"Words without understanding the spiritual meaning can be considered abstract thinking, leaving the intellectual and materialistic world with human imaginations,
which left to infinite minds...confounds the intellectual community
being witnessed far and wide. The Holy Spirit being 'away' can be determined by behavior of words put forth...materialistic thoughts, or spiritual thoughts.
Let us be cautious of how our mind and hearts can be easily betrayed
by worldly influences of flattering tongues and double hearts."
'Praise God'
What are you thinking about?
Sunday 16th September 2018
'If anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things.' Philippians 4:8 NIV
What preoccupies our thoughts has a huge influence on the way we live. If we primarily think about worldly things, we'll have a worldly focus. Conversely, if we think primarily about God's ways, his ways will determine the way we live. It's easy to say, but not quite so easy to put into practice. So many things can determine how we think: our upbringing; our day-to-day activities; other people speaking into our lives; the enemy feeding us lies that we believe are truths. Once our thoughts are on anything other than godly things, we're in danger of our lives heading in the same way.
The...
If we can look into each other's hearts, what do you think we will find?
a. Gentle and kind to everyone.
b. Ready to help others and be concerned about their salvation.
c. Pure and loving to those who refuse to come to church with us.
d. Feeding the hungry God's word.
e. Clothing the naked, those who lost their way in life.
f. To find a goal in life.
g. Visiting the sick and those in nursing homes. No one visits them. You be the one who does.
h. Taking the gospel to prisoners who never heard about Jesus.
i. Helping the widows and orphans.
So many things to do for Jesus. Remember, life is short and eternity is long. Let us all do the following......
Hate no one, no matter how much they wronged you.
Live humbly no...
God gets your attention in the strangest way, went up the road was driving thinking about training and God then turned left on to another road the car in front of me had licence plate ###, then drove past the car turned left on another road and the next car I was driving behind had the licence plate ###.
God is good hallelujah
You've probably seen, or dealt with, this type too. Tailgating, the very second the light goes green, blasting away at the horn, starting to "squirm" in impatience if they're behind you at the supermarket checkout, "flipping out" if you're driving the limit in front of them and they want to speed. But the question is... is this impatience, and "flipping" at the next one because they're in the way of "their" thing, blindly acting out their role in the rat race, is this part of the flesh nature? I would think so, because I haven't seen Christians "flip out" over things in their desires if thwarted. They take things more in stride. So what the world calls the "type A personality," always pushing, is that really just a part of the fallen...
