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By Rick Warren — Nov 28, 2016
When you’re mastered by him, you can master your problems. God has the power you were lacking. He’ll help you out. |
“Who will free me
from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is
in Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 7:24b-25a NLT, second edition).
Here is the testimony of a Chinese Christian: “I
walked through the road of life and had fallen into a great ditch. The ditch
was filled with depression, discouragement, and sin. As I lay in that ditch,
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Showing posts with label Dig into the Word. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dig into the Word. Show all posts
Monday, 28 November 2016
How Can I Get Out of This Mess?
Friday, 25 November 2016
Four Ways God Speaks to You
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By Rick Warren — Nov 25, 2016
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When you start to listen to God through circumstances, impressions, teachers, or the Bible, sometimes he’s going to lead you in ways that you don’t understand. Hang in there! Following God is not always easy, but it will reap more blessing in your life than you can imagine. 
“God does speak — sometimes one way and sometimes another — even though people may not
understand it” (Job 33:14 NCV).
A lot of us think we’re too busy to listen for
God’s response. But we have to take the time to tune in and listen, because
God is speaking. Job 33:14 says, “God does speak —
sometimes one way and sometimes another — even though people may not
understand it” (NCV).
The question is, “How do I understand it? How do I
tune in so that I can hear God’s voice?”
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Monday, 21 November 2016
Three Mistakes to Avoid When Seeking God's Will
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By Rick Warren — Nov 21, 2016
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The steps of a man are established by the Lord …. When he falls, he will not be hurled headlong, because the Lord is the One who holds his hand” (Psalm 37:23a-24 NASB). 
You may be at what you think is a dead end in your
life. “We’re never going to get out of debt! I’m never going to have a baby.
My dream is never going to come true. How is it ever going to work out?”
Right now it may look dark and you may feel defeated
and it may seem like a mystery to you. But one day you’re going to see in the
light of eternity how it all fits together in God’s plan. Until then, there
are three errors you need to avoid as you seek God’s will that will help you
trust in him, even when you don’t understand.
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Monday, 14 November 2016
How to Give Grace to the Irritable
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By Rick Warren — Nov 14, 2016
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This is the first step in dealing with difficult people: You must choose to refuse to be offended or to take it personally. 
“A person’s
wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense” (Proverbs 19:11 NIV).
When you’re dealing with people who are offensive or
irritating, you need to look past the behavior to the pain. Because
everything we do is motivated by something. When people hurt others, it’s
because they’re hurting on the inside. Hurt people hurt people.
The more you understand about other people’s
background, the more grace you’ll show them. Think of the people who you find
the most difficult to deal with and who irritate you the most — you probably know nothing
about their background. So you don’t cut them any slack. You don’t know that
maybe they were molested. You don’t know that maybe they were orphaned. You
don’t know that they’ve gone through three marriages and their husband walked
out on them. You don’t know their story, so you’re not showing them any
grace.
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Saturday, 12 November 2016
Get to Know Your Healer - By Pastor Rick Warren
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By Rick Warren — Nov 10, 2016
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One of the reasons why we have to deal with abuse is because of this: It is contagious. It gets passed on from generation to generation... 
“Don’t repay evil
for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay
them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will
grant you his blessing” (1
Peter 3:9 NLT, second edition).
Nothing crushes the spirit more than abuse — to feel devalued,
unimportant, and misused. Jesus knows that. And he says, “I will care for
you.”
The starting point in your healing is to get to
know your Healer. You need to say, “Jesus Christ, I don’t know how you did
this, but you took the guilt for every sin in the world — the ones done to me and
the ones done by me. I want to learn to love you. And I want you to come in
and heal my heart and my mind and my body.”
And he will. He will!
When Jesus was abused, did he retaliate? Absolutely
not! The Bible says, “Christ never verbally abused those who verbally abused him. When he
suffered, he didn’t make any threats but left everything to the one who
judges fairly” (1
Peter 2:23 GW).
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How To Get Past Regrets -By Pastor Rick Warren
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By Rick Warren — Nov 11, 2016
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God is waiting to clean your slate. Ask him to clear your conscience.  “Forget about what’s happened; don’t keep going over old history. Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? There it is! I’m making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands” (Isaiah 43:18-19 MSG).
How often do you play the “If only” game?
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Wednesday, 9 November 2016
God Wants to Give You Freedom
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By Rick Warren — Nov 9, 2016
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Real freedom is freedom from fear, guilt, worry, bitterness, and death. You’re free to quit pretending because you’re free to be yourself. 
“If the Son sets
you free, then you will be really free” (John 8:36 GNT).
The world defines freedom as a life without any
restraint — “I
can do anything I want to do and say anything I want to say without anybody
telling me what to do.” You may burn everybody else, but you get to do it
your own way. The world says you can have your freedom, but
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God's Grace in Full Force
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By Rick Warren — Nov 6, 2016
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Raymond Edman, one of Billy Graham’s mentors, once said, “Never doubt in the dark what God told you in the light.”
“Now that the
worst is over, we're pleased we can report that we’ve come out of this with
conscience and faith intact, and can face the world — and even more importantly, face you with our heads held high. But it
wasn’t by any fancy footwork on our part. It was God who kept us focused on
him, uncompromised” (2 Corinthians 1:12 MSG).
Regardless of your circumstances and how you feel,
hang on to God’s unchanging character.
