For thousands of years, people have been going through trials. We have to go through trials so that we can learn to have compassion for others. We need to learn to find joy in trials. Only then can we learn how to be perfect.
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Why?
Why do we experience trials? How are we to cope? It is absolutely necessary to focus on the future and on our reward, while we are being tried and tested. What is that future reward? How is it connected with the unsearchable riches of Christ? What are they?
A Time To Weep
The Christian life includes times of weeping and mourning. Christ said that we are blessed when we mourn and weep now. It is important to understand why and under what circumstances we will and ought to mourn. Ecclesiastes tells us that there is a purpose for weeping and mourning. What is it?
Why Do We Keep the Feast?
God commands us to keep the Feast of Tabernacles and the Last Great Day for an entire time span of eight days. But why? What is the purpose for this commandment?
Paul’s Letter to the Philippians – Part 7
In the first seven verses of chapter 4, Paul tells us that we must stand fast in God and resolve our differences with one another. He also shows us how we can have peace of mind in times of trials.
The Footsteps of Christ
The importance of walking in the footsteps of Christ, using the fruit of the spirit as a guide to accomplish that task to ensure we are staying on track.
What It Will Be Like to Be God
How will it be like for us, when we are born-again members of the Family of God? When we are Spirit beings, unable to die or to sin, and no longer subject to physical limitations? What exactly does our future hold? Why is our potential worth striving and fighting for?
Self Examination
The process of self examination is not a static but rather continuous process realigning our thinking and actions to the mind of Christ as we follow his example as laid out in scripture and His personal example in the gospels, using the fruit of the Spirit as the criteria.
Fruits
Developing the fruit of the Spirit is vital to our continued growth as Christians. Its manifestation is the proof that God is working in our lives. The tools used to grow in the Spirit are Prayer, Bible Study, Mediation and occasional Fasting. These are MUSTS and must not be neglected for our continued walk as Christians and our development of our crucial ongoing relationship with God and Christ.
Rejoice
We are commanded to rejoice at the annual Feast
of Tabernacles. This is a
time to recharge our spiritual batteries and that must surely be helped when we
are surrounded by those of a like mind. It’s a time to be together, to be
taught, to fellowship and to rejoice. The Feast is a great opportunity
our great God gives us, in which many can strengthen relationships and where we
can develop family ties with our spiritual brethren. The Feast is a foretaste of
sharing eternity together as glorified members of the very family of God. Rejoice and make the best of this
wonderful opportunity.