Blogs

"What are you going to be when you grow up?" This can be a fun question, or dreaded one. Many young people have no idea what they want to be. [Click Here To Continue Reading]

Do you like people who make you laugh? Do you think of them as doing ministry for you? Some humor is crude and vulgar but there is an innocent form that is beneficial for you and you instinctively seek out funny people because you value this. A merry heart does good like a medicine and this has been verified by medical science. It is unhealthy for you to be grim and humorless and take yourself too seriously. In this sense those who bring harmless humor are ministering to you. It is unkind to make fun at the expense of others. Are you willing to make fun at your own expense to minister to others? 

Do you follow my commandments? Blessed are those who do and teach them. Do you do this out of joy or with a sense of bitterness or resentment? Do you think it is enough just to obey, regardless of the attitude of your heart? It was the Pharisees who made a practice of bitter obedience. It doesn’t have to be this way. The Psalmist loved my law, knowing it was a lamp to his feet and a light to his path. Those who know me from afar think obedience to me is an oppressive burden. The better you know me the more you will realize that my commandments are ideal for you. 

Are fathers interested in the activities of their children? This is normal and you expect it. Are the children interested in the activities of their fathers? Perhaps when they are young, but do you observe a decline in this as they approach adolescence? Consider a parallel to my Kingdom. I am always interested in your activities. Are you always interested in mine? Those who feared me spoke often to one another and thought upon my name. I took note of this and declared they would be my own possession in the day I made up my jewels, and I would spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Not all sons are interested in serving, but the greatest possible favor is reserved for those who do.

Do you know that there are true and false pleasures? My word refers to the pleasure of sin for a season. Sinners think that sin gives true pleasure because they don’t know the difference between the true and false. The pleasure of sin does not endure, but that is not the only problem with it. Even from the first moment true pleasure has an innocent and peaceful quality that the pleasure of sin does not. If you have experienced both you know that there is no special discernment required to tell the two apart. I want you to see the difference between them and choose the pleasures that are right for today. They are right for eternity, as the pleasures at my right hand forevermore.

 
I found this Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of Continental Congress November 1, 1777!  
[Click To Read]

Are you familiar with the idea of a ‘peace offering’? My word describes many ancient sacrifices for many occasions, but a peace offering is a familiar idea even for unbelievers. If there has been conflict between you and another person you can seek to resolve it by doing something kind for them. Is this a new covenant Biblical principle? Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you, so shall you be the children of your Father in heaven. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they are the children of God. You can give costly peace offerings when they are called for knowing that they are really sacrifices to me.

Inner healing is defined as allowing Jesus to walk into the pictures in the art gallery of our mind, removing pictures that do not have Jesus in them, and replacing them with pictures that do. You picture the hurtful scene, or in the issue of rape, it is best to NOT go back into the scene, but just after the scene is over. Look at the scene in your mind for one second only. Then Look for Jesus to appear.

Medical scientists have learned that inflammation is unhealthy. It opens the door for a multitude of ailments. Do you understand that there is also a spiritual version of inflammation? Are you agitated over injustice in the world and other offenses? Are you tense because of worries and cares and woes? These are forms of spiritual inflammation which are just as detrimental as the physical type. Spiritual inflammation is anything that steals your peace. I came to give you peace and you should avoid anything that would take it from you. Cast your cares on me, and don’t let external circumstances rob your inner peace and inflame you. 

Blessed Holy Lord Jesus, what word about thanksgiving do you have for Your people today?

Thanksgiving, Ben, is a holiday in your country. In My "country", it is a 24/7 event. I want My people to be
thankful in and for everything! I want more than once a Sunday or once a holiday for My people to be thankful.