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Lord of My Life
When Jesus saves you, He redeems you; He purchases you back. You were already His because He made you, then He bought you back from the slavery of sin. So now you belong to Him twice! Isn't that awesome? (1 Corinthians 6:12-20, specifically vs. 19-20) So when Jesus...
Studying the Bible
As children of God we should pay attention to what our Father says to us. An enormous part of that means we need to know the Bible that God wrote. While we should read all of it, I don't mean to say do it just once and never again. Reading the Bible regularly is...
Backwards or Forwards?
There are a lot of things that God does that seem backwards to us. But considering that God is the one doing them, He must be doing them correctly. For example when someone agrees with God about their sin, repents of it, believes in God, and gives Him control of their...
Hearing God’s Voice – Privilege and Responsibility
Prompted by a devotional yesterday. When a child hears their mom or dad tell them to clean their room, the child may treat cleaning their room as a nice option to consider. But it isn't really just an option or a good choice. As a child when you have been told to...
Good Friends
I've been reading The Lord of the Rings and I've gotten to the point where the main protagonist is becoming very weary in body and mind. His road is hard, the way ahead is dark, and his burden is increasingly heavy, so he is leaning more and more on the support of his...
Authority and Worth
The title of this one is a bit of a misnomer. Authority has nothing to do with worth. This has come up for me recently and I figured I'd share. God set up authority and how it works, but it isn't based on someone being worth more than someone else. Look at the Trinity...