Three Enemies of Healing
E.W. Kenyon
It is easier for us to face the problem of the failure of unanswered prayer, if we understand some of the reasons for it.
One of the Worst
One of the worst enemies of healing is, that unconsciously our hymn writers have all put our blessings into the future.
The theology that we sing eventually becomes the theology we believe.
We have unconsciously put all our blessings and Spiritual achievements into the “tomorrow.”
Almost no one speaks of their redemption rights in the present tense.
It is always, “I’m going to be.”
But the remarkable thing about the Scripture is that it is always in the present tense.
“In whom we have our redemption.” “Who was raised for our justification.”
There is the past and present blended in that glorious truth.
“By His stripes we were healed,” this is now!
“Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.”
This is all in the present tense. Sometimes He speaks of our redemption as having taken place.
If you can think of your healing as something that is done now; that has been accomplished on your behalf in Christ.
More than 130 times we are spoken of as being “in Christ.” If you are in Christ that is present tense. “You are complete in Him.” He is our fullness, our perfect redemption, now! You can see the great danger of our placing our blessings in “tomorrow.”
We have done it because of our sense of unfitness now; of our unworthiness now; and because of that sense of unfitness and unworthiness we have unconsciously pushed our victories and our healing into the future, when in reality, in the mind of God, we are healed now.
We are victors now! We are over-comers now! We are more than conquerors now in Christ Jesus!
Learn to think of yourself as indwelt, now through our Lord Jesus. Think of yourself as a victor, now; more than a conqueror now and you have placed yourself in your own mind where God has placed you.
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.” Notice the “now.”
“For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” That is past tense.
That is salvation, healing, deliverance, victory, now! Praise the Lord!!!
The Second Enemy
The second enemy is Mental Assent. This, the most dangerous and the most subtle of all the enemies of the human soul.
One may be deceived for years thinking that it is faith that is acting when it is only mental assent. You can be a staunch advocate of the verbal inspiration of the Word of God; you can sit under the ministry of an able expositor of the Word of God, and still not believe in faith. Mental assent recognises the truths but it does not enjoy any of the present tense realities. They stand beside the showcase and gaze upon the beautiful gems within. They rejoice in them, they can point out the differences on them. They know the difference between a faulty stone and a perfect one, but they do not own any. There is a man who understands the great prophetical teachings; rejoices greatly in the finished work of Christ; yet lives in defeat; lives in the consciousness of utter failure. What is the trouble? He mental assents to everything, but doesn’t believe.
In contrast: A believer is one who has received; who has entered into the fullness; who enjoys the present tense of the Finished Work of Christ. If we could coin the word, a Believer is a “have-er.” He has; he enjoys the experiences and the riches of the good Word of God and the powers of the age to come. He has passed the period of mental assent into the actual realization of the glories of Christ.
The Third Enemy
A Third enemy is the fear of yielding all to Christ. It is the old problem of the Lordship of Christ. It is strange how a man fears to yield utterly, absolutely, to the Lordship of Jesus.
It is hard for the sick to give up their medicine and their doctors. It is hard for another to yield to the Lord in regard to finances.
But you will never reach a place of real faith until you have laid aside every other means of help, relief and deliverance. God does not bless means, except to those in the babyhood state of faith.
But those who by reason of time have reached a place of full knowledge that God does not bless fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness; Ephesians 5:11-12.
If you want God’s best, you will lay your best on the alter. You see, real faith thanks God for deliverance, before God has acted or delivered. Anything short of that is not faith.
If I believe in the Scriptural sense, in Divine Healing, I praise God for my healing before I am healed. The same law holds in Salvation. “That it you confess with your mouth Jesus Christ is lord, and believe in your heart that He rose from the dead, you shall be saved.”
Man believes he is redeemed before he is born again, and when he believes then God acts. We make confession that the thing is done before God has done it. Then God does it.
Faith always praises before God acts.
Three Enemies of Healing
E.W. Kenyon
It is easier for us to face the problem of the failure of unanswered prayer, if we understand some of the reasons for it.
One of the Worst
One of the worst enemies of healing is, that unconsciously our hymn writers have all put our blessings into the future.
The theology that we sing eventually becomes the theology we believe.
We have unconsciously put all our blessings and Spiritual achievements into the “tomorrow.”
Almost no one speaks of their redemption rights in the present tense.
It is always, “I’m going to be.”
But the remarkable thing about the Scripture is that it is always in the present tense.
“In whom we have our redemption.” “Who was raised for our justification.”
