Our current national climate is one of conformity. It literally wants to strip you of your nationality, race, gender, religious beliefs, personality, and even your own thought life. We went from the extreme of everyone should say their opinion to everyone needs to be of the same opinion. And if you are not, you need to be silenced.
We have heard "Vengence is mine, says the Lord" preached, as it should be. He is much better at true justice than we could ever be. He also does it with absolute righteousness and with no malice. However, there is an appropriate time to take your revenge.
Jaime lays out the actions that Blind Bartimaeus took to [...]
There is a book available to those who are pregnant, or as we say, expecting. It's called "What to expect when you're expecting." The irony is if you expect something, you already know what you are expecting. We sometimes fail to see we have this same upsidedown idea of prayer. We pray but then act like we have no idea what will happen. Mark 11:24 (NIV) says, "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."
Philippians 4:9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard [...]
Death beds produce weighty final words. You don't waste them [...]
God isn't going to win. He's already won! Satan isn't going to lose. He's already lost! So what are you waiting on? This Christian life is not a walk-a-thon. It's a race.
To quote a line from The Princess Bride, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Today's "Christian" commonly has adopted the world's ideologies and, subsequently, its definitions to define scripture. Let's get something straight right from the start. God is not schizophrenic.
To you who have decided, to you who make God's business your business and aren't content to simply sit in salvation, you will be victorious! Have no fear. God has already planned your enemy's defeat!
God's grace may be abounding, but one thing it is not is cheap. It isn't sloppy and inexpensive. Though He has enough for all, it can be wasted. And though it is potent and powerful enough for the strongest of sinners, it can be misapplied and subsequently made of no effect. Its vastness is unsearchable, but its reach is precise.
