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You Are Not Your Thoughts
One of the enemy's greatest tricks is the use of the personal pronoun: "I." A dark thought enters your mind-a thought of fear, addiction, or despair. And immediately, you think: "I am an addict." "I a...
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One of the enemy's greatest tricks is the use of the personal pronoun: "I." A dark thought enters your mind-a thought of fear, addiction, or despair. And immediately, you think: "I am an addict." "I a...
Every believer lives under one of two spiritual laws - not by effort, but by awareness. Paul describes both: "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and dea...
There's a tug-of-war inside many believers.The feelings thinking one thing.But the gospel saying another. Paul says, "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteo...
Jesus didn't say,"Do this in remembrance of your failures."Or your condition.Or your struggles. He said, "Do this in remembrance of Me."Luke 22:19 Healing doesn't flow from staring at your weakness.It...
What is the ultimate goal of the Cross? Many would say forgiveness. Others would say heaven. But the writer of Hebrews gives us a daring metric for spiritual maturity: No more consciousness of sins. "...
Most spiritual battles feel like uphill climbs.But the Bible says otherwise: "Stand therefore..."Ephesians 6:14 Stand-not scramble.Stand-not strive.Stand-not reinvent your strength. Paul repeats the w...
The New Testament makes a clear distinction between two kinds of teaching. One kind brings freedom.The other brings burden. Paul confronted this often. Some believers had started mixing the gospel wit...
The Law is perfect - but it was never designed to give you life. Paul says it like this, "The law is not of faith" (Galatians 3:12).You can have faith or you can have law - but you cannot stand on bot...
Paul's question-"How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?" (Romans 6:2)-isn't a question. It's a reminder. To answer it, you must understand how Christ died to sin. Jesus was never under si...
Sometimes you look at someone living in open sin and think:"They look happy. Nothing seems to happen to them." Let me explain what really happens. Solomon wrote,"The way of the transgressor is hard."P...
"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."Romans 8:1 The word οὐδείς - oudeis means "no, none, not even one, absolutely nothing."It closes...
Most people think the curse comes from breaking the Law.Scripture says it comes simply from standing on Law ground. Paul writes,"Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are writte...
Sometimes the hardest thing to believe is the simplest:God is not angry at you. Many believers still live as if God is holding something over their heads. They expect judgment. They brace for punishme...
Sometimes the solution out of bondage doesn't look powerful at first.In fact it looks almost too simple. A believer may say, "How can declaring I am the righteousness of God in Christ help me when I'm...
Many believers wonder why restoration seems slow, delayed, or distant.But the Bible tells us that: Restoration begins where guilt ends. Leviticus shows that whenever guilt was acknowledged and transfe...
The enemy's primary strategy isn't fear, temptation, or chaos.It's accusation. The Hebrew name הַשָּׂטָן - ha-satan means "the accuser," "the prosecutor."Not a random attacker - a calculated legal voi...
The Law didn't arrive as God's master plan. It walked in through the side door-"the Law entered" (Romans 5:20)-not as the main event, but as the necessary spotlight. Grace was always God's heart. But...