Sadly many people who read the Bible read it this way!
Saturday, September 5, 2015
How Do You Read The Bible?
“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.” — Francis Bacon
Sadly many people who read the Bible read it this way!
Sadly many people who read the Bible read it this way!
Not Under Law But Love It
When we become born again we are no longer under the condemnation of the Law but the Law Giver now lives in us. We love His law it is not hard to obey, it is a light burden because we embrace and enjoy obeying God.
Romans 8:1 "Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."
Matthew 11:30 ""For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
When someone fights and argues to be able to sin because they are under grace, probably have never experienced salvation because they still love their sin.
John 14:15 ""If you love Me, you will keep My commandments."
Psalm 119:97 "O how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day."
If you want to understand this principle more fully go and read all the verses in their context, it is comforting for those who are born again but convicting to those who are not but only think they are Christians.
Romans 8:1 "Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."
Matthew 11:30 ""For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
When someone fights and argues to be able to sin because they are under grace, probably have never experienced salvation because they still love their sin.
John 14:15 ""If you love Me, you will keep My commandments."
Psalm 119:97 "O how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day."
If you want to understand this principle more fully go and read all the verses in their context, it is comforting for those who are born again but convicting to those who are not but only think they are Christians.
We Cannot Grow Without Christ
We will grow in direct proportions to how much we read the Word, ask God for wisdom and obey what He tells us.
James 4:1-10
"1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it [d]on your pleasures.
4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?
6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you."
James 4:1-10
"1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it [d]on your pleasures.
4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?
6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you."
Friday, September 4, 2015
How Do You Sign Your Letters
Can anyone tell me what the proper practice is for signing a family letter?
I have always signed mine and my husband's name when sending a birthday or thank you card, but feel uncomfortable signing my husband's name to a personal letter that I wrote. I might say, Rodger says hi, or relay a message from him and then sign his name with mine.
If the letter is generic with information about what we have been doing, I have no problem signing both our names. However when I have interjected personal opinions or stories that do not pertain to my husband, in a private letter, I am uncomfortable signing his name too, since he may not have the same opinions.
When I sign both our names on a letter, I feel that the letter with both our names ought to reflect total agreement with what is written.
What do you all think?
I have always signed mine and my husband's name when sending a birthday or thank you card, but feel uncomfortable signing my husband's name to a personal letter that I wrote. I might say, Rodger says hi, or relay a message from him and then sign his name with mine.
If the letter is generic with information about what we have been doing, I have no problem signing both our names. However when I have interjected personal opinions or stories that do not pertain to my husband, in a private letter, I am uncomfortable signing his name too, since he may not have the same opinions.
When I sign both our names on a letter, I feel that the letter with both our names ought to reflect total agreement with what is written.
What do you all think?
Psalm 91:11-16
Psalm 91:11-16
11 For He will give His angels charge concerning you,
To guard you in all your ways.
12 They will bear you up in their hands,
That you do not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread upon the lion and cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.
14 “Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.
15 “He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.
16 “With a long life I will satisfy him
And [d]let him see My salvation.”
11 For He will give His angels charge concerning you,
To guard you in all your ways.
12 They will bear you up in their hands,
That you do not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread upon the lion and cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.
14 “Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.
15 “He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.
16 “With a long life I will satisfy him
And [d]let him see My salvation.”
The Whole Family Will Hate the Scapegoat!
This is what most believers are up against. As we assert our beliefs in Christ, making the decision to obey Christ, we are going to see more family rejection. We are told by many writer, the observation that there is an increase in narcissism in our culture. Most of them are seculars who see what is going on but don't realize that what they are seeing is written in God's Word as well as not really knowing what to do with it.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, [a]haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [b]godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."
"Denial is at the root of narcissism, and at the core of the narcissistic family. Any exposure is a threat to the survival of the system, and must be addressed accordingly. ACoNs who raise any concerns about the family's dysfunctions report being ostracised by the whole family, including siblings they thought they were close to. Criticism, or any introspection, is perceived as an attack, and the response of the family is to attribute a fault to whomever makes the criticism. In other words, if you call the family crazy, the whole family will call you crazy back."
sonsofnarcissiticmothers.org: The Narcissistic Family
2 Timothy 3:1-5
"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, [a]haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [b]godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."
"Denial is at the root of narcissism, and at the core of the narcissistic family. Any exposure is a threat to the survival of the system, and must be addressed accordingly. ACoNs who raise any concerns about the family's dysfunctions report being ostracised by the whole family, including siblings they thought they were close to. Criticism, or any introspection, is perceived as an attack, and the response of the family is to attribute a fault to whomever makes the criticism. In other words, if you call the family crazy, the whole family will call you crazy back."
sonsofnarcissiticmothers.org: The Narcissistic Family
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