinks I am wasting time and money writing, because he hasn’t seen any fruit from it yet. To avoid hurting our relationship, I have been trying to only write late at night when he’s asleep. I’ve stayed up as late as 5 in the morning to get my work done. It’s been difficult with having four young children to care for and homeschool.
In the last couple months I have been worn down and contemplating if it’s worth it. Over the weekend, while cleaning my house, I asked God to show me if I am in His will and if I am doing the right thing. I thought maybe I have been misled and I’m not in His will.
Later that evening, I was laying in bed with my husband when I asked him to pray with me. As he was about to pray, He remembered something that happened at work that day. His boss was talking to him, lining him up on a job, when all of a sudden my husband felt God say, “Support your wife and tell her she is doing the right thing.”
My husband was surprised. I was surprised too since I hadn’t told my husband my prayer. God caught my husband’s attention, so He could deliver a message to him and answer my prayer!
God is amazing! He truly hears and answers our prayers. We don’t need to worry and doubt God. We need to simply believe Him.
Have faith in God,†Jesus answered. “I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
—Mark 11:22-24
Whatever problem you are facing today, God has the solution. Stand on God’s promises even if everyone around you is telling you there’s no hope for your situation. Keep rejoicing in God’s Word and trust in His faithfulness. As you trust Him, He’ll ignite a fire in your spirit, and nothing the devil throws at you will be able to extinguish it!
Heavenly Father,
We praise You that You hear and answer our prayers. We praise You that even when we don’t know what to pray, You know what we need. Help us overcome any unbelief and doubt we may have. Help us to stand on Your promises, and trust the Word that goes out from Your mouth will not return to You void, but will accomplish what You desire. It will achieve the purpose for which You sent it (Isaiah 55:11). You are faithful to Your Word.
 In Jesus’ Name, Amen!
 Questions for my book:
Do you have a story you would like to share about a prayer God has answered?
Do you want to share a special miracle you have witnessed in your life or the lives of others?
I would love to hear your stories. I will be using some of them in my next book: Escaping Boredom In Christianity.
Please know I am reserving the right to use any comments on this site in my book. However, I will not share any personal information in the book (i.e. names, email addresses, websites, etc.). Your comments will be completely anonymous.
Thanks in advance for your comments! Be sure to come back next Monday as the series continues.
*If you have never accepted Christ as your Savior, please click on the “SALVATION†tab at the top of the website. Don’t wait another day!
*All Bible verses are taken from the NIV, unless otherwise noted.
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Monday’s Blog: Ignite The Fire In Your Spirit – God’s Goodness
But if I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,†his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.
—Jeremiah 20:9
We continue our series on igniting the fire in our spirits. Follow this link if you missed the last two messages in this series.
I was talking to a friend last week. He had recently returned from visiting a former colleague of his. While he was at dinner with her, she asked him to share how he came to know the Lord. She was raised in a Christian home, but she said his testimony was different than she had been taught.
All she heard growing up in the church was that we are sinners, but she never heard about the goodness of God. My friend said she listened intently as he talked about God’s love for us, and shared all the good things God has given us. He said now that she knows the Truth, God can work in her heart and she’ll have no choice but to fall in love with God.
When Christ preached, He didn’t beat people down for their sins. He appealed to them in love. He didn’t condone sin. But He didn’t condemn them for it. He had mercy on them and forgave them for their sins.
When God called me to start this website, I asked what He wanted me to tell people in my first post. I heard over and over in my spirit, “Tell them I love them.â€
God didn’t say, “Tell them what horrible sinners they are.†And God didn’t lead me to only share His commands. He led me to share the reasons and benefits behind His commands, so people would know God is for them, not against them.
Therefore, although in Christ I could be bold and order you to do what you ought to do, yet I appeal to you on the basis of love…
—Philemon 1:8-9
Satan uses guilt and condemnation to make people think God is disappointed in them.
Revelation 12:10 says, “…for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.â€
If Satan constantly accused us before God when he was in heaven, then he’s surely going to accuse us while he’s here on earth.
