Well, it’s happened twice since the year began. My website went down. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. I have to say it’s been a mixed blessing though. I haven’t had to deal with any spam for a week! On the downside, the Lord hasn’t been able to minister to either you or me through the writing of this blog.
Me? Yup. These daily entries are often exactly what I need to hear to help me to stay focused on Jesus.
So yeah, it’s a bummer the site went down. Yet, this shouldn’t surprise anyone. We live in a fallen world where bad stuff happens. Websites are not accessible, money is tight, cars get broken into, household chores never seem to get done, etc. Our enemy doesn’t want to make our lives easier. Yet our great and awesome God can turn these attacks into victories as we stay focused on and walk in the presence of Jesus everyday everywhere using our biblical tools.
This is why the first tool is so important: I’m secure because I’m God’s child. Yeah, we all face challenges and bummer-like days. But we love a good God who can use those challenges to turn us into Christ’s image and those bummer days into blessings.
My friend, stay focused on Jesus today rather than on the bad. Oh yeah, thanks ahead of time for entering the battle through prayer to keep this site up and running all year long!
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I’m sorry to have to break this to you. There are no such thing as Zombies. I know. It’s hard to take … breathe … it’s going to be okay.
What in the world does this have to do with living with a biblical worldview? I heard the most interesting phrase the other day. “Leave the grave behind!”
If you’ve already dealt with something, leave it in the past. If you’ve forgiven someone, don’t keep bringing up the hurt. If a thought didn’t work for you yesterday, why think on it today? If Jesus killed something in you, stop digging it up. If saying a word or phrase brought only trouble before, leave it on the trash heap of useless word now.
There are no Zombies … unless we create them in our mind. It’s time to leave those dead and useless thoughts, words and actions in the grave. Remember. You will become what you dwell on. And what you dwell on only gets bigger. So dwell on specific life-changing and living truths found in the Living Word of God!
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Out at sea were sailors doing their job on the American carrier Midway. One day, the crew spotted on the horizon a leaky little boat. Crammed inside were refugees hoping to get to America. As the refugees made their way through the choppy seas, one of them spied a sailor on deck, stood up, and called out to him. He yelled, “Hello, American sailor. Hello, freedom man.”
You and I are that sailor. We are citizens of heaven on the carrier Freedom, bringing freedom to a world so desperately in need of it. It’s a freedom not about where we live on this planet, but about Who lives in us – Jesus. As sailors going about our daily lives we are dispensers of that freedom as we listen to and follow Jesus everyday everywhere.
If you have a Sunday only faith, you’ll have very little to share about freedom. If you use your biblical tools each day, however, you’ll have much to say about your personal experiences with freedom. Why? The Spirit will have freed you from one after another of your freedom robbing drugs of choice.
Be open today to be used by the Spirit of God to be part of the rescue team that gives freedom to those floating through life on leaky, ready to sink boats. Choose to let the Spirit change your life through processing each moment through scriptural point-of-the-lie truths. You will then have an awesome Jesus story to tell!
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We are told to “keep in step with the Spirit” as we listen to and follow Jesus everyday, everywhere (Gal. 5:25; Jn. 10:27). The Spirit of God sets the pace of this journey. To be honest, I’m not sure how that works. And believe me, simply giving you a Christian cliché will only frustrate the both of us.
You can’t put “keep in step with the Spirit” into a formula; because once you do, you’re back in control of your life, which only takes you back to your drug of choice and its negative consequences.
You’re going to have to develop what I call a “spiritual sensitivity.” I can only relate this to when I’m on a walk with another person. It usually takes a few hundred feet to sync our rhythms. It feels odd until we do. It’s hard to enjoy the walk when we’re pushing each other. It’s almost like we’re fighting each other. It’s the same with our walk with Jesus. We are to get in rhythm with Him.
This is where the truths to “pray continually” and “praying in the Spirit on all occasions” come into play (1 Thess. 5:17, Eph. 6:18). We are to adjust our thoughts, our conversations, and our actions to Him, not the other way around. This takes spiritual sensitivity. You will “sense” the more you know your Jesus when you’re off or out of sync. Don’t ignore this sense! It’s the Spirit helping you get in rhythm with Jesus. You’ll enjoy your walk more and experience more of the good stuff as you get in sync with Jesus.
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Before the wall fell that divided the city of east and west Berlin as well East and West Germany, someone had spray painted on it the following. “This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.” A US President wrote in response to those words, “Yes, the wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.” The wall did eventually come down.
Notice what came before the wall was torn down … belief. We all have “stuff” in our lives that needs to be erased and exchanged with Jesus. But do we want our lives to be better? The answer to this question might sound obvious. It’s not though. Some like living behind those walls. They don’t really believe their lives can be better, even though they profess Jesus as God and Savior.
For those who you do want those walls down, those repeated sinful behaviors removed, do you believe Jesus can do it? He says in John 10:10 that He came to not only bring eternal life, but an abundant life now. Belief takes action, the daily usage of your biblical tools. You can say you believe all you want. You actually believe when you put those beliefs into action.
So, what do you really believe?
S“E”t Free Nowww