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"Practical Christianity", It's About Time

God is Always Speaking [‘It’s About Time,’ cont.]

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During the Age of Knowledge, God spoke to man through the written law. His boundaries defined relationships between people, between man and his environment, and between man and his God. But because the fullness of time has now come, God today speaks to all creation by and through His Son. We claim Christianity as different from all other religions in that each person can have a personal relationship with a Personal God.

This is a significant differentiation between these two ages:

Under law, man could relate to a Holy God only through measuring up to His standards and keeping His commandments, by performing certain behaviors. So to maintain this surface relationship you always had to be on your best behavior.

Not so in the Age of Grace. Because God created us now to be His sons, we are members of His family. Often times we are in relationship with God IN SPITE OF our behavior. He has given us a new heart, a new nature, and a new identity. In the age to come, He will continue to speak through His Son; it will simply be a corporate or multi-membered mature son.

excerpted from “Practical Christianity”
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[Hedz Up!] Puzzle It Out

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Don’t settle for muddling your way through your options and decisions. Instead devise a strategy to sort out the pieces and allow the Lord to create the bigger picture.

You may not see the final image until after the pieces have fallen into place.

God wants to speak clearly to you. Give Him the opportunity.

Remember He speaks in many ways; don’t assume it will be the ways He has spoken in the past.

This is an opportunity, not a crisis.

You’re On Track, Keep Going.

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[Hedz Up!] Rejoice and Choose

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Some are having trouble making decisions at this time, even after having spent appropriate time waiting for God’s direction. Confusion is not only from the stress of trying to hear His voice, but from our enemies: the world system, your flesh and the devil.

When you can’t determine a specific direction from the Lord, Rejoice and Choose.

Set aside a time in which you will make your decision. Spend a few minutes expressing gratitude to Him and for Him. Then pick a direction. Follow up with a few minutes to let the Lord speak. Then commit.

Remember, you can always change your direction later; God is not concerned about you making the ‘right’ choice, but about depending on Him for direction. Do the above and you’ve done just that.

Rejoice and Choose.

"Practical Christianity", It's About Time

The Evil Reign [‘It’s About Time,’ cont.]

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There are enough speculations regarding what the next age will look like; Bible versions, entire denominations, fictionalized book series and movies have attempted to render fully what God has only revealed to the minutest degree. Much of what we believe today about the nature of hell, heaven, angels and devils was derived from literature written in previous centuries, especially Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, Paradise, and Purgatory, written in the early 1300s. But we can conclude to at least some degree that the life God has made available to us today will be tested in one way or another here on this earth. We must be overcoming the Reign of Evil in our own lives before we can overcome it in the Earth. Otherwise God would simply save us — give us His life, make us His sons — and take us to be with Him.

excerpted from “Practical Christianity”

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[Hedz Up!] “Perfection” Not Required

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Rest-ReachGod knows the difficult times you’re going through. He’s not withholding help based on how well you are handling this stress, or how well you have performed in the past.

In fact, He’s not withholding His help at all.

You deserve His help because He loves you and is by Nature a Giving, Helping Person.

Ask specifically, wait for a response, and get through this. There will be plenty of time to evaluate your beliefs and actions as you emerge, perhaps slowly, out of these particular difficulties.

You don’t need to qualify for His help.

Daddy Loves You Now.

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[Hedz Up!] Take Care of Yourself

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Make your Self a priority in developing new habits. Get over the idea that God is pleased when we disregard the needs of our body and our soul. Tend to each, as necessary, and you will be prepared and ready to rise to any occasion God sends you to.

Keep yourself well, so you don’t have to tell God, “I can’t, because I have this physical illness,” or “First would you please heal this wound in my soul.”

Just as you tend to the brakes in your car so they will be ready when you need them, tend to your body and soul so they will be ready when you need them as well.

God Loves Your Body And Soul; Learn To Do The Same.

Habitually.

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[Hedz Up!] Start Over

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Time is neither your friend nor your enemy. As a spirit being, you can Start Over any time you choose. On this first day of a new month, notice your thinking in regard to the past month or your future, whether positive or negative. Both reflect the natural realm — As a spirit being, you will have to give up your markers, as comforting as they may be, in order to live eternally now.

Time is merely a Resource.

“Lord, teach me to live in control of time.”

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[Hedz Up!] Turning the Corner

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Turn the Corner!

This is the time to make the changes that will lead you in the new direction. The fruits of your labors are ripe and ready for harvest. There is still work to be done, but clarity FOLLOWS the turning.

Some will turn one corner, some will turn several corners, in many areas or even in a single area.

A few of you will even find yourselves having turned the same corner in one area so many times that you are seemingly right back where you started. This is meant to be a strong confirmation that you are heading in the right direction.

The Lord is leading as you put one foot in front of the other, one idea into motion after another.

Rest comes from Action.

Be Nimble and Keep Your Sense of Humor.

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BECOMING MERCIFUL ONES by Ray Prinzing

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“With the merciful Thou wilt shew Thyself merciful.” (Psalm 18:25)

One of the precious inworkings of His grace in the lives of those, whom He separates unto Himself, is that they are becoming His merciful ones. Seems that many have walked with God for years without learning what it means to “have mercy”, to become a vessel of mercy through whom His mercy is revealed. There has been far too much fight in us; a demand for justice according to what we think is justice.

Jonah received the word of the Lord – it is a marvelous thing to receive “the Word of the Lord”, but that doesn’t make us a merciful one. It was because Jonah rebelled against the mercy, that he first fled unto “Tarshish: for I knew that Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness,” (Jonah 4:2). So God had to discipline him in the belly of a great fish, until somewhat subdued he was willing to speak the “Word” which the Lord had given unto him. Then God had to give him another forceful object lesson with a gourd to teach him to have mercy. How hard are the lessons we need to teach us also to be merciful. But in due time we shall be perfected in mercy, for He has a work of mercy to be performed through His people.

“Be ye merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven,” (Luke 6:36-37). Note the word “forgive”, same Greek root used elsewhere as ‘redemption”, meaning TO LOOSE AWAY. We are groaning within ourselves for the fullness of our redemption, that we might be loosed from the very last vestige of this bondage of vanity. But what sayest thou to this statement of our Lord, according as thou forgivest another (loose them from their offences toward you), so shalt thou be forgiven (loosed from all that presently holds you captive)? The more we learn to be merciful unto others, the more we also shall be able to comprehend His mercy for us. “For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him”, (Ps. 103:11).