I wrote a blog a few weeks ago about condemnation. My New Year’s resolution this year was to get rid of all condemnation. It’s only been a few weeks since I made my resolution, but I have noticed a dramatic change in my life. Being free from guilt has made room in my heart for more joy in serving God. My fire is burning more now than ever for the Lord.
By paying close attention to condemnation, I notice how many times I hold on to guilt. It’s so subtle that I didn’t realize it until I started looking for it. I notice it’s mostly the small things that I condemn myself for. For example, when I forget to do something for someone, I get upset with myself and hold on to it for a few hours, or sometimes days, instead of giving it to God and forgiving myself right away.
I also notice I see the Bible in a different light when I read it without any condemnation. When I read the Bible, sometimes I’m tempted to feel overwhelmed, because I need help in so many areas. But when I read it without any condemnation, I see each command as a promise from God, instead of a burden.
When a verse says that we shall do this and we shall not do that, instead of feeling overwhelmed, we should praise God that those are His promises for us. He promises to help us obey those commands, which are meant for our benefit.
Jesus said, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.â€
—John 14:15, KJV
In the past, that verse used to frustrate me. I used to think it meant: If I love Jesus, then I better keep His commandments.
Who can possibly keep all His commandments? No one. Jesus was the only one who could.
I felt God show me that the verse means: If you love Jesus, then you will BE ABLE to keep His commandments.
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.â€
—John 15:5
Jesus prayed that God would sanctify His disciples through His Word, which is Truth (John 17:17).
When we read the Bible in faith, the power of His Word waters and produces His fruit in us. When we read the Bible or hear a message preached from the Bible, we will feel uncomfortable at times. That uncomfortable feeling is conviction. Conviction is God making us aware of sin in our lives, so we can cooperate with Him to get rid of those things that are hindering His fruit from developing in us. God’s conviction is not meant to condemn us. It’s meant to help us.
Satan wants to make us think God is condemning us so we feel guilty when we read the Bible. He does this to keep us away from God’s Word. We must stand our ground and not allow ourselves to be condemned, not even for a moment. When we fall into sin, we should confess it to God and repent—turn away from the sin and turn to God. But we shouldn’t condemn ourselves for it. When we read the Bible and God convicts us of sin, we should thank Jesus that He already paid the price for that sin, and thank God that He is helping us overcome it.
But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
—Romans 6:22-23, NKJV
Heavenly Father,
We praise You for forgiving us our sins by sending Jesus to save us. Help us not to condemn ourselves, because we know that You don’t condemn us. Show us Your goodness as we study Your Word each day. Shower us with Your love, so we will never be hungry for anything other than You.
In Jesus’ Precious Name, Amen!
Questions for my book:
When you sin, do you give it to God and forgive yourself right away? Or do you punish yourself for a few hours, days, weeks, months, or even years?
When you read the Bible do you feel condemnation or conviction?
I would love to have you share your comments below. I will be using some of them in my next book: Escaping Boredom In Christianity. Please understand I reserve the right to use any comments on this site in my book. But I will not share any personal information in the book (i.e. names, email addresses, websites, etc.).
Thanks for your comments! Be sure to come back next Monday as the series continues.
*If you have never accepted Christ as your Savior, please click on the “SALVATION†tab at the top of the website. Don’t wait another day!
*All Bible verses are taken from the NIV, unless otherwise noted.
*Subscribe below to receive email reminders of new posts.
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Monday’s Blog: Restore To Me The Joy Of Your Salvation
But if I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,†his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.
—Jeremiah 20:9
We continue our series on igniting the fire in your spirit. Follow this link if you missed the first message in this series. I will be using the comments from this series in my book: “Escaping Boredom In Christianity.”
Last week I talked about the different classes of boredom we can fall into, which prevent us from living a fulfilled life in Christ. This week I want to talk about living each day with the same joy we had when we first received salvation.
