Francis Hirak asked:


tian way of life is the pillar and support of the truth and should be concerned about congregational purity. The entire life course of a faithful Christian is actually governed by faith, enabling them to overcome obstacles that would hinder their service to the true God. The Christian congregation serves as a “pillar and support of the truth,” preserving the purity of the truth, defending and upholding it. (1 Tim, 3:15)

The Christian way to upholding the truth is especially important when those entrusted with oversight in the congregation are able to handle the “word of the truth” aright. Proper use of God’s Word enables True Christians to combat false teaching in the congregation, instructing “those not favorably disposed; as perhaps God may give them repentance leading to an accurate knowledge of truth.”

The disciple James wrote: “who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show out of his fine conduct the works with a meekness that belongs to wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.”

The Christian way to seeking true understanding is through prayer to God: “Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed I shall observe it with my whole heart. The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting; Give me understanding, and I shall live.” (Ps 119:34, 144) This is the right Christian motive. The apostle prayed for the Colossian Christians that they might be “filled with knowledge of God’s will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding in order to walk worthily of the Lord.” (Col 1:9-10)

For the Christian congregation to be “a pillar and support of the truth,” the Christian members thereof must, through fine conduct, manifest the truth in their lives. (Eph 5:9) They have to be consistent and undeviating in right conduct, as if “girded about with truth.” (Eph 6:14) Besides maintaining personal purity, Christians must be concerned about congregational purity. When emphasizing the need to keep the Christian congregation clean from the defilement of lawless persons, the apostle Paul wrote: “Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” (1 Cor. 5:7-8)

By God’s helping with our Christian way, one can come to an “understanding heart,” that is, to learn right motive and also be able to discern bad motives, one’s own or those of others (Prov 8:5), and by adhering to right motivation can avoid being distracted, misled or sidetracked into a devious and foolish course, and instead can be upright and head straight for one’s goal. (Prov 15:21)

What it means to follow the Christian way is this: Jesus extended the invitation to be His follower, saying: “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Matt 16:24) Those who are true Christian have full faith that Jesus is God’s specially Anointed One and only begotten Son, the Promised Seed who sacrificed His human life as a ransom, was resurrected and exalted to the right hand of God, and the one who received authority to subdue his enemies and vindicate God’s name.(Matt 20:28) Christians view the Bible as the inspired Word of God, absolute truth beneficial for teaching and disciplining mankind.(Matt 17:17) and (2 Tim 3:16)

More is required of true Christians than mere confession of faith through the Christian way. It is necessary that belief be demonstrated by works. (James 2: 17, 26) Born as sinners, those who follow the Christian way and repent, (turn around) dedicate their lives to God’s worship and service, and submit to water baptism.(Matt 28:19) From then on they keep themselves clean from fornication, and idolatry. (Acts 15:20, 29) They strip off old personalities with their fits of anger, obscene talk, lying, stealing, drunkenness, and “things like these,” and bring their lives into accord with Bible principles.(Gal 5:19-21)

Peter wrote to Christians, “Let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a busybody in other people’s matters,” (1 Pet 4:15) Our Christian way is to be kind and considerate, mild tempered and long-suffering, lovingly exercising self-control. (5:22-23) Christians provide and care for their own and love their neighbors as themselves. (1Tim 5:8) and (Matt 22:36-40) The main identifying quality by which true Christians are recognized is the outstanding love they have toward one another. “By this,” Jesus said, “all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.” (John 13:34-35

Christianity is the way of the truth (2 pet 2:2) and those who assist others in furthering the interests of the Christian way become “fellow workers in the truth.” (3 John The entire body of Christian teachings, which latter became part of the written Word of God, is the “truth” or the “truth of the good news.” Adherence to or ‘walking’ in this truth is essential for an individual to gain salvation. (Rom 2:8 2, Cor 4:2, Eph 1:13) In the case of those who conduct themselves aright, the truth, the conformity of their Christian ways to God’s Word and the actual results of their course, testifies to the fact that they are examples worthy of imitation.(3 John 11-12)

