Sometimes I sit and wonder if my standard issue personal force field, that comes with salvation, needs to be sent back up for repair. Or worse yet, the angels neglected to give me one. How is your personal force field working? Does it need a tune up?Of course, there is no standard issue personal force field that comes with salvation. I will admit when I first found Christ, I truly believed that somehow trials would cease to exist. As I matured I realized that quite simply life goes on as usual. The sun still goes up and comes down, my bills are still delivered, illness still occurs, and my car still gets a flat, even in the face of my secure eternal soul. What is not the "usual" is my heart, my joy, and my security in Christ. My surroundings may still be of old but my mind is renewed. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of … [Read more...]
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<– Back to Faith Devotional Series MainToday we will begin a series on FAITH. I asked God to help me, and this is what He gave me. So, I am sure it is a subject that He wants us to learn more about.Hebrews 11 has a lot to say about faith. We will use it as our core of Scriptures. However, I am not limiting this study to Hebrews 11. We may jump around as the Spirit leads... Let's begin with the Biblical definition of faith: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)First, I want to look at substance and evidence in their original Greek.Substance - hupostasis (hoop-os'-tas-is): assurance guarantee, reality, essebce, confidence, that which is the basis of something.Evidence - elegchos (el'-eng-khos): proof, conviction, persuasion.The Amplified Bible puts it nicely...Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things we hope for, being the proof … [Read more...]
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<– Back to Faith Devotional Series Main More examples of people who lived by faith... Hebrews 11:30-40 (KJV)By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.Imagine being told to march around an enemy city once every day for six days and then seven times on the seventh day and blow some trumpet...and the walls will fall?! That took some REAL faith! (Joshua 6)By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.She lived because of her faith.And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, … [Read more...]
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