Temptation

What if you went out to dinner with someone that was struggling with an eating disorder? So you order that scrumptious dessert. And since you are having one, they order one also. Eating dessert is not a sin for you, but your action was temptation for them. DickEvans.org

Nothing Can Stop Us

It seems to always get back to our own understanding. Our head tells us that we can or cannot do something but our head only knows things based on our experience. If we did it before and were successful, then we feel good doing it again. We need to get our head and our logic out of the way. We need to know that we know that when God tells us to do something there is nothing that can stop us. ~ DickEvans.org

Turn Off

How difficult it is for us to turn off our human logic. Even when the Lord tells us to do something, we can let our own intellect get in the way and try to do something else. Like Peter we can easily attempt to correct God. We can try and tell Him what we think is best. ~ DickEvans.org

Plenty

Our God is a god of plenty. When we give thanks to Him for what we have and where we are and all that He has done for us, He provides for our needs. ~ DickEvans.org

Give Grace

Ephesians 2:8-9 NKJV
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

As we have received the gift of grace we must also give grace to others and forgive them when they say or do something that could offend us.

Offense nurtured breeds bitterness. Bitterness will kill you. It is a cancer to your soul. With bitterness comes anger. It is not part of our new life in Christ.

God has saved us by grace not by works. We are forgiven. His word tells us that He remembers our sins no more. They are as far away from Him as the east is from the west.

We need to be walking in the spirit not in the flesh. In the spirit we think with the mind of Christ.

As we allow our mind to draw from our old self we pull away from the mind of Christ. We let others offend us and pull us out of the spirit.

Satan works hard to tempt us into those old thoughts tempting us to go back to those things our old self enjoyed. Tempting us back into old relationships.

That life is over. We cannot go back. Our New life is in Christ. He has a path for us to go on. We need to let go of the dead past life and walk in our new life. Let go of those old friends. Stop the lifestyle we lived before Christ.

Father, thank you for showing me the path you have for Me to follow. Thank you for steering me away from the ways of my dead life. Thank you for wisdom and boldness to speak the truth to others. To use me to heal the sick. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Faith

Faith doesn't come because we read how others increased their faith. It increases because we become immersed in His Word and step out in what faith we have. ~ DickEvans.org

Be Willing

The Holy Spirit is always attempting to communicate to us, to instruct us. We must be willing to hear from Him so that we can understand what He is telling us to do. Without our willingness we will not be able to obey because we will never hear His words. ~ DickEvans.org