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Day 162 Self-Justification Part 2
Thought of the day. #Self-justification(cont) 3. Busyness In this on-the-go world, we show off our busyness as if our personal significance depends on it. How can we have eyes to see and ears to hear what God has for us, if we can't slow down long enough to seek and...
Day 161 Self-Justification Part 1
Thought of the day. Over the next 5 posts I will look at self justification in the following areas: 1. Gossip. 2. Apathy. 3. Busyness. 4. Lack of consistent church attendance. 5. Unforgiveness. 6. Disregard for the truth. 7. Focusing on behaviour rather than the...
Day 160 Surrender
Thought of the day. #Surrender When we surrender it means we leave our future to God. Proverbs 3:5-6 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths” (ESV)....
Day 159 God’s Protection
Thought of the day. #God'sprotection We need to keep a shield of the Word over ourselves, so no fiery dart of the devil can penetrate our life. Even though as Christians the Holy Spirit lives within us, we must still make sure we have our shield of faith in place when...
Day 158 Resentment
Thought of the day. #Resentment The fact that we are holding on to resentment, means that someone is controlling us. When we say things like, “You make me so mad”? That’s an admission that the other person is controlling us. The only way to get this person out of our...
Day 157 Doer of the Word
Thought of the day. #DoeroftheWord Keep a soft, tenderhearted heart by seeking to love God above everything else. Then go forward to love and care for your neighbours. Your neighbours are everyone else other than you. Above all, keep loving one another earnestly,...
Day 156 Prayer
Thought of the day. Jesus in Matthew 6: 9-13 tells us that this is how we should pray: “This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread....
Day 155 Love Beyond Words
Thought of the day. #lovebeyondwords The Lord spoke this to me clearly one evening when I was out in Hillbrow sharing the gospel to various street people. In this particular situation I was ministering to a young man and I was telling him about how much Jesus loved...
Day 154 God First
Thought of the day. #GodFirst In order for us to truly live a successful Christian life we need to put God first in every area of our life. Let's look at 5 areas that we can put God first: 1. Finances. If we want God to bless our finances, even during hard times, we...
Day 153 Total Surrender
Thought of the day. #TotalSurrender Let us imagine that we’re sitting on a plane that’s about to take off. The plane proceeds to coast down the runway and at that very moment we start flapping our arms. We then start progressively flapping our arms faster and faster...
Day 152 Unforgiveness
Thought of the day. #Unforgiveness The effect that unforgiveness has on our ability to walk in love: Often when we are wronged by others we are determined to make them pay the price for what they have done to us. This leads to us developing a heart that is unforgiving...
Day 151 Friendship
Thought of the day. #Friendship In our modern day society the concept of true friendship has become a foreign concept. People have forgotten what it actually means to be a friend. In our modern society we have social networking which on the one hand is great but on...
Day 149 Record of Wrongs
Thought of the day. A by-product of keeping a record of wrongs is that it totally breaks down unity within the body of Christ. We have Christians pointing fingers at one another and harsh words been spoken to each other and about one another. Very often this is done...
Day 148 Perspective
Thought of the day. Perspective is something that really impacts our daily lives. If we focus on the wrong stuff our thoughts follow and eventually we act on it. As followers of Christ we need to keep our minds Christ focused. We should not allow ourselves to be...
Day 147 Restoration
Thought of the day. It is important that we gain an understanding that God is in the restoration business. Throughout the “Word of God” is the astonishing record of the Lord's effort to reclaim and to restore those who are eternally His, but who in a moment of...
