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The Best You…Now: Give it up… It’s An Inside Job

  1 Cor. 6:19     Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,  for God bought you with a high price. The truth… I can’t change myself… for long.  I can create change for a period of time but eventually I get tired and I revert back to the real me. The truth… Because I am a Christ-follower,...

A Day With God

A Day With God… a Stuttgart Harvest Church Challenge Read the verse, say something to God, listen to Him as you go. 8:00 a.m. Psalms 63:1 (NLT) O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water. 9:00 a.m. Psalms 63:2 (NLT) I have seen you in your sanctuary and gazed upon your power and glory. 10:00...

Snip and Cut and “Ouch!”

Pruning is now. Cutting, trimming, removing, reshaping is now. That means pain is now. Gain is later. The good to come… that will be later. Philippians 3:12-14 (NLT) 12 I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. 13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one...

Let Freedom Ring

Bad news… We are all born with the propensity to do wrong (An inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way) … every one of us… and sometimes we get stuck. Good news… “You used to do these things”… that tells me that no sin, no matter how horrible, can hold me forever if I allow God to set me free. Woo Hoo!! Colossians 3:5-7 (NLT) 5 So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you....