God's Part, Our Part
Go, therefore!
There is nothing you can do to change your nature. But there is much you can do to realize the potential and capabilities of your nature.
Your diligent practice and discipline did not create or earn your achievements. They positioned you to realize what God had given into your nature at the first.
Otherwise you may say in . . .
Conversation Overheard
Watch over your heart
Conversation overheard in the temple of my heart:
Will you be one of the millions who, having had the seed of the Word of God fall upon the soil of your heart, received it gladly?
But alas, stuff happened:
Testing and persecution and the cares of this world arose.
Patience and perseverance sent their . . .
What We Honor and Why?
To walk in all His ways
We hear of men and women who serve the sick, the disabled, and the mentally ill. Hospice cares for the dying, as do many individuals. They commit hundreds of hours in secret sacrifice - buying groceries, cleaning dishes, listening to and holding the hands of suffering people clinging to the last months, days and hours of their lives. God . . .
Join Me
Participating in the Promises
I am in you to help you.
You have power over this.
I am your creator; you are made of Me.
I would not tell you to take every thought captive if it was not possible -
if I did not enable you and expect you to do it. I am in your doing it.
My peace I give you. Hear My words. Take them in.
Accept nothing I do not . . .
Shameful Presumption
Are you good enough yet?
You feel it, don't you?
That shame of presumption when asking God for this or that.
You know you don't deserve it.
How is it we feel presumptuous to ask of a Father who in the most staggering act of all time and eternity gave us His Son, opened to us the riches of His glory, and promised to freely give us all things? . . .
Peter Pilgrim Picked a Promise
And wished upon a star
Peter Pilgrim picked a promise
A particular promise picked he.
With his finger he pointed
Declaring it anointed
And never his promise did see.
Up stood he from in front of the set
He named and claimed and yea'd and amen'd.
But his prayer soon concluded
When he thought it well suited
To resume . . .
Whose Power?
What's in your quiver?
Mao Ze Dong stated, Political power grows from the barrel of a gun. Such statements reveal the natural man's preferred tools for exerting influence: domination (violent force) and manipulation (witchcraft). To crush, to restrain, to trip, to oppress, to snuff out is the fleeting power of small and evil men. He, the self-exalted man, would . . .