True Christians imitate Jesus’ example as the Great Teacher and Faithful Witness of God. (John 18:37) “Go make disciples of people of all the nations, teaching them to do the same things I taught you to do,” is their Leader’s command, and in carrying it out Christians urge people everywhere to put their hope and confidence in God’s Kingdom. (Matt 28:19-20)

SCHRADER

Francis Hirak asked:


It is a true fact that you can make money online with Christian affiliate programs as the source of starting your own Christian business. Through building an affiliate web site, blogs, or email marketing as a source of your business, it’s a great way to have a steady flow of income. Joining free Christian affiliate programs is the less expensive way to start, and at the same time, you can make a very good living, if done properly.

Christian Affiliate web sites post links to the merchant site and are paid a percentage according to an agreement. This agreement is usually based on the number of people the affiliate sends to the merchant’s site who purchases something from them. If a link on an affiliate site brings the merchant site traffic, the merchant site will then pay the affiliate site according to their agreement. Usually these Christian affiliate programs are free to join.

A good Christian affiliate program will provide you with the tools necessary to promote their product, such as text links, banners, graphics and articles. You will also find that many affiliate programs will provide sample email news letters set up and ready to use. Change it around a little, add some good content so you can be unique, then copy and paste them in your email news letter with the unique url they give you so you get the credit for it. If you’re not familiar with affiliate marketing, a unique url is a cookie used for tracking the customer you send to the merchant site so you get the credit for the commission.

When your signing up with Christian affiliate programs, check out what the cookie duration is. Cookie durations vary. Some companies have a short duration and others have a long duration. The duration of the cookie is how long the cookie will last after you send the customer to the merchant site. When that duration of the cookie is up, your cookie then expires. The longer the cookie lasts, the better it is for you. Customers usually don’t buy the first time, it generally takes several contacts before the customer makes a purchase.

Check out if the cookie can be overwritten. When a cookie is overwritten, the customer who first learned about the product from your affiliate link, but go’s to another site or blog and so forth, and go’s through their link, and buys that product, you will not get the credit for it, therefore you will not get the commission on the sale.

You’ll find that most merchants who are serious about selling their products will give you the tools and training you need to promote them. This gives you a good opportunity to get the concept of how online marketing works, when you see how the merchants use their promotional tools to their advantage and your advantage.

Your advantage of starting a Christian affiliate website as the source of your Christian business is that you don’t have to do any copy writing. You don’t have to do the hard work that is involved with making a sales copy. Your job is just to get the customer to the merchant site. It is up to the merchant to make the sale. This is why it is very important to pick a Christian affiliate program with a merchant who has a good sales page and a good reputation. Remember, it is your reputation that is on the line, so choose wisely and choose a merchant that is honest and has a good reputation that will match yours.

To be successful with Christian affiliate programs you must select a company that offers a product that your costumers will be interested in. For example if you run a video game site, do not place links to a site that sells oil paintings. They will seem out of place and do poorly. You have a much better chance of making money by placing affiliate links to game stop, EBGames, GameFly, on other video game companies that have affiliate programs. Choose your affiliates that meet your criteria.

Affiliate programs are arrangements in which an online merchant web site pays affiliate web sites a commission to send them traffic, usually in the form of a commission based on a percentage of sales.

There are different types of commissions that range anywhere from 5% to as high as 75% depending on the type of affiliate program payout. There are also affiliate programs that pay you in the form of residual income. A residual income program is a program that pays you on an ongoing basis as long as the customer stays with the program, where a product site pays you a one time commission for each product they sell through your referral.

When you choose an affiliate program, pay special attention to the profits you receive from each sale. In order to make money with affiliate programs, you should choose a higher percentage commission pay out rather than a lower commission pay out.