There is the past and present blended in that glorious truth.
“By His stripes we were healed,” this is now!
“Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.”
This is all in the present tense. Sometimes He speaks of our redemption as having taken place.
If you can think of your healing as something that is done now; that has been accomplished on your behalf in Christ.
More than 130 times we are spoken of as being “in Christ.” If you are in Christ that is present tense. “You are complete in Him.” He is our fullness, our perfect redemption, now! You can see the great danger of our placing our blessings in “tomorrow.”
We have done it because of our sense of unfitness now; of our unworthiness now; and because of that sense of unfitness and unworthiness we have unconsciously pushed our victories and our healing into the future, when in reality, in the mind of God, we are healed now.
We are victors now! We are over-comers now! We are more than conquerors now in Christ Jesus!
Learn to think of yourself as indwelt, now through our Lord Jesus. Think of yourself as a victor, now; more than a conqueror now and you have placed yourself in your own mind where God has placed you.
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.” Notice the “now.”
“For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” That is past tense.
That is salvation, healing, deliverance, victory, now! Praise the Lord!!!
The Second Enemy
The second enemy is Mental Assent. This, the most dangerous and the most subtle of all the enemies of the human soul.
One may be deceived for years thinking that it is faith that is acting when it is only mental assent. You can be a staunch advocate of the verbal inspiration of the Word of God; you can sit under the ministry of an able expositor of the Word of God, and still not believe in faith. Mental assent recognises the truths but it does not enjoy any of the present tense realities. They stand beside the showcase and gaze upon the beautiful gems within. They rejoice in them, they can point out the differences on them. They know the difference between a faulty stone and a perfect one, but they do not own any. There is a man who understands the great prophetical teachings; rejoices greatly in the finished work of Christ; yet lives in defeat; lives in the consciousness of utter failure. What is the trouble? He mental assents to everything, but doesn’t believe.
In contrast: A believer is one who has received; who has entered into the fullness; who enjoys the present tense of the Finished Work of Christ. If we could coin the word, a Believer is a “have-er.” He has; he enjoys the experiences and the riches of the good Word of God and the powers of the age to come. He has passed the period of mental assent into the actual realization of the glories of Christ.
The Third Enemy
A Third enemy is the fear of yielding all to Christ. It is the old problem of the Lordship of Christ. It is strange how a man fears to yield utterly, absolutely, to the Lordship of Jesus.
It is hard for the sick to give up their medicine and their doctors. It is hard for another to yield to the Lord in regard to finances.
But you will never reach a place of real faith until you have laid aside every other means of help, relief and deliverance. God does not bless means, except to those in the babyhood state of faith.
But those who by reason of time have reached a place of full knowledge that God does not bless fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness; Ephesians 5:11-12.
If you want God’s best, you will lay your best on the alter. You see, real faith thanks God for deliverance, before God has acted or delivered. Anything short of that is not faith.
If I believe in the Scriptural sense, in Divine Healing, I praise God for my healing before I am healed. The same law holds in Salvation. “That it you confess with your mouth Jesus Christ is lord, and believe in your heart that He rose from the dead, you shall be saved.”
Man believes he is redeemed before he is born again, and when he believes then God acts. We make confession that the thing is done before God has done it. Then God does it.
Faith always praises before God acts.Three Enemies of Healing
E.W. Kenyon
It is easier for us to face the problem of the failure of unanswered prayer, if we understand some of the reasons for it.
One of the Worst
One of the worst enemies of healing is, that unconsciously our hymn writers have all put our blessings into the future.
The theology that we sing eventually becomes the theology we believe.
We have unconsciously put all our blessings and Spiritual achievements into the “tomorrow.”
Almost no one speaks of their redemption rights in the present tense.
It is always, “I’m going to be.”
But the remarkable thing about the Scripture is that it is always in the present tense.
“In whom we have our redemption.” “Who was raised for our justification.”
There is the past and present blended in that glorious truth.
“By His stripes we were healed,” this is now!
“Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.”
This is all in the present tense. Sometimes He speaks of our redemption as having taken place.
If you can think of your healing as something that is done now; that has been accomplished on your behalf in Christ.
More than 130 times we are spoken of as being “in Christ.” If you are in Christ that is present tense. “You are complete in Him.” He is our fullness, our perfect redemption, now! You can see the great danger of our placing our blessings in “tomorrow.”
