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Tues/Wed/Thur Devotions
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By:
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BrookeAdams
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Mood:
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in love
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Date:
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05/01/2008 19:54:37
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Music:
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None
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BUT TO ONE WHO, NOT WORKING ( BY THE LAW), TRUSTS (BELIEVES FULLY) IN HIM WHO JUSTIFIES THE UNGODLY, HIS FAITH IS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS (THE STANDING ACCEPTABLE GOD). THUS DAVID CONGRATULATES THE MAN AND PRONOUNCES A BLESSING ON HIM TO WHOM GOD CREDITS RIGHTEOUSNESS APART FROM THE WORKS HE DOES. ROMANS 4:5-6 If you spend years on the performance treadmill of the world, it is hard to get off. When you are addicted to feeling good about yourself only when you perform well, you are in for a life of misery. It is a cycle of trying and failing, trying harder and failing again, and feeling guilty and rejected. God does not want you on the performance treadmill. He wants you to feel good about yourself whether you perform perfectly or not. He doesn't want you to be filled with pride, but He certainly did not create you to reject yourself. If you are trapped on the performance treadmill, ask God to break the cycle in your life. Let your confidence be based on who you are in Christ. AND MAY THE GOD OF PEACE HIMSELF SANCTIFY YOU THROUGH AND THROUGH (SEPERATE YOU FROM PROFANE THINGS, MAKE YOU PURE AND WHOLLY CONSECRATED TO GOD);AND MAY YOUR SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY BY PRESERVED SOUND AND COMPLETE (AND FOUND) BLAMELESS AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST (THE MESSIAH). 1 THESSALONIANS 5:23 Many people do not understand they are a tri-part being; a spirit, soul, and body. You are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. God promises to take care of all three parts that make you who you are. You are to work with the Holy Spirit to carry out the plan that began to operate in you when you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Your new birth begins in your spirit, is carried out through your soul (mind, will, and emotions), and if finally visible to other people through a demonstration of His glory in your physical life. God is working in you as long as you believe. He has begun a good work and He will also finish it. BECAUSE HE HAS SET HIS LOVE UPON ME, THEREFORE WILL I DELIVER HIM; I WILL SET HIM ON HIGH, BECAUSE HE ...(HAS A PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF MY MERCY, LOVE AND KINDNESS -- TRUSTS AND RELIES ON ME, KNOWING I WILL NEVER FORSAKE HIM). PSALM 91:14 God wants you to know you are not alone. Satan wants you to believe you are all alone, but you are not. He wants you to believe no one understands how you feel, but that is not true. In addition to God being with you, many believers know how you feel and understand what you are experiencing, mentally and emotionally. As God's child, you can claim His wonderful promises. No matter what you are facing or how lonely you may feel, know that you are not alone. As you meditate on God tonight, draw strength and encouragement from knowing He is always faithful and He will never forsake you.
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