Let us look at it from this point of view; if you are only paid 5% commission on the sale of a $10 product, you will only be making 50 cents per customer. It would take 2,000 paying customers just to make $1,000 in profits. You cannot make money online like this! Look for reasonably priced products with a high conversion and higher commissions, especially commissions in the 25% or higher range.

If you want to make money online with Christian affiliate programs, the best strategy to use are a combination of both, residual income programs that pay on a ongoing basis and product sites that pays a one-time commission.

To be truly successful with Christian affiliate programs, ask yourself these questions. Is this something that I can really use? Would it help me? Would I buy this product myself? If the answer is yes, you’re off to a successful and profitable Christian business.



LOZANO

Peter Menkin asked:


Thought provoking book, matters of the heart for lay people, too

Take on this “On Christian Theology” if you choose to learn more of religious things, like matters of the heart and unities in God. The writer, Rowan Williams, says, “Theology needs to make connections, to search out and display unities…” This book by the Archbishop of Canterbury does that, even for this lay man who spent time pondering over ideas and directions in a manner that required study as well as reading.

There are large subjects addressed, like “The Judgement of the World,” where he addresses many like ideas: “The diffuse discontent that consumer pluralism can engender (although it largely contains and even utilizes it) yields itself readily to any program that dresses itself persuasively enough in moral rhetoric…” There’s a taste of the theologian’s writing.

You won’t find this on a popular reading list, but certainly the publisher Blackwell has found a steady seller with this compilation. The subtitle is “Challenges in contemporary Christianity,” and apt it is–of special interest to Christians in general and Episcopalians and Anglicans in particular. Afterall, the Archbishop is an Anglican. Here he remarks on the world and we as creatures in relation to God. Along the way he says what God is to us and creation. He calls this God’s freedom: “…God in creation means that God cannot make a reality that then needs to be actively governed, subdued, bent to the divine purpose away from its natural course. If God creates freely, God does not need the power of a sovereign: what is, is from God.” Sometimes the writing is clearer to me than others, which is my limitation. I understand, “what is, is from God.” Here’s an understandable statement, among many in an understandable book, from the chapter “On Being Creatures”: “Being creatures is learning humility, not as submission to an alien will, but as the acceptance of limit and death…” He says for that we need moral imagination. One gets the idea of the scope of his concerns and thinking, which are matters of the heart and living.

In the chapter, “Word and Spirit” (again larger subjects, but fascinating and engaging ones to the Christian reader, and others I think), the author says what is extraordinary, or ordinary about the Christian human being. For afterall, this man can speak of being a Christian and of the Christian human being: “We can recognize perhaps more clearly the dispressure of the figure of the crucified Messiah: we can accept more readily the breaking of certain kinds of sacral barrier, so that ‘Spirit’ ceases to be confined to the extraordinary but becomes a qualification of Christian human being.”

Some other chapters: “Triniity and Ontology,” “Between the Cherubim,” (”It will effectively be claiming tht what is vital to Christian discourse about the resurrection can be stated exclusively in terms of what happens to the minds and hearts of believers when proclamation is made that the victim of the crucifixion is the one through whom God continues to act and speak.”), “Nature and Sacrament,” “Sacraments of the New Society” (”…we are either bound together by being ’seen’ by God as distant, as strangers, or bound together in a common assurance that we are received, affirmed, adopted.”

Today, in this season of Epiphany, in the winter of California where I live, I wanted to write a poem for this review (a kind of review in itself). Here it is:

Epiphany Brings News

by Peter Menkin

The Winter is young,

Trees bare against a grey sky.

Rain here.

Epiphany brings news

To me of the resurrection’s

Gifts.

Through this gift,

New creation,

In the cross-resurrection.

This Rowan Williams

Tells us these things;

Wait on the Christ-open heart.

This theologian I am reading

Says,

Shed enmity towards failures,

Enmity between people,

Shed this.

Then comes friendship with God.

Not matters of the mind,

Of the head,

But of the heart.

I think of Easter,

“the living of the believing life.”

Our trust is in Easter.

