Two Gates-Two Paths

Many look at life and exclaim “Life is Good!” as if their existence is simply about having a good time. They go on living each day without any concern for their eternal destination as they engage themselves in the world’s current affairs. Throwing themselves into the pleasures of the world has become their reason for living. Their only gratification comes from their weekend leisure. Conviction is thrown by the wayside and they lash out at anyone who disapproves of their immoral choices.

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Should Christians honor the Sabbath Day?

There are some Christians who believe that the Sabbath Day was replaced by the First Day of the week in celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ [Yeshua Mashiyach] from the grave, but is this the case? This day, Sunday, in honor of the Sun god ["Sol"] is the one in which we worship the LORD and Creator who warned the Israelites about idolatry, honoring other gods and them worshipping other gods before or alongside Him.

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How to Gain Victory Over the Flesh

The Bible says that they that are in the flesh cannot please God. It also says that there is none that doeth good and sinneth not. First, what is meant by the word “flesh”? Often we use the word to mean our body. We need to understand that we are a threefold being. We are a fleshly body; we have a mind, which is our will, emotions, and intellect; and we are a spirit.

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I know what FLUFF is…and I Know What Fluff Isn’t!

I grew up very typical, in a typical town, typical church, no need to get into what religion, that is not the important thing here. I know there are a gazillion girls out there just like me, brought up like me, who may have been happy to let the family bible collect dust. This didn’t make me a bad person. I suspect many with a similar upbringing are good people, well meaning, thoughtful most of the time, sort of living in the moment, happy to float through life. But, I never considered that God might have more and want more for me than just floating.

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Water for the parched and weary land

By Kathleen D. Angell
I was in a circumstance today that I realized how much the Body of Christ can be thirsty for Love.
I’m often not attentive to others needs. Maybe it is a child’s or a teens needs, or just someone there in my day, that they just needed to know a touch of Jesus’ [...]

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Joy

Love and Joy and Jesus life are those Waters in the Well that never go dry. You don’t have to keep them, you can give them away. And the more we give, the more we get in return to give away again.

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Attaining perfect finish

Stories are told of great people in the Bible who started their race with vigour and vibrancy but who stumbled when they were about breasting the tape.

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Acts 20:32

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

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Loneliness

By Stanley Hasegawa

Loneliness is about alien-ness, distance, disconnectedness, helplessness, forsakenness all shot through with a painful sense of not being valued or loved.

Loneliness can happen to us when we are aliens, strangers.

“He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.” (John 1:10)

If Jesus our Lord was treated as a stranger by the world, we will be too.

We may experience a season of loneliness because of the loss of a loved one. This is especially true of widows and orphans because they often become simultaneously alien (they need to relate to others differently from before), disconnected, helpless (financially insecure) and in a sense forsaken.

We may experience a season of loneliness because of betrayal or abandonment.

“But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled.” (Matthew 26:56)

We may experience a season of loneliness because of illness or criminal punishment.

“Around three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’” (Mark 15:34)

We may experience loneliness because abuse and/or neglect have profoundly altered how we think of ourselves and the people around us. As children, it is too threatening for us to acknowledge that our parents truly reject us and abuse/neglect us. If this is true, our normal, everyday life becomes impossible to live into.

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Change Is A Choice!

Everyone in the place was sick or suffering from something. If we are honest about it we are just like those people. We are all suffering from something ourselves. Maybe it is something we can talk about, maybe it is something we keep hidden in our secret closet. The only difference between some of us and some of them is that we have made a decision to put our faith in Jesus and we have been healed. We have made a decision that no matter what it cost we are not going to stay in this same spot another year, two or even another day.

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Why is God Silent When You Need Him Most to Speak?

They reveal themselves by admitting they pray, plead, thank God for everything He has done. But SELDOM do I hear “I just get quiet and sit with Him.” They don’t understand…that is WHEN you HEAR from Him. In YOUR silence. In your quiet time…He will speak. Sometimes, He whispers.

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When Fear Cages You

Fear is one of the major reasons why many people have not only found it difficult achieving their aims in life but it has also made lots of people forfeit the opportunity of experiencing the best of God!

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Christian Growth

So also is the infant Christian. Every prayer he prays, God Almighty being the Father seems to answer immediately. He begins to see and enjoy the unsearchable riches in Christ Jesus; though having lots of questions in mind. To such did Peter admonish: “Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto [completed] salvation” (1Peter 2:2 Amplified).

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Gentle Whisper

Most day trekkers don’t come here, just the more adventurous hikers. I don’t consider myself a real hiker by any means but there is just a real hunger to want to go higher. This seems to echo a calling within my heart. In the quietness of the windy breeze blowing on these upper hills I listen for a whisper. I can’t make out the words yet but I know it’s calling me closer.

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Holy Spirit of God And Your Ability to Act On Your Projects

The more I study the lives, times and exploits of these people, the more I took a decision to know more about the Holy Spirit.

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