It seems like before every book signing I deal with a spiritual battle, it seems as if the forces of evil would love nothing better than to swallow me whole and spit me back to the pits. You know it would be easy for me to simply say, "I'm tired of the enemy disrupting my life." But truth be told I am just as accountable for the snares and traps the enemy has put before me.
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Life always seems to present a struggle, you have the heroes and you have the villains. You have the doubters and you have the believers. Faith left untested is not faith at all, because faith is the substance of things hope for, not what you already have, and the essence of things that have yet to be seen. There have been many times that the Lord has placed my faith under pressure; I'm speaking of extreme pressure. You know the kind that feels like you are stuck between two heavy ton weights, a
There is approximately 488 verses in the bible on faith. There is also approximately 438 verses in the bible on fear. So with their being 50 more verses in the bible on faith versus fear, we already know that the Devil is defeated. So, let's examine this a little closer. As I have always stated and as it is written in the book of Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Honestly, if it wasn't for God's grace and enduring mercies, I surely will not be here today. You know there is nothing worst than the feeling of being out of the favor of God, every time I sin I get that gut wrenching condemnation pinching feeling. Faithing it till you make it is actually not an earthly goal one should make for themselves, but the exact opposite. This should be a heavenly goal. A goal that sees no boundaries, hears no defeat.
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I had to take this moment to recognize a young man and friend of mine who has exemplified the type of faith that reaches beyond the call of duty. I'm talking about a brother that works as a General Manager at a very popular establishment, working no less than sixty hour weeks. Then he goes home to his marital duties, is an avid collector of books, works on his increasingly popular website theoraclemag.com and is an artist in his own right. This young man does all of this while still keeping appl
If I had a top ten list of biblical acts of faith, I believe that the shear act of faith that Mary displayed when told that she was to carry Jesus had to make at least one or two on my list. Just think about it, here you have a young teenage girl on the verge to being wed and being told one day by an Angel that she would be practically carrying in her womb the author of this universe. Just thing about that, that's huge. It took a huge leap of faith to even believe that it were to be possible as
Everyday faith is the confidence and the ability to know that in spite of it all, God has my back. Everyday faith is as much a walk with God as it is to be an example to your neighbors of what a Christ like life is supposes to look like. Everyday faith takes more work than every day fear. Fear is all around us, but true faith is only represented by the few. It takes some lights being turned off, some bills to become due and some gnashing of the teeth to truly understand how everyday faith works.
By: Michael Beckford
The book of Romans 1:17 states For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith just as it is written, "the righteous by faith will live."
It's time for a faith lift people; we are living in a time in America where individuals are getting face lifts by the thousands. Some are young and many are old, but by the very nature of the business are booming and many people believe within themselves that they are no longer worthy for man's standard of beauty.
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