Trusting God through every season, prayer, and the daily walk of worship.
This is a good explanation why the message directed to pastors only is actually a whole church issue. It is said to pastors and all of us as well. The world is in dire need of good pastors. This will make you a good pastor!
A brand is developed to bring profit and to serve the developers well. If a brand is not protected it will not last long. Two critical brands are mentioned here and they both concern us. Protect your brand!
We must care if we are understood or not. A good leader and public speaker and whoever else must be sensitive to whether they are misunderstood or not. This is a good biblical example of a great leader who was sensitive to being misunderstood.
When traveling you need to know where to turn to your destination or else you will get lost if you miss your turn. We all need to know the turning point. The turning point will take us where we want to be. The turning point to blessings, to happiness, to peace, to prosperity and to eternal life. This is the turning point!
Be worried if you feel nothing. Feeling nothing is not an achievement of freedom from worrying. Feeling nothing could be an eternally fatal malady. Feeling nothing could be a final stage of eternal spiritual and then physical death. What does it mean to feel nothing?
The Galatian church is a sickness turned into a blessing! Who was sick? How could a sickness become a blessing? Look at how God turns this situation into a blessing. Doesn’t it give me hope too, in my situations?
How you look at things changes how you react to them. A terrible situation that could easily crush your spirit, may change completely, if you look at it differently. The experience mentioned here has a potential to alter life for the good or the worst, depending on how you look at it. Everything changes by how you look at it. Look at it this way…
This is a good constant to maintain in your life. Let everything change except this. Maintain this and you will never regret. You can yield to many changes but do not change this. This is the most critical aspect of your life…
What we believe by faith is sometimes contrasted by the reality we face. The reality almost nullifies faith. Some in facing reality have given up on God. Should christians abandon reality and stick to faith?