PERSONAL PARAPHRASINGS:
Godly Sentiments, The Serious & The Silly!
Every man’s True treasure is found in The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost.
God rewards gratitude with satisfaction, while a lack thereof breeds discontentment.
The body is the vehicle, the soul is the personality and the spirit is who I am.
How can anyone who has not given Jesus their life claim to be a believer?
God has taught me to stay busy with God— not apart from Him!
Bad things do happen to good, believing people, but the promise isn’t a perfect life, the promise is that He will get us through and we will be even better off than we were before….(PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS GOODNESS and lovingkindness!)
Christianity is the most exciting version of life and is life itself! Without Christ, all anyone has to look forward to is the grave!
There are many levels of surrender, but God doesn’t want us holding back anything from Him! HE wants our all!
Every situation is an opportunity for gratitude, even in the worst of situations, we can be grateful that He is with us and will help us; remembering that He put a restriction on how bad our bad situation really is….If He allows it, He will be there in the midst of it all, and make us better than we were before the trouble came in and disturbed everything.
The strength of the soul and spirit in healthy connection, is more important and valuable than the strength/health of the body.
Physical exercise is not nearly as beneficial and cannot make me as well as spiritual wellness can.
Spiritual work comes in response to God’s Love, and is the exact opposite of legalism, which makes every work about oneself.
Once saved always saved is true, (THANKS BE TO GOD), but should never inspire an abuse of God’s Grace, and is only true for TRUE believers, who dedicate themselves to Him.
We cannot see the Lord or hear His audible Voice, but we can all experience the spiritually tangible Presence of GOD.
If I clean my house while it’s still clean, I’ll never have a dirty house…..said another way: if I clean my house before it gets dirty, my house will never be dirty!
My dependence is on the LORD, and He directs me on how I ought to see independence in the most practical sense for my own life, as it differs from person to person.
I know I need to keep my mind off myself as much as possible; after all, getting over myself is, in essence, what it means to be transformed into a new creation in Christ Jesus.
I feel so sorry for atheists: They DON’T KNOW what they’re missing!
No one loves and understands me as perfectly as God does, and it’s unreasonable of me to expect such a thing:
AND, God understands me when I do silly things, and laughs with me when silly things happen to me, like—
—That time while shampooing, I inadvertently caused my hair to cut through my wax ear plug, and a piece of wax fell deep inside my ear canal; just like he understood my doctor’s chuckle in fishing it out!
—all those times I’ve taken something new out of the box it came in, but then just cannot seem to get it back in!
—The one and only time I tried to wax my legs, and kept getting the wax stuck between my fingers. It didn’t work for the most part, all that pain and still I wasn’t hair-free! And how I cried and screamed in pain, and how 20 years later, even though it was a complete fail, I still have bald spots in the spots I screamed the loudest. (How weird and I? This could only happen to me!)
—How I repeatedly colored my hair for months until I developed an allergy that would end my hair-coloring career permanently…….
Clearly God wanted me to cease all physically enhancing endeavors— permanently! (Only speaking for myself here! Because—God deals with us all on a highly individual basis! What is sin for me, may not be for someone else)
—Sometimes my husband will snore off and on throughout the night. I know this because I am a chronic insomniac. In order to cope with this, I turn up the fan that I run all night, and put cotton in my ears. I still hear him, but it’s much less distracting. This seems like the only way out, other than sleeping on the couch. But, the thing is, my remedy doesn’t always work, because most of the time, he stops snoring the as soon as I lay back down with the fan turned up and the cotton balls in my ears.
God’s Handiwork is sufficient, and exercises in vanity do not necessarily lead to enhanced beauty! So much better is it to appreciate my God-given beauty, even if that makes me laugh, and say what beauty? Regardless of anyone’s opinion, even mine, I’ve learned to keep my face from the mirror!
I need always remember to check my motives to make sure they align with righteousness, and with what God would have me do, as well as the reason behind it all, as motives are vitally important to GOD. I ask myself, Am I really doing this good thing to help this person or just make myself look and feel like a hero?
The lower people are willing to stoop, the louder their cry for help (!)
There is a subtle, but very real difference between being carried away with emotions, and carried away by the spirit! I pursue Jesus with passion, therefore, what results is spiritual ecstasy!
The fear of the Lord keeps us….
New Agers’ beliefs can stem from a lacking foundation in Christ; they make up their own version of who He is.
Believers in Christ can walk through fire without getting burned or end up smelling like smoke…..
People may die due to accidents, but no one ever dies by accident…
GOD IS SOVEREIGN over ALL!
