Spiritual Maturity Provides Swift Answers To Fiery Emotions

Spiritual Maturity Provides Swift Answers To Fiery Emotions We can be angry at a circumstance and want to throw something or perhaps infuriated at a person’s ways and want to take them by the shoulders and shake some sense into them. If anger overwhelms you, quickly filter through the negative mental emotions if you must. Be careful not to stay there in your turmoil. Be even more vigilant not to be angry at your God who loves you. The strength and depth of your spiritual wisdom will determine and resolve how your human intelligence will proceed with its petty and vital qualms. Spiritual maturity provides swift answers to fiery emotions. John 8:51-59 Very truly, I tell you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.’ The Jews said to him, ‘Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; yet you say, “Whoever keeps my word will never taste death.” Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets also died. Who do you claim to be?’ Jesus answered, ‘If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, he of whom you say, “He is our God”, though you do not know him. But I know him; if I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and I keep his word. Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and was glad.’ Then the Jews said to him, ‘You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.’ So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

Do What Feels Right

Do What Feels Right What does God ask of you? Do you feel free from conviction of people to do what God puts on your heart? Joseph took Mary as his wife and accepted Jesus the baby, created by the Holy Spirit, as his. What glorious plans God has for all of us. Be willing to do what feels right. There is no need to wait for acceptance by others. If we waited on each other to come to an agreement for righteousness we may never see our blessings and the gloriousness of God in our lives. Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly. But just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, 'Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.' When Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took her as his wife.

Make A Positive Contribution To Society

Make A Positive Contribution To Society When there is a good person among us and others want to disparage him will you join in? You may not know what gives him the courage to stand up before the doubtful. You may not believe that you could do the same alone. But would you support him in his good cause and go against the grain of society? Make choices that are for the good of humanity. Turn away from selfish, dishonorable, cowardly and destructive behavior. Whatever you do today, either contributes to the evil grain or positive change of our society. John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him. Now the Jewish festival of Booths was near. Jesus at the Festival of Booths But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, not publicly but as it were in secret. Is This the Christ? Now some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, 'Is not this the man whom they are trying to kill? And here he is, speaking openly, but they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah? Yet we know where this man is from; but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.' Then Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple, 'You know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.' Then they tried to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Living The Life God Intended For You

Living The Life God Intended For You If it weren’t for the existence of God, would your neighbor know that you are extraordinary? Do your works roar with delight of the miraculous gifts that come to you from God? Is what comes from your mouth worthy to speak aloud in Heaven? Is your heart filled with compassion and forgiveness worthy of sharing with Jesus? The works that the Father has given you to complete, the very works that you are doing, should testify on your behalf that you are a child of God and are living the life He intended for you. John 5:31-47 ‘If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his testimony to me is true. You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth. Not that I accept such human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. But I have a testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his form, and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe him whom he has sent. ‘You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that testify on my behalf. Yet you refuse to come to me to have life. I do not accept glory from human beings. But I know that you do not have the love of God in you. I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?’

A Model For Our Lives - Jesus

March 13,2013-The Catholic Church has a new Pope. Pope Francis 1. I pray that we the people will feel inspired by his leadership but also to realize that it is up to us individually to look to ourselves for change & spiritual growth by way of our own households, relationships, and social circles. To bring into fruition the heightening of our morals & values, forgiveness that promotes healing, and ideals of charity and compassion. We will do so when we spend time learning and imitating our only model Jesus Christ. God help us. Amen

Walk With Faith

Walk With Faith Don’t believe just because you are not standing at the front of the line you won’t get the best promotion, gift or healing from God. When times are good, troubling or mediocre God is working for you just the same. Take steps of faith that will lead you closer to God’s presence. It is there that your eyes will be opened to receiving His gifts of mercy, healing and love. His hand is gloriously at work through all your state of affairs. Stand up. Release all that troubles you. Walk with faith. John 5:1-3, 5-16 After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids--blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me." Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat." But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Take up your mat and walk.'" They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take it up and walk'?" Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in the crowd that was there. Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you." The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the sabbath.

See What God Sees

See What God Sees “I don’t know why people think you are so special. You’re just a regular mom.” We may take for granted the value of the things that we know and the gifts of the people around us. Become aware of when you speak of the ordinariness of people. God made everyone special. Live to see what God sees. Luke 4:24-30 And he said, "Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet's hometown. But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian." When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.