Many people have said that Rowan Williams writes of the crisis in our world, even the back cover notes proclaim such: “Overall, Williams presents a theological perspective acutely aware of the cultural and political crises of our time…” I would be remiss to leave that statement out of this review. For me, though, I found this a book of spirit and interesting writing opening windows and doors during this winter season into a light on the Trinity and man’s relation to God in Christ. This isn’t a book for a quick read, and I enjoyed the studying of text, even where I knew I was becoming only familiar with terms and people. As I’ve begun to become familiar with Rowan William’s writings, I think I chose a good book as part of that familiarization process.

Peter Menkin — Epiphany



LAFLEUR

Susan Slobac asked:


Stylish christian clothing for every size and taste!

There is an old hymn that goes, “All God’s children got a robe, all God’s children got a shoes.” However, modern Christians also go for Christian clothing, like Christian tshirts and hoodies. With your new Christian clothing, you can make a statement for Christ without even saying a word.

It can be difficult striking up a conversation with someone you do not know, yet you know you should in order to be a light out in the world. Sometimes it helps to have a little icebreaker, and that can be as simple as a statement printed on your clothing. Instead of advertising a corporation, why not advertise the King of Kings on your clothing? Now you can wear your religion not only on your sleeve, but also on your back, chest, arms and head, knowing that by doing so you are spreading the good news about God’s grace to everyone who sees it.

christian clothing is available in sizes appropriate for babies all the way up to big and tall sizes. You can find attractive fitted Christian tshirts, long-sleeved tshirts, zippered sweatshirts, along with hats, beanies, cell phone covers, jewelry, belts, sweatbands, and even poker chips that let the world know that you are a Christian with a sense of humor and proud of it.

Christian tshirts are available for bikers and people who want to dress like bikers. You will discover bold graphics focusing on the symbol of the cross, as well as thought-provoking statements that let everyone know where you stand.

Everyone loves baseball-style caps, and now you can wear one that announces your faith to everyone around you. Subtle ones that feature the numbers 3:16 might cause people to ask you what it refers to, and then you can lead them to your favorite Bible verse. Fishers will get a kick out of a hat reading “Fishers of Men”. Those who are into the military will love Christian clothing that combines a cross on a camoflage cap, or a cross on a flat-top hat styled after those worn by soldiers.

Christian hoodies are also very popular. Guitar lovers will be thrilled to don a hoodie with the funny “Pick Jesus” line emblazoned on a guitar pick. There are other humorous hoodies that feature Christian takes on myspace and popular clothing lines as well.

Christian clothing not only sets you apart from the crowd, it helps other Christians identify you. You could wear your Christian clothing to the mall or grocery store, and other Christians will spot it and talk to you because they know you are one of them. Something as simple and beautiful as the Christian clothing you wear can help you meet new friends in the faith, as well as make a statement to the unsaved all around you.



CANADA

Derek Ball asked:


Folk sitting in the same pew and listening to the same message can be maturing in their Christian walks at completely different rates. The psychological condition with which we hear God’s Word determines how we grow. The seeds which dropped beside the road were eaten by birds ( v.

They attend church but have just determined what they will hear. Because their minds are closed to any offer they do not wish to follow, this way the devil simply snatches the truth from them.

The seeds falling on rocky soil shoot up, but then are scorched by the sun. ( verses 5-6 ) This shallow soil represents folks who receive the Word with joy but then fall away when affliction comes.

When issues come, they fall apart because they do not know really know God’s personality or who they could be in Him. * This sterile plot of land represents those that hear the Word but are strangled by the distractions of this world’s empty guarantees and cares.

They lay too much stock in what the culture values – their resources are spent troubling about what quantity of money they have rather than growing in relationship with God. It is difficult for a cluttered mind like this to even hear His voice.

