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God Loves Faith!

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One of my all-time favourite subjects is faith and I have wanted to write about it for a long time now.  Every time I want to start, I see something more about faith that I want to add and so I never get to a place where I think I am ready to write.  But, I guess I am going to learn about faith and the things of God until I leave this earth.  So, it won’t be a waste of time to start putting some of it down on paper. I love to read about faith and the faith exploits of others.  I also enjoy listening to teachings by those who have been living and walking by faith for many years.  Living by faith is not boring as some might think, and opens the doors from a mundane life, to an exciting one where all things become possible because we are not limited by our own human abilities.   In my own life I can sense the difference if I ask the Holy Spirit to open the Word for me before I read.  If I then read it by faith, I am amazed at the wonderful revelation I get.  Also when listening to or atte
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Made Fresh & New!

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I have often wondered what it means when the Bible speaks about being a new creation in Christ Jesus.  If it is true that I was made new, then why do I feel just the same?  I know a lot of Christians who ask these same questions where they feel they live the same mundane life void of power.  When I learned the truth, it changed the way I started to think about myself.   2 Cor 5:17 AMPC - Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! This scripture says that I am now a new creation in Christ Jesus and that the old has become fresh and new.  This sounds like a radical change.  Surely if it was that radical, should’t I have sensed a difference?  The thing is that the change was not in my body where I could see it, nor in my soul where I could sense it.  The change was on the inside.  It was a change of nature - I became a
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Always Yes and Amen!

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I am writing this so I can have notes of what I am learning and so I can be accountable to do what I am seeing in the scriptures.  I am not sharing this to convince anyone, but to show in the scriptures what was written so you can make up your own mind.   What Is Prayer? I am very aware of the fact that anything we do out of habit, can very quickly become a formula.  God is the giver of all good things and it can be so easy to look to the things He gives, rather than to Him and who He is.  Prayer should never be reduced to a shopping list of requests - of things we need or want.   I just recently heard someone say that he asked the Lord to teach him about prayer.  That night he had a dream where he saw himself and the Lord sitting at a table at a street cafe.  They each had a cup of steaming coffee.  There was no conversation, they were just enjoying each other’s company.  Prayer is relationship with God, it is a constant conversation connecting with Him, being close and still enough s
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