What to do? The next right thing…. In Part 1, we came to the understanding of what “discipline” means. In this post, we go forward with understanding in how to apply it to our lives with what SELF has got to do with it. To begin, we come to the place where it was finished…
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will…
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)” How do we model Gods pattern for LivingOUTLoud His pattern for forgiveness? God does not extend His grace through His mercy until we admit our need for it. Like God,…
Praises to Him who sets us FREE…free in Him to base our life and righteousness in and after…. Our hope in His birth is the HOPE of living free in Him! Freedom to conform to His image, His standing, and NOT the moral preference of others. Our heavenly King, is the only the only Judge…
It’s time we start taking a closer look at what it means for us to be “staying right in our role while LivingOUTLoud in BOUND of His ETERNAL TRUTHS.” Absolute Truths vs. Subjective Truth In our upcoming series of posts, will examine more closely our personal understanding of reasoning, with exploration and determination of our…
I woke up with the scripture ringing in my ear… “the truth will set you free.” My spirit man kept repeating this statement to me in my subconscious “I have set you free.” Free?!? Free from what? The bondage? The yoke? The compromise? His word says, But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he…
Thomas Hobbes “asserted that human desires is the fundamental motivation of all human action” (Wikipedia…). I am not one easily persuaded to believe it in my heart and accept it as a truth until I repeatedly experience it – that’s how I own the truth. Telling me once does not make me a believer nor…
I do not want to be wise in my own eyes now that I have the beginning of wisdom. Understanding the power of the Creator and the works of Christ, I fear Him. I fear Him but yet there is no fear in love. Love casts out fear. So if fear of the Lord is…
“The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe” (Proverbs 29:25). I aim to please…please others in order to satisfy the intense need to feel validated – well, at the very least that was once my pattern for living. I worked myself to a frenzy trying to make…
Wisdom is the principal thing that we need to get. With wisdom, we have understanding, deliverance and freedom, With wisdom comes peace on earth in the path of Christ – that’s how our steps are ordered. In wisdom, we produce the fruits of righteousness – we learn self-control, kindness, gentleness, joy, peace, goodness, faithfulness…because we…
Faith and trust are different. Faith believes while trust acts… I could believe in who HE was but I could not anchor down in a way to believe He would/will do as He says. Have you struggled with minding the gap in believing He will do what He says? Truth? From me to you?!? Lacking…
We must learn to instead to: STAND FIRM “Be steadfast, immovable always abounding in the work of the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:58) STOP BLOWING IN THE WIND “…no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind and doctrine, by the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting”…
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and not that of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast” (Ephesians 2:9). We are no longer under the law. When Christ sacrificed Himself at the cross, He took on all the punishments for all sinners – past, present…
The Law of Harvest is real. Everything planted in the dark will grow into the light. “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to the flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will…
We, as a culture, have perverted the GOSPEL by weakening its point. It’s time to raise the standard in the expectation of His higher way of living by following His commands. What can we do? Can we strengthen what we have weakened without His empowering strength? No. We cannot, in our own power, redeem our…