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BIBLE STUDY ON DIVINE GRACE:
Biblical grace is God's treasures given to us freely!
Biblical grace is the treasures of Christ that are given to us without any merit on our part. True Biblical grace is absolutely free. I like the acrostic: G God's, R Riches, A At, C Christ's, Expense. As a Christian, I rely on God's grace alone for my salvation!
Perhaps the thorniest task for us to carry out is to rely on God's grace and God's grace alone for our salvation. It is not easy for our pride to give over to grace. Grace is for others; we want to earn our own way; we do not want welfare. Somehow we want to go to heave because we deserve to be there! This lens is a short study (with several resources on Biblical grace!
Inspirational Issues Articles
Spiritual Inspiration Articles To Live by!
The Power Of Gratitude - The Power of Gratitude is an extremely important aspect of attracting to you the abundance and happiness that you desire and deserve in your life.
Why I Had To Die To Learn How To Live
by: scottmnsd - I took life for granted. Most of us probably do. We go from day to day and never really stop to realize how precious life is. That changed for me on my wife's birthday, August 5th, 2004, the day I died.
Spiritual Healing of Panic and Anxiety Disorders: The human heart was created by God to love and to feel emotion deeply, and much of the creative inspiration that we feel comes from the spiritual connection between our embodied human self and your eternal soul or larger self.
Peace Joy Love - Five Exercises For Achieving Inner Peace And Finding Inner Happiness
Inner peace and happiness are like muscles that all of us have. It is part of being human; we are all created with these muscles and it s born right to pursue them diligently! Like muscles they must be exercised. This lens introduce...
Facing Adversity
This lens covers reliable principles that help you succeed in overcoming adversity. Learning to overcome adversity helps you create great results--in life, work, and relationships--even when the going is tough.
Anxiety Anxiety: In victory I will lock you out forever just as you have locked me in. Then, I will be free from your clutches and destruction.
Dealing with Anxiety Practical steps dealing with anxiety.
Who's In Charge Here? As the outer emissary of the soul, your personality is in command of 10 crucial aspects of your everyday life. You are in charge of these critical aspects of your life.
How To Overcome Adversity
This lens covers reliable principles that help you succeed in overcoming adversity. Learning to overcome adversity helps you create great results--in life, work, and relationships--even when the going is tough.
How To Deal With Anxiety
This lens deals with some practical ways for a God-believing person to deal with the emotion of anxiety. We are not discussing here the more severe conditions that should be treated with the help of a professional counselor or MD. The kind of suggest...
When Faith Is Tested: This is a time of monumental transition for our world, and each of our lives is being affected by the larger planetary transformations that are happening. Many of us who are on a spiritual path and living a spiritual life feel dismayed by the great intensity that is manifesting in our lives, our relationships, and even our physical bodies.
The Healing Presence of God's Love: God's love as a healing presence in the world is growing stronger daily. Many people are not yet able to perceive this growing presence of light, ecause there also exists at this time a thick cloud of negative energy that is surrounding the Earth. This acts to obscure both the perception and the consciousness of people, and to create feelings of isolation and despair.
Compassion: by: Mary E. Martin. just found this quote from Thomas Aquinas - "I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it." Surely, this must be the difference between the understanding of the head and the heart.
Why Are Unhappy People Unhappy? Unhappy people are usually unhappy because they have not mastered the ability to be happy within themselves. Therefore, they may try and gain happiness/pleasure through others no matter what that entails. Don't get confused with my usage of unhappiness and then compare it to depression because they are two different things. This article is about unhappy people - not depressed people.
Chosen An allegory about a little pitcher who doesn't like his shape.
Love, A Must ... and (1 Cor 13) (from the Amplified Bible) One of the most challenging chapters in the Bible is 1 Corinthians 13. Check out the qualities of love: patient, kindhumble, always polite, unselfish, temperatebears all things, believes all things, hopes all thingsNEVER FAILS! Oops! That makes me want to squirm and scratch my head.
Grandpa's Prayers By Cathrine Huff. Prayer is powerful in God's eyes. It is a sweet smelling fragrance to Him, worth changing the course of history for those in danger.
Stress A Lovely Poem By Tamika Albright - A poem about stress and the emotions that follow.
How to Overcome Adversity and Create Outstanding Results in Life and Work! Learning to overcome adversity helps you produce great results--in life, work, and relationships--even when the going is tough.
What is Success? What an amazing discovery! What does success mean to you? I, like many others thought that success meant having a lot of money and material things to show that I had arrived. Of course, we now know that this is far from the truth. Listed below are two circumstances below that helped me view success differently:
Dealing with Fear No matter how serene and unaffected a person may seem, there isn't anyone who is totally impervious to fear; everyone gets afraid sometimes. It is therefore not what you feel (fear) but what you do with what you feel.
How Can We Overcome Sin? Everyone, at one time, has struggled with sin. A few years ago, I struggled with two issues. They weren't necessarily wrong for everyone, but I knew they were wrong for me.
