Does the king of heaven – the LORD of angel armies – have complete and total access to the resources that He has entrusted to you? True, He could demand it. True, He may have control of it already. But, He asks you to willingly give. He wants your will! God wants willful people to sacrifice their preferences so that He can do a visibly powerful work in and through them.
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Praxis: Right-doing, Part 6
Grace abounds when believers are enjoying the goodness of Father God. The proud will always keep God at an arms distance, for they are secure with some part of themselves. The humble know the sweetness of communion with the good Father, because they have nothing else to cling to but His riches.
Praxis: Right-doing, Part 3
Any favoritism or prejudice will undo our best intentions to show grace. We must fight our natural preferences in full view of the glorious grace that Jesus has brought us.
Praxis: Right-doing, Part 2
Love touches our possessions. Love grabs a hold on our resources. Our time and means are leveraged by the love of the Lord Jesus for His glory and the growth of His kingdom.
Praxis: Right-doing, Part 1
All hard things are for our good and for God’s glory. The tough situations in life are not orchestrated for our defeat but for God’s magnification in our lives. Trials are platforms for the worship of God.
Beautiful Attitudes, Part 6
This is a practicable holiness. An investment of the self in Jesus will surely result in an outworking of good deeds, good thoughts and good desires.
Beautiful Attitudes, Part 5
The happiness of God comes to abide in the heart of the merciful. This is a truth consistent across the Old and New Testaments. It is not the will of God that we should despise each other.
Beautiful Attitudes, Part 1
The beautiful attitudes let us and the world around us know that the old person is gone and the new person has come to stay.
Teach Us To Pray! Part 4
In each act of forgiveness, the Kingdom of God stands a little stronger. The domain of the holy is made more present with each reconciliation. As individuals become brothers and sisters through faith in Jesus Christ, we see God’s supreme design for our world more clearly.
Teach Us To Pray! Part 3
Each time we gather around a table of food we have the opportunity to acknowledge the provider of the harvest. Each time we take a bite of some tasty morsel of crust we should reflect on the goodness of God’s grace and His ability to make a way for our life.
POIEMA: Created for Truth 