We have done it because of our sense of unfitness now; of our unworthiness now; and because of that sense of unfitness and unworthiness we have unconsciously pushed our victories and our healing into the future, when in reality, in the mind of God, we are healed now.
We are victors now! We are over-comers now! We are more than conquerors now in Christ Jesus!
Learn to think of yourself as indwelt, now through our Lord Jesus. Think of yourself as a victor, now; more than a conqueror now and you have placed yourself in your own mind where God has placed you.
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.” Notice the “now.”
“For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” That is past tense.
That is salvation, healing, deliverance, victory, now! Praise the Lord!!!
The Second Enemy
The second enemy is Mental Assent. This, the most dangerous and the most subtle of all the enemies of the human soul.
One may be deceived for years thinking that it is faith that is acting when it is only mental assent. You can be a staunch advocate of the verbal inspiration of the Word of God; you can sit under the ministry of an able expositor of the Word of God, and still not believe in faith. Mental assent recognises the truths but it does not enjoy any of the present tense realities. They stand beside the showcase and gaze upon the beautiful gems within. They rejoice in them, they can point out the differences on them. They know the difference between a faulty stone and a perfect one, but they do not own any. There is a man who understands the great prophetical teachings; rejoices greatly in the finished work of Christ; yet lives in defeat; lives in the consciousness of utter failure. What is the trouble? He mental assents to everything, but doesn’t believe.
In contrast: A believer is one who has received; who has entered into the fullness; who enjoys the present tense of the Finished Work of Christ. If we could coin the word, a Believer is a “have-er.” He has; he enjoys the experiences and the riches of the good Word of God and the powers of the age to come. He has passed the period of mental assent into the actual realization of the glories of Christ.
The Third Enemy
A Third enemy is the fear of yielding all to Christ. It is the old problem of the Lordship of Christ. It is strange how a man fears to yield utterly, absolutely, to the Lordship of Jesus.
It is hard for the sick to give up their medicine and their doctors. It is hard for another to yield to the Lord in regard to finances.
But you will never reach a place of real faith until you have laid aside every other means of help, relief and deliverance. God does not bless means, except to those in the babyhood state of faith.
But those who by reason of time have reached a place of full knowledge that God does not bless fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness; Ephesians 5:11-12.
If you want God’s best, you will lay your best on the alter. You see, real faith thanks God for deliverance, before God has acted or delivered. Anything short of that is not faith.
If I believe in the Scriptural sense, in Divine Healing, I praise God for my healing before I am healed. The same law holds in Salvation. “That it you confess with your mouth Jesus Christ is lord, and believe in your heart that He rose from the dead, you shall be saved.”
Man believes he is redeemed before he is born again, and when he believes then God acts. We make confession that the thing is done before God has done it. Then God does it.
Faith always praises before God acts.
Three Enemies of Healing
E.W. Kenyon
It is easier for us to face the problem of the failure of unanswered prayer, if we understand some of the reasons for it.
One of the Worst
One of the worst enemies of healing is, that unconsciously our hymn writers have all put our blessings into the future.
The theology that we sing eventually becomes the theology we believe.
We have unconsciously put all our blessings and Spiritual achievements into the “tomorrow.”
Almost no one speaks of their redemption rights in the present tense.
It is always, “I’m going to be.”
But the remarkable thing about the Scripture is that it is always in the present tense.
“In whom we have our redemption.” “Who was raised for our justification.”
There is the past and present blended in that glorious truth.
“By His stripes we were healed,” this is now!
“Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.”
This is all in the present tense. Sometimes He speaks of our redemption as having taken place.
If you can think of your healing as something that is done now; that has been accomplished on your behalf in Christ.
More than 130 times we are spoken of as being “in Christ.” If you are in Christ that is present tense. “You are complete in Him.” He is our fullness, our perfect redemption, now! You can see the great danger of our placing our blessings in “tomorrow.”
We have done it because of our sense of unfitness now; of our unworthiness now; and because of that sense of unfitness and unworthiness we have unconsciously pushed our victories and our healing into the future, when in reality, in the mind of God, we are healed now.
We are victors now! We are over-comers now! We are more than conquerors now in Christ Jesus!
Learn to think of yourself as indwelt, now through our Lord Jesus. Think of yourself as a victor, now; more than a conqueror now and you have placed yourself in your own mind where God has placed you.
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.” Notice the “now.”
“For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” That is past tense.
That is salvation, healing, deliverance, victory, now! Praise the Lord!!!
The Second Enemy
The second enemy is Mental Assent. This, the most dangerous and the most subtle of all the enemies of the human soul.
