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  Don’t Go By Your Feelings God gave you feelings and you should never be ashamed of them. They can alert you to danger and give you insights into various situations. God actually uses our feelings to draw us closer to Him and highlights areas in our lives that need to be submitted to His Holy Spirit. But feelings are subjective; you can’t always trust them. One counselor says: ‘When old feelings creep back in we feel fearful, ashamed, hopeless, not good enough, unloved, victimized, helpless and resentful… An event can trigger these reactions … ending a relationship, stress, problems at work and at home, times of change or illness … and sometimes these feelings return for no reason.’ So you must ‘test your feelings’ , otherwise you’ll end up living … ‘a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God’ (Colossians 3:5 TM). It can be disastrous to act on what you see, hear and feel. Instead of reacting to feelings, you must learn to act on what God’s Word says. That...

OTHERS CAN, YOU CANNOT If God called you to be really like Jesus, He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and Humility , and put upon you such demands of obedience that you will not be able to follow other people, or measure yourself by other Christians; and many ways He will seem to let other people do things which He will not let you do. Other Christians, even ministers, who seem to be very religious and useful, may push themselves and pull wires, and work schemes to carry out their plans, but you, cannot do it; and if you attempt it, you will meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord as will make you sorely penitent. Others may boast of themselves, of their work, of their success, of their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any such thing; and if you begin it, He will lead you into some deep mortification that will make you despise yourself and all your good works. Others may be allowed to succeed in making money, or have legacy left to them;...

    Have you ever thought…? “I’m not good enough.” “I’m not smart enough.” “I’m not strong enough.” “I’m not enough.” Every day, we are bombarded with lies that try to convince us that we don’t have what it takes to follow Jesus. Every time we mess up, our insecurities reach out and tell us that we’ll always be weak—we’ll never experience the freedom Jesus says we can have. But the Scripture reminds us that it’s Jesus’ divine power that gives us everything we need to live a godly life. Phil. 4:13. With His strength, when we fall down—we can still get back up. Prov. 24:16 It’s in our weakness that God’s power is made perfect in us (2 Corinthians 12:9). By the power of Christ, nothing can keep its grip on us. Not fear, worry, doubt, defeat, discouragement, loneliness, hardship, or pain. Through Jesus, we have everything we need to combat anything that attempts to seize our rightful identity. God’s Word is filled with reminders of our true identity. It can...

  TRUE LIBERTY Text: Galatians 5:1-13 “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” – Galatians 1:1 (NIV) Everyone that is in physical bondage desires to be free. The Bible speaks of the children of Israel who “sighed by reason of the bondage” (Exodus 2:23) . To have liberty therefore is to be free from bondage or slavery, from servitude or from being under a yoke. It is not only by reason of physical confinement that one can lose one’s liberty. The sinner is in spiritual bondage. “Whosoever committeth sin is the servant (slave) of sin” (John 8:34). He or she is under the dominion of sin, Satan, self and fear. Consequently, he/she commits adultery and fornication; he/she steals and tells lies, smokes and drinks. He/she is covetous and malicious, engages in gossip and causes harm to others, etc. In this state of sinfulness, the sinner may think that he/she is exercising his/her li...

    BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART Text: Matthew 5:5-8; Hebrews 12:14 “Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God” Matthew 5:8 The statement in Matthew 5:8 was spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ as part of what is called the Beatitudes among “the Sermon on the Mounts”. Here Jesus was addressing not only His disciples but also the multitude of people who gathered to hear what He, Christ, had to say about the heavenly Kingdom. There are two issues raised in the statement. First, the purity of heart , and second, the issue of seeing God at last. These two thoughts are reiterated in Hebrews 12:14. It is thus clear that except a man is holy, he cannot make heaven or see God. A number of deductions can be made from the two texts referred to. One, God expects that our hearts be made pure in order to see Him on the last day. But how can the heart be made pure – the heart described in Jeremiah 17:9 as “deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked …” Two, He c...