"Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your NETS for a draught..And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the NET". Luke 5:4-5
Notice that Jesus asked Simon(Peter) to drop more than one net into the water but he dropped just one. Many of us are like that. We have beaten by failure and storms of life that we doubt God's promises of blessings. To be honest with you, it pains Him when His children do not trust Him.
"There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.". Exodus 5:16
We see another example in the lives of the Israelites. After four hundred and thirty years(430) of slavery,God sent them a messaiah to bring them out. Unfortunately what they wanted was not deliiverance but better conditions of service-in slavery.
When God promises us something, it is not our business to start thinking how it will come to pass. Put you faith to action.(Heb 11:6). The same way faith is seen so is unbelief seen. Unbelief reduces your carrying capacity to receive God's blessings.
God wants to give us a business that will employ thousands but our unbelief wants a white collar job. God wants us to have total healing but our unbelief wants the surgery to be successful or the administeredd drugs to be efficient. God wants us to live in financial freedom but we just want to pay off our debts. And so on. In what way are you limiting God with your unbelief? Prepared to be blessed.
Instead of doubting His promises,take to the advice in Isaiah. 54:2-3.
"Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited."
God is not a careless talker and what He has promised,He is able to bring it to pass. When you put your faith to work,He is commited to perform.. Prepare for a change, a positive change. Start preparing to be blessed, big time.
By: Ayomide Olatunji
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God's mercy is amazing. To what do we liken it? With gentle, loving touch, he healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He is as gracious in the manner of His mercy as in the matter of
it. It is great mercy. There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like himself-it is infinite.
You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins of great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.
It is undeserved mercy, as indeed all true mercy must be, for deserved mercy is only a misnomer for justice. There was no right on the sinner's part to the kind
consideration of the Most High; had the rebel been doomed at once to eternal fire he would have richly merited the doom, and if delivered from wrath,
sovereign love alone has found a cause, for there was none in the sinner himself. It is rich mercy.
Some things are great, but have little efficacy in them, but this mercy is a golden ointment to your bleeding wounds; a heavenly bandage to your broken bones; a royal chariot for your
weary feet; a bosom of love for your trembling heart. It is manifold mercy.
As Bunyan says, "All the flowers in
God's garden are double." There is no single mercy. You may think you have but one mercy, but you shall find it
to be a whole cluster of mercies. It is abounding mercy. Millions have received it, yet far from being exhausted; it is as fresh, as full, and as free as ever.
It is unfailing mercy. It will never leave thee. If mercy be thy friend, mercy will be with thee in temptation to keep thee from yielding; with thee in trouble to prevent thee from sinking; with thee living to be the light and life of thy countenance; and with thee dying to be the joy of thy soul when earthly comfort is ebbing fast.
We have done nothing to deserve it, let this be our encouragement to press on, to run to the Father, rather than running away from Him during our down times.
God bless.
By Richard Onanuga
That act of seeing alone is sinful. It is what you see that goes into your mind. However, it takes great determination and the swift help of God to overcome it. Know any addict around you? Tell them to stop it, pray for them. Read excerpts from the interview.
*How it all started
I started out by doing other things first like dancing in a nude bar, doing bachelor parties, and escorting. I needed the money and hadn't finished school and was living on my own at that point. I started living that sex industry lifestyle so eventually someone suggested that I do porn and it sounded like it paid really well and it was legal so I decided to contact a local agent who got me started. The agent got me a scene in a cheap hotel in Denver and that's how it all started. I had no idea what I was getting myself into at the time.
*Recovering from porn addiction.
It was very hard at first but it felt really good to just finally let go and be free from all of it. My only fear was being able to survive without the money. The money kept me hooked. I was worried how I could take care of myself and my child. But I decided I would rather be homeless than ever sell my self again. Once you let go of the money, it's much easier to get out.
I feel like the only way I could recover from that is with God in my life. God gives me hope that I didn't have before. The past few years have been hard but so worth it. Things that helped me have been constant support from others, prayer, God's word, and lots of love. The most difficult things have been trying to break old habits and trying to have a "real job".
It's all about learning to live a new way, a better way. I think my recovery is an ongoing thing and it takes alot of time. I was in for many years and there was alot of damage done. I know alot more about porn now than I ever did when I was doing it.
*Jesus Christ as a significant part of her recovery
I know Jesus was the only way I could get out and stay out for good! For once, I had hope. Jesus saved my life. His love is amazing and I had never experienced love like that before. It was so intense that it hurt sometimes. My mind is being renewed daily by Him.
