We can, by an act of our will, bring even our thoughts into obedience to Christ by focusing on right thoughts. Right thoughts are the truths found in Scripture.
We can, by an act of our will, bring even our thoughts into obedience to Christ by focusing on right thoughts. Right thoughts are the truths found in Scripture.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
-Isaiah 53:5,6
When I pray for revival, it must start in my own heart.
I want to care about whether my neighbors and their children know Christ. And I want to plant seeds. Lots of seeds.
I want to know Christ deeply through personal experience. Faith can never be secondhand.
It’s about children who didn’t have a choice. Children who didn’t get to choose their life circumstances.
As I look forward to the New Year, instead of longing for things I think I want, I am grateful for what I don’t have.
Have we taken the focus off the Christ child and put it on shopping and preparing for gatherings?
What things in your life do you wish had never happened? Can you thank God for them?
Somehow through our imperfect lives that are slowly being changed to be more like Christ, we pray that our children and grandchildren get it.
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