WHY ARE WE DOUBLE MINDED?

Simple understanding double minded man is the man who may “know” he lacks wisdom, and may not be a hypocrite, but then again he may be. In fact, you cannot tell just what he/she is.

A person who has doubts is thinking about two different things at the same time and can't make up his mind about anything. A person who have two job opportunities and be afraid to choose one, causes the person feels like he would miss out on something if he/she only chose one job.

You cannot depend on this double minded man. You ask him to do something and maybe he/she will and maybe he/she will not. 

You cannot be sure of him/her in anything. He/she tells you he/she was a wonderful position, but suddenly you hear he/she has quit. "No man can serve two masters—Ye cannot serve God and mammon" (Matt. 6:24). What they need is the single eye of Matthew 6:22. 

The double minded man is actually dishonest with themselves and others, and appears to use truth and lies in whatever situation to benefit themselves in some way. The person is filled with hypocrisy.

In a Biblical citation a double-minded person is someone who doubts God and His promises. He may ask God for help, but he is unsure if God will come through for him or not. He does not realize that his own doubts about God hinder the fulfillment of his prayers. "That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord!". A double minded man is actually a man who prays to the Lord yet does not trust that the Lord hears and answers his prayers. He prays yet doubts. He can't make up his mind. He is unsettled in his opinions.

The book of Psalm 119:113 I hate double-minded men, but I love your law; and James 1:7 warned us, that man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; Therefore, their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they are being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways

When we read the bible, Joseph, to me, is a perfect example of a person who is single-minded. Even though he was repeatedly tempted, he kept on choosing to give God his thoughts so that God's Life could still freely come forth from his heart. Because of his choice to stay single-minded, Joseph was easily conformed to God's image and everyone who saw him was aware that God was with him.

Also when we read the bible, David's behavior presents a perfect example of a double-minded man. Even though he had God's Life in his heart and had been a man after God's own heart, he nevertheless chose to  follow the needs of his own flesh over what God was prompting him to do.

This behavior is very challenging because Even godly men in the Bible sometimes lapsed into the double - minds situation. John, who baptized Jesus Christ, Yet, after landing in prison, John sent men to Christ asking, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?" (Luke 7:19-20).

Why this happened to Him? John the Baptist was human, and we humans begin to doubt when God seems not to respond to our prayers during a crisis. (Luke 7:28).

(James 1:5-8). James describes one who is dubious and indecisive in prayer as "a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."

"You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures" (James 4:3).

(James 1:6-8) “like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does”.

Hebrews 11:1, 3: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”

Therefore a double-minded person is restless and confused in his thoughts, his actions and his behavior. Such a person is always in conflict with himself. God will not grant His blessings upon those who are double-minded. As Jesus pointedly declared: “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other” (Matthew 6:24). God and the things of this world are of such opposite natures that it is impossible to love either one completely without hating the other. Those who try to love both will become unstable in all their ways. God is a jealous God (Exodus 34:14) and will not accept a service that is divided with Satan.

AS WE APPROACH THE END OF YEAR 2012: Whatever Hinderance, BE REMOVED, TB JOSHUA

A TRUE STORY AND CONSIDER THIS IN THE UPCOMING NEW YEAR!

I went to the party and remembered what you said. You asked me not to drink alcohol. So I drank a Sprite. I felt proud of myself, as you said I should feel. You said I should not drink and drive, contrary to what some friends told me. I made a healthy choice and your advice was correct, as all you give me forever.

When the party finally ended, people began to drive without being able to do so. I went to my car with the certainty that he would return home in peace. I never imagined what awaited me, Mom. Now I'm lying in the street and I hear the policeman say: "The kid that caused this accident was drunk." Mom, his voice seems so distant. My blood is spilled everywhere and I'm trying with all my might not moan. I can hear the doctors say, "This girl is going to die." I have the certainty that the young man, who ran at full speed, decided to drink and drive, and now I have to die.

Why do people do this, Mom, knowing that this is going to ruin many lives? The pain is cutting me like a hundred knives. Tell my sister not to cry, tell Daddy to be strong. And when I go to heaven, I'll be watching for you all. Someone should have taught that boy is wrong to drink and drive. Maybe if his parents would have said, I would not be dying now. My breath is getting weaker, more and more. Mom, these are my last moments and I feel so desperate. I wish I could hug Mom, while I'm lying here dying. I wish I could tell you how much I love you, Mom. So .. I love ... y. .. goodbye ... "

(These words were written by a reporter who witnessed the accident. The girl, as he died, I was saying these words and the reporter wrote down ... very overwhelmed. The journalist started this campaign, if you read this note, please click " share ", so more people can be aware. Therefore, I ask one small gesture, send it to your friends, family and loved one

HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY

WHY I AM HAPPY?