I was raised Catholic. I was baptized as a baby. I went to church on Sundays. I attended catechism all the way through confirmation. I even attended Catholic school for one year. But oddly, I didn’t know anything about God, nor did I think about His existence.
I never questioned why I went to church or catechism. I just figured it was something people did. I said the same prayer every night before bed. But I didn’t think about who I was praying to, or why I was praying. I guess I thought of prayer as good luck or superstition, like wishing upon a star.
My mother told me I accepted Christ when I was young, at a friend’s vacation Bible school. But I don’t remember it. The first time I remember learning about God was during a road trip my husband and I went on when we were dating. I don’t remember exactly what my husband said, but I remember he talked about Jesus in a way I hadn’t heard before.
After that day, we didn’t talk much more about God, as worldly pleasures and pursuits consumed our lives. It wasn’t until six years later that I came to the end of myself. My life and marriage were heading downhill. The world wasn’t working for me. Everything I had tried to do in life failed, which I thank God for. If I had succeeded in life, I don’t know if I would have been hungry enough to open my heart to God.
In desperation for change, I began seeking God. My husband directed me to a Christian radio station he stumbled upon. I was excited, thinking it was a new station, since we had never heard it before. We later found out the station had been on air since the 50s. I was amazed we never noticed it before then. The devil kept us blind all those years we walked in the darkness.
…I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.
—Acts 26:17-18
As I started listening to preachings on the radio, reading the Bible, and attending a new church, God began to open my eyes. He shined His light on me, filled my heart with joy and gave me a hunger to learn more.
The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
—Psalm 19:8
I’ve been seeking Christ for 11 years now. Whenever I start to lose that hunger and fire I felt in my spirit at the beginning, I pray Psalm 51:12:
“Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.”
At salvation, everything is new. We are excited to learn about God. We have a hungry, willing, teachable spirit. But as time goes on, trials come, worldly temptations get in the way, that fire can start to die down. That’s when we need to ask God to re-ignite that fire and keep it burning in us.
1 Peter 2:2-3Â says, “Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.”
Like newborn Christians, we need to crave the things of God. We need to crave to know Him, because there is still so much to learn, no matter how long we have been walking with Him. We need to crave His goodness, because we’ve only just had a taste. There’s so much more God wants to do for us…in us…and through us. We need to crave to grow up in Him, because even if we are mature, we can easily fall right back to where we started. And we need to crave His love, because He wants to make it complete in us so that we love others.
“No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”
—1 John 4:12
Heavenly Father,
We praise you for sending Jesus to fulfill us. We know that You are all we need in life. Nothing can fill us except You. Restore to us the joy we had when we first received Jesus as our Savior. Keep that fire burning in our spirits so that we will be filled to the measure of all the fullness of You (Ephesians 3:19).
In Jesus’ Precious Name, Amen!
Questions for my book:
Do you remember the joy you had when you first received Christ?
Is there a difference between then and now in your walk with Christ?
Have you ever lost your joy in following Christ? If so, how did God restore your joy?
*I would love to hear your comments. They will be very helpful in my book. Please understand I reserve the right to use any comments on this site in my book. I will not share any personal information in the book (i.e. names, email addresses, websites, etc.).
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Monday’s Blog: New Series “Ignite The Fire In Your Spirit”
But if I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,†his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.
—Jeremiah 20:9
I am so excited to start this new series! I know God is going to ignite such a fire in our spirits that nothing in this world will be able to extinguish!!
God gave me the idea for this series a couple weeks ago, after I received a message on my blog from a woman inquiring:
I have asked Jesus into my heart, and repented, but you seem to have something special in your walk that I don’t have. What should I do?
This is a question many of us have asked at one time or another in our walk with Christ. Last year, I began writing a book titled: Escaping Boredom in Christianity. When I had the name of my book posted on my website, I was shocked how many times people landed on my site from searching “Boredom” and “Christianity” on Google.
So many Christians do not know how to live the fulfilled life Christ came to give them.
Jesus said, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full†(John 10:10).
