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Why Possessions Won't Make You Happy

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Why Possessions Won't Make You Happy How to feed your soul and get eternal satisfaction Written by Bro shalamon Anushanthan on 13/02/2018 Tags:  Purpose ,  Vanity ,  Soul For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? Matthew 16:26 Every time I read this verse, it makes my heart ache for people who I know that seem to have lost their way in life. It is like they start to go somewhere, but when they get on the road, they realize that they have no idea where they are or how to get to where they want to go. “Daddy, I think we are lost.  What do we do?” After my daughter was married, she and her husband were going on their honeymoon, but early on they realized that they had gotten lost. Unfortunately, they had missed a very critical turn and were headed in the opposite direction of where they should have been going. She called me, explained her dilemma and asked me wha...

The Baptism In The Holy Spirit

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Here is a question that may puzzle some Christians. If Jesus was  born  by the power of the Holy Spirit, then why did the Holy Spirit have to come upon Him when He was baptized? Are there two kinds of interactions with the Holy Spirit for Christians as well? It is important that we recognize the need for the baptism (immersion) in the Holy Spirit to live a life of increasing purity. This is the only way that we can increasingly reflect Jesus in His purity. But there is an  equally important need  for the baptism in the Holy Spirit for our service to God that many do not recognize. The Holy Spirit must give us His supernatural gifts if we are to fulfil our calling as members of the Body of Christ. Some churches identify spiritual gifts by getting their members to take some sort of Christianized personality test. These tests identify spiritual gifts based on the strengths of various personality types. Now personality tests can help understand human strengths and wea...

Your Decisions Determine What You Become

"I came down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me"  ( Jn . 6:38 ). Jesus tells us here in His own words what He came on earth to do. And in this one sentence we have a description of how Jesus lived every single day of His entire life on earth. The thirty years of Jesus' life in Nazareth are referred to as hidden years. But here Jesus reveals what He did during every day of those 30 years: He denied His own will and did His Father's will. When Jesus was with the Father in heaven from eternity past, He never had to deny His own will, for His own will was the same as His Father's. But when He came to earth in our flesh, that flesh had a self-will that was diametrically opposed to the Father's will at every single point. The only way in which Jesus could do the Father's will then was by denying His own self-will all the time. This was the cross that Jesus bore throughout His earthly life - the crucifixion of His self-will - a...

Principles Of Serving God

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When we see the state of things around us, and encounter problems for which we do not have, a solution, it is good to hear the Lord saying to us,  "Come up higher! Come and see things from My standpoint - and not from the low earthly level from which you have been looking at these things" . This is a word that we need to hear constantly -  "Come up higher!" God needs men today, who will stand before His face and hear His voice daily; men who have no desire in their heart for anyone or anything other than God Himself; men who have the discernment of the Spirit to distinguish between the soulish and the spiritual authority; men who will stand alone for God in the world, if need be;  totally uncompromising men, like the apostles and prophets of old . I'd like to turn to the Word of God in  Revelation Chapter 4 . After the Lord had given John a revelation of Himself in  Chapter 1 , He gave John an insight into the actual state of many of the churches in that part...