ACCEPT EVERYONE EVEN IF THEY ARE DIFFERENT FROM YOU “Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God” (Romans 15:7 NIV). Many times, human beings complain because of the differences we have with other people: women are different from men; temperaments are different, our way of doing things,…
GOD HELPS US FORGET Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On. Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.” The second son he named Ephraim and said,…
FORGIVE YOURSELF You forgave the iniquity of your people and covered all their sins. Psalms 85:2 (NIV) In life it’s hard to forgive others, but sometimes it is even harder to forgive ourselves. The past mistakes bring guilt into our lives and they can ruin our present and future. The word guilt means someone…
LACK OF FORGIVENESS: A POISON FOR THE SOUL One day Jesus said to his disciples, “There will always be temptations to sin, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting! It would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause one of these…
ROOTS THAT EMBITTER See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many. – (Hebrews 12:15) The root of bitterness is a deep resentment which is, at the same time, accompanied with sadness and pain. It comes as a consequence…
FORGIVENESS: A LIFESTYLE Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come! (Matthew 18:7) We have all been offended in an occasion and in the same way we have offended someone else. One of the most common ways…
THIS IS HOW THE RESENTED DIE When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his house in order and then hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb. (2 Samuel 17:23 NIV) Ahithophel was…
THE SEED STAYS THE SAME “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But…
WHEN SOMEONE MAKES FUN OF YOU, GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF IT Then I prayed, “Hear us, our God, for we are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their own heads, and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land! Nehemiah 4:4 NLT Whenever your mind is troubled because of…
GRATITUDE IS ABOUT YOUR ATTITUDE All the days of the oppressed are wretched, but the cheerful heart has a continual feast. Proverbs 15:15 (NIV) The person who did not have new shoes, stopped complaining when they saw another person who had holes in their shoes. The person who had holes in their shoes stopped…