All of the lies that ruled my life are being replaced with the truth, God's word. I had realized that God was my father and would take care of me. He started to fix things in me that were broken. I become stronger in my faith every day. I don't think He is done yet. he is still working on me.
I think I am a better mother now because of all of this too. I would not have done any of this if were not for my little boy. I want him to know the truth about porn and treat women with respect.
Reaching out to others helps me heal. God's love fills that void now. I told myself when I was trapped in porn, that if I ever got out (which I thought I never would) that I would try to help women out of that world. There was no help for women like me. I am passionate about it.
*Reaching out to other girls.
I definitely think that's where God wants me, going back into that nightmare to help save people from it. When I see some of those girls, I see me at 18. There was no such thing as The Pink Cross when I did porn. I know that porn is a major problem and it seems not much is being done about it.
I love The Pink Cross Foundation and will continue to work with them. There is a certain way to handle the porn issue and educating and informing everyone makes a difference. I also plan on moving from Colorado to California to help with the cause.
*Jenni's word to everyone.
Men, GOD LOVES YOU! I love you too and I will always pray for all of you, for the chains to be broken. You are a slave to porn much as much any porn star. If you are viewing porn or addicted to porn, you are trying to fill a void inside of you that only God can fill.
Whenever you look at porn, you are making the void bigger, and you will destroy your life. It evil it is a drug and it is poison and a lie. If you think you can keep it in the dark, God will bring it out into the light to stop you and heal you. These women are precious and deserve to be loved just as much as you do.
There is a real person on the other side of the images you are seeing, and you are destroying her life and the lives of her children. Every porno has somebody's daughter in it. What if it were your little girl? You may actually be assisting in someone's death! Male and female porn actors die all of the time from AIDS, drug overdoses, suicides, etc. Please stop looking at porn.
Read the full interview here:
http://afterjujuman.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/pornography-will-destroy-you-jenny-case-ex-porn-star/
What's the proof? Where's the evidence? How? Why? To understand how to grasp religion, one needs to look at the idea of Jesus, God, and Heaven in a much more practical and real way. Not to be confused with a mathematical or scientific way, just different. In the Bible, Jesus is said to be 100% divine and 100% human.
Though math does not explain much when it comes to Christ, it does explain how this is impossible. If you are God, then you are God. There is nothing else to it. If a man can bring the dead back from life and turn water into wine, it would be hard to argue that he is human by any stretch. The message given to everyone with this small notion -- that Jesus is human and divine at the same time -- begs this notion: Humanity IS divine.
And from this we can also say that divinity is human. What you are thinking right now is correct. You are divine because you are human and you are human because you are divine. So now what? What are you supposed to do with this information? Well of course the answer is to become Jesus himself!
If you want to focus your new found Jesus abilities on water-walking and opening an extremely lucrative wine distribution chain (whenever you make divine wine, it comes out as a playful, delightfully acidic 2006 rosé from Martha's Vineyard), be my guest. In my opinion, this stuff is pretty tough.
The real way to become Jesus is by performing his other miracles such as eating with the sinners and tax collectors and sacrificing things for the people you love. This makes you as powerful as Jesus Christ himself. When you lend your most aggressive opposition a helping hand you are showing true humanity and true divinity.
Everyone on this planet could do at least a little bit more to be a better person. The better person that you could become if you were perfect, that is Jesus Christ. Free of sin and guilt and transcendent of mortal things such as poverty, death, and hate. Every day, when you work towards becoming more like Jesus, you are really just working towards being the most human, divine, and yourself version of yourself.
The most "you" version of you, so to speak. Is becoming Jesus as easy as being yourself? Indeed it is. With all the negativity in this world, that can be quite tough many times.
So was Jesus some guy who lived thousands of years ago who could perform outward miracles for all to see? It all does not matter. You are staring through the eyes of someone who could become Jesus-like if they tried. So on your final day on this planet, it will not be some paradise in the sky that you ascend to or fire and brimstone that lies beneath the earth.
These are merely images painted in the Bible to help represent the emotion you will feel upon leaving this earth. The person you have become will meet the person you could have become. In that moment, you will either live forever in eternal happiness because of your efforts to better yourself or you will see all of your lost potential and feel the eternal depths of despair.
Culled from Ezine articles. Written by Tim Woods
