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Living to please people brings pressure and stress. It’s a heavy burden, for you can never please everyone all the time. Don’t allow the expectations of others to direct your life. You can’t serve two masters. Let God be your only ruler and live to please him alone. Paul said, “I’m not trying to win
Read MoreLife can be full of pressure – but your heart can be full of peace! Don’t stuff your feelings inside: you have to DEAL with how you FEEL. Instead, release your frustrations to God in prayer. Give him your burdens and cares, and receive His grace in return. Then you will find His rest for
Read MoreWisdom dictates that we dedicate our lives to giving ourselves away in service to God and others. A life that counts is not a life of self-interest or self-preservation. A life that counts is not one of fame or fortune or pleasure. A life that counts is a life surrendered to the plan of God.
Read MoreTake this step today to win the war against lust: make Job’s covenant with your eyes. Job 31:1 tells us: “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust at a young woman.” Your eyes are the window to your soul. When you refuse to look at pornography, immoral movies, and sensual
Read MoreThis is adapted from St Benedict’s “The Twelve Steps to Humility”: 1. Intentionally seek to be humble before God and man. 2. Acknowledge that God is my Lord and I am his servant by obeying him. 3. Always seek God’s will in my decisions, not my will. 4. Confess my sins to God quickly and
Read MorePride is “Contending for supremacy with God.” It is placing yourself above God, and declaring that you are your own god. This is what the archangel Lucifer did when he fell from heaven and became satan. Pride kept satan out of heaven and it will keep you out of heaven too. Pride turned an angel
Read MoreThe Gospel calls us to die to self and live for Christ. Repentance means a change of mind that results in a change of action. We repent not just from individual sins but from the entire principal of sin, which is selfishness. Entering the kingdom of God requires us to stop living in pursuit of
Read More“Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ.” Eph. 5:2-5. God tells us to “live a LIFE of love”. Many of us perform acts of love. Some of us can speak words of love. But God has called us as Christians to do more than occasional acts of love. He has called
Read MoreVictory is not an event; it’s a process. Walking in victory requires that you pass through the process that will lead you to attain the end result of God’s purposes. God gave Joshua the plan and the promise of victory – but he had to fulfill the process of marching around the city before the
Read More1. You will be victorious in JUSTICE. Those who have tried to oppress you and do you wrong will not succeed. What has been stolen from you will be restored. Those who have lied against you will be found out. Those who cheated you will be brought to justice. Matthew 12:18-21 “Look at my Servant,
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