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Most self-proclaimed Christians aim in life to be happy, thus requiring God to make them happy. These types of believers expect God to change His doctrines to match their morbid beliefs – particularly the ones that make them “un-happy” or uncomfortable. One of the most common used against God is the doctrines of divorce. Many of Christians in my office have made the statement that “God does not want me to be un-happy in this marriage.” With this morbid belief, comes a twisting of doctrines that surround the issue of divorce. They somehow believe that any marriage relationship or work situation or life-experience that hinders them from being happy is a violation of their happiness.

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Most self-proclaimed Christians aim in life to be happy, thus requiring God to make them happy. These types of believers expect God to change His doctrines to match their morbid beliefs – particularly the ones that make them “un-happy” or uncomfortable. One of the most common used against God is the doctrines of divorce. Many of Christians in my office have made the statement that “God does not want me to be un-happy in this marriage.” With this morbid belief, comes a twisting of doctrines that surround the issue of divorce. They somehow believe that any marriage relationship or work situation or life-experience that hinders them from being happy is a violation of their happiness.

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Victory in Christ is almost always directly connected with the power of prayer. Those who don’t find the spiritual secret of prayer find themselves “fainting” on a regular basis. Jesus gave a parable in Luke to teach us the importance of prayer.

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Each of the grapes of the cluster of the Holy Spirit are equally as important but I want to focus on one individual grape that seems to be considered the greatest among them - love! Love is seen to manifest or express itself in all the other grapes listed in the Scriptures.

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To be a Christ as Life worshiper, is to be taken up with Him in Spirit, awed by His presence, overjoyed by His righteousness and gracious acceptance, bound by His immeasurable greatness, freed by His everlasting love. It is giving to Him oneself and all that one knows of honor, adoration, allegiance, obedience and exaltation.

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It cannot be made any clearer than this. By making use of the Lord’s illustration here, abiding means being connected as a branch to a Vine, possessing no independent life of godship of its own but drawing moment by moment upon the Life of the Vine for strength, nourishment, and power to bear fruit and live day to day. There must be no splitting or cutting that would cause the branch to be in anything less than perpetual participation with the sap (Holy Spirit) that flows freely through the Vine for function, growth, and purpose of living.

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It cannot be made any clearer than this. By making use of the Lord’s illustration here, abiding means being connected as a branch to a Vine, possessing no independent life of godship of its own but drawing moment by moment upon the Life of the Vine for strength, nourishment, and power to bear fruit and live day to day. There must be no splitting or cutting that would cause the branch to be in anything less than perpetual participation with the sap (Holy Spirit) that flows freely through the Vine for function, growth, and purpose of living.

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Without question the greatest event in all of history for God and man is the Incarnation – God, the infinite Creator, Sustain-er, taking on human flesh, becoming a man upon this earth, died for us, crucified our old nature and placed His very life in the Bride of Christ – the church. A truth that is so simple but made complex through the morbid beliefs of fallen man.

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The Hebrew Marriage series is based on a conference Dr. Phinney conducts for marriage retreats, seminars and conferences. Content is based on the study of marriage from the original Hebrew Pictorial language.

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As we review the story of Samuel and the powerful words spoken: Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry, we see that God abhors the sin of rebellion and stubbornness.

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