Category: Selfish Desire
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Godliness influences our Focus.
The content discusses the influence of godliness, particularly in the context of women’s appearance and behavior. It emphasizes the importance of focusing on good works and inner qualities rather than outward appearance. The text highlights examples of godly women and encourages a shift from self-focus to serving others.
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Flee and Pursue.
The blog series “Pursue Righteousness” emphasizes fleeing youthful passions and pursuing righteousness, faith, love, and peace as revealed in 1 Timothy 6:11. Paul’s repetition signifies the significance of this message. Fleeing and pursuing are paired with the practical advice of being with those who call on the Lord out of…
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Love is Not Self Seeking
Those who are selfish will tear down others in order to elevate themselves or to get what they want. Selfishness is a very ugly quality for an individual to have and can do great damage to others.
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Two Directions.
We make our lives complicated. This verse expresses and explains the simplicity of God. All of God’s principles and expectations are simple, but we like to “human” things up as I say. We complicate and nit pick, pick apart everything God has to say and respond… but God?!? Paul lays it out as…
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Always putting on the New Self
In other Bible translations, “new man” is the phrase used. Paul, many times, says put on the new self. When we put on the new self we are renewed in the knowledge of the image of our creator. Our scripture today starts out with and…. There is something missing to the context…
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Connection with God: the most effective way to live
Knowing Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior radically rearranges all our priorities, alters our perspectives and influences our relationships and decisions. When our focus becomes Christ, He becomes the center of our lives. His presence in our lives gives us an indescribable peace, no matter what is going on,…
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stop running and turn around.
Yesterday we explored the choices we make. We either walk with the Spirit or we walk with our old nature and in the flesh. There is no third option. While working, I meditated on the verse used yesterday. 13 For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use…
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freedom with small print
Have you ever really read the fine print on a prescription. Makes you wonder, with all those possible side effects, why am I taking this to begin with. I believe a lot of truth from God’s Word comes with small print we like to gloss over. One of these truths…
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the net.
When we think of a net, twenty years ago, we would have been thinking about a hair net or maybe a fishing net. In today’s world, we almost automatically think of the world wide web, or as we call it, the net. The internet. I came across an interesting verse…
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a little less is ok!
Have you ever come across miserable people? The kind that just never have anything good to say about anything. They scoff the blessings of others and always have a negative tone to anything positive. The kind of people that seem to be blessed with everything they want but for some…
It Starts Small 