There is something about accusations that I had noticed as a pastor for many years watching myself and others be accused, but I had never seen it in Scripture until recently. I call it the principle of inverse accusation, and it states that accusers nearly always accuse people of being the exact opposite of whatContinue reading “How to Handle Accusations 03: The Principle of the Inverse Accusation”
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How to Handle Accusations 01: Who Accuses!
In Revelation 12.10 we are informed by John that one of Satan’s titles is “the accuser of our brethren” and that he accused them day and night, in other words all the time. Satan tries to steal and kill and destroy us in many different ways. He tries to tempt us to sin – toContinue reading “How to Handle Accusations 01: Who Accuses!”
God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 13 Triple Faith
In the old days, before emails and instant messaging, often forms needed to be filled in triplicate. You could and probably still can buy special paper that when you wrote on it, you were actually writing on three sheets of paper and had three copies of what you wrote. So a company could give aContinue reading “God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 13 Triple Faith”
God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 12 Learn How to Persuade Yourself
Changing the total way you think about God and yourself and replacing teeny tiny thoughts with giant big ones, replacing human thoughts with divine ones, your worldly carnal ideas with Word based, Spirit-filled ideas takes time. It takes a bit of energy and effort too. It will not happen overnight. You can change a spiritContinue reading “God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 12 Learn How to Persuade Yourself”
God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 11 God Made You Big, Now Act Like It!
Once you have spent the time meditating in the Word, knowing how big God is, and how much He loves you, you then can spend some time realizing how loved you are, and how big you are. In other words, when you realize how special God is you will realize how special you are. YouContinue reading “God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 11 God Made You Big, Now Act Like It!”
God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 10 Act Like God’s Love is Big!
God is big and God is love, so God’s love is big. It’s huge, it’s immense, it’s wonderful and glorious. We all have free access to God’s presence and when we get into the presence of God, we never walk in and find a Judgment Seat but always find a Mercy Seat. A throne ofContinue reading “God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 10 Act Like God’s Love is Big!”
God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 05 Choose Your Counselors Carefully
When I decided I wanted to squat 180kg, I did not go and find someone who had never done it to ask how. When I decided to marry Amanda, I spoke to people whose marriages I admired and asked for wisdom. When I planted the first Tree of Life, I went and asked pastors whose churches IContinue reading “God is Big, Now Start Acting Like it 05 Choose Your Counselors Carefully”
Difficult Verses: 1 Cor. 10.13
Someone recently asked me to discuss 1 Cor. 10.13 as they found it a difficult verse. No problems there, let’s do it! No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provideContinue reading “Difficult Verses: 1 Cor. 10.13”
Difficult Verses 2: Hebrews 12.14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: (Hebrews 12.14) This verse is one of the verses that is used to condemn people all the time. If you are not holy, you will not see the Lord. It’s often taken two ways: firstly, if you are not holyContinue reading “Difficult Verses 2: Hebrews 12.14”
Your Time is Limited
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life” – Steve Jobs Every one of us is a unique soul with a unique personality. You were designed to be unique! Listen: it’s ok to have preferences – it’s not right when Christianity tries to make people into clones – the Stepford WivesContinue reading “Your Time is Limited”
