Imagine someone who doesn’t have much money claiming that they are restraining themselves from spending lavishly. It sounds like a lie because we cannot test one’s prudence in spending unless such a person has in abundance.
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To test their children’s self-control, parents sometimes place tempting snacks in front of them and ask them to wait before eating. The goal is to see how well they can delay gratification. When the children succeed, it brings the parents joy and satisfaction.
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Kindness can be likened to a candle flame in a darkened room; it appears small in stature but mighty in impact. Kindness is more than being nice; it is an intentional decision to extend grace, mercy, and compassion, especially when it is undeserved.
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Have you ever been faced with the decision to help someone who hurt you deliberately? Probably a co-worker who took credit for a project you spent sleepless nights on. Or that person who decided to tarnish your reputation because you chose to walk away from the relationship. It is tempting to repay them for what they did, but as a child of God, you are called to a higher standard.
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‘Since God chose you to be the holy people He loves, you must clothe yourselves…
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“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,” –…
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“But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace,…
Read More →“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have…
Read More →“I say then: “Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of…
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“Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will…
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“Put on salvation as your helmet…” – Ephesians 6:17a NIV In the mediaeval era, soldiers…
“above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench…
“Put on God’s whole armor [the armor of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies], that…
“Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,”…
“Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate…
“And raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in…
“To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:” — 1 Corinthians 12:10 (KJV) The…