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Christianity in the News reaches the Christian culture thru the Net. We provide Christian reports from a large range of areas including Church, Ministries, Revival, Daily Devotionals and masses more. Christianity in the News is a non-denominational Christian media source that does not promote or demote any Christian denomination or congregation.We believe that there’s one God, eternally existing in three persons : the daddy, the boy, and the Holy Spirit.

we suspect that man was made in the image of God, but due to sin, was divided from God.

we believe that the Bible is God’s written revelation to man and that it is verbally provoked, authoritative, and without error in the first manuscripts.

we believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit, that He performs the miracle of the new birth in a unbeliever and indwells believers, enabling them for ministry and letting them live a godly life.

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WINKLER

Mike Fletcher asked:


When most people think of bikers, they think of rough looking, scruffy, hell raising men and women dressed in leather clad. These bikers can be intimidating to look at and gangs like the Hell’s Angels and Mongrels have had their stories made into countless TV shows and movies. While this grizzly type of a biker is a stereotype, there is a growing segment of the biker population who may still look scruffy and wear the leather, but these men and women are different, they are Christians.

Many of these bikers have always been Christian, others became Christian after years of partying had landed them in rehab where they found their higher power, and others became Christians in prison as a result of prison ministry.

Since bikers come from a culture that is territorial, loyal, and mainly patriotic and known for their all night parties, many bikers feel embarrassed at many mainstream churches because they feel they don’t fit in and may be the subject of ridicule. As a result of this, there are biker friendly Churches and Ministries popping up around the world.

Today, there are Christian biker organizations with chapters that cover the globe. One of the larger organizations is the Christian Motorcyclists Association or CMA. The CMA’s main purpose is as an outreach ministry, but not exclusively to the motorcycling community. The CMA’s noble mission is “To inspire their leaders and members to be the most organized, advanced, equipped, financially stable organization, full of integrity in the motorcycling industry and the Kingdom of God”.

CMA has partnered with three other ministries which are the Jesus Film Project, Missionary Ventures, and Open Doors to spread God”s word across the world. In 2006 alone, CMA donated $681,044.00 to each of these three ministries from money raised at their Run for the Son fundraiser.

Another big Christian biker association is the Christian Biker Missionaries or CBM. CBM is a non-profit organization based out of one of the motorcycle capitols, Daytona Beach. Their missions is “To Spread the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the biker community by recruiting, placing, and supporting biker missionaries in the field to bring hope to the highways.”

Christian bikers are international. An international association is the International Christian Bikers Association, or ICBA. The ICBA organizes special biker rallies and runs and are also active in prison outreach ministry.

There are also websites dedicated to serving Christian bikers. Christian Bikers Online is a site dedicated to helping Christian bikers to stay in touch while online. They like to think of their site at a cyber club house. At their site you will find a forum, gallery, dating system and resources for Christian rallies and rides.

There is no doubt, Christian bikers are a growing movement. They can be found in your local church, on the road, at rallies and around the world. They have a noble purpose to save the souls of their fellow bikers.

So next time you see grizzly leather clad biker, don”t be too quick to judge. That biker may just be your brother in the Lord.



ALEXANDER

Gavin Valencia asked:


To do anything in life, we must set a goal and allocate our energy and time to achieving it. Unfortunately, many of us don’t notice that God has any goals in mind for them, so they just float thru life aimlessly. Not only does God give explicit goals to every one of us individually ; he has also got goals that apply universally to all disciples. As an example, He wishes every one of us to commit ourselves to a relentless, lifetime pursuit of humility.

Few folks are ecstatic about following humility because they considered it to be a weakness. But if we understand what God discovers about it, we may understand that humility is a very heavy quality.

But the roots of these actions is meekness.

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Christian Faith Today is a total and up-to-date source of Christian-related news in America and around the planet. Christian faith Today reaches the Christian culture through the web. We provide Christian stories from a wide selection of areas including Church, Ministries, Revival, Daily Devotionals and much more.

