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The change from the past to the new is a slow careful walk with Christ.
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This change of character takes time. The old opinions, ways, habits, feelings, traditions and beliefs must be removed, and the babes take a journey that leads them to knowledge, wisdom, and a new life.
The trials and lessons sometimes tiresome and tough, yet for the pilgrims who don’t give up confidence and courage are the result. And a stronger faith and love for God.
Our souls wounded by the past are mended by the Word of God. The Spiritual Heart is given new life and our eyes are opened, we now see how the world has been deceived as we once were.
God is love and His ways are of love.
It may take time to find this new life but we need to realise that if we go back to the ways of the lost ways of society life will be forever hard.
While learning with Christ there will be tough times and struggles, in the end we gain respect and love, and God’s promised destiny.
Don’t let yourself down by giving up on Christ.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
September 10, 2013.
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One of the hardest things for the mind to deal with is knowing that we need to do something, and knowing that this is the right thing to do, but feeling fear, worry, about completing it.
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Fear blinds us and make little worries into impossible to beat fears in our minds.
Another problem is depression, which causes the mind to feel that there is either no hope, or that we cannot see any hope is what we know is going to happen. A depressed mind lives in a negative fog that blocks the view to a more positive life and keeps us lost, sad, weary, seeing negatives and lonely.
An example of not seeing things right is the single life that we can have for a while (to remove past baggage, and to grow in maturity) and marriage life which was designed to give us a partner for life who is a compliment of our own self, and a kindred spirit. God made us to be with a mate for life.
But sometimes bad past relationships and a new comfortable feeling of being single and coming to a conclusion that you like being with yourself and being alone, makes one feel that being single is more desirable than being married.
Marriage with the right person is what we should desire. Modern society has the young craving for sexual relationships instead of relationships based on respectful love for one another. We are told to have fun, to enjoy life while we can, to be free, to have what they call fun relationships and then moving on, and in all that we are actually becoming slaves to a lifestyle that is not natural and that will not bring us happiness and a peaceful heart. A large amount of adult depression comes from a life of loose living as a teenager because years of treating oneself disrespectfully, and using other peoples bodies etc catches up on us.
There are those who live without a partner for long enough that they lose any desire for a sexual relationship and they just enjoy living. There are others who are married and have no sexual relationship in that marriage. They are probably more like best friends than married.
The point I am getting at is that there are things that are a part of the “natural” character of all people that we can stop, deny or refuse, but we will never be really happy unless we welcome such things with open arms and open heart and soul.
Being in love is natural, being married is natural, being alone is not natural (no matter how much we may dress it up and try to make it look and feel good). Depression often comes from isolation.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
September 10, 2014.
Your loving companion should be:
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Someone to share with.
Someone to hold when things don’t go right.
Someone who makes the bad times more bearable.
Someone who’s hug is a deep spiritual comfort when you are down.
Someone to talk to when lonely.
Someone to respect because this person shows respect for you.
Someone to cook for (I love cooking).
Someone who shows that he or she worries about you, and wants to help.
Someone to get excited about life with, to laugh and joke with.
Someone who holds your secrets and you hold theirs.
Someone that you don’t have to be a fake with.
Someone who knows who you really are and stays.
Someone who understands what it is that you are saying, and what you mean.
Someone who is sensitive about the same issues, desires and emotions as you are.
Someone to hold when the world has turned their back on you.
Someone who will walk that dark path with you regardless of the danger.
Someone who will walk with you no matter how bad your silly mistake was.
Someone who will teach you the true meaning of respectful love,
Someone who makes your days feel like life is finally worth it.
Someone who has shown you what true love is.
Someone who is giving more to you than taking.
Someone who physically affects your body, mind and soul.
Someone that is always on your mind no matter where you go, or what you do.
Someone that no one can take away from your mind and soul, a love you need.
Someone who sets you free!
Someone to make babies with and they will look just like the two of you.
Someone who lives true spiritual love with you!
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
September 10, 2014.
True faith is the incorruptible belief in God and His love for you.
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True belief, a firm solid belief. Belief built on a solid base such as a rock. Doubtless belief.
One of the greatest struggles for the believer in God is that of having faith in God straight out – many claim to have total faith but many desperately cling to man made doctrines, traditions, and false teachings.
It can also be hard for some to believe that they are worthy of being a person who God could love and want to help, because of the things that they have done in their past. It is this lack of faith which keeps us distant from God. We can create a wall that we refuse to let God come through. God is good, He will not force you to fully accept Him. True faith is learned over time, learning to trust in Him, in His ways, as we grow stronger in believe and understanding of God and a decent life. With faith comes trust – as your faith in God grows, then your trust in God grows.
Many of the trials in the Bible are to test your faith. They are to see what it is that you will do in certain situations and who you will follow. Will you follow God or will you follow humans.
