Depression is Temporary

Depression is difficult, but it's not sin, only human. Lean into Jesus. He cares. He cries when you cry.

Just Trust The Good Shepherd to lead you through the valley of the shadow of death.

We're not home yet. Depression is temporary.
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The Completion Process

While God is making us into what He desires us to ultimately become, let's not continually argue with Him during the Divine, completion process.

"I’m convinced that God, who began this good work in you, will carry it through to completion on the day of Christ Jesus."
-- Philippians1:6 (GWT)

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Our Interference Hinders God

It seems so unsafe to just sit still, and do nothing but trust the Lord; and the temptation to take the battle into our own hands is often tremendous. 

We all know how impossible it is to rescue a drowning man who tries to help his rescuer, and it is equally impossible for the Lord to fight our battles for us when we insist upon trying to fight them ourselves. it is not that He will not, but He cannot. Our interference hinders His working.

-- Streams in the Desert

 

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What Jesus Means?

"Once we receive His (Holy) Spirit we know implicitly what Jesus means."
-- Oswald Chambers

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Great Conflicts with the Tempter

Mrs. Charles Cowman writes these words in her classic devotional book, Streams in the Desert: If a man has much of the Spirit of God, he will have great conflicts with the tempter.

 

I once heard another saintly lady say, if you run into the enemy, you must be going in the right direction.

So, let us be encouraged in the spiritual battles we must endure, remembering always that "The battle belongs to the Lord."

Holiness Unto the LORD!
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Our Former Love Affair With Darkness

A saint is someone who belongs exclusively to God. Yes, a saint is still capable of sinning but not really interested in sinning. The more passionately we love Jesus, the more we realize that our former love affair with darkness indeed loses its hold on us.

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Our Great Need

Our great need is to receive the Holy Spirit that He may do in us all that Jesus Christ did for us on the  Cross.
-- Oswald Chambers

For the Cross of Christ and for the Gift of The Holy Spirit... I am...
...forever...
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