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Feeling low
Christians are daughters and sons of the everlasting kingdom. We will one day reign with Christ through the countless ages of eternity. There is no excuse for putting people down or making a person feel low about themselves or how they seek to serve the Lord. When we feel low we comfort ourselves with the…
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The sin question
How important is the consideration of our sinfulness on our psyche? How deep do we need to delve into our weaknesses to overcome them? How can the sin question be settled? What can cleanse this hideous blot? Only the shed blood of the suffering Saviour is sufficient to purge away the stain. Only through repentance…
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Bypassing the mind
There seems to be a desire in some Christians to speak in tongues. These tongues are not the tongues spoken about in Scripture which are recognisable languages that people in our world speak. On the day of Pentecost the disciples received a supernatural gift of being able to preach the gospel to foreign visitors to…
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Security of life
We all need some kind of rock in our life to hold to in times of trouble. This is primarily in our mind and psyche and is what makes us secure and confident people. Our sense of security can be undermined by thoughts and feelings and we find ourselves cast adrift in a sea of…
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Moral affliction
When we fall into sin we hurt ourselves. We may think it is good and benefits us in some way, but it stains our soul, our mind and our character. We should run from it but we do not because we yet have a sinful mindset and we seek fulfilment and pleasure. Such is the…
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A mind redeemed
We can think of the future for our physical life and what God has promised to all who love Him. We rejoice to know the redemption of our bodies, which God will glorify one day, making them fit to live in the coming eternal kingdom. We do not often think about the redemption of our…
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Agony for Assurance
Surely there is no greater agony than for a child of God is think they do not really belong to Him. There are various states of mind that we can get into that take our thought processes down unhelpful routes and ending in the gloomy thought that we are not really the Lords. Our minds…
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Hungry for joy
This vain world promises us so much but cannot deliver. It even purports to give us joy. This world can never give us joy as it feeds our covetous self and encourages us to be always wanting. It can never satisfy us for we are deep and spiritual beings who need the Lord. We long…
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Hatred
I hate gossip. I pray God delivers me from ever indulging myself by dabbling in it. It is a sign and a practice of the weak psyche that needs to bolster itself up by bringing other people down. In a way it is murder – murder of the reputation and character of the person being…
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Covetousness
Surely covetousness, or lust, is the underlying motivation behind so many of our sins, if not all. This law that we all break is set at the end of the list of commandments, but is by no means an after thought, or less important than the others. The law reflects the law-giver and we must…
Of the Psyche 