Satan wants to steal our joy in Christianity, so outsiders don’t want to join us. He wants to kill our testimonies in Christianity, so we repel people away from Christ instead of attracting them to Christ. He can’t destroy Christianity, and our salvation, but he can destroy our minds and bodies, making us ineffective on earth.
We don’t have to let him succeed though, because greater is He Who is in us than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4). With our spirits on fire for the Lord, we can dramatically change the world’s view of Christianity. We can be a light in a dark place.
I am going to use this “Ignite the Fire†series in my next book. I will also be posting a survey during the series to gather your thoughts. I want to know what people are struggling with so I can address those issues in the series and the book. Please help me spread the word of this series by using the share tabs below.
I will ask a few questions at the end of every post. I would love to hear your responses in the comment section below each post. All comments during the series will have a possibility of being used in my book. I will not use any names, only your comments.
As always, I’m giving God complete control over this series, so I don’t know when it will end and where He will lead it. But for now, here are a few areas I hope to discuss (in no particular order):
- Unbelief
- Prayer
- Condemnation
- Fear of the Lord
- Distractions
- Forgiveness
- Confidence
- Perseverance
- Pride
- Obedience
- Envy
- Church
- Mind
- Purity
- Attitude
- Backsliding
Throughout the years, I’ve observed different classes of those experiencing boredom (lack of fulfillment) in Christianity.
First is the STRICTLY RELIGIOUS class. These are the ones who go to church and observe the religious traditions, but don’t have a relationship with Christ. Religion without relationship inevitably leaves them unfulfilled.
Second is the RETURNED TO EGYPT class. Those in this class were once fulfilled and excited when they found a relationship with Christ. But once they went through the wilderness they lost that excitement and turned back to the world.
Third is the BURNT OUT class. Here are those who want to live for God by serving others. They serve in every opportunity they are presented. They get lost in working for God instead of working with God, following Him where He leads. As a result, they end up burnt out and bitter.
Fourth is the DIVIDED HEART class, which is what the Bible calls “luke-warm†Christians. Those in this class want to love God but they also want to enjoy the world. Therefore, they are always on the fence. They are half for the world and half for God. This is where I would say a lot of Christians are today.
Last is the STUCK IN THE WILDERNESS class. Those in this class follow God with all their hearts. They’ve left everything behind to follow Christ. But during the trials in the wilderness they begin to get lonely and start thinking about everything they’ve given up. They don’t know how to reach out and embrace their new lives. They don’t find complete enjoyment in Christ, but they also don’t want to go back to the world because they know they won’t find fulfillment there. They can’t see past the wilderness to move into the promise land.
I can say that I have been in every one of these classes, in some form, throughout my life. I am living proof that with God’s help, it is possible to escape boredom in Christianity. I am excited to work with God to help Christians press past boredom and step into a new class in Christ, a FULFILLED, ON FIRE FOR THE LORD Christian.
Questions for my book:
Do you agree with these classes of boredom? Do you see yourself in any of these classes? Do you think there are other classes of boredom that I didn’t address?
I would love to hear your comments. They will be extremely helpful for my book. Please understand I reserve the right to use any comments in my book. Again, I will not share your personal information in my book (i.e. names, email addresses, websites, etc.).
Thank you for your support! Come back next Monday as the series continues.
*I’m also running a series titled “Ignite The Fire In Your Marriage” at Titus 2 In Action. Follow this link to follow the series.
*I got a new author Facebook page. My Sharing Truth’s FB page will be deleted. Please “LIKE” my new page at this link: https://www.facebook.com/
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Monday’s Blog: A Simple Resolution
Welcome to 2012! Every New Year my husband and I make a new set of resolutions for ourselves. But sadly, our resolutions barely make it to February before they’re long forgotten.
One year, my husband and I decided to make a few resolutions together. To help us meet our goals, we wrote them on paper, prayed over them and committed them to the Lord. Then we sealed the paper in an envelope and put it in our safe, agreeing not to open it until the end of the year, on New Year’s Eve. That was two years ago and our resolutions are still sitting in our safe sealed. We didn’t open it because we didn’t meet our goals.
