Living for Christ?

2 Corinthians 4:8 ERV"We have troubles all around us, but we are not defeated. We often don’t know what to do, but we don’t give up."

                     Sometimes we are overwhelmed by situations that we come across in life , it can be in marriage , child rearing, businesses, ministries and also careers. We tend to focus on the problems surrounding us forgetting that we have God who is in control of everything. When you focus on your problem instead of Christ the enemy the devil reminds you of all the reasons why you should give up and doubt God but he has assured us that he will be there for us at all times         2Corinthians 4:9 ERV "We are persecuted, but God does not leave us. We are hurt sometimes, but we are not destroyed." God's promise to be with us in crisis is permanent when we accept him as our personal Lord and Savior because all these problems and issues are like sandpaper to wood thereby performing what is written in 2 Corinthians 4:17 ERV "We have small troubles for a while now, but these troubles are helping us gain an eternal glory. That eternal glory is much greater than our troubles."
                               The problems are never permanent but our God is permanent so we need to focus on him to help us go through situation that are not really encouraging- 2 Corinthians 4:18 ERV "So we think about what we cannot see, not what we see. What we see lasts only a short time, and what we cannot see will last forever."
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Procrastination

Ephesians 5:15-16- "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil"
Many reasons can cause procrastination and these include such common reasons like lack of proper perspective and poorntime management,  perfectionism,  fear of failure and lack of self confidence.
This trait called procastination affects all facets of life adversely,  it can cause failure in your education, marriage , loss of jobs , loss of opportunities to make right decisions concerning your life or choice of employment. It can also cause loss of opportunity to evangelise to someone.
Once i carried someone in my car who didn't recognise as someone I had carried many months before and I almost lost opportunity to speak to her as we began to discuss frivolities because it was pleasurable to do so then but the Holy Spirit helped me and I was able to get on track and evangelise to her and that is when she recalled we had met before and she declared she was highly pleased to hear the word, I was filled with joy and since then I haven't seen her again. I am glad I didn't procrastinate.
There are many results of procastination and one of them is feeling uncomfortable about putting off essential or urgent tasks, it also causes decreased productivity in academics, family life and business,  thereby living in disobedience to God's word in Colossians 3:23 " And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;" Procastination can also lead to eternal damnation in hell if you put off your salvation. Think about it dear ones.
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Offence

Mathew24:10- And then many will be offended and repelled and will begin to distrust and desert and will stumble and fall away and betray one another and pursue one another with hatred.
Rudeness, quick tempers, and holding grudges seem to be very common today. We all look for reasons to hold onto anger and bitterness justifying it and forgetting that God said we should forgive seventy times seventy and as children of God we live our lives according to the directions of the word of God. Offence is a bait by the devil to ensare Christains and usually succeeds when we take our eyes away from our Lord Jesus Christ, it also affects our growth in our relationship with God. It takes us far away from his blessings.
Offence in us creates room for other wrong seeds of the devil  like hatred to be implanted  in us causing deterioration in our spiritual lives. Refuse to be entrapped by the devil because his entrapment leads to destruction and death.
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Unconditional love!

Ephesians 1:4 ( ERV)-In Christ, he chose us before the world was made. He chose us in love to be his holy people—people who could stand before him without any fault.
We must get comfortable with the fact that God loves us unconditionally.  W e can not do any thing to destroy that love because he gave his son Jesus Christ to die for us while we were yet sinners to reconcile us to himself.
As long as we think his love is conditional, we strive to earn it by proving we are worth of love therefore when we make mistakes we feel we have lost his love and this is not so.
If your child misbehaves, does he or she cease to be your child ? No! You are sad or upset and will correct  the child  and is ready to forgive the child  even before he or she shows remorse because the wrong does not make he or she not be your child anymore the same applies to a born again child of God.
Believe this as a child of God.
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God's thoughts

Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.
God thinks good for and plans good for you, commit your life to him and he will order your steps into good and marvelous things.
Happy Sunday.
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