How do we relate humility to contentment? Think of humility as the Alpha and contentment as the Omega of the Christian life. Humility leads to contentment. There can be no divine contentment without humility. The Spirit of Christ, supernaturally working in the heart...
Nathan, our only grandson, now seventeen, used this expression when he was younger, being the middle child of five granddaughters. He learned this from my reading to him The Man Who Couldn’t See from Ella K. Lindvall’s READ ALOUD BIBLE STORIES. Children and adults...
Do you question God’s power to work in your life? Do you doubt or wonder at His supernatural working what He has planned and desires in your life? We are continuing to learn how God, who is Spirit, works supernaturally, whether it is for our salvation, our...
Like sheep, my thoughts often wander. When the Lord gets my attention, I realize that I have left the green pastures to dwell on what is going on around me. My thoughts take me wherever they want to go. They must be trained by the Shepherd, so that I stay close to...
I should have known when I started How The Holy Spirit Works that it was not possible to condense it to one post. We continue with our diagram where the Holy Spirit centers His work. The Spirit and the Heart God’s Spirit in our spirit, soul, and body, works through...
Continuing from our last post The Spirit of Contentment, and using the following diagram, we will explain how the Holy Spirit works in man to produce the fruit of the Spirit. Scripture explains all the Holy Spirit does, so to fully understand how our contentment...
As we begin this chapter we want to remember the three main things that pertain to contentment. 1. Divine Contentment is supernatural, possible only for God’s people. 2. It is the result of a relationship between God and His children. 3. He teaches us how He works...
(Fourth in the series Little Books About the Magnitude of God) Our new book is available from Amazon. How do you wrap up fourteen summers of study with your grandchildren? The diagram we used to summarize our years together is still on the blackboards (two stacked on...
Why do we keep harping on Jesus Christ as relating to contentment? When He said, “It is finished” He was verbalizing what was from the beginning and what was the end, but more importantly what was between. He had lived His life in full obedience to the law, which no...