Are You Listening? Listening is an art. We don't think about it much but really, it is. I know a few people who are very hard to talk to because frankly they don't know how to listen.
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Sharing a Few Thoughts on Spirituality and Beliefs ...by: "Craig Lock" - Spirituality is not religion. It is something different (and more profound, deeper, I believe): A "connection with the Divine" (or what mystics often call “union with God". Life is a spiritual, not a religious journey. (I think it was Wayne Dyer, who said: "We are all spiritual beings on an earthly journey").
Spirituality - Thirteen Keys for Finding Inner Peace Summary: In answer to a question from a man in West Africa, I came up with 13 keys for achieving inner peace. From meditation to self-compassion to seeing life as a grand classroom, these are points to practice for cultivating inner peace.
Confidence Building Secrets of True Winners
We all need some confidence building from time to time. Part of feeling confident has a lot to do with how we feel about ourselves. Feeling like we can accomplish things we set out to do is important to feeling confident.
NICODEMUS Secret Friend of Jesus I am Nicodemus, one of the religious leaders in Israel. I am a very powerful and wealthy man, one of the mighty Pharisees. My name comes from 2 words: "Nike" and "Demos": it literally means...
Secrets That Happy People Know - And You Can Too!
If you have forgotten how to take the positive approach and view to life, or if Life has placed obstacles in your way such as loss of a job, illness or death of a family member and it has drained the life from you, then try these tips to return joy to our life
Salt of the Earth
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Ice Cream Salvation Faith's loneliness was about to get the best of her, until she met the Master in a rather unique way, through an ice cream cone.
Let Your Light Shine!
Christians are beacons of light to a very dark and sinful world. Those lost in sin need clarity to find their way to Christ, to safety and protection. Never take this responsiblity lighty. Emit the light of Christ.
Have Faith In God! A lot of people have opinions of what faith is but does anyone really know for sure? We expect that you will be among those who know for sure after reading this article because it really does explain it all quite nicely. Don't be surprised to find out that it is simpler than you think.
Featured HubPage Article by Wbisbill: Jesus used a donkey! Surely, he can use you
Notes on the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem!
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Christian Suffering - Why Me? O God? Even Jesus on the Cross of Calvary asked "Why?" We are all going to ask this question, but faith in God sees us through every hardship!
How To Excel in the Grace of Giving It is truly a blessing to have an opportunity to give anything in these hard economic times. But those who can should try to excel as much as they can. To me it's so painful to see and hear how many families are trying to survive.
Do You Have a Christian Vision? Let this mind be in you which is also in Christ. We need to see things as Christ sees! This is a way of living in the light and seeing all of life as both a divine, present mystery and unique living history. We're all vital players in the writing of our incredible personal histories.
Do You Have the love of God? God is love! plus ... Love of God! plus ... Is God love? plus ...If God is love? plus videos on the God of Love
Are You A Giver? In This Economy, Are You a Miser Or a Giver? As a result of what people hear about the economy, many hang on to every last penny that they have. You can choose to be influenced by the media, or you can choose to be a giver.Law of Giving and Receiving.
Is the Golden Rule Still Relevant? Do Unto Others Before They Can Do Unto You? The cry of the business world goes out, 'Do unto others before they can do unto you!' Twenty plus years in the corporate world instilled in me that this was the best philosophy for achieving success. When I entered into Network Marketing my mentors (also corporate escapees), echoed the very same business beliefs and style.
A Joy Filled Life Most people, including Christians, think they can have some joy once in a while and the rest of the time should be filled with the sorrow and the cares of this life; but God, our heavenly Father, doesn't think that way and neither does He want us to think that way. Why? Because our faith in what the Lord is to us, has for us, does in and through us, really every aspect of our Christian faith has to be centered around the major spiritual force of joy.
The Unwanted Gift of Endurance As I found out, Stupidity is not a spiritual gift. We don't endure alone; even when you don't look to Him, even when you don't see Him, when your pride blinds you, anger and not understanding burns inside you, and humiliation deflates you...someone understands, and He carries you through it with compassion.
He Makes All Things New
In the Passion of the Christ, there is a part where Jesus falls and has his head crushed by the cross. Seeing this, Mary rushes to his aid whilst there are flashbacks to how she did this when he was a boy. When she approaches him and rouses him, he responds inspirationally by saying, "I make all things new," before continuing to carry that rugged cross.
Friendships and Hair Issues Well-meaning friends offer advice to help us and have the solution to a part of our problem, but may not know the entire answer for us. And that's ok. Friendships are important, because while you may not know all the answers to help your friend through the entire problem, you can advise her on what you do know.
Positive Thinking - Whatever The Mind Can Conceive
'Our mind is an incredible power whose abilities and powers no one is aware of. Even great scientist are said to have used only a small fragment of their brains capacity. ...