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As our soul prospers . . . can mean as God prepares us spiritually so we can see and benefit from all He does with us. We need the right character to seek the right things, and the right character to see things the right way, and the right character to do what is right with what we have. And God...

Psychology focuses on what you can do. The Bible talks about what God alone can do. So, read what the Bible says God does, and pray for Him to do what only He can do! But if you now have doubt that God did this with you, it could be that what you accomplished was indeed a self effort, and you...

Well, there is a reason to forget what someone else has done > so our attention is to what we have done and making sure it stops.

On the cross, Jesus prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." (in Luke 23:34) After this prayer, one of those criminals gave himself to Jesus. So, I can see that forgiving prayer can help to get a person changed by God. I can see that in answer to Jesus' prayer, the...

Now we are in the spring, and it seems like it has been colder. And it is time to submit to God and discover all He pleases to do with us.

But no we are not perfectly without sin. We see how "even" Peter so messed up, even after He had ministered the Holy Spirit to the Gentiles > Galatians 2:11-13; but he was corrected. And John fell down to worship an angel, we see in Revelation 19:9-10. But he was corrected. So, our Father's...

About "believers" > just because people say they are believers, this does not make it necessarily so (2 Corinthians 13:5, 1 Corinthians 6:17)). To me, it seems that some number of "once saved, always saved" people do not believe how God's love with almighty power cures us of the torments of our...

I offer . . . Jesus has clearly said, "if you love those who love you, what reward have you?" (in Matthew 5:46) So, if parents love only their children, this is not being truly kind; it can be a way of showing the children that they don't need God, because the parents are so good without God...

"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God," (1 Corinthians 3:5) So . . . even as Christians, we are not sufficient of our own selves; but "it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure." (in...

So, there were people trying to get in; this could represent how worldly people want the love relationships which we have, but they won't come in through the way (John 14:6), but they try to climb over the wall. And the children could be the Christians who are as little children, as your...

I think images can help us understand the Trinity. Jesus calls God "our Father". He is not the Bank President, or the General, or the Judge, or Grocery Store Manager. He is our Father, because God is about family > "God is love" (in 1 John 4:8&16) . . . family caring and sharing love. And we...

Be humble.

Most of all, growing in God's love will cure a lot of things. "with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love," (Ephesians 4:2)

I might first ask her what has helped her the most, about this. She would probably say something like, "I know I need to trust God." And I would say, yes. I might try to help her by saying not to be wishful about who goes "to heaven". But if she has proven experience of hearing what the Holy...

If he is a manager and he is over you, you might be considerate of his professional reputation . . . and how he could already have someone. If you don't know he's saved, you can do well to get to know him; but be sensitive to if and how he pleases to share personally with you :) "submitting to...

I am enjoying a day with rain and wind. Isaiah 55:11 likens God's word to rain (c: