Month: December 2020

humility

Want More Humility? Try These Questions

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This week’s post is a very practical exercise in humility. Below are reflection questions designed to produce reflection on our pride and humility. Take a few seconds on each one and if it seems to apply then ask God to help you see yourself more clearly. If you discover something out of order then express your desire and commitment to change to God. How willing am I to recognize when I could use the help of others? How willing am I to seek help once I recognize that I could use it? How willing am I to admit weaknesses or faults? Do I honestly seek greater awareness of my sinfulness from God? When I see my faults do I beat myself up or humbly and thankfully accept who I am before God? Do I get angry with my faults because I want to think of myself as more mature than Continue Reading →

Weekly words of encouragement

God’s New Covenant Deliverance – Weekly Words Of Encouragement

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Sacrifice thank offerings to God,fulfill your vows to the Most High,and call on me in the day of trouble;I will deliver you, and you will honor me. Psalms 50:14-15 (NIV) God encourages us by promising deliverance. But what kind of deliverance does God promises under the New Covenant? Under the Old Covenant God’s deliverance was usually a physical deliverance: from military enemies, from personal enemies, from misfortune etcetera. But under the New Covenant God has not promised political or economic prosperity or freedom from enemies and distress until Jesus returns. For now, he promises something even better: inner communion with him, a cleansed heart, and interior peace that surpasses understanding. What does he ask of us? That we would trust him and thank him for who he is and what he has done – our thank offerings. That we would fulfill the commitments we have made to him – our Continue Reading →