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Five Benefits of Declaring His Worth

October 5, 2012 — 14 Comments

Even if I receive nothing in return for my worship expression to the Lord, I choose to worship solely because He is worthy. End of story.

BUT, I can’t escape sharing the results of what happens in me when I do declare His worth. I have to admit, I am reluctant to share these benefits because my natural tendency is to lean toward how things benefit me first, so His worth might become a means to initially receive rather than simply give. Yet, I think it’s important to put these out here as long as we never confuse the sequence of priority.

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How to Love God When You Feel God Has Let You Down

May 28, 2012 — 17 Comments

How do you maintain a fervent love for God when you feel God has let you down. What do you do when you feel God has treated you unfairly, left you unprotected, undefended or abandoned. How do you respond to the seeds that lie within you questioning His love and your lack?

How do you keep the pursuit of God the main thing when you feel that the One you’re in pursuit of has, in someway, short-changed you and left you hanging out to dry? It’s not easy.

I have to admit, been there, done that.

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How Do You Want to Approach God? You Choose.

May 16, 2012 — 21 Comments

Our mindset on how to approach God determines the confidence we have before God.

UNJUST JUDGE

About a year ago, I was studying Luke 18 “The parable of the Unjust Judge”, trying to determine how it relates to God hearing our prayers and releasing justice. Here it is.

Luke 18:1-5
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’ 4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care about men, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually wear me out with her coming!’”

But I can never really quite understand the words of Jesus that followed the parable.

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Faith, Hope and Love Working Together-What You Need to Know

April 16, 2012 — 14 Comments

Three biblical words have my attention right now; faith, hope and love. We see them together in 1 Corinthians 13.

1Cor. 13:13 “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

Over the last several weeks I have been on a quest to bring meaning to each word and discover how they work together.

I realize that volumes can be written on each of these words. My intent is not be exhaustive on each word but rather to see how these words work together practically as I co-labor with God.

I will start with faith and work towards love. Love is the foundation and faith is the end result. Hebrews 11:6 says, “without faith it is impossible to please God.”

So let’s start with faith.

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How the Church in Ephesus Missed Sustaining Revival and What We Learn From It

February 3, 2012 — 20 Comments

Revival is a word that is tossed around so much these days. Many churches talk about revival; some might say they are “breaking into revival” but I only know of a few that are truly there.