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• Negative Confessions

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  2 Corinthians 12:9-10 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (NKJV)(Previous devotionals can be found at www.seriousfaith.com)When you first read the title of this message, you may have thought it was going to be yet another teaching about saying the right words, being positive, never letting anything negative come out of your mouth, never having any negative or weak thoughts about yourself, etc, etc, etc. You’d be wrong.The [...]

   

• The Negative Reality

  In Faithful, Happy, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  Psalm 39:4 – “Lord, make me to know my end, And what is the measure of my days, That I may know how frail I am. (NKJV)Death, few, very.From a human perspective, those are the answers to the Psalmists requests in our Bible verse for today. Death is our end. Few are the number of days we have in this life. And we are very, very frail when compared to what this wicked, sin-filled world can throw at us.Does admitting your frailty make you a “negative” person? Is this speaking “bad confessions” into our lives? Hardly. It’s reality. Is it a “negative confession” if you proclaim “I will be killed if I stand on these train tracks too long”. Your “bad confession” doesn’t cause the [...]

   

• A Trip to the Laver

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  Exodus 30:20 When they go into the tabernacle of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the Lord, they shall wash with water, lest they die. (NKJV)The Jewish Tabernacle was a good picture of how to approach God. The temple layout was done according to very explicit instructions from God. To ignore or violate the Lord’s precise method of entering His presence resulted in severe consequences to the careless or rebellious.Through the death of Jesus, we now have direct access to the Throne Room of Grace, though our approach should be no less careful and reverent. The symbology of the tabernacle gives us an idea of how to approach the Lord in prayer. It’s [...]

   

• Cry Out to God

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  Psalm 107.19,21 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, And He saved them out of their distresses… Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!Psalms 107 takes us through a series of life’s common troubles and proclaims the same answer for them all.Are you suffering today? Have you wasted your life? Is your home breaking up? Have you lost your job? Are you secretly engaged in shameful sin? Is something or someone making your life miserable? Are you being persecuted or forsaken? Is death robbing you? Are you racked with guilt and shame? Are you so far gone, so far lost and so messed up that there is [...]

   

• Daily Praying – Part 3

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Luke 6.12 Now it came to pass in those days that He (Jesus) went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. (NKJV) Continuing our look at the four parts of prayer, we come to confessing our sin. Confessing sin is a mere pious exercise unless we understand and accept the Biblical concept of our sinful nature. As we grow in God’s wisdom, we come to know that sin is much more than just the external acts of disobedience. We begin to understand the real underlying reason: that we are sinful by nature and must ask God to reveal our pension for sin and the ability to deceive [...]