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Knowing Christ

  Knowing Jesus Christ may not be a trend in this world right now, but I can guarantee you it will change you from the inside-out.   It did it for me and I live in a greater freedom from day to day. I would imagine the trend right now is to “know yourself” and as a world of knowledge we are consumed by the knowledge of Self.   Self can become an idol between God and us.   God must become number One in your life. The other trend is to find happiness at all costs which can be dangerous as you would not be able to stand yourself when you become depressed or angry.   It does not give much room to allow yourself to be normal if your ideal self is “happy”.   In other word, stop looking for “happy” and everything will be “normal” like your feelings and the grey sky in your life.   We suppress so much of our feelings that we end up hating ourselves for being unhappy or normal. God is looking for normal people so that through them he can do the miraculous...

Joy Unspeakable

  “But the fruit of the Spirit [the result of His presence within us] is love [unselfish concern for others],   joy [inner] peace “ (Galatians 5:22 Amplified)   Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, Yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory (1 Peter 1:8   KJV )   Because of my past with depression…Joy has evaded me many times.   Yet Joy is not even of this world, it belongs to Jesus.   Joy is not the feeling you experience at a party, but it is quieter than this. I believe joy is received when you live in the presence of God.   “ You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence.” (Psalm 16:11 NLT)   It is not necessarily something we have and hold in greed but something that comes from within and flows unto others.   We give it away.   I thought that the description of love prior joy was an ‘unselfish’ clue.   In this world that is ge...