Sometimes we need encouragement. Always, we should be encouraging others. It is encouragement to people to work alongside them, to be involved with them. Praise is good…but praise in action is better! When we encourage others they see Christ in us and ultimately see Christ in themselves. The k
Stress and trials in our lives can actually be a positive thing if we trust Jesus enough to allow them to be. When I am enduring a trial, I often ask Jesus, “Ok Lord, what do you want me to learn from this? Help me to get through, strengthen me Lord.” I recognize that with Jesus, I can m
Stresses in life are many. You know you are too stressed if begin to talk to yourself, then disagree about the subject, get into a argument over it, lose, and refuse to speak to yourself for the rest of the night. Okay, seriously, as Christians we often deal with the struggles of others as well as o
TEMPTATION: Let’s sum all this up. We will never triumph over temptation by pretending it doesn’t exist. We can’t afford the luxury of thinking it can’t happen to us, no matter who we are. We need to guard against the temptation of putting our trust in worldly things for our fulfillment
As we continue to look at how we can be victorious in fighting temptation we must recognize that it can indeed be defeated. We need not despair. God gives us the tools necessary to say, “No.” Remember Satan’s tools we looked at not long ago? Well, God has tools too! In fact, He ha
Now let’s talk about fighting temptation. How can we do this and come out victors? How can we resist the lies of Satan…the lies that take us down that wrong path? First, we must constantly recognize that the great deceiver will do exactly that….he will deceive us with tempt