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2024, Gospel of Matthew, Questions

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Fasting.
A Biblical Doctrine.
Why is it important that we practice it?

Discipline.
To know ourselves better. To learn in CHRIST we are stronger and braver than we think we are; to learn GOD is even more able and willing than we thought He was.
What born from above person would not want this, right?

What to fast?
Something dear, something needed, something that will stretch our flesh to do without it.  Perhaps something we cannot do without, without HOLY SPIRIT help.

The Bible tells us JESUS fasted food for 40 days. Matthew 4: 1-11.

So, how long should we fast?
Short answer – till the job is done.
Till we learn something, till we have reached that moment we know we did good for Father’s Kingdom and our own well-being.

Fasting. It’s a GOD-thing and it’s good for us.  fasting

Enough said?

Holy Hugs, Kathie

1 Thessalonians, 2024, Gospel of John, Gospel of Mark, Questions

Missing Tears

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Why are people immune to HOLY SPIRIT?
I mean it is His job (John 16:8) to convict (convince) people of sin, of Righteousness and Judgment to come.
I mean that is one of the major reasons He is here; can you imagine GOD not doing His job?
Me either. So what is hindering? What could be hindering people from receiving deliverance from sin to forgiveness and LIFE?

Why am I thinking this way?

Sunday.
Sunday the Minister preached a Bible Message – a real Bible Message from Mark 14, starting at verse 32. He brought it home.
There were lots of people there.
Let’s be honest here when lots of people gather even at a preaching service, lots are lost. They may be church members but by the lives they live Monday through Saturday the evidence of salvation is woefully lacking. I’ve heard staggering numbers, although at the moment I can’t put my fingers on them, that as many as 80% of church members are not saved.

Why do people remain lost, when the REAL Gospel is preached?
Why do people in pews sit unmoved — like this very past Sunday?

I think I know one of the reasons.
I cried over them on Sunday but . . . even then I knew my tears were too few.

Too few I fear are the tears of the really saved for the really lost.

1 Thessalonians 5:14-22

19 Quench not the Spirit.
(KJV 1 Thessalonians 5)

Holy Hugs with Prayer, 
Kathie 

2024, Questions, Writing Prompts

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If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

Good question.
It requires serious thought — For a moment.

I hardly know how to be me!
Stepping into another life not knowing their thoughts, their habits, not knowing their secrets that we all have. Imagine what we could mess up in 24 hours.
And what happens when they are they again?
Do they undo what we did? Or must they contend, and accept what we did whether they agree or not? For you see, today, what we do today affects who and what we do tomorrow.

But what of the good I might do in their life in 24 hours?
Perhaps I should do that good in my own life for 24 hours.

Be anyone else? No, thank you.

Holy Hugs, Kathie 

2 Corinthians, 2023, Proverbs, Psalms, Questions

Clichés

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Is this month speeding by for you too? 

Two weeks and this month, this year, will be done — in the books. 

Are you making plans for 2024?
Are you thinking you want to do better in 2024 than you did in 2023? 
Me too! 
Watch after family and friends better. Pay more attention to my calendar. Bring my thoughts captive more. Study more. Read more. Are you thinking about those things too? 

That’s what we do at the end of one year leading into a new one, right?
And that’s not bad. It’s good to reflect. Visions and plans are good too. 

What does the Bible say? 
People perish where there is no vision.  Proverbs 29:18

What else does the Bible say about our plans? 

Proverbs 16:9 “A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.”  source
Don’t miss the verses before and after. We will surely need them in 2024.
We need them now.

Depending on the circles in which you read or listen you may be getting wind that 2024 may hold some rougher times than did 2023. Perhaps they are right. Perhaps not. 

But on this, we can hang our hat, take it to the bank, and other clichés we hear or say, GOD will NOT forsake His Children. 

A Look at Prayer

 

 

Kathie