A father’s affirmation is the most powerful experience a child can ever have outside of God the Father’s affirmation. When a man receives a spiritual father he opens up his heart, emotions, and soul to this surrogate authority figure.
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The worst mistake you can make is to remain “crazed” and in DENIAL, which means “Don’t Even Notice I Am Lying”.
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Power, pleasure and wealth are three reasons Christian leaders fall even today. God warns us of self-deception which is an area of serious issue because we can try and justify our sinful desires but we are answerable to God, the good and highest judge.
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Saint Augustine said so many years ago: “Our hearts our restless until we rest in God.” By apprenticing oneself to Jesus, one can find the soul rest we long for in God, learn to live in the love of Heavenly Father, letting him be the source of our well-being and self-esteem.
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Love is a word that has four shades for its meaning. It is essential to know that all the four play a vital role in our lives. This universally accepted perspective is developed in the book "The Four Loves," written by CS Lewis (1898-1963), a British Medieval literature scholar and the author of the popular science fiction novels "Chronicles of Narnia". Out of these four shades of love, even if one is missing, it will have an adverse effect on the other three.
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Oftentimes we go through life without a care just doing our own thing and it is in the difficult moments that we wonder where our help might come from. These trying circumstances give us reason to ask the deeper questions of life in terms of our purpose, the meaning of life, whether morality exits and what our destiny is. Only the Christian faith gives us answers to all four of those questions and based on these answers we have the hope to live.
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If you have spent your adult life trying to live up to the mothering standard set in the thirty-first chapter of Proverbs (and I know some women do), you might as well just go ahead and take up permanent residence in the I-can’t-quite-measure-up lane. I have a sneaking suspicion that that woman was either a composite sketch of several stellar women, a wishful hope, or a case of one woman mistakenly believing her own press kit.
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My husband and I have been facing this issue for some time and I feel the best way to help cope with what we are going through is to share it with other parents. Possibly some of you have been dealing with similar issues.
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God showed special favour to His chosen people and we can see that even today when God's chosen from among the nations are shown the greatest favour of all, freedom from sin - past, present and future! Jesus Himself was the great fulfillment of a willing slave when prophetically in Psalm 40:6 He declared His willingness to be the bond-slave of God the Father.
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Does experiencing God's love make you want to give? Some current social scientific research suggests it might.
University of Akron sociologist Matthew T. Lee says, "Millions of Americans frequently experience divine love and for them this sense of God's love not only enhances existential well-being, but underlies a sense of personal meaning and purpose and enlivens compassion for others."
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