Mind your Mind!
Win a man’s mind and you have him. Capture his thoughts and you control him. Scripture says: “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he!”
If you can find a way to get into a man’s mind and get your ideas inside of him so that his thinking is your thinking, you now have control over that mind and his life!
If we are not careful the evil one can reach our minds with destructive and corruptible suggestions and we can easily be bent to (do) his will. Satan wants our minds! The apostle Paul said in 2 Cor. 11:3: “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
Christianity is!
Simply we can say that Christianity is: “I deserve Hell; Jesus Christ took my Hell; there is nothing left for me but His heaven. Donald Gray Barnhouse
There is the great fact of past-tense salvation for the believer. When we are born again we know that this salvation is our present possession, for it has been finished forever.
But salvation is also in the present tense. We are being saved from the power of sin. This means that there has been provided for us a power which enables to live with sin beneath us.
When the Lord Jesus Christ was born, the angel said,
“Thou shalt call His name Jesus: for He shall save His people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21)
To understand this we must realize the difference between “sin” and “sins”. “Sin” is like a poison in our blood stream, it indwells our very DNA, while “sins” can be likened to a boil breaking out on the surface of our body.
When we were saved, in the “salvation in the past tense” God dealt with the poison in our bloodstream, the poison in our DNA. He has removed our sins as far as the east is from the west.
However the “Old Sin Nature”, the “Old Man”, the desires of our flesh has not been removed. Because of this there is the day-to-day warfare in our bodies, a warfare in connection with our salvation from the power of our “sins”.
However God have given us a promise:
“Sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under law; but under grace.” (Romans 6:14)
The gospel of Jesus Christ is also the power of God unto salvation in the future tense. What kind of Gospel or Salvation if our hope was only in this live. If that were the case it would be a sorrowful life. It would be as Paul writes to the Corinthians, “of all men most miserable.” (I Cor. 15:19)
If this were the case then we are doomed to only see our physical bodies grow weaker and our strength to decline, with only an earthen grave with a slab of marble to mark our lives upon this earth. But praise be to the Lord that is not all there is to the death of the believer. For the believer our death is the entrance into glory and standing face to face with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. For Peter writes in I Peter 1:3-5;
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Every one of us is a sinner, and sin pays a wage. We must all collect that wage of sin, which is death, unless we receive God’s gift of salvation. The Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross for every human being. He died for you! Won’t you take Him at His Word and place your faith and trust in Him and take Him as your Lord and Saviour?
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My times are in your hands Lord
Our Self Sufficiency
Jesus’ message is still countercultural today. Our society encourages us to be in ourselves and be self-sufficient. It is because no-one wants to be considered weak and helpless. In fact we are proud of our self-sufficiency, but this will never work in the spiritual realm. What we really need is poverty of spirit and complete-dependence upon almighty God because we can achieve nothing of eternal value by ourselves.
by Charles Stanley–February from the Pastors Heart
Our Days are like Grass!
As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children, to those who keep His covenant and remember to do His commandments.
The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, and His kingdom rules over all.
Bless the Lord, O you His angels, you mighty ones who do His word!
Bless the Lord, all His hosts, His ministers, who do His will!
Bless the Lord, all His works, in all places of His dominion.
Bless the Lord, O my Soul!
Psalm 103:15-22.