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Friday, 09 October 2009
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
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Holiness is a harvest!
"Do you know why some Christians make great strides in their walk with God while others are stagnant?
The Bible says, 'Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature he will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.'
What you see in your spiritual life today is the direct result of what you’ve put in the soil of your life in days past. We can’t get around this truth. There are no exceptions – our actions and choices can’t be separated from specific consequences.
When it comes to the flesh, we do this by indulging in a lustful glance, a sinful fantasy, or a movie loaded with sexual innuendo. We might think of these acts as harmless little flecks of dirt we can just brush off every so often with no real damage done. But God is telling us here that our sinful thoughts and deeds are actually seeds that land in the soil of our heart. They don’t go away once they fall. They take root. They grow up. And eventually they become a great harvest of spiritual death.
We can’t undo our past choices or escape their consequences, but starting today, we can choose to sow to please the Spirit.
Holiness isn’t a mysterious spiritual state that only an elite few can reach. It’s more than an emotion, or a resolution, or an event. Holiness is a harvest!”
~by Joshua Harris
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
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Today's Media
“Today’s media, especially television, seeks to define reality for us. It wants to tell us how to think about value, about marriage, about our desires, about sin.
Entertainment goes straight to our hearts. Have you ever thought about this? Media never reason with us in its attempts to convince us to love lust and sin, but create a television drama that engages our emotions and, through the power of the story, makes the sinful act of adultery seems appealing.
Television and film stir up feelings and emotions that bypass our minds and go straight for our affections. The incredible power of media is that it can make something evil look good or exciting without appearing to make any argument at all!” (Joshua Harris)
When John Wesley was in college, he wrote a letter to his mother asking her to give him a clear description of sin. Maybe he wanted a list of do’s and don’ts. But Mrs. Wesley didn’t give him what he wanted. She gave him something better.
In response, she wrote: “Take this rule: whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increase the strength and authority of your body over your soul, that thing is sin for you, however innocent it may be in itself.”
Friday, 10 July 2009
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Treasure God's Word
You can live without your body, but you cannot live a meaningful life without God's Word!
"My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food." ( Job 23:11-12 )
Saturday, 27 June 2009
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I am such a wicked sinner!
There were so many times I struggled!
And there were so many times I failed!
But the worse of all, I can't count how many times I even failed to struggle!
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