One may be deceived for years thinking that it is faith that is acting when it is only mental assent. You can be a staunch advocate of the verbal inspiration of the Word of God; you can sit under the ministry of an able expositor of the Word of God, and still not believe in faith. Mental assent recognises the truths but it does not enjoy any of the present tense realities. They stand beside the showcase and gaze upon the beautiful gems within. They rejoice in them, they can point out the differences on them. They know the difference between a faulty stone and a perfect one, but they do not own any. There is a man who understands the great prophetical teachings; rejoices greatly in the finished work of Christ; yet lives in defeat; lives in the consciousness of utter failure. What is the trouble? He mental assents to everything, but doesn’t believe.
In contrast: A believer is one who has received; who has entered into the fullness; who enjoys the present tense of the Finished Work of Christ. If we could coin the word, a Believer is a “have-er.” He has; he enjoys the experiences and the riches of the good Word of God and the powers of the age to come. He has passed the period of mental assent into the actual realization of the glories of Christ.
The Third Enemy
A Third enemy is the fear of yielding all to Christ. It is the old problem of the Lordship of Christ. It is strange how a man fears to yield utterly, absolutely, to the Lordship of Jesus.
It is hard for the sick to give up their medicine and their doctors. It is hard for another to yield to the Lord in regard to finances.
But you will never reach a place of real faith until you have laid aside every other means of help, relief and deliverance. God does not bless means, except to those in the babyhood state of faith.
But those who by reason of time have reached a place of full knowledge that God does not bless fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness; Ephesians 5:11-12.
If you want God’s best, you will lay your best on the alter. You see, real faith thanks God for deliverance, before God has acted or delivered. Anything short of that is not faith.
If I believe in the Scriptural sense, in Divine Healing, I praise God for my healing before I am healed. The same law holds in Salvation. “That it you confess with your mouth Jesus Christ is lord, and believe in your heart that He rose from the dead, you shall be saved.”
Man believes he is redeemed before he is born again, and when he believes then God acts. We make confession that the thing is done before God has done it. Then God does it.
Faith always praises before God acts.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
SELAH
Ephesians 4:27, nor give place (opportunity) to the devil.
Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against all the wiles (deceptions, lying vanities) of the devil.
James 4:7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
I Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
Matthew 17:20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
Luke 10:19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you
Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against all the wiles (deceptions, lying vanities) of the devil.
James 4:7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
I Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
Matthew 17:20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
Luke 10:19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you
Saturday, July 26, 2008
The Seed of Perspective
10. The Seed of Perspective
I’d Rather Watch a Winner
I’d rather watch a winner, than hear one any day,
I’d rather have one walk with me than merely show the way.
The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear;
Fine counsel is confusing, but examples always clear.
And the best of all the coaches are the ones who live their creeds;
For to see the good in action is what everybody needs.
I can soon learn how to do it if you’ll let me see it done;
I can watch your hands in action, but your tongue too fast may run.
And the lectures you deliver may be very wise and true;
But I’d rather get my lessons by observing what you do.
For I may misunderstand you and the high advice you give;
But there’s no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.
I’d rather watch a winner, than hear one any day!
Summary
The Seeds of Greatness are the responses or attitudes you develop as a result of “seeing” the world more clearly, you see yourself as valuable and your self-esteem grows stronger. Seeing clearly enables your imagination to create and soar. Seeing more clearly gives you the understanding that you are responsible for learning as much and contributing as much as you can to life.
When you see life within, you see wisdom, purpose, and faith as cornerstones of you family’s foundation. You see through the eyes of love and reach out and touch all those with whom you come in contact. Seeing from within is having the courage to adapt to change and to persevere when the odds seem overwhelming. Seeing from within is to believe that beauty and goodness are worth planting every day.
I’d Rather Watch a Winner
I’d rather watch a winner, than hear one any day,
I’d rather have one walk with me than merely show the way.
The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear;
Fine counsel is confusing, but examples always clear.
And the best of all the coaches are the ones who live their creeds;
For to see the good in action is what everybody needs.
I can soon learn how to do it if you’ll let me see it done;
I can watch your hands in action, but your tongue too fast may run.
And the lectures you deliver may be very wise and true;
But I’d rather get my lessons by observing what you do.
For I may misunderstand you and the high advice you give;
But there’s no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.
I’d rather watch a winner, than hear one any day!
