news?

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Do you keep up to date on the news and current events? If you don’t, does it bother you to feel uninformed? Beware that you don’t let your life be driven by the news. Real truth has a timeless quality. It is eternal and enduring. The Bible is as current today as when it was written. The spiritual classics written since then are on the shelves at the library, and their content is fresh even if they are dusty and yellowed. Those who only watch the news are informed but lack an overall unifying perspective to make sense of events. He who is spiritual judges all things. Seek eternal truth and you will have a perspective for real understanding. 

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serendipity?

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Have you heard or used the word ‘serendipity’? It suggests happy coincidences; seemingly random events that work in your favor. Even if you don’t use this term, you may have noticed the same concept in effect in your life. What do you attribute this to? It seems disingenuous to say that unlikely random events work out in your favor consistently. I promised to send rain and sun on the just and on the unjust, to provide for the evil and good alike. Just being alive on the earth makes you a recipient of my blessings. Yet how much greater a blessing to see and acknowledge my involvement in your life. 

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Busy?

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Have you ever encountered anyone who didn’t claim to be busy? If this is true of everyone then does it add meaningful information to say it? Does this condition seem to be an inherent condition of modern life? Do you see this as an indication of an abundant life or do people give it as an excuse for not maintaining contact with friends? I know what you are capable of and do not assign you more than you can do. I healed the sick but there were still sick people when I declared that I had done all the Father had given me to do. You can do the same. Blessed are those who know their priorities and order their lives accordingly. 

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least of these

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My word teaches you to remember the poor. This implies that more than remembrance is called for. Act in such a way to relieve their poverty. Saying that you don’t know any poor people is not an excuse or an argument against action. Go out and find them. This is an example of a greater principle, the way you treat the weakest members of your society. In ancient times it included the stranger in the land. At that time it didn’t include the elderly, but did include widows. The same principle applies today even if the demographics shift. How do you treat the weakest, whether they are poor, or elderly, or children, or strangers far from home, or animals?

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gifts

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I not only provide sun and rain to everyone, I give special gifts as well. Do you think of these gifts in a narrow sense as special abilities that equip an individual to ministry? This concept can be expanded to a larger sense. Every denomination has a gift in the central truth that they embrace. Your church does not have a ‘corner on the market’, and there is truth outside your tradition. What church isn’t eager to share the revelation given to them? Yet how many are willing to seek it? My word teaches you to desire spiritual gifts. You can take this many ways, one of which is to receive the gifts I have given to other denominations. 

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Don't worry

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My word teaches you not to worry about tomorrow, or about what you should eat or drink or wear. For your Father will provide for you as he provides for the sparrows, and as for raiment, he clothes the lilies of the field in glory. If you accept this teaching for yourself, can you also accept that you should not worry about other people? If worrying about yourself gives no benefit, how much less worrying about someone else? Are you concerned about a loved one who makes bad choices? Are theirs any worse than yours? If my power keeps you when you make bad choices it will keep them too. 

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see me in them

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My word promises that if you seek you will find and especially if you seek me you will find me. Where do you look for me? Do you look up? My word tells you to seek those things above and to look up for your redemption draws nigh, but these are figures of speech. Literally looking up gives you a view of the sky. Do you accept my creation narrative that I made man in my image? If you look at the people you meet with your natural vision you will only see them, but this is not the only type of vision. If you look at people with sanctified vision you will see me in them. They are spiritual whether they know it or not. 

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Jacob

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I loved Jacob and hated Esau. Why would I do that? Jacob had a lot of issues, and was in many ways lacking in character. Yet Jacob had a deep insatiable spiritual hunger, while Esau was casual and indifferent about spiritual things. Jacob’s determination to get the blessing led him to do whatever it took, and this caused him strife and upheaval in this world, but I was pleased with his focus and devotion. Jacob paid a high price for his methods, but he is an example of my promise that if you seek you will find. I was pleased with his desire and he got what he wanted with some help from me. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. 

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In Christ

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My word teaches you that in Christ there is neither male nor female. You are prone to making distinctions and this most basic one that goes back to the very beginning is important in every other sphere of life. Is it not important spiritually? ‘In Christ’ is an important distinction here. It implies a transcendent spiritual realm. Perhaps you have had the experience of this or other distinctions working against you, where you were on the wrong side of the distinction and felt the prejudice or limitation, or the hindrance caused by the division it created. Then you can be glad that the distinction ‘in Christ’ erases all others. 

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