Christian faith Today is a non-denominational Christian media source that does not promote or demote any Christian denomination or congregation.

we believe that there’s one God, eternally existing in 3 persons : the daddy, the son, and the Holy Spirit.

we believe that man was made in the image of God, but because of sin, was divided from God. That disunion can be removed only by accepting thru religion God’s gift of deliverance which was made possible by Christ’s death.

we think that the Bible is God’s written revelation to occupy and that it is verbally electrified, authoritative, and without mistake in the original manuscripts.

we have a belief in the deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, death on the cross to provide for our redemption, bodily resurrection and ascension into heaven and His return to earth in power and glory.

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RANGEL

Susan Slobac asked:


Let your clothing make a lasting statement–wear christian tshirts!

Most clothing is fairly ordinary, so why not stand out from the crowd by wearing witty Christian tshirts? Christian tshirts will grab fellow Christians attention, and will make non-Christians stop to consider the written statements and graphics with which you adorn your body, called a temple of the Lord in the Bible.

Some christian clothes are adorned with numbers. These numbers refer to a favorite Bible verse, John 3:16. People not familiar with the Bible could very well ask you what the numbers refer to, and this is a perfect opening for you to share your faith with them.

Since everyone expects tshirts to have a funny twist, Christian tshirts are no exception. You could expect to find tshirts that are a spoof of well-known clothing brand names, for example.

The graphics on Christian clothing is also worthy of note. Why not wear a “Public Display of Affection,” but instead of the typical meaning, it shows a picture of the crucifixion. Consider the effect of a large red cross with the words “A Blood Donor Saved My Life,” referring the the Ultimate giver of life, Christ. If a picture says a thousand words, these bold graphics printed on your tshirt will help you get the message out about God’s grace without you even uttering a word.

However, Christian tshirts can make great conversation starters as well. Nonbelievers might not understand very much about the Good News, so wearing a tshirt that brings a salient aspect of Christianity to their attention can be a wonderful way to begin sharing with them the good news about God’s grace available to them.

It can be challenging to share your faith in order to reap the souls of the unsaved. It is not always easy to know what to say that will reach a particular person’s needs. A colorful tshirt can help bridge that gap where witty banter takes a turn to more serious subject matter.

Christian tshirts come in various sizes and styles to fit every member of your family. From babies to bikers, you will find Christian tshirts suited to the smallest tyke up to big and tall people. Fitted Christian tshirts are also available for men and women, as well as Junior-sized Christian tshirts. Fitted tshirts are cut a little trimmer than a regular tshirt, so that they look wonderful on you. Many design styles also come in a long-sleeved version, perfect for those chilly winter and spring days that require a bit more protection from the cold. Whatever you particular preferences to style and message, Christian tshirts speak louder than words, and give you a witness even when you are not talking to anyone.



BOLTON

Adedotun Ojo asked:


The good news I bring you is the fact that you can have a sense of stability in the face of struggles. The fact that so great a cloud of struggles inundates or bombards a Christian does not mean he shouldn’t maintain a great deal of stability. Stability is necessary in the pursuit of peak success. Without stability it is impossible to enjoy peak performance in life and the society. Zig Ziglar, one of America’s foremost motivators, came up with a pattern through which most great individuals or those who aspire to be great must pass through to become great in life. He observed that most of these great men passed through some phases to eventually emerge significant and prominent in their respective societies. And these stages, I observed, are true of every aspect of life. Here are the phases he outlined:

 

Phase 1 => Struggle

 

Phase 2 => Stability

 

Phase 3 => Success

 

Phase 4 => Significance

 

No two persons experience the same amount of struggles because there are varying degrees to struggles; just as no two individuals are exactly the same. Some experience a minimal amount of struggles whereas some others suffer from a maximal amount of struggles, depending on one’s destiny, depth, and consistency. God looks at your maturity quotient or personal depth before He sends your customized assistance to you. If you are the very “deep” type, it will require a deep solution or help from God to fully satisfy you, because the deep calls on to the deep. If you are the “shallow” type, God may not waste much time or effort in bringing you a “shallow” help or overcoming power that He knows would easily satisfy you. But for the one who is going to overcome his struggles, anyway, help is needed that would bring about stability in your life. From which you’d begin to enjoy success, and when you bask in success for a protracted period of time, you’d break forth into significance in your world. This will be your testimony in Jesus’ mighty name!

