When Jesus said, “And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell…” (Mark 9:45), He was speaking of purging lives of worldly distractions that keep them from hearing and following Him, not doing surgery to take out your legs.
Man cannot live depending on physical nourishment alone. Without praying, reading the word of God, and meeting with fellow Christians to discuss the word, a Christian cannot survive and will be physically grown but spiritually stunted. It is therefore necessary that like we eat food to physically grow, we gain spiritual nourishment through the consumption of God’s word every day.
Whether the people God has given you obey the Word you preach or not, just keep preaching. Their lives will be cleansed by the same Word. Sow into the kingdom without looking at what men say. The Lord is faithful to His Word.
Child of God, don’t follow what the worldly people say about life. Try this; try that. No! Live by the structures and systems God has helped you to build around you life based on you revelation of God’s Word.
Many more people are coming up with evil ways to indulge people inside. And as believers, what should we do? Refute these demonic ways, right? But how’s that possible if we don’t experience unified growth, both individually and corporately, as believers in Christ?
It’s not about raising your children in your ways. It’s about training them in THE WAY of the Lord. Give your children a Jesus from the onset.
As a believer, your upbringing should not always determine your adult lifestyle. When Jesus becomes Lord over your life, you receive power to put away childish things as you pursue after maturity in the Spirit.
Sometimes, you must spend quality time with the Father alone, not just in a congregation. Other times, your family, particularly the nuclear one, ought to join you in lifting the Father high. But in any way, never underestimate how powerful it is to be in God’s presence alone.
Suffering is an unpleasant reality for Christians, yet it has an amazing transforming potential to refine our faith. Believers discover the blessing hidden under anguish in a place of difficulties, a blessing that comes from bearing suffering for the sake of righteousness.
As you excel in your field of divine calling, influential people will keep coming to you to see and pay for the work you do.
We were once foolish, disobedient, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But God showed us mercy and saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. Never forget where God took you from and raised you to this level in your knowledge of Him.
In every male toddler is a man, but until he grows up, that manhood capacity in him is still limited. Increasing your spiritual capacity helps you to go beyond your spiritual limits.
