Greetings good people,
I just had to share this powerful FB conversation:
Elton Taylor, Jr. - "Everything you encounter has already been designed for you to conquer." GOD is so good! Let's elevate our thinking to this perspective, people of GOD. Whatever GOD allows to cross your path, just know that it's a set-up for you to win!"
My response - "...this is such a revolutionary word directly from the God. Check this out: 1 Corinthians 10:13a says that- “No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear” (NIV 1984’). So, not only will God not allow more to occur in your life than you can handle- He cannot allow more! He’s just that faithful to His own Word. Therefore, as you noted- every trial, test, uncomfortable circumstance, etc. that faces us is personally designed by God to be “conquer friendly”. Praise GOD! Everything is “conquer friendly” because of the power of Christ on the inside! Ok, ok, ok, I better stop typing now because I feel like shouting, preaching, running, etc.!"
DsW
August 25, 2010
June 16, 2010
The Author of Sufficiency
The places in your life where you feel the most adequate or self-sufficient are the more dangerous spots. (There- untimely failures are likely.) On the other hand, the places where you feel the weakest or the most dependent on God are the more sure spots. (There- timely victories are absolute.) – Inspired by Charles Stanley. 2 Corinthians 3:5 - Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.
DsW
DsW
June 4, 2010
Extend The Grace
"Freely you have received, therefore freely give."
Just a quick note on extending grace to others...
All too often, in a moment of frustration or dissatisfaction with someone (e.g. relative, co-worker, friend, etc.) we fail to extend to them the same grace that God consistently extends to us. This day, make a conscious effort to renew your mind in the spirit of grace. Let us not be too hard or critical concerning another's failure to honour a command of God or even a personal request. At that moment, let us become consciousness of God's grace in our own lives and then extend such grace to others. Writer and theologian C.S. Lewis captures our human, nonetheless adjustable condition concerning this:
"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."
--The Case for Christianity
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
A Final Note:
Since we are living in the dispensation of grace: from God toward man. It should be then reciprocated from man toward man!
DSW
Just a quick note on extending grace to others...
All too often, in a moment of frustration or dissatisfaction with someone (e.g. relative, co-worker, friend, etc.) we fail to extend to them the same grace that God consistently extends to us. This day, make a conscious effort to renew your mind in the spirit of grace. Let us not be too hard or critical concerning another's failure to honour a command of God or even a personal request. At that moment, let us become consciousness of God's grace in our own lives and then extend such grace to others. Writer and theologian C.S. Lewis captures our human, nonetheless adjustable condition concerning this:
"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."
--The Case for Christianity
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
A Final Note:
Since we are living in the dispensation of grace: from God toward man. It should be then reciprocated from man toward man!
DSW
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