 

I encountered my Spark of Ambition when I discovered that God wants me to succeed regardless of conflicts and struggles I face within or without. God says, “Be aggressive in the use of your Will; Cast all your burdens that will not let you be “aggressive” on Me, and I will take care of them (Psa55v22); just ensure that you adhere to it as soon as I provide solutions to your burdens (struggles)”.

 

Find your own Spark of Ambition too and begin to drive your self with all the Will and determination of a great warrior in this life.

 

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Written By Adedotun Ojo

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CORRAL

Leo Roy asked:


How pleased he’s’s to see your religion shine as you help folks. Your’service’ may be a pleasant smile, a provoking word, or a listening ear. In different eventualities, God may ask you to sacrifice your time or give freely of your resources. The love God gives you for others will pressure you to make some time for them and not count the cost.

As you pour yourself into loving them, you can discover a feeling of achievement and joy. Serving in Jesus’ name also suggests that you are acting in submission to His authority – to clarify, doing things in His way and time. To live out your faith is to depend on the Lord God’s power.

Only by yielding to His control can your work yield real non mundane fruit. People will know your religion is real when your actions exalt God and not yourself. As attaches of Christ, we must serve with excellence so that God receives the glory He merits. Watch for God’s signals and be in a position to act with a passion to live out your religion.

He wants to develop Christlike personality in us thru the presence and power of the Lord God. This call to sanctification is given to each Christ-follower, and at its heart is the plan for the supporter to be’set apart.’ the Lord God Almighty enables us turn from our old styles of action and angle to give ourselves fully to the Lord.

A life of surrender asserts,’Lord, whatever you want, whenever, wherever and however you would like it, my answer is yes.’. A willing reply to every one of these divine calls will prepare you for His call of accountability. Scripture tells us that each person will experience a Day of Judgment. For individuals that refused God’s invite to deliverance, it will mean rage and perpetual separation from the Lord.

For supporters, it’ll be a day in which our answer to God’s call on our lives will be evaluated . Only those things done at His direction and in His way will matter when that time comes ; everything else will count for nothing. Daily, God is calling to you, desiring to communicate with you about critical matters.

It is straightforward to lose your bearings in the hurricane. You can not find your way thru the circumstances you are facing. In Luke’s words,’All hope of our being saved’ is deserted. Those are treacherous moments when we reach the point of deserting hope. At that annoying, gut-wrenching moment, God says,’Don’t be fearful, I have a plan.’.

folks facing intense difficulty find it difficult to focus on anything apart from the surging waves and stinging winds. We’ve heard from the Lord that none will be lost.’. We find stability in tempests thru what God has said. Your disposition will be to turn to another source for strength rather than the Word of the Almighty. The only anchor of stability that may hold you firm, without regard for how intense the gale-force winds, is God’s written Word.

All this makes me think about a statement manufactured by one of the standard Jewish soothsayers, which supports the loyalty of Almighty God and His Word. The following words flow from the seasoned hand of Isaiah [*CO]‘But now, so claims the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel, ‘Do not fear, for I have redeemed you ; I have called you by name ; you are Mine. When you pass thru the waters, I’m going to be with you ; and thru the streams, they will not overflow you” ( Isaiah 43:1-2 ). ‘Do not fear, I have called you by name.’ What a great thought. Isaiah wasn’t writing of literal waters or discernible streams.

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From 24-7 Christian News. When the waters rise to deadly depths, when issues reach maximum proportion, when your ship appears to be disintegrating board by board and starting to sink by life’s inevitable storms, God is trustworthy. He guarantees,’I will be with you.’ he is’s your anchor.

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SKAGGS