For just a moment, let’s think of ourselves like triangles. Imagine each point of the triangle being labeled as body, soul, spirit. If the triangle is sitting on its base, only one point is “up.” Imagine that point being the one in present control of us. For instance, when distinguished from the spirit as in 1Thessalonians 5:23, the soul represents …
Strongholds
We don’t like to talk about them. We may not even know we have one….but all of us do. Beth Moore’s definition: “A Stronghold is anything that exalts itself in our minds, pretending to be bigger than our God. It steals much of our focus and causes us to feel overpowered. Controlled. Mastered. Whether the stronglold is an addiction, unforgiveness …
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"Bumping into" God
I am always amazed when God answers a prayer. How sad is that? Rather than being amazed, shouldn’t I consider His participation in my life as normal? I was chiding myself the other day for my “lack of faith” when I had another thought. “I don’t ever want to get used to God’s work in my life. I don’t want …
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The Battlefield
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to …
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Acts 17:24-28
The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And He is not served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man He made every nation of men, that …
