God wants to use this thing in the midst of this, and depression, or whatever else you are struggling with, and yet not the yet, still standing, yet persevering, it's in the face of the enemy. Every time we do it, it's not just about our feelings, it's not just about us getting over it, it's about us being a supernatural expression of the manifold wisdom of God.
Read MoreYour challenges, your trials become an expression of the power and majesty and divinity and beauty of your creator. Every time you go through a trial with a heart that rejoices in God, not because of the trial, but in the midst of it, because you can see that God is good and that your worship of him, and your love of him, isn't based on cause and effect, but it's based on cause. It's just based on cause, and he is the cause, he is the reason we worship. He is the reason that we love him. His mercy to us is the reason that we respond back with this devotion, and this total surrender is a citizen of this new kingdom.
Read MoreIt’s not about us being strong, it's about God making us strong so we have a part in strengthening ourselves and also a part in relying on God for that strength. In the midst of that, God gives us a source of protection and he tells us to put on the full armor of God.
Read MoreA born-again Christian who's apprehended the grace of God and embraces it and clings to it is in love with Jesus for what he's done for them, just forever grateful. We have a song. There was a song that we used to sing called forever grateful. I'm forever grateful and that song represents the heart of a truly born-again spirit of a Christian.
Read MoreYour workplace now is to be turned right side up. Workers, those that are employees, are to honor their employers and work hard as unto the Lord knowing that you'll receive a reward from the Lord.
Read MoreHere's the good news, and not only to Paul, but he goes on to say to all who have longed for his appearing. This is what happens in the heart of a born-again spirit-filled Christian is their longing for the appearing of Christ. They love the Lord, they can't. stop talking about, and they can't stop thinking about him. They want to give themselves to him as completely as possible.
Read Morethe born-again Christian whose spirit-filled is amazed and they enjoy freedom from condemnation because Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and death. All the destructive guilt that comes with that has been lifted off of us because of Christ and because of that, they just respond by offering themselves completely to God.
Read MoreThey know that they have sinned, they know that they should be burning in hell, they know they have no proper or right standing on their own apart from Christ. To have a relationship with God, they've accepted that they're Extra Ordinary in fact they are disqualified from having a relationship with God entirely by their sin.
Read MoreIf you are a born-again Christian and you're filled with the Spirit of God this is the life that will be produced in you these are the marks that should be noticeable. These are the things that you should be expecting as you move into this new normal of this walk with God
Read MoreGod's answer for our failures is his blessing which is really strange. God actually takes our failures, and he takes our inabilities and our weaknesses and he's able to actually, on the heels of that, give us strength and promise for a future.
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