Summary
The Seeds of Greatness are the responses or attitudes you develop as a result of “seeing” the world more clearly, you see yourself as valuable and your self-esteem grows stronger. Seeing clearly enables your imagination to create and soar. Seeing more clearly gives you the understanding that you are responsible for learning as much and contributing as much as you can to life.
When you see life within, you see wisdom, purpose, and faith as cornerstones of you family’s foundation. You see through the eyes of love and reach out and touch all those with whom you come in contact. Seeing from within is having the courage to adapt to change and to persevere when the odds seem overwhelming. Seeing from within is to believe that beauty and goodness are worth planting every day.
The Seed of Perserverance
9. The Seed of Perseverance
Perseverance is similar to faith, but it is different in that it is the test of faith. Perseverance is hanging in there when the odds stack up against you, but you know you’re right.
A strong belief in God is fundamental to Total Success. To believe you are an integral part of God’s plan. With this belief you are able to develop creative imagination, self-esteem, wisdom, goals and a deep faith in your convictions and commitments. Your faith has a strong root system that will allow you to bend and grow with the winds of change without breaking. This ability to bend and spring back is demonstrated in the ability to adapt in the habit of looking at the bright side even in the darkest situation.
Perseverance is similar to faith, but it is different in that it is the test of faith. Perseverance is hanging in there when the odds stack up against you, but you know you’re right.
A strong belief in God is fundamental to Total Success. To believe you are an integral part of God’s plan. With this belief you are able to develop creative imagination, self-esteem, wisdom, goals and a deep faith in your convictions and commitments. Your faith has a strong root system that will allow you to bend and grow with the winds of change without breaking. This ability to bend and spring back is demonstrated in the ability to adapt in the habit of looking at the bright side even in the darkest situation.
The Seed of Adaptability
8. The Seed of Adaptability
Adapt: to fit for a new use; make suitable 2. To adjust (ones self) to a new situation or environment. 3. To become adjusted to a circumstance or environment.
Ephesians 5:21 Submitting (adapting) to one another in the fear of God.
22. Wives, submit (adapt your self) to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
I do not ask to walk smooth paths
Nor bear and easy load,
I pray for strength and fortitude
To climb the rock-strewn road.
Give me such courage I can scale
The hardest peak alone,
And transform every stumbling blockInto a stepping stone. by Gail Brook Burket
Adapt: to fit for a new use; make suitable 2. To adjust (ones self) to a new situation or environment. 3. To become adjusted to a circumstance or environment.
Ephesians 5:21 Submitting (adapting) to one another in the fear of God.
22. Wives, submit (adapt your self) to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
I do not ask to walk smooth paths
Nor bear and easy load,
I pray for strength and fortitude
To climb the rock-strewn road.
Give me such courage I can scale
The hardest peak alone,
And transform every stumbling blockInto a stepping stone. by Gail Brook Burket
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The Seeds of Faith
7. The seed of Faith
But without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a re-warder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6
When we talk about faith—and belief---we have to refer to the greatest book ever written, and the greatest Teacher of the Ages on the subject. He summed it up when He said: “Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it done unto you.” Matthew 8:13
This simple statement cuts both ways, like a two edged sword. Faith is the key to unlock the door to success for every human being. Or it is the lock that imprisons and keeps that person from ever experiencing success.
Faith is both a negative force and a positive force. Faith in the negative is fear. Faith is belief.
When someone says to me, “you can’t do that!” I have a choice to make; I can believe that or I can choose to disregard it. As a Christian I choose to believe what God’s Word says about me. In Philippians 4:13, it says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” If I choose to believe that I can’t do something; guess what, I can’t. The seed of Faith
But without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a re-warder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6
When we talk about faith—and belief---we have to refer to the greatest book ever written, and the greatest Teacher of the Ages on the subject. He summed it up when He said: “Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it done unto you.” Matthew 8:13
This simple statement cuts both ways, like a two edged sword. Faith is the key to unlock the door to success for every human being. Or it is the lock that imprisons and keeps that person from ever experiencing success.
Faith is both a negative force and a positive force. Faith in the negative is fear. Faith is belief.
When someone says to me, “you can’t do that!” I have a choice to make; I can believe that or I can choose to disregard it. As a Christian I choose to believe what God’s Word says about me. In Philippians 4:13, it says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” If I choose believe that I can’t do something; guess what, I can’t.
But without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a re-warder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6
When we talk about faith—and belief---we have to refer to the greatest book ever written, and the greatest Teacher of the Ages on the subject. He summed it up when He said: “Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it done unto you.” Matthew 8:13
This simple statement cuts both ways, like a two edged sword. Faith is the key to unlock the door to success for every human being. Or it is the lock that imprisons and keeps that person from ever experiencing success.
