Pure is defined as “not mixed or adulterated with any other substance”. Joy, “a feeling of great pleasure and happiness”. Guess what we should consider pure joy? James 1:2 says Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith…
Category: Learning God’s Principles in Daily Living
Thanks For the Bad and Ugly?
It’s almost natural for polite people to say “thank you” for a nicety done by another person. When God does something good for me that’s recognizable as a thank-you moment, I might have a decent batting average for rightfully thanking Him within a reasonably polite amount of time: for a freebie, timely approval of permits,…
Ungrateful for Answered Prayer?
Luke 17:15 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. 16 He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan. 17 Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? 18 Has no one returned to give praise to…
Show-thanks Redemption
Col 3:17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. It is easy to give thanks to the Lord when things are fine and dandy. People even sometimes involuntarily blurt out “Thank God” with little reliefs…
Run the Race to Get the Prize
Here are two translations of Paul’s message to draw us away from complacency and onto athletic discipline that aims to win our personal race in the spiritual life. We are reminded that the prize for this race is not the fading, temporal kind but the eternal one that truly matters. 1Cor 9: NIV The Need…
Running the Race
Paul compares the life of a believer to that of an athlete in a race. The Race of Faith Heb 12:1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance…
About Prayer: Boosts and Hindrances
Here are some Scriptures that teach us what factors strengthen or hinder our prayers: BOOSTS 1. Praying in Jesus’s name: John 14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 2. Praying according to God’s will: 1John 5:14 This is the confidence we…
About Prayer: CAST
Psalm 55:22a CAST your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you This is also a possible way of praying: C-onfession A-doration S-upplication T-hanksgiving CONFESSION: A good way to start prayer time is based on the Scripture that unconfessed sin hinders our prayers from being heard. Psalm 66:18 If I had cherished sin in…
Heart Replacement
1 Kings 18:21 NIV Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”. In Matt 12:30 NIV, Jesus said, “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.”…
Gripped By Incurable Heart Disease
Jeremiah 17:9 (NIV) 9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? In the same chapter which says that cursed is man when he trusts in flesh but blessed is man when he trusts in the Lord, God reveals to us our heart disease: Our hearts are deceitful above…
BUTTERFLY IN THE SPRING 