I believe with all my heart and mind…. That the following, when applied to your daily life, will ignite the glory the Lord has given you – radically changing you and the world around you! Caution , applying these truths will place you on Satan’s most wanted list!
If we are discouraged and doubting Christians… Satan’s work is better put to use attacking those who are living vibrant lives of faith, hope and love in action. But don’t live in fear of Satan’s attacks! Just remember the words of Jesus, in the Gospel of John-
John 16
33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
| Verb | 1. | take heart – gain courage |
take heart To be confident or courageous
I love that saying! It is my desire and prayer that I will never loose heart again, and that I will always live at the heart level in all I do.
Peace, Jonathan
Date: Friday October 14, 2011
Text: From Streams in the Desert
Satan’s Tools
“Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and, let us run with patience the race that is set before us” (Heb. 12:1). There are weights which are not sins in themselves, but which become distractions and stumbling blocks in our Christian progress. One of the worst of these is despondency. The heavy heart is indeed a weight that will surely drag us down in our holiness and usefulness. The failure of Israel to enter the land of promise began in murmuring, or, as the text in Numbers literally puts it, “as it were murmured.” Just a faint desire to complain and be discontented. This led on until it blossomed and ripened into rebellion and ruin. Let us give ourselves no liberty ever to doubt God or His love and faithfulness to us in everything and forever. We can set our will against doubt just as we do against any other sin; and as we stand firm and refuse to doubt, the Holy Spirit will come to our aid and give us the faith of God and crown us with victory. *** It is very easy to fall into the habit of doubting, fretting, and wondering if God has forsaken us and if after all our hopes are to end in failure. Let us refuse to be discouraged. Let us refuse to be unhappy. Let us “count it all joy” when we cannot feel one emotion of happiness. Let us rejoice by faith, by resolution, by reckoning, and we shall surely find that God will make the reckoning real. –Selected ** The devil has two master tricks. One is to get us discouraged; then for a time at least we can be of no service to others, and so are defeated. The other is to make us doubt, thus breaking the faith link by which we are bound to our Father. Lookout! Do not be tricked either way. –G.E.M.