ENJOY THIS SUNDAY BY ASKING YOURSELF IF YOU NEED THE HELP OF THE GOD

THE KINGDOM OF GOD BY BISHOP MARVIN WINANS

DON’T HATE IF YOU WANT TO FORGET SOMETHING

It is human nature at the end of the road of our friendship or relationship we  either focus on what separated us or held us together. In other words when someone walks out of our life, we need to take it easy let  it go. There’s no use in wasting our time on people that leave us. What you make of our self and our future is no longer tied to them. Yeah, we may miss them, but remember that we weren’t the first one to give up. 

What I can advise you now is take a step back. Look at yourself. You are human. You are so beautiful. And you can be anything. You can be everything. Do not hate because someone broke your heart. Do not concern yourself with things you cannot control. Cry when you need to, then let go when it’s time. Don’t hang on to painful memories just because you’re afraid to forget. Let go of things that are in the past. Forget things that aren’t worth remembering. Stop taking things for granted. Stop taking life for granted. Live for something. Live for yourself

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up. It means accepting things that weren’t meant to be. There’s a point in life when you get tired of chasing everyone, trying to fix everything, but it’s not giving up. You got to do what’s right for you even if it hurts. I’ve come to realize in the end, everyone turns out to be the person they swore they’d never become.

In order to move on you need to let certain things behind you. Put your thoughts, ideas, and energy towards what you are going to do not what happened and all of the injustices you went through.

You can actually take control of your thoughts and move on don’t let the past determine your present or your future. In bible we learn that forgive those who have hurt you and you will be able to achieve what God has for your life. If you don’t do this your mind will be stuck in the mud of the past and you will find yourself going around in circles. Let it go and you will begin to experience God’s purpose come to fruition in your life.

Life is in constant movement. There will always be changes. Our 

ability to let go and move on, will open us up to make new memories and experience new things. We can take the good and the lessons we have learned from the past to move us forward.

2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

When you look inside, you hate yourself, you could kick yourself over and over for your past failures and choices. You have come to Jesus and repented, but you haven't really accepted the truth about what Jesus has done for you yet. You still feel ashamed and guilty over your past and you keep holding it against yourself. 

Allow  God heal you instead of  holding something against yourself, you are blocking the Holy Spirit's power from entering and healing that area of your mind and life! You need to open up your heart, and allow the light of Christ to shine into the darkness of your soul.

Therefore the word of God says that we should be thankful. God is giving us a command: To be thankful. A thankful heart will change the way we see everything around us. A thankful heart will make us much happier each and every day. Choose the half full perspective. Choose to think of all the good that has come out of a circumstance.

MY GOD IS AWESOME (GOD IS ALWAYS GOD)

IS THE LAW AND GRACE WORK TOGETHER ?

 

Grace is “favor, kindness and mercy.” But to be “under grace” means to be extended mercy and forgiveness as a result of sincere repentance and resolve to obey God and not to disobey God’s law. Galatians 5:18: “But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.” You are under the penalty of the law if you violate it as a way of life.

But a person led by God’s Spirit will strive to follow that law. When he occasionally sins, he repents and is forgiven (I John 1:8-10). By virtue of obedience and grace, he is not under the penalty of the law.

When an individual seeks to obey God and come under the “umbrella” of grace, the blood of Christ justifies, or forgives, all past transgressions. Repentance shows God the direction a Christian chooses to take from that time forward.

Grace is God’s willingness to forgive past sins, as summarized in Ephesians 1:7: “… in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.”

EPHESIANS 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

ROMANS 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the Law but under grace.

ROMANS 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

GALATIANS 2:21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if justification were through the Law, then Christ died for no purpose.

• Grace—justification and forgiveness.
• Grace—God’s giving of mercy and favor.
• The faith of Christ in us.
• God’s Spirit, through which we receive the willpower and motivation to forge ahead.

God extends grace and help to His people, but He expects us to grow in good works, walking on them as a way of life. The law of God is the standard or benchmark that directs the paths of true Christians. Keeping them develops character. Doing these things shows God that the grace He has extended to us has not been in vain.

When a person disobeys God's commandments, that person is allowed sin to have dominion over them. When that person realizes they are sinning by breaking God's law,  and repent of that, they begin to OBEY the commandments. At this point, through His Grace and Mercy, God forgives that person of their PAST TRANSGRESSIONS.

Grace and works are related to one’s attitude. An attitude of grace is one of total helplessness and dependence upon God. An attitude of works, on the contrary, is one of self-confidence and self-help and sees no need to depend absolutely on God to attain righteousness.

That explains the Scriptural declaration: “God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble” (Jam 4:6; 1Pe 5:5). Thus one can be living under Law in this dispensation of grace, if one seeks to serve God with an attitude of works instead of grace.

Therefore, in concluding this series of messages on Law and Grace, we can happily and boldly declare, according to the Scriptural theme of the series, "We are not under the Law but under grace."  This declaration, thank God, is not a mere figment of human doctrinal fancy, but, as we explicitly showed in this series of messages, it is the Gospel proclaimed in the Scriptures and in some Scripture passages stated word for word.