Crosslines

What is in man that causes him to not just survive but to overcome? It is not what happens to you but what is inside you that matters. The life of Joseph is the perfect example of Personal Inner Strength.  

How does comparison work for you? In Genesis 1:31, God said, "God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good." Self-comparison is a trap.  It doesn't matter if you come up with reasons you are better than others or are worse off than others; either way, it is a trap.

A teaching from 2016 - Gratitude cures 90% of spiritual ills but being ungrateful causes some problems. " I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood...Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ungrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude." - William Shakespeare.

The gospel is Good News . God came to give us an abundant life , a life beyond our wildest dreams that continues all of our days into eternity. But we cannot make the same mistake as the children of Israel. They got themselves into trouble by not believing the good report they were given about the Promise Land.

Are you hearing multiple voices? It's not as big of a problem as you think. The real problem is when you don't know the difference between the Shepherd's voice and the stranger's voice. 

There are churches today that don't have the revelation you can hear God speak…BUT God never intended for there to be deaf sheep. God gave us ears so that we can hear HIS voice. 

If your training left this out. If this wasn't part of your discipleship. There is one vital piece of discipleship you missed to be successful when you launch into ministry. There is one specific attack you must overcome before you will be given the nations. 

A Biblical perspective on witchcraft. Mixing power sources gets us mixed up. Keep things simple and pure in your relationship with the Lord. 

Have you made contact or connected with witchcraft? If you have the calling of God on your life, witchcraft will be sent to try and stop what the Lord has begun. We must find a way to defeat it. 

In a world of powerless Christians when we put on the armor of God and walk in our God given authority, we become powerful against the forces of evil in a way the world does not understand. 

Are you anointed by God when the pressure is on? Or do you have a tendency to start making not-so-good decisions...? If the Lord is with you things will work better than you could imagine but if you get into control and fear, things come out worse than you could dream. 

One-third of your life is sleep. Is it sweet? “When you lie down, you will not be afraid, when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet” -Proverbs 3:24. Throughout history and in the Bible God speaks to people through dreams. Don't think that God only wants to speak to you during daytime hours. 

When your head is spinning and you don't feel like you can pray...CRY OUT TO THE LORD! With everything in you cry out to God.

Do you just want out of the pain or do you really want God? Many things in life ease the pain but if they aren't God...they can make things far worse. We must choose to want God more than we want our immediate problem fixed.

When your head is spinning: find the root, renounce, repent, and face a lot of reality. 

The story of best friends and where it all started. 

If being good doesn't get you healed, what does? Is it how big the need is? Or Is it how much we beg God? What is it that truly moves God?

There are times in life when God speaks something so important we must listen. Listening to God and choosing to obey gives us the power to walk out of the impossible problems. With God, you always have a choice, even when it feels like you have no choice.

Why does God care about how His Name is spoken of? "Wherever they went among the nations, they profaned my holy name...I had concern for my holy name, which the people of Israel profaned among the nations where they had gone." -Ezekiel 36:20-21. Why does God care? Why would He care about what the other nations think of His name?

The Bible tells us to lose ourselves, to die to ourselves...AND to love ourselves. Is the Bible contradicting itself? What are we to do towards our SELF?

Are you giving God only the things you don't like about yourself? It is not much of a gift if you only give what you dislike. God likes the things about you that are the most likable, that is why he gave them to you. 

Everything has become about self, self, self...but nobody's self has become better. At least six times in the gospels, Jesus tells us to lose ourselves, deny ourselves, take up our cross, etc. Why does Jesus say this? We must know the difference between "love your neighbor as yourself" and "in the last days, there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self..." 

Jezebel has the men under a spell. And many of them are so blind they can't tell, so their mothers begin to yell. Renouncing is the only thing that will get them well. 

When you are in a downward spiral, a spin, and it feels like there is nothing you can do to pull up. That is emotional spiritual warfare. When your emotions refuse to tell you the truth. What can you do to pull out of it? Has God given us authority over our emotions?