Faith is both a negative force and a positive force. Faith in the negative is fear. Faith is belief.
When someone says to me, “you can’t do that!” I have a choice to make; I can believe that or I can choose to disregard it. As a Christian I choose to believe what God’s Word says about me. In Philippians 4:13, it says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” If I choose to believe that I can’t do something; guess what, I can’t. The seed of Faith
But without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a re-warder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6
When we talk about faith—and belief---we have to refer to the greatest book ever written, and the greatest Teacher of the Ages on the subject. He summed it up when He said: “Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it done unto you.” Matthew 8:13
This simple statement cuts both ways, like a two edged sword. Faith is the key to unlock the door to success for every human being. Or it is the lock that imprisons and keeps that person from ever experiencing success.
Faith is both a negative force and a positive force. Faith in the negative is fear. Faith is belief.
When someone says to me, “you can’t do that!” I have a choice to make; I can believe that or I can choose to disregard it. As a Christian I choose to believe what God’s Word says about me. In Philippians 4:13, it says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” If I choose believe that I can’t do something; guess what, I can’t.
Monday, July 21, 2008
The Seed of Communication
6. The Seed of Communication
Two very important aspects of communication are empathy and love.
The Sioux Indians have a prayer that goes like this; “Oh Great Spirit, grant me the wisdom to walk in another’s moccasins before I criticize or pass judgement.”
Empathy: is the “feeling for” for an individual; it is the process of trying to understand the other person’s point of view, as if you were that person. Empathy is when you watch the marathon runners at the 20-mile mark, and your own legs ache. Empathy is watching a rerun of one of the Rocky Movies and hardly being able to lift your arms at the end of round fifteen.
It is important to try to view the world of others as they see it---rather than as we see it. One way to do that is to look for the good in others, regardless how different their appearance, their life style, and their particular beliefs are from your own. By looking for the good in others, you are communicating love. Love is the one message we all need most.
Love Letters To Live By
I Corinthians 13
Love is the act of demonstrating value for and looking for the good in another person.
L---is for LISTEN. To love someone is to listen unconditionally to his/her values and needs without prejudice.
O---is for OVERLOOK. To love someone is to overlook flaws an the faults in favour of looking for the good..
V---is for VOICE. To love someone is to voice your approval of him/her on a regular basis. There is no substitute for honest encouragement, positive “strokes” and praise.
E---is for EFFORT. To love someone is to make a constant effort to spend time, to make the sacrifice, to go the extra mile to show your interest.
Love requires independence and is based upon the ability to share your self with others out of choice, not out of dependent need. True love is that relationship formed by two individuals who have the ability of separately sustaining themselves. Only independent people are free to choose to stay in a relationship. People who are dependent remain in a relationship out of necessity.
Two very important aspects of communication are empathy and love.
The Sioux Indians have a prayer that goes like this; “Oh Great Spirit, grant me the wisdom to walk in another’s moccasins before I criticize or pass judgement.”
Empathy: is the “feeling for” for an individual; it is the process of trying to understand the other person’s point of view, as if you were that person. Empathy is when you watch the marathon runners at the 20-mile mark, and your own legs ache. Empathy is watching a rerun of one of the Rocky Movies and hardly being able to lift your arms at the end of round fifteen.
It is important to try to view the world of others as they see it---rather than as we see it. One way to do that is to look for the good in others, regardless how different their appearance, their life style, and their particular beliefs are from your own. By looking for the good in others, you are communicating love. Love is the one message we all need most.
Love Letters To Live By
I Corinthians 13
Love is the act of demonstrating value for and looking for the good in another person.
L---is for LISTEN. To love someone is to listen unconditionally to his/her values and needs without prejudice.
O---is for OVERLOOK. To love someone is to overlook flaws an the faults in favour of looking for the good..
V---is for VOICE. To love someone is to voice your approval of him/her on a regular basis. There is no substitute for honest encouragement, positive “strokes” and praise.
E---is for EFFORT. To love someone is to make a constant effort to spend time, to make the sacrifice, to go the extra mile to show your interest.
Love requires independence and is based upon the ability to share your self with others out of choice, not out of dependent need. True love is that relationship formed by two individuals who have the ability of separately sustaining themselves. Only independent people are free to choose to stay in a relationship. People who are dependent remain in a relationship out of necessity.
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