A Collection from Out of This World
View all responsesI have a wonderful out-of-this-world collection that I treasure and keep safe and secure deep inside of my heart. It’s a collection of inspiring thoughts that have spoken to me in profound, life changing ways. I frequently ponder various ones of them, and they never fail to encourage and strengthen me. Many of my collected thoughts are from the Bible. Others have come to me directly from God.
“I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world. For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Corinthains 10:2-5)
“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.” Are you right now actively pursuing (as your first priority) God’s inner government and His righteous rearrangement of all of your thoughts, feelings, and desires? (2 Corinthians 10:2-5)
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.” Are you hungry now? Are you blessed (at this moment) with thirst for what is true, honest, just, pure, lovely, of good report, virtuous, and praiseworthy? (Philippians 4:8)
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Are you actively longing and seeking to continually and completely surrender your mind to be directly led by God’s Spirit into His inner transformation and renewal? (Romans 8:14)
It’s time to speak the truth in love! (Ephesians 4:15) God doesn’t want Christ-followers to monitor, control, and weaken what He wants them to say. He calls them to boldly speak it without compromise. Jesus said: “Many false prophets will arise and mislead many.” (Mt 24:11) Are you being careful not to listen to and follow them?
Freedom from emotional pain can’t be found in alcohol, drugs, pornography, sex, gambling, or other forms of self-focus. It’s found in full surrender and obedience to the risen Jesus Christ.
Righteousness isn’t
Just God’s rubber stamp
That says admit one
Into paradise.
It’s Christ’s shinning lamp
Glowing in your heart
And changing you from
Glory to glory
Into His image.
Let Jesus Himself
Completely revamp
Your thoughts and desires
And remove the clamp
Of sin from your life.
Are you hungering
For His righteousness
To burn withing you?
Are you seeking first
The kingdom of God
Inside of your heart?
Nothing less than that
Is Christianity.
Let Jesus encamp
Forever in you
And replace your thoughts,
Feelings, and desires
With the kingdom of God.
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