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You have desires. God-given physical, emotional and spiritual desires. All of those lusts or desires can be fulfilled in healthy ways. But as you are fully aware, you can fulfill emotional and physical desires in unhealthy, sinful ways. James tells us in his letter that temptation in our lives comes from our natural desires. It's up to you how you will seek to satisfy those desires. Read the full...

When you're tempted or under a trial, turn to God's spirit within you and allow patience to bear fruit. Patience will eliminate most of your temptations. If you can just want a few minutes, or however long you need to clear your emotions and desires from the forefront, you can make a decision based on wisdom rather than emotion and desire. Read the full article here: https://www.clintbyars.com/blo...

The Most Underrated Passage In The Bible | Colossians 2 - Clint Byars by Forward Church Sermons

Helping Others Remember Their Identity In Christ - Clint Byars by Forward Church Sermons

God has the utmost respect for you. He has a high sense of value for you. You are worth his own life. You are worthy to be treated with dignity because of the kind of being he made you. Being made in God’s image doesn’t mean you look like him, it means you are a being that’s worthy to be in his class. You are not a worm, you are a valuable creature, born of God’s image, carrying his presence every...

The Apostle Peter lied to the face of God and didn't feel worthy to be loved by God, yet Jesus still pursued him and affirmed his calling. God will not give up on you when you fail and feel distant from God. He will still love you and love you back into productivity. Read the full article here: https://www.clintbyars.com/blog/2020/6/4/jesus-will-not-give-up-on-you

The world’s systems can fall apart in a matter of days. Things we depend on can crumble overnight. Then what? What do you do if you lose everything? Answer: Remember the Lord and forget not his benefits. God sees ahead and makes provision, and our job is to stay receptive to him, so we’ll follow his leading into provision. Read the full article here: https://www.clintbyars.com/blog/2020/5/27/forge...

Discover how to pray for those who have hurt you.

When I think of God, I think of a loving, powerful, forgiving father, I am aware that He is good and only good! I love what Clint says, "God created a whole planet for two people." He wants us to be a family and to live in paradise together. Read the full blessing here: https://www.clintbyars.com/blog/2020/5/12/su8b83qeslmyj6auvzsd2wnthdanc5

Grace is not just unmerited favor, it’s strength in your inner man. It’s divine life and power from his heart to yours. His love is the vehicle for his grace. If you don’t know how to live in his love for you, you will have trouble accessing his grace that is always available. Ponder God’s extravagant love for you today.

You Can Know God's Ways - Clint Byars by Forward Church Sermons

Did you know you can hear from God anytime you want? God is never silent! We may be more focused on the physical world’s circumstances and ignore His voice, but he is without a doubt speaking. If you can’t hear him in your heart in prayer, you can go to his written word and listen to Him. Whether He said it 3000 years ago or 3 seconds ago, His logos can give you life. In this message, I walk you t...

With freedom from sin comes personal responsibility. Believers have the personal ability to respond to God’s grace rather than continue to live in sin. Response ability. Under the New Covenant, we are free from sin. We are free from sin in that God is no longer holding our sins against us. Paul explains in Romans 6 that freedom from sin doesn’t give one an excuse to continue in sin; it’s just the...

Can I pray for you? Join me in a meditative prayer through Psalm 91. There is a lot of uncertainty in our communities right now. Many of you are not sure how any shut-downs will affect your life and your family's lives. No matter what happens, God's Word is a firm foundation we can stand on. Let us help you root your heart in God's Word and find strength in this time of unrest and uncertainty. Rea...

You will not work out your own life’s equations and end up with correct solutions if you try to figure them out with natural logic. If God’s solutions seem illogical to you, you know you are thinking carnally or naturally. If God’s solutions or promises seem plausible to you, you are thinking spiritually. Keep on thinking that way. In other words, stay in faith. https://www.clintbyars.com/blog/202...

If you're in trouble or under pressure, you can look at what God has said until it becomes alive in you now. You'll know the word is alive in you when it becomes believable. When it's believable, all things are possible. When God's word is alive in you, you begin to see his options and hear his leading. The word of God can lie dormant in your intellect, but it's up to you to open your heart in suc...

God is not the author of your suffering. It's not in his script for your life. Tribulation and suffering are in the world, but they're not from God. If you should find yourself suffering religious persecution, God promises that He will comfort you. Read the full article here: https://www.clintbyars.com/blog/2020/3/22/suffering-and-tribulation-are-not-tools-god-uses

Times are uncertain right now. Most people expect the world to get back to normal after the Covid-19 breakout but there may be some difficult days for many people until then. As of this recording, we are still being encouraged to distance socially but that will end at some point. The government will do what they can but people will have deeper questions. As a follower of Jesus, prepare yourself to...

It’s legal for you to expect everything that is consistent with the nature and character of God. For instance, God is a healer, provider, comforter, counselor and father; it is legal for you to expect to experience God in all of those capacities. When you believe you have received everything, it will be yours. https://www.clintbyars.com/blog/2020/3/16/believe-you-have-received

Prayer is not magic; it just shifts your inner man back to dependence on God. Prayer is a mind-renewal process. Pray until God’s promises are believable, then don’t back down and don’t lose heart.

Prayer is a time to turn your attention to God’s transformative and powerful spirit within you and yield to the shaping of his hands in your inner man. You can not take enough baths or wash your clothes enough times to get God’s spirit inside you, only the blood of Jesus can wash you clean enough to be acceptable to interact with God. Read the full article here: https://www.clintbyars.com/blog/202...

Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy or boast. It is not proud, rude, or self-seeking. It is not easily angry and keeps no record of past mistakes. 1 Corinthians 13:4-5

To Jesus, judgment is when you “look at the speck of sawdust in another person’s eye.” He says STOP IT! Don’t do that! When you look at the speck you no longer see that person, you only see the speck. The speck is whatever issue or behavior you are judging about that person. His remedy is to remove the plank in your own eye so you can see clearly to help them remove the speck from their eye. The p...

Most people just want to get their point across. We often ignore the other person but pretend we're listening. We selectively hear what we want to respond to but often miss their meaning. Most people listen with the intent to reply, not to understand. We prepare in our minds what we're going to say while they’re still speaking. WE FILTER EVERYTHING THROUGH OURSELVES. Consequently, we decide premat...

Assignments from God are completed FROM identity, not FOR identity. Once you know that you are already a child in his kingdom (by grace through faith), he equips you as an ambassador to complete assignments. Read the full article here: https://www.clintbyars.com/blog/2020/1/27/you-hear-god-better-when-youre-aware-of-your-sonship