And so, to begin with, you might ask yourself, “Did I have a father with whom I felt safe?” and, “Did I know I was prized by my father?” “Was I invited to be a boy, did I get to live a boy’s life as it was meant to be?” You might even want to write out your answers to those questions, especially the follow-up question, “Why . . . or why not?” Tell your story, at least to yourself, and to God.
People are often paralyzed from stepping outside the will of God for fear of adding years of extra pain or delaying promised blessings. Can we go beyond God?
There are amazine discoveries yet to be found that God wants us to ask Him about. George Washington Carver is a model of how God wants to speak to us.
If we bring fear into the equation, love is going to leave. Fear casts out love. People eventually rebel when motivated by fear; love keeps us motivated.
Paul tells us to pray without ceasing. He wasn’t encouraging us to constantly read over our prayer lists. Prayer is communicating with God, not just to Him.
They are making decisions that affect our lives. Here are a short list of ways we can pray for politicians to elicit God’s help for them.
When we see that we have a loving Father who loves to give good gifts, we will have joy in our prayer lives. God is ready to give more than we deserve.
When you read the Bible, ask God what it is that He wants to share with you that day. Interact with the passage. Spend time with the One who wrote it.
Prayer should never be a source of discouragement for us. | The reason people don’t go to God is they don’t believe He is for them. | More Kevin Shorter quotes:
We need to have Jesus interpret our circumstances. Our world may look bad or good, but Jesus alone has the right to interpret them. He leads us into truth.
I enjoyed it because it showed people I know and have had over to my home. Bob and Gloria Bruce have walked with the Lord and have been given a wealth of wisdom and character. I loved that the video showed him eating ice cream, as he says he eats it all the time now. The video also showed many other friends from Reynolda where my wife and I attended while living in Winston Salem.
Too many of us are more comfortable with the fear of God than the love of God. We know how to respond to the fear. We don’t know what to do with His love.