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How to Meet God

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Here’s how you can use silence and solitude to grow closer to God: Pay attention to what’s stirring in your soul.                                                                                    Notice the feelings of desperation and desire that you experience at various times. Instead of trying to suppress or run from those feelings, let them motivate you pursue time with God in silence and solitude. Incorporate silence and solitude into your life regularly.                                                               Choose a regular time and place to get away from life as usual and spend at least 10 minutes in silence and solitude as often as you can. Ask God to help you express your need for Him through a simple  prayer , and choose a physical position that will enable you to stay alert yet worshipful. Overcome resistance                                       Don’t let anything distract you from devoting yourself regularly to times of

Bright future

A Bright Future in Jesus Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Our text for today is from St. Mark Chapter Sixteen. The Lord is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” This was the question that the women asked one another that first Easter morn. Their Lord was gone forever. That’s what they thought. All of the talk about Jesus as the Messiah seemed cold and dead on their lips. But they wanted to do what was right. They wanted to bring the spices and anoint His body. If he could not live, at least He should die with honor and respect as a great teacher. We all fight this battle. This battle with death. Sometimes the battle seems to be going well. We’re healthy, the kids are doing okay, and tax season is almost over. God is gracious, and there is much to rejoice about. Other times, though, it seems as though death and Satan are winning. A loved one dies. There’s

Jesus in Your Trails

Trust Jesus in All Your Trials “Have faith in God.”  Mark 11 “Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him, and He will act. He will bring forth your vindication as the light, and your right as the noonday. Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.”   Psalms 37        “We know that in everything God works for good with those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.”   Romans 8         "Blessed are all they - that put their trust in Him"   Psalms 2         “Trust in Him at all times.”   Psalms 62          “ The Lord is faithful ; He will strengthen you and guard you from evil.” 2nd Thessalonians 3         “May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might,  for all endurance and patience with joy,  giving thanks to the Father,  who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.”   Colossians 1        God will do marvelous things for those who trust in Him.         All our suf

The spiritual heart inherit God's Kingdom

The Spiritual Heart The spiritual heart is the heart that every called child of God must come to have and possess to inherit God's Kingdom.     What is the spiritual heart?      The spiritual heart is a heart of a spirit born child of God who has come to be converted by having a humble and contrite mind. This conversion continues to take place by a believer, who has repented of breaking God's commandments, who has accepted Christ's sacrifice to cover and forgive his sins and who has made the desire of his heart through the helping power of God's Spirit to always obey God and His commandments and to always be led by God's Spirit. It is a heart that fears God and His judgment against sin. It is a heart that has a faithful and  trusting attitude in God and His Word, along with an uncompromising and commandment guided strong conscience, and understands that this all produces in him a Christ-like behavior of the heart that will always bear the fruit of God&#