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Christian Devotional – November 14, 2015
Read James chapter 4 VERSE: James 4:2–You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. TRUTH: James just finished talking about the fact that our quarrels and fights come from our desires that battle within us, now he says that the way these desires lead to that is because we get angry when we don’t get what we want. We set our mind on the fact that we deserve something or are entitled to something and if we don’t get it, we get mad and start…
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Christian Devotional – November 13, 2015
Read James chapter 4 VERSE: James 4:1–What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? TRUTH: When we are all following God’s desires, we will all have unity. However, when we break away and start to look after our own personal desires, we start to see the fighting and the quarreling among people. As our personal desires battle against our desire to please God, we will feel the battle within us and it will come out as fighting and quarreling with ourselves and each other. Are we at peace with others? If not, we need to go back and review if we…
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Christian Devotional – September 28, 2015
Read James chapter 1 VERSE: James 1:15–Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. TRUTH: Yesterday, we learned that we have evil desires and that is where our temptations come from. When those desires have a chance to take hold and grow and influence us, we act on those desires and that is what is sin. When we sin, the result and consequence is death (Rom 6:23). Our sins start in our mind and with what we will allow ourselves to think on and to consider. Are we giving room in our mind for our evil desires to…
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Christian Devotional – April 3, 2015
Read Psalm chapter 81 VERSE: Psalm 81:12–So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. TRUTH: Sometimes God allows us to have what we say w want. We decide that some things are just too wonderful and we strive after them even when we know they are wrong. There are time when God allows us to get those things so we can see and experience just how fruitless and unfulfilling they are when compared with God. Unfortunately, we also receive the consequences of those things as well. Do we desire anything besides God in our lives? Be careful, because God may just decide to allow…