Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.” God’s love chooses to forget our willful, stubborn and repeated sins. To ‘sin’ is to ‘miss the mark’. ‘Transgression’ is presumptuous sin or intentional disobedience. ‘Iniquity’ is premeditated repeated trespassing without remorse. A real life example would...
Category: Spiritual Motivation
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15 June 2022 – God’s Love – Part 4
Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. God’s love is unconditional but His favour is conditional. God’s favour multiplies when we are compliant to the caveat, but there are no conditions attached to be covered by His love. He causes His...
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14 June 2022 – God’s Love – Part 3
Jonah 4:2b I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. The prophet Jonah knew the character of God. He was fully aware of His grace and compassion. He wanted the Assyrians (the indomitable enemies of Israel) to be destroyed...
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13 June 2022 – God’s Love – Part 2
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. There is a wrong notion in Christendom that the God of the Old Testament was a quick-tempered, brimstone and fire spitting authoritarian...
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12 June 2022 – God’s Love – Part 1
Psalm 36:7 How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. God’s love is unfailing even if everything around us fails. Many fall away from their faith as they don’t fully understand the love of God in suffering. Most Christians are over informed ignorant nerds. They are...
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11 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 7
1 Corinthians 6:5-6 I say this to shame you. Is it possible that no one among you is wise enough to judge matters between believers? Instead, one believer goes to court against another. And this happens in front of unbelievers! ‘Undo’ is one of the most used functions on a computer. This function is performed...
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10 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 6
Luke 17:12 As He(Jesus) was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!” Lepers were forbidden by the law to have any contact with the people as leprosy was a contagious disease that had...
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09 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 5
Luke 7:39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”. Jesus was repeatedly confronted and accused by the Pharisees, however, in Luke 7:36-50 we see a strange invitation...
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08 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 4
Joshua 5:9 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the place has been called Gilgal to this day. The meaning of the name Gilgal is “rolling.” The Hebrew word Gilgal means a wheel or circle, or something that rolls. At Gilgal there was something...
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07 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 3
Mark 10:48 Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” Shame leaves us psychologically shattered and physiologically paralyzed. Shoulders drop, eyes lower in order to avoid any eye contact with people who stigmatize and confidence level plummets to rock bottom. For...