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Believer’s Independence Day
Believer’s Independence Day Thanks to http://www.familyministries.com/independence.htm for several of the original references and headings. But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:20 We recently celebrated Independence Day which is a fine thing to celebrate. I am deeply grateful to God for living in a country where I have religious and political freedom. But we are only secondarily citizens of the United State of America. We are first citizens of the Kingdom of God. What freedom and independence can we celebrate every day? Freedom from the bondage of sin that leads to death and eternal separation from God. 18 “’The…
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How Can You Listen to God?
If you have accepted Jesus Christ, then God is ready to speak to you right now. Not words of condemnation or disappointment, but of love and forgiveness and peace. The question is — will you listen? And the natural next question — how do you listen? Because God is speaking, but we don’t always slow down enough to hear the still, small voice. How can you hear God? The Word. First and foremost he speaks to us through the Bible, his Word. Anytime we hear from him any other way — directly, through nature, in dreams and vision, through others — we must always put up those words against the…
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How to Battle in Prayer
Battling in prayer is not always on the top of the hit list for modern Christians, especially women. We don’t really like to hear about it. It doesn’t sound nice, it doesn’t sound happy and it sure doesn’t sound safe. But Satan doesn’t have any of these hindrances. He want to hurt us and to frustrate our prayers. He does not want us to be Christlike or powerful in prayer. Is prayer always a battle? No. Often faithful and consistent prayer is quite enough. And sometimes it’s not. These are the times when choices or circumstances threaten us or people we love, and we must go to war in prayer.…