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Thursday, September 25, 2014

My Conversations with God by Carlos Aranda @Losman1976 #AmReading #NonFiction #Christian

Protecting the Gates

In Matt. 12:34, it says, “You offspring of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the heart the mouth speaks” (amp). So if we put anger in our heart, anger will be displayed out of our mouth. How do we get into the heart? The first way is by the ear gates. This can happen through listening to secular music ongoing or even surround ourselves with people that cursing is there first language. (That was me back in my days. Thank you, Jesus, for changing me.) Secondly, we can reach the heart by through our eye gates.

This happens through watching inappropriate shows on TV or other such things as pornography or violence on a computer. Final way is through the mouth gate. If we speak anger, we then will hear anger. Anger will eventually find its way to our heart. In the same way, if we speak negative things about ourselves or others, once again we hear them, and they will find their way to our heart. These are just a few examples of what may happen if there is no watchman at these gates. If we take a defensive stand, our offense can never be beaten. Now we give God more room to operate. Just because the enemy is at the gate does not me we are obligated to let him in!

This book is a biblical perspective on how God wants us to see and get through the trials that life brings our way. It is a book of conversations and things brought to our attention that we may not always see and how through scripture God wants us to get through them.

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Saturday, January 11, 2014

#Excerpt from Living The Testimony by Deidre Havrelock #Christian #AmReading

EXCERPT - “Who is Jesus?”

This book is about giving Jesus more than average thought. Who is Jesus? How do I know who Jesus is? What aspect of Jesus has been revealed to me, personally? And am I fully prepared and happily willing to testify about my faith in Jesus through both my deeds and words? Or, am I afraid and/or unprepared to live out and speak about my faith—often testifying about other things instead?

The early disciples and apostles in the Bible always testified about who Jesus is and what he had done or taught. However, in our day and age we are experiencing a growing cultural trend of testifying about: ourselves, God/church, or sometimes we speak about faith in general terms. Our lack of clarity—when we specifically want or are asked to give our Christian testimony—is causing our testimonies to become weak and even irrelevant.