This year, instead of coming up with another resolution that won’t last, I decided to ask God if He had a resolution for me. Instead of committing my own resolutions to the Lord and expecting Him to make them succeed, I committed the whole matter to Him. I knew if God would give me a resolution, He would make it succeed.
So in early December I started praying for my resolution. Then, last week God answered my request as I was listening to a preacher on television. God’s response isn’t something I would have thought to pick for a resolution, but yet it makes perfect sense.
His resolution for me is to simply stop condemning myself.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus…
—Romans 8:1
I know we are not condemned in Christ. This isn’t anything new to me. However, the last few months I have been falling hard. I told my husband I feel like I’ve slipped back ten years. All the positive changes God has done in my life seem like they are being stripped away, leaving the old me exposed. That scares me.
I’ve been praying about it, thinking I need to spend more time with God, study and pray more, and trust that He will lift me out of this pit. But as I was listening to the preacher teach on condemnation last week, a light bulb turned on and I saw the root cause of my fall.
I had been slowly allowing myself to be condemned over my misbehavior. And ironically condemnation was causing my misbehavior.
Galatians 5:16-18 says, “So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.”
Each time my sinful flesh popped up, I should have let the Spirit lead me to receive God’s forgiveness right away. The Spirit would have then drawn me to God and led me away from my flesh.
Instead, I chose to ignore the Spirit and follow my sinful flesh into condemnation. This only caused me to act in opposition to God, which explains why I continued to act worse. I was putting myself under the law that Jesus had already fulfilled.
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
—Galatians 5:24-25
So this new year I’m choosing to keep in step with the Spirit. He will lead me away from the acts of my sinful nature and into His righteous fruit.
How about you? Will you choose to give into condemnation, or receive Christ’s atonement for your sins?
It was not through law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
—Romans 4:13
Join me and stop striving to receive God’s righteousness. Simply receive it!
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Prayer For The Week
Heavenly Father,
Praise You for not condemning us, but setting us free from the power of sin. We know that You have crucified our sinful nature, and utterly destroyed all it’s power to control us. Help us to keep in step with Your Spirit Who will lead us into Righteous living.
In Jesus’s precious name, Amen!
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*As you receive this message, I encourage you to also study God’s Word daily as the Bereans did in Acts 17:11: “Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.â€
*If you have never accepted Christ as your Savior, please click on the “SALVATION†tab at the top of the website. Don’t wait another day!
*All Bible verses are taken from the NIV, unless otherwise noted.
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Monday’s Blog: Christmas Day – Behind the Scenes
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas celebrating the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ!
Last week I talked about the inheritance Christ came to give us. This week I want to focus on what took place in the spiritual realm at His birth.
I had a dream recently where random people were being attacked, but no one could see what was attacking them. I was with a group trying to figure out what was happening when we stumbled upon a pair of red glasses. One of the men in our group picked up the glasses, put them on and suddenly shook in terror. He quickly ripped off the glasses and destroyed them before dying from shock.
Because it was my dream, I could see what he saw when he looked through the red glasses. There were dragon-like creatures all around us attacking people and things. There was an unseen battle taking place, but it was only visible through the red glasses.
After I awoke from the dream, I didn’t think much of it until I opened the book of Revelation in my morning study. I don’t normally read Revelation because it’s hard to understand. But somehow I ended up on Revelation 12 that morning.
A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.
Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born.
She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. The woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.â€
When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the desert, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach.
Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.
Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring—those who obey God’s commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus.Â
—Revelation 12:1-17
There are a lot of different interpretations out there on this chapter. I’m not going to try and decipher which interpretation is true. I’ll leave that to God. But there are some obvious truths we can take away from these verses.
Some argue when exactly God cast the devil and his angels to earth. I believe it at happened at the same time God sent Jesus to the earth to save us and give us victory over them. “You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
But even if I am wrong. I don’t think it matters. The real truth is that Satan was cast to earth. So we can’t ignore that he is here, deceiving and destroying people. In my dream, the only way we could see the dragons were through the red glasses. The only way we can see into the spiritual world is through the blood of Jesus.
