During one of the lowest times of our nation, we had a president who dared Americans to dream again. He said, “It’s time for us to realize that we’re too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. … We have every right to dream heroic dreams.” He was trying to refocus our attention onto what we could become rather than on our current challenges.
God is trying to do the very same thing with His children – those who have put their faith in Jesus. Today is the day to stop focusing on the challenges that lead you to your drugs of choice and to start believing what you can do each day in Christ.
You can have victory…today (Phil. 4:13). You can make right choices…today (Rom. 6:11-14). You can ask God to give you a bigger picture of what He can do in and through you…today (Eph. 3:20). You can do the “good works” in your personal, family, professional/career, financial, recreational life…today (Eph. 2:10).
Please. Stop listening to the enemy who wants to make you think your nothing but a low life. Please. Start listening to the One Who loves and believes in you – Jesus. I dare you to catch the vision He has for your life. I know He will fulfill that vision (Ps. 138:8). Man, what a ride that will be when you do!
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It’s the ordinary deeds of ordinary people on ordinary days that shine the brightest in a dark world. Living with a biblical world is about everyday learning how to filter all the messages we hear using the Set Free Nowww tools so we can hear Jesus and do what He says in our every day lives. This process leads us to do the “good works that God prepared for us to walk in” each day.
It’s the little decisions, not just the big ones, which make a big difference in our lives and in the lives those around us. As one small candle can light up a dark room, one person following Jesus can light up a very dark world.
In Christ you can make a huge impact on the world in which you live. You are not some worm! You are a child of God. Make the decision to pick up your tools and follow Jesus each day. Not only will your drugs of choice disappear, but you’ll also draw people to the Light.

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Today marks the first day of a new year. Living with a biblical worldview as I do, I know this year will contain challenges. Where and when, I don’t know. I do know they are coming though.
The reason I know this to be true is that Hebrews 12 tells me that God allows challenges to come our way in order to bring us closer to Him. In this way we experience more of the “good stuff” Jesus came to bring to us. So when those challenges come this year, instead of asking God, “Why is this happening?” why not ask, “Lord, how do you want me to respond?”
We have no control over the challenges. As secure children of God we do have total control over how we’ll respond to those challenges. Choose to allow Jesus to exchange more of you with Him this year. You’ll be extremely glad you did.

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I want you to think about something as we head into a new year. Will you look more like Jesus after 2013 than you did after 2012? You’ll look more like someone or something in a year. The question is who or what? Like you or Jesus? Like the world and it’s system or Jesus? You will be transformed/molded by a biblical worldview or Satan’s worldview. The only question will be is, which one? It’s your choice, no one else’s.
People are watching our lives. It’s my prayer that they’ll be seeing more of Jesus in us in the coming days. This will take learning to hear His voice, which is primarily done through reading His Word. Take the 2013 challenge to read through the Bible in a year. Learn to just read and listen to Him, not understand everything you read. As you do this you will definitely learn how to listen to Him throughout your day in order to do what He shows you, which means you’ll be more like Jesus. You know, this is how He lived live (Jn. 5:19).
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There’s nothing nice about warfare; but we must be trained for it nonetheless. David writes in Psalm 144:1, “Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.”
The Bible reveals that part of the battle we face takes place in our minds (2 Cor. 10:3-5) and that we’ve been given some pretty hefty weapons with which to fight this battle. We’ve been given a new mind, Christ’s (1 Cor. 2:16), so we can think correctly. We’ve also been given a new nature, Christ’s (2 Pet. 1:4), so we can act correctly. The battle now for the believer is will we choose to do the right thing/righteousness in our every day life?
Peace in real life doesn’t come without a price and neither does life change for the believer. The price the believer must pay is surrendering their will. Jesus said that we’re to deny ourselves by not doing things our way and to follow Him by doing life His way.
Our will is the frontlines of the battle. A soldier can’t quit in the midst of the battle or he and/or his fellow soldiers will die. The believer can’t quit this battle or they’ll head back into bondage, their drug of choice (Gal. 5:1).
I encourage you to keep fighting. This war has been won; but you’re going to continually need new ammunition, new truths, to fight the lie-based messages that make you want to quit. Get this much needed ammo by keep listening to Jesus in His Word. I challenge you to make a commitment to read through the Bible in a year for the first time or once again in 2013.
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