New is old
... their partners. Christians are constantly chasing after the passing pleasures of the world having little or no time in their schedule for God.
Let's only stick to the unchanging God and His absolute word ...
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Joy in My Heart
... of great pleasure and happiness. Joy is something greater than happiness. Joy is a fruit of the Spirit, and when we find joy it's infused with comfort and wrapped in peace. Joy has a quality of eternity ...
Contentment is great gain
... with/without any physical deformity. Be thankful if you can breathe in and out with/without any medical assistance. Be thankful if you have the pleasure of feeling the urge to pass out stools and are able ...
Filled with Joy
... than spiritual things. If we follow similar mindset, we will always end up frustrated like the Israelites.
Beloved, what do you consider as joy? Are you chasing the pleasures of life as happiness? Are ...
Ungratefulness
... unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God” 2Tim ...
Friendship with Christ
“You are like an unfaithful wife who loves her husband’s enemies. Don’t you realize that making friends with God’s enemies – the evil pleasures of this world - makes you an enemy of God? I say it again, ...
In Christ alone is salvation
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world ...
Distracted Missionaries
... themselves with everything in the world with all its pleasures, lusts and evil. They seem to have forgotten that they are not citizens but just Ambassadors of a foreign brand. And that soon, they will ...
Commitment by challenge
... has tried to use all physical means to achieve pleasure. Man will always pursue what it takes to attain happiness on earth. Mankind has been trying to bypass God to achieve our own desires.
God demands ...
Train to Win
... It takes the most determined and dedicated persons to keep going. Abstain from all forms of evil which will weaken your training (1Thess. 5:22). We must deny ourselves of a lot of worldly pleasures to ...
Sowing with Open Conscience
... that whatsoever a man sow, he will reap.
Paul admonished the Galatian Christians to sow to the Spirit and not to the flesh and its deceitful pleasures (Galatians 6:8). Likewise, we must also fill our ...
God’s Abomination
... or didn’t occur the way you described it?
Are you the troublemaker whose sole aim is to create discord among brothers? Do you find pleasure in ensuring that brothers do not live at peace with each other? ...
A beautiful life
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It is the desire of many people to enjoy life to the fullest and have fulfilled dreams. This is usually understood to be going beyond meeting basic needs to living in luxury, pleasure and fulfilled dreams. ...
Reason or Passion
... of choice God gave us is not easy as we journey on the issues of life. As Christians, we keep struggling between fulfilling our physical pleasures or denying ourselves for the sake of the cross. Sin has ...
Control Your Words
... to pronounce a curse, may it come on him; he found no pleasure in blessing; may it be far from him. He who wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water and into his bones like oil” ...
The cost of discipleship
... of so many pleasures of this world. Some of the pleasures are sinful while others are not. Denying yourself means that what you think does not matter. We need to put ourselves aside and obey what the master ...
Identify your purpose
... doing our dream job, we can always find pleasure in whatever we do. It is only by identifying our purpose for that role that we can value and appreciate it.
Every job comes with its own challenges. Some ...
Faithfulness in marriage, purity in celibacy (Part 2)
... die in one day” (NLT) 1 Corinthians 8:8.
“When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures” (NLT) Galatians 5:19.
“Let there ...
If the foundations be destroyed
... pleasure to keep the oath he swore to their ancestors (Deuteronomy 7:7-8). Yet Israel persisted in her evil ways, from the time of Moses to the judges, to the kings and prophets, Israel lived with reckless ...
Christ or Convenience
... yourself of worldly pleasure and carry a cross of duty (Luke 9:23). Are you prepared to serve the Lord at all times or when it is convenient for you? Are you willing to sacrifice your comfort zone for ...