We need to wake up, put on our spiritual glasses and set others free from Satan’s deception. We can’t keep our blinders on allowing him to destroy those around us. If we do, we will be like the man in my dream who destroyed the glasses because he didn’t want to see the truth, and it ended up destroying him.
THE SPIRIT of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor, and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound.
—Isaiah 61:1
My deepest passion in ministry has been not only to share God’s truths, but to share the reasons behind God’s truths. God’s commands are for our benefit, to outwit Satan. God gave us His Holy Word to equip us to overcome everything the devil throws at us. Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free†(John 8:31-32).
What will the truth set us free from? The truth will open our eyes to the spiritual world and set us free from deception. If we know the Truth, we can’t be deceived. Satan can’t deceive us when our eyes are open and we can see what he is doing.
Don’t be afraid of the spiritual realm. Put on Jesus and send the devil fleeing!
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Prayer for the week
Heavenly Father,
Praise You for sending Jesus to protect us from ALL the fiery darts Satan and his angels throw at us. Help us to be in Your Word daily, and stay connected to You, so we can be equipped to tear down the strongholds Satan has built in our lives and the lives of others. We Praise You for giving us victory in Christ Jesus.
In Jesus’s precious name, Amen!
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To stand above deception, always check what you learn from others, and stay in God’s Word daily as the Bereans did in Acts 17:11.
“Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.”
*If you have never accepted Christ as your Savior, please click on the “SALVATION†tab at the top of the website. Don’t wait another day!
*All Bible verses are taken from the NIV, unless otherwise noted.
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Monday’s Blog: Christmas – Our True Inheritance
I forgot to mention last week that it was the last blog in our series on the Beatitudes. If you missed the series, I highly recommend following this link and reading the messages. It was a great series. You don’t want to miss it.
Since it is Christmas time, I wanted to share a revised message I wrote last Christmas, titled:
Christmas – Our True Inheritance
This week we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Christmas is meant to honor Christ, yet He is often overshadowed by Santa, gifts, shopping, holiday festivities, and other non-Christian holidays fighting to be recognized and honored.
Even though my family knows Christmas is all about Christ, I do have to admit that we often get caught up in all the glitz and glam. We love Christmas time. We love decorating and shopping for months in advance. We love baking cookies and watching Christmas shows all through December. We love piling all the kids in the car with their hot chocolates to go driving around looking at lights.
We love leaving my parents’ house on Christmas Eve with presents filled to the roof of our car. We love waking up Christmas morning to shouts of joy when our kids see presents under the tree. We love visiting family and friends during the break, making Christmas last the whole week.
With all that excitement, it’s easy to lose focus of what Christmas is all about. So today I want to step away from the holiday excitement for a moment and redirect my focus toward Jesus, and give Him His due honor this Christmas by recognizing what He has done for us.
We know Jesus was born to be the Savior of the world. But do you know how much more Jesus has given us along with salvation?
I remember as a new believer reading about the promises of the Kingdom of Heaven in the Bible and thinking, “Heaven is great, but what about now? What do I have in this life? Surely, there has to be more.â€
I soon learned that Jesus didn’t come to just give us eternal life after we die. He came to give us eternal life now! He came to give us the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. This means that we have access to the same power and authority He had when He walked this earth.
Jesus told Peter in Matthew 16:19, “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.â€
In Luke 12, after Jesus told His disciples not to worry about their physical necessities, He said in verse 31-32, “But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well. “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.â€
Jesus came to give us what God has given Him. Everything He has is now ours through our faith in Him. We are co-heirs in His inheritance, because we are now God’s children. We were adopted into the family of God through Jesus.
The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God. And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory.
