All posts tagged: Perspective

Personal Holiness Is First

God is more concerned with the state of people’s hearts than with the state of their feelings.

The wise man fears (respects, reveres, and lives in awe of) God. He looks to God for truth. So the wise man finds out what God says in His Word about life, about good and evil. And then the wise man does the good and departs from evil.

God Says “Yes” to our Prayers when we say “Yes” to His Will

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The first step in a powerful prayer-life is seeking the will of God. We must let go of our wills our wants and our wishes. And replace them with God’s will “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done”…

The Thorn

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I stood a mendicant of God before His royal throne

And begged him for one priceless gift, which I could call my own…

Tribulation Forges Peace

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…it is prudent that we change our attitudes from tribulation avoidance to tribulation expectation/preparation, because we know it is coming. no matter what we do.

We Don’t Live Here

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Believers, we must live our lives here on earth knowing that we don’t belong here. We will escape the battles and the struggles one day.

FEAR NOT: (If) Your Soul is Safe

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Financial advisors always tell us to plan for the future, not to live just for the moment. Likewise, let us take an eternal view. We (our spirits) will be alive long, long after our bodies die. Our lives will be just a fleeting moment on the eternal time-scale. Let get our priorities right.