The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 1:12, “Now that the
worst is over, we’re pleased we can report that we’ve come out of this with
conscience and faith intact, and can face the world — and even
more importantly, face you with our heads held high. But it wasn’t by any
fancy footwork on our part. It was God who kept us focused on him,
uncompromised” (MSG). Your circumstances cannot
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Tuesday, 8 November 2016
The Abuse Epidemic: Silent No More
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By Rick Warren — Nov 8, 2016
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The first step in breaking free from abuse, whether it’s sexual or physical or verbal or emotional, is sharing with someone who can help you break free. 
I said . . . ‘I
will not say anything while evil people are near.’ I kept quiet, not saying a word . . . But my suffering only
grew worse, and I was overcome with anxiety. The more I thought, the more
troubled I became; I could not keep from asking: ‘Lord, how long will I live? When will I die? Tell me how
soon my life will end’” (Psalm
39:1-4 GNT).
The first step in breaking free from abuse, whether
it’s sexual or physical or verbal or emotional, is sharing with someone who
can help you break free.
Jesus said in John 8:32, “The truth will set you free” (NLT, second edition). Freedom comes when you
open up and admit your pain to someone else.
In a study of 10 nations, it was discovered that
between 55 to 95 percent of women who have been abused by their partners have
never told anybody, and men are even less likely to talk about it or get
help.
Abuse is often called the silent epidemic because
it’s the big, pink elephant in many marriages that nobody wants to talk
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Monday, 7 November 2016
Your Pain Often Reveals God’s Purpose
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By Rick Warren — Nov 7, 2016
In fact, the very thing you’re most ashamed of in your life and resent the most, could become your greatest ministry in helping other people. |
“[God] comforts
us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others . . . When we are
weighed down with troubles, it is for your comfort and salvation! For when we
ourselves are comforted, we will certainly comfort you. Then you can
patiently endure the same things we suffer” (2 Corinthians 1:4a, 6 NLT, second edition).
Your pain often reveals God’s purpose for you. God
never wastes a hurt! If you’ve gone through a hurt, he wants you to help
other people going through a similar hurt. He wants you to share it. God can
use the problems in your life to give you a ministry to others. In fact, the
very thing you’re most ashamed of in your life and resent the most, could
become your greatest ministry in helping other people.
Who can better help somebody going through a
bankruptcy than somebody who went through a bankruptcy? Who can better help
somebody struggling with an addiction than somebody who’s struggled with an
addiction? Who can better help parents of a special needs child than parents
who raised a special needs child? Who can better help somebody who’s lost a
child than somebody who lost a child?
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Sunday, 6 November 2016
Don’t Give in to Your Fears
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By Rick Warren — Nov 5, 2016
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God is watching over you, so don’t listen to your fears. This is a choice: Trust God, and don’t give in to your fears. 
“From such
terrible dangers of death he saved us, and will save us; and we have placed
our hope in him that he will save us again” (2 Corinthians 1:10 GNT).
God is watching over you, so don’t listen to your
fears. This is a choice: Trust God, and don’t give in to your fears.
The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 1:10, “From such terrible dangers of
death he saved us, and will save us; and we have placed our hope in him that
he will save us again” (GNT).
God’s promise to believers is that, no matter what
happens to us, he is working for our good — if we love him and follow him. If you're a
believer, the Bible says all things
are working together for good — not
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Friday, 4 November 2016
How Do You Forgive
How Do You Forgive?
BY
RICK WARREN — NOVEMBER 3, 2016
“God has done it all! He sent Christ
to make peace between himself and us, and he has given us the work of making
peace between himself and others. What we mean is that God was in Christ,
offering peace and forgiveness to the people of this world. And he has given us
the work of sharing his message about peace. We were sent to speak for Christ,
and God is begging you to listen to our message. We speak for Christ and
sincerely ask you to make peace with God” (2
Corinthians 5:18-20 CEV).
In 1956, five
American missionaries headed to the rainforest of the eastern Amazon in Ecuador
to make a second visit to the Huaorani tribe, which anthropologists said was
the most vicious, violent society on the face of the earth. They had a culture
of killing, and studies showed 60 percent of the tribe died by homicide.
As soon as the
missionaries got out of the plane, they were speared to death by members of the
tribe. The brutal murders made news around the world and the cover of Life magazine, Time, and Newsweek.
Many newspapers reported the deaths of these men, who included Nate Saint and
Jim Elliot.
A couple years
later, Elisabeth and Valerie Elliot, wife and daughter of Jim, and Rachel
Saint, sister of Nate, moved into the Huaorani village to show love and
forgiveness and minister to the people who had killed their family. Eventually,
Mincaye, the leader of the tribe, and the five men who participated in the
missionary murders all became Christians.
The kind of
forgiveness that Elisabeth Elliot and Rachel Saint modeled doesn’t make sense
until God has forgiven you. Once you’ve experienced it, how do you forgive? You
do the four things that these women did:
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
Forgive Because You’re Forgiven
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You Don’t Have to Forget
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HATER OF GOD
OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL
DATE: WEDNESDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 2016
THEME: HATER OF GOD?
DATE: WEDNESDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 2016
THEME: HATER OF GOD?
Memorise:
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. Jeremiah 17:5
Read: Romans 1:28-32
1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
MESSAGE
The situation around us today requires quick intervention because the society is becoming unsafe due to
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Anger Yields Anger, Wisdom Yields Patience
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Before You Retaliate, Calculate the Cost
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Saturday, 22 October 2016
Wise People Consider Other People’s Feelings
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