—Romans 8:16-17, AMP
Jesus being born in the flesh was the greatest act of love. Jesus humbled Himself to be like us, to feel what we feel, to be tempted like we are tempted, to hurt like we hurt, to struggle like we struggle, in order to show us the grace that is available to us, through Him, to overcome everything in this world.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
—Hebrews 4:15-16
When Jesus walked this earth, He had victory over everything, though in the natural it may have looked like He didn’t because of the great suffering He endured. That suffering however had a purpose, which is why He endured it even though He had the power to stop it. He overcame the world for us through that suffering.
…for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
—1 John 5:4-5
The authority Jesus has given us means that nothing in this world can ever have authority to rule over us without our permission. We can overcome everything through God’s grace. Nothing in this world has the authority to steal our righteousness, our peace, our joy, our hope, and our inheritance in Christ. We are truly kept safe in Him.
Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you.â€
—Luke 17:20-21
So as you pass out gifts this Christmas, remember the amazing gift Jesus has given you—the keys to the kingdom of Heaven! God is living within you!
 The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel–which means, “God with us.”
—Matthew 1:23
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**Prayer for the week**
Heavenly Father,
Thank You for saving us and giving us the keys to Your kingdom, making us co-heirs with Christ. Help us to honor Jesus this Christmas, and every day, by following Him and surrendering our lives over to You.Â
In Jesus’s precious name, Amen!
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I pray you all have a blessed Christmas!
*Come back next Monday as I reveal what happened behind the scenes at Christ’s birth. You don’t want to miss it!
*If you have never accepted Christ as your Savior, please click on the “SALVATION†tab at the top of the website. Don’t wait another day!
*All Bible verses are taken from the NIV, unless otherwise noted.
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Monday’s Blog: Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted
We continue our series on the Beatitudes with Matthew 5:10, “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.â€
One of Strong’s definitions for persecuted in this verse is, “to make to run or flee, put to flight, drive away.â€
Persecution is simply opposition from the devil to try and prevent us from doing the will of God.
Anyone who follows Christ will be persecuted. Jesus said, “Remember the words I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also†(John 15:20).
Most of us haven’t experienced physical persecution like the early church experienced, and even some still experience today. But it doesn’t mean we are not persecuted in other ways.
When I followed God’s plan to write my book about His will for our marriages and families, the devil tried to stop me in many different ways. I had never experienced such strong opposition before I started writing this book. He attacked my marriage by trying to turn my husband against me. He attacked my children through disobedience. Discipline that worked well in the past no longer worked.
He attacked my family’s health. For almost six months straight we were hit with odd sicknesses; soars even the doctors couldn’t diagnose. He attacked our finances. The first year of writing the book everything seemed to break down. Our cars broke down four consecutive times in a row to where it drained our bank account to nothing. And I think the cars would have continued breaking down if we hadn’t decided to stop fixing them.
He turned family members, friends, and my church against me. Even those I sought assistance in publishing, that didn’t even know me, he turned against me, as they were extremely hateful toward me.
But the most dangerous persecution I think I experienced was the great attack on my heart. From the constant rejection and let down from others, especially Christians, my heart was in danger of hardening.
Chuck Balsamo experienced similar attacks while writing his book, “Make Me a Legend.â€
He wrote: “In May 2009, I told my wife, ‘I am so let down with people right now. I feel like a kid who is afraid of the dark. It seems like the shadows are stalking me. I am paralyzed with fear of who is going to stab me next! And you know what scares me even more than that? I am petrified to think about how this ghastly betrayal might be permanently damaging my heart. I don’t want to hate people. I don’t want to wish for the death of my enemies. Dear God, this is not a little thing. I am fighting for my life!’â€
The Bible warns us, “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life†(Proverbs 4:23, NLT).
The devil will attack our hearts more than anything else. He knows we will follow our hearts wherever they lead us. We are dangerous to his plan when our hearts are filled with Christ’s love.
Ironically, the same persecution that was meant to drive me away from the will of God is what motivated me to press on and allow God to heal my heart. Knowing I was being attacked, confirmed I was speaking the truth and obeying God’s will. The devil wouldn’t have tried so hard to shut me up if I wasn’t a threat to him. This made me more eager to complete the book and share God’s Word. And it’s helping me press through the obstacles he throws at me now that the book is published.