As your faith and trust grow so does your ability to learn and have faith and trust in the Holy Scriptures. The book of Proverbs may at first seem strange to a girl who has many men or women to keep her warm at nights. males learn of the dangers of a casual sex life. But with time we come to see the confusions of a lost society and wrong teachings that we have gained over the years from people who live on their own terms, and who have become accustomed to indecent habits and immoral practices.
God shows us a different way to live and we see that the books of the Bible do apply to today, and that they can help us in our life right now. With God we regain our self respect, we gain public respect, and we gain confidence and courage to live a good decent life that shines for others to admire and see.
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Genesis chapter 15, verse 6:
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
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Faith opens a way for understanding, unbelief closes it – S Augustine.
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Hebrew chapter 11, verse 1:
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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Your personal faith can only be known internally by you and God.
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Psalm 89, verse 2:
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
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Faith is taking God at His word – Evans.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
September 9, 2013.
Have you ever noticed that in the past a certain quote or verse had a certain meaning but could also seem confusing?
And then with more spiritual learning and prayers, a few years later the exact same quote or verse now makes more sense and a new great understanding comes from it.
This is because we first read the quote or verse as “babes” and we hadn’t grown in spiritual maturity yet.
This also explains why the non-believers don’t understand even after many years because they see the Bible verses as babes, someone who does not understand what is before them and its truths.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
September 9, 2012.
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You need to sometimes ruthlessly cut away all that is not profitable for your own spiritual growth.
We all want our own garden of Eden full of honest good people. And we can have that. “You Can Have That!”
Like pruning a tree or weeding the garden, some people clog up our lives and take, or drain our spiritual energy from us leaving us sad, worn out and tired from being around them. Their existence in your life is not productive, and you gain nothing but their negative forces like their judgements, condemnation, cruelty at times, and negative answers to your positive inquiries. These people serve no happy purpose in your life.
The hard part is that by leaving that person’s presence, or removing that presence from your life can be hard. One reason is that we can become so used to having a person around us that we fear life without that person. We can feel that this life-draining person is our life and that we cannot function without this person.
As I found out years ago, sometimes we think that we truly love a person and we lie to ourselves (because it looks good, feels good, and seems the right thing) and tell ourself the value of having this controlling negative force in our life is good, when in reality it is the opposite. We always wonder why things just don’t get better, so we blame others, and if we are in sympathy with the controlling person then that person will blame others and play the poor sad victim, and use your sympathy to get you on their side and forever with that person. And this leaves you lost, wondering at the negatives that you see in your life all the time, and you are always wondering why things never change etc.
Step back from your own life. Look at your life from someone else’s view, someone good. And find some answers that you need for your future. This is the wise advice that you would give yourself “if” you thought that you were someone else.
Remember that we judge ourselves harshly at times, and because of those harsh judgments we cannot see the light ahead of us leading, guiding and showing us ways that our life will progress in the future.
Please be positive and know that you deserve a goo healthy loving life.
Please prune away those unwanted family and friend branches, and clean out the weeds around you because they will choke your life, desires, wonder, courage and happiness.
No one ever really regrets a good cleanup of one’s own life, because a good clean-out frees the soul and brings more positive opportunities.
Look at flowers surrounded by weeds and they are wilting and dying because the weeds are strangling the life from the flowers, and the weeds are taking all the goodness from the soil and leaving very little for the flowers, so the flowers never bloom fully. They just become pitiful versions of what they really could be.
Now imagine the weeded flower beds and the flowers are in full bloom, radiating their wonderfulness to the world, admired and appreciated by many. The flowers are encouraged to grow, they get all the food that they need, they are healthy, get plenty of air, and plenty of love and care. And so it should be for you. Be brave and make it so.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
September 10, 2014.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
August 12, 2017 at 3:17 PM.
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Walking the ‘Strait and Narrow Way’ is limiting to the flesh, but liberating to the spirit! – Author Unknown.
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Without my consent, my mind keeps reaching into the dark corners of that closet to retrieve the troublesome contents I have inadvertently stored away over the years. The boxes have labels like these:
You’re not good enough.
You’re not the wife you could be.
You’re not a good mom.
You should have done a better job.
One unsightly shelf was stacked high with bins full of junky feelings and beliefs…
It’s all about me.
I can’t do it; it’s impossible.
I’ ll always be this way.
Nobody really cares.
Some things in life are only truly discovered through pondering,
prayer, and a steaming cup of Earl Grey. My soul-talk revelation was
one of them. As I questioned my seemingly helpless state, I felt as
if God Himself reminded me that if I don’t control my thoughts,
my thoughts will control me.
And the only way to get any kind of handle on those thoughts is to monitor what I tell myself.
Somehow, I had to stop my mind’s reflex of continually rummaging
through those boxes of ugly, ill-fitting thoughts and words.
Or maybe I just needed to fill my closet with some more appealing,
better-fitting self talk!
– Jennifer Rothschild.
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