“Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thessalonians 5:18) When I get discouraged, I revisit the stories in the Bible of others who also experienced discouragement as well as the many verses that speak to how to defeat a mindset of...
The king of Syrian wars against the ways of the Spirit and sends many horses, chariots and a huge host (army) to war against Israel and defeat it. This is our battle against all that is in the world. Horses symbolize the strength and power of the world and our flesh which is why Is...
The Bible provides several examples of individuals whose greed led to their downfall. One notable example is Achan, whose covetousness led him to take forbidden items during the conquest of Jericho, resulting in his death and the defeat of Israel (Joshua 7).Another example is Judas Iscariot, ...
“I don’t mind because it is a pain that I can control.” Her magnificent glance drifted as her hand reached the inner part of her arm where the butterfly was in flight. “My pain I didn’t choose. But the burning of the tattoo gun is something that produces beauty when it’s al...
Otherwise learn to accept defeat, and blame it on something else rather than your lack of diligence. If you are a child of God, born-again in Jesus, you have all the power of God there is. The issue is you effectively renewing your mind to release God. The issue is not God ...
So, for me to say that I’m not well is admitting defeat. I should be realistic. Somehow, I have ended up in senior citizen land. Breakdowns and slowdowns are to be expected. I fight and reject that. I have less time ahead of me than I did behind me. Denial. My last blood ...
This book is about what you can do. You can live an overcoming life. In fact, everybody can overcome and that certainly includes you. The truth is that God created you to be an overcomer. To believe otherwise is to concede defeat before you even begin the journey to the overcoming li...
Our nation's Mary will defeat the enemy's wrongful Mary and annihilate the other that is possessed by Satan. This Mary is neither a prototype of faith, nor universal, but the consequence of imperial egocentrism (Halbmayr 2022, p. 106). The Qur'anic Maryam is not only a warning for ...