In her book, “The Real You,†Misty Gatlin shared this quote from Lisa Bevere: “Sometimes the enemy is more aware of who you are than you are aware of who you are, and he attacks you out of fear of who you might be.â€
Misty expressed, “The enemy does not want you to be the person you were created to be because that person is powerful and scary to him. That’s right. You scare Satan!â€
We don’t need to cower in fear over persecution. We can use it to motivate us to continue doing the will of God, so we can reach others and receive our reward.
Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death.
—Revelation 2:11
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**Prayer for the week**
Heavenly Father,
We praise You for not allowing anything the devil throws at us crush us. We are more than conquerors through Christ. Help us to guard our hearts when people turn against us. We know they are not rejecting us, they are rejecting You, Lord. Help us to press on through persecution and run our race with joy, knowing we will receive a great reward.
In Jesus’s Name, Amen!
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*If you have never accepted Christ as your Savior, please click on the “SALVATION†tab at the top of the website. Don’t wait another day!
*Come back next Monday as I share more of God’s Truths and the reasons behind the Truths.
*All Bible verses are taken from the NIV, unless otherwise noted.
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Monday’s Blog: Blessed Are The Peacemakers
We continue our series on the Beatitudes. If you missed any blogs in this series, follow this link. This week we move on to Matthew 5:9:
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.â€
God calls us to walk in peace with each other. But as we look around, it’s clear to see that we do not live in a peaceful world. From the beginning of time, the devil (Satan—our real adversary) has worked to turn us against each other. Though God wants us to be peacemakers, we are not to be at peace with the devil. We are instructed to stand against him.
I used to not understand why Jesus instructed us to resist the devil, but not to resist an evil person.
“But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. … You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.â€
Matthew 5:39, 43-45
God showed me that we are not in a battle against people even though it appears that way. We are in a spiritual battle against Satan and his army. We cannot fight this spiritual battle with carnal weapons. We need spiritual weapons (Ephesians 6:12).
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7
We win a spiritual battle when we follow Jesus’ example and love others above all else (1 Peter 4:8). We win a spiritual battle when we love and pray for our enemies (Matthew 5:44). We win a spiritual battle when we respond gently instead of harshly when provoked (Proverbs 15:1). We win a spiritual battle when we refuse to slander someone by giving in to gossip (James 4:11). We win a spiritual battle when we build others up instead of tearing them down (1 Thessalonians 5:11). We win a spiritual batttle when we hold our tongues when we’re tempted to sin (Psalm 39:1). We win a spiritual battle when we forgive and bless those who wrong us (Colossians 3:13).
Satan doesn’t like when we walk in peace because then he is defeated. When we walk in peace, he can’t use us to destroy each other. Satan’s only weapon is deceit. He has to deceive us in order to destroy us.
We see this happening in all the marriages falling apart today. Satan deceives couples into thinking their spouses are their enemies. All he has to do is divide a couple against each other. Then he can sit back and watch them destroy their marriage themselves.
Similarly, a family splintered by feuding will fall apart.
Mark 3:25, NLT
Hebrews 12:14 instructs us, “Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.†We can’t use worldly wisdom to fight our battles. We need to use God’s wisdom found in His Word. Only through His wisdom can we defeat the devil and be peacemakers to reach the world for Christ.
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such “wisdom†does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil.
For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.
James 3:13-18
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**Prayer for the week**
Heavenly Father,
We praise You for sending us Your Son, the Prince of Peace. Thank You, Jesus, for leaving us Your peace. Help us to live a life worthy of the calling we have received. Help us to be completely humble, gentle, and patient, bearing with one another in love. Help us to make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. We are one body and one Spirit and You are the One and Only God and Father of all (Ephesians 4:1-5). Help us to use godly wisdom and sow in peace so we can defeat the devil and reap a harvest of righteousness.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen!
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