Showing posts with label guard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guard. Show all posts
Friday, January 7, 2011
~ * Energy and General RELAXATION (for everyday living) ! * ~
BREATHING supplies our bodies with oxygen, so when we don't breathe deeply enough, we can't function as efficiently. RATHER than breathing from the chest, try breathing from the DIAPHRAGM, with slow, deep breaths, which help clear the mind enabling achievement of a feeling of calm in both body and mind to keep you revitalised (this needs to be practiced everyday) !!
Friday, October 1, 2010
* PERSPECTIVE !
WHAT do we do about godless culture that clamours for our attention?
HOW do we defend our children, ourselves and others around us from unhealthy influences?
THE answer is the same for all: Our protection is the Word of God.
TO begin with, we must spend time in God's Word, allowing His precepts and principles to permeate into our thinking and living. WE ought also to teach it to our children from the time they are small, and we should readily share it with others - helping them to understand God's perspective on the situations of their lives.
A Tool for You. So how do we get into God's Word? HOW do we come to understand it so we can apply its truth to our lives? We must read it - and study it - listening and asking Him to speak to us.. "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" - Romans 12:2.
ALBERT LEE
The listening side of prayer: Christians who have learned to pray but not to listen will find it difficult to get guidance. Often we treat God the way we treat our friends, and do all the talking!
We allow Him no time to talk to us, to whisper His confirmation or His word of change. To get guidance, you dare not neglect the listening side of prayer. TELL Him your problems, then sit back and listen for the answer. IT will come in a quiet, deliberate witness to your heart. Don't be anxious or too eager. Let all haste and tension go. As you sense His nearness, lay the issue before Him. Then go the way of peace. * Psalm 31: 1-24.
PRAYER: Father, I need so much to learn the art of listening. Quieten my heart today that I might learn to listen for your still small voice. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
SELWYN HUGHES
HOW do we defend our children, ourselves and others around us from unhealthy influences?
THE answer is the same for all: Our protection is the Word of God.
TO begin with, we must spend time in God's Word, allowing His precepts and principles to permeate into our thinking and living. WE ought also to teach it to our children from the time they are small, and we should readily share it with others - helping them to understand God's perspective on the situations of their lives.
A Tool for You. So how do we get into God's Word? HOW do we come to understand it so we can apply its truth to our lives? We must read it - and study it - listening and asking Him to speak to us.. "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" - Romans 12:2.
ALBERT LEE
The listening side of prayer: Christians who have learned to pray but not to listen will find it difficult to get guidance. Often we treat God the way we treat our friends, and do all the talking!
We allow Him no time to talk to us, to whisper His confirmation or His word of change. To get guidance, you dare not neglect the listening side of prayer. TELL Him your problems, then sit back and listen for the answer. IT will come in a quiet, deliberate witness to your heart. Don't be anxious or too eager. Let all haste and tension go. As you sense His nearness, lay the issue before Him. Then go the way of peace. * Psalm 31: 1-24.
PRAYER: Father, I need so much to learn the art of listening. Quieten my heart today that I might learn to listen for your still small voice. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
SELWYN HUGHES
Thursday, September 9, 2010
COMMUNICATION !
"Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures" (Luke 24:45).
"THE mind is the organ of intelligence, purpose, understanding, opinion, choice and reason. IT is able to receive and understand news, facts and information.
IN today's world there are books, newspapers, TV, radio and schools of learning - all vying for our attention. THERE are people and programs and publications ready to fill our minds with their ideas and thoughts. AS Christians we have been given new minds to understand the Scriptures. We must, therefore, always guard against becoming dull, sluggish or lulled into insensitivity about truths and issues that are vital to our new life in Christ. WE must always be alert!
LIFE is short. IT drifts by like a mist. WE do not know what will take place tomorrow. WE need to walk carefully, giving ourselves fully to the work of the Lord. BECAUSE our adversary, Satan, is always on the alert and ready to put us out of commission, we must always be clothed with the protective armor of God.
WE do not know when Jesus will return. He has told us to be alert so that we are ready to meet Him. CONSTANT communion/communication with our Lord WILL keep us close to Him. Intercession makes us aware of others. Petition supplies our needs. LET US be alert and clear-minded so that we will know how to pray, and OUR prayers will be both powerful and effective.
OUR new life in Christ came to us at great cost. SHALL we not guard it with alert and watchful minds?" (SVEA HENRY)
"THE mind is the organ of intelligence, purpose, understanding, opinion, choice and reason. IT is able to receive and understand news, facts and information.
IN today's world there are books, newspapers, TV, radio and schools of learning - all vying for our attention. THERE are people and programs and publications ready to fill our minds with their ideas and thoughts. AS Christians we have been given new minds to understand the Scriptures. We must, therefore, always guard against becoming dull, sluggish or lulled into insensitivity about truths and issues that are vital to our new life in Christ. WE must always be alert!
LIFE is short. IT drifts by like a mist. WE do not know what will take place tomorrow. WE need to walk carefully, giving ourselves fully to the work of the Lord. BECAUSE our adversary, Satan, is always on the alert and ready to put us out of commission, we must always be clothed with the protective armor of God.
WE do not know when Jesus will return. He has told us to be alert so that we are ready to meet Him. CONSTANT communion/communication with our Lord WILL keep us close to Him. Intercession makes us aware of others. Petition supplies our needs. LET US be alert and clear-minded so that we will know how to pray, and OUR prayers will be both powerful and effective.
OUR new life in Christ came to us at great cost. SHALL we not guard it with alert and watchful minds?" (SVEA HENRY)
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