Crosslines

Six times in the gospels, it says if you try to keep your life, you will lose it. If you hold onto your life and live without any risk towards God, you will lose it. But if you lose your soulish life, for God's sake, you will gain life. Our trust test in life is whether we are going to live for our own interests or our Master's. Make peace with the uncomfortable feeling of risk. God took a risk and trusted us. Will we return the favor and risk it all for Him?

This is the story of Pocahontas and her conversation to Christianity. Even though Jamestown struggled because of its lack of commitment to God, Pocahontas was a gift, a heritage from the Lord that Jamestown did not deserve.  

Are there times you should use info as ammo? Having information about someone is having leverage, but can you be trusted with it? Are you using info for judgment or to bring mercy? God wants to trust you with both natural and supernatural information, but what will you do with the information you have been given?

Info is what everyone wants to know, but as believers, we mostly share information when we shouldn't and don't share when we should. Information is valuable and powerful. With the right information, you can bring healing, or you can destroy someone's life. It all depends on your heart. 

If you are going to understand good, you must understand the author of everything good. When you get around the character of God, you get around His goodness. But God has an opposite. Lucifer. God and the devil will never change their character, but our lives are in the balance. We are good to the measure we mirror our Creator. Many in the church have accepted the goodness of God but never have rejected the evil of the devil. We have become neutral towards evil and thus become deceived. Hebrews 5:14 tells us, "Solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil." We must not mix good and evil. Truly, our hearts are either seeking the goodness of God or the selfishness of evil. 

If demon spirits need a body, where do they go when people die? According to Luke 11:24-26, demons are always looking for somewhere to go. If demonic spirits are truly on the move, we must be armored up and walking in our authority as believers. 

What is a spell? Have you ever been under a spell? Spells work to try and take over your thinking and personality completely. They can come over someone quickly, but thank the Lord, they can also be cast off quickly. God doesn't want us to be defiled by witchcraft. He wants to destroy all our witchcraft, as is says in Micah 5:12. 

What does it mean to keep life sacred? Some hard-to-understand passages in the OT are best understood as Keeping Life Sacred. In a secular world, there is meaning that is being overlooked and trampled down. This lesson will give you 10 areas of life to see if you keep these areas sacred. 

As believers, it is vital that we see that controllers are attracted to those who have God's call on their lives. We can find comfort in being controlled, but when we do that, we are laying down the responsibility God has given us. When the enemy sends manipulators into our lives, it is by design to pull us away from our relationship with the Lord and keep us from completing our calling. 

You are either working on your image as a Christian, or you are serious about getting free. A good image will not save you, but crying out to Jesus will. Have you clearly won your war and are free? Or are you just sinning less than last week? There is a difference between being better and being free.