Victory Isn’t Getting What You Want
Victory isn’t about getting what you want. It’s about getting what God wants in you and loving it. It’s his victory, not yours. He died on the cross to spare…
The Instrument of Your Defeat is the Occasion of Your Victory
None of the dark powers understood why Christ came into the world. If they had, they wouldn’t have pinned him to the cross (see 1 Corinthians 2.8). Maybe these dark…
Prayer
God wants to establish his lordship over the cosmos through us. He wants his bride to reign with him (2 Timothy 2.12; Revelation 5.10, 20.6). This was the plan from…
You Have To Care
Despair is the enemy of victory. In war, if two equal and opposing sides cannot be differentiated by anything other than morale, the sad side loses. Period. It’s the same…
Planting Pitons
Two spiritual clichés come closest to the point, but miss it still. The first, “we are all on a spiritual journey,” correctly indicates that the spiritual life is gradual, ever-progressing,…
Not Total Victory
I believe Christ is working through us to heal the world. God is working to accomplish his kingdom purposes through us, to slowly colonize Earth with the spirit of heaven….
The Next Step
How do you gain victory over something like unforgiveness? A step at a time. My mom told me about a painful experience she and my dad had during their early…
switching dinner plates
Spirituality is like food and drugs. Drugs can be mixed with food either by an enemy, as poison, or by a physician, as medicine. Either way, the drugs go…
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