The World teaches us to hate our enemies, but the Bible tells us to love our enemies, the World’s way of thinking is completely opposite from what the Bible teaches.

Pain and suffering is often seen as a negative, but there is a beautiful side to some of the things we experience in life that may cause us pain, many times when words are useless, God allows pain and suffering as a form of discipline, sometimes it is the only way some people will ever learn.

The Bible not only tells us to "Preach" or proclaim the Word but it also tells us how to proclaim it, we are living in a time where people are truth resistant, many are overly concerned about people feelings rather than the condition of their soul, others are more concerned about being politically correct, the truth should always be spoken in love (Eph. 4:15) , love may not always feel Good, but it is good!

The evidence of God working in us, is the fact, we have a desire to do what he wants, and the ability to do what he wants, and apart from him we could do nothing.

Doing God’s Will, requires personal sacrifice, and will bring about suffering sometimes, we must be willing to do God’s Will in spite of the personal cost to ourselves.

The debt we do owe, and can never payoff, is the debt of loving others, we can never repay God for what he has done for us through Jesus, but we can show our appreciation to God by loving others.

We live out or lives based upon what we believe, and our beliefs or belief system, is governed by what the Bible says , not by what’s popular or what the majority thinks.

✍️ In Psalm 51 David recognized, and realized, his sinful outward behavior stemmed from the internal condition of his own heart, therefore he asks God to create in him a clean or pure heart, much like David we to need to ask God to create in us a clean heart, and after being cleansed, we must learn to maintain the *garden of our heart.

Depening on our on human intellect, at the exclusion of God will only end in disappointment, God gave us a mind to think with, but not use as a replacement for dependence on him, we weren't created to live apart from God.

Have you ever wondered, why does it seem as though my prayers are not being answered? or why does it take so long for my prayers to be answered? There are things we need to understand, as it relates to prayer, this episode gives insight into what happens behind the scenes once we have prayed.