A Prayer to Grasp the Power of the Resurrection
For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your...
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Tag: Holy Spirit
Faith: Do you grow it, or is it given?
This whole episode with Jesus and his disciples is odd. What was the point of cursing an innocent fig tree and then talking about speaking to a mountain to be cast into the sea? None of this seems to make sense. There may be a few lessons some can derive from this event, but I see this as training about the nature of supernatural faith. I believe the mountain tossing thing was a metaphor for impossible tasks, and Jesus was telling us how to do impossible tasks.
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We are all a bunch of leaky buckets
A Biblical Christian life is a Spirit-filled life. I found a new word that I will probably over-use, but hey, who cares? The word is pneumatocracy. Pneuma is the Greek word for spirit. The “tocracy” part has to do with ruling. We use it in words like Theocracy and democracy. So, a pneumatocracy means to be ruled by the Spirit. That is what we all should strive for. Paul commands it.
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Live Like Jesus
Thomas a Kempis, in the years 1418-1427 wrote a book called The Imitation of Christ. It had a profound effect on the church up until the Reformation. I don’t want to endorse the contents of the book, but I do like the title. At least, if you understand it the way I mean it. I believe Jesus showed us a pattern for how to live and if we follow it, we will have a very fruitful life.
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It’s not time to shut up.
We are facing soft totalitarianism in American society today. We are not allowed to speak freely. If you say the wrong thing, you are “canceled.” We have a new American orthodoxy that has been created by a spirit that opposes the foundations of American society and Christianity in particular.
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By my Spirit: Working and winning during opposition
And the angel who talked with me came again and woke me, like a man who is awakened out...
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