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Family Structure Is Important For Your Children

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The world today seems to be so hectic that families don't seem to have the quality time to spend together. Family structure needs to be a priorty on our list. Children need the security and foundation of a loving and healthy family that they can depend on when they are needed the most. This is one of the best gifts that parents can give their children. Children should be provided the safety of a home in their family life that they feel secure in.

It's not that difficult to provide a safe and happy environment for your children. You can start today, the following should be of some help. Let your children know that they can come to you with their problems and concerns. Make them feel at ease and not afraid to discuss any matter that they may need help with. When they do come to you, put them first, don't make them feel that they are bothering you. This is one way that healthy families bond together.

Always be honest with each other in your family, it is the only way a family can operate smoothly. Family structure depends on trust. Your children need be taught how to communicate openly, this will also help them to talk about things to their teachers in school and many others that they come into contact later on in life.

Be a good listener to your children and stoop down to their level so that you are face to face with them. It's important that you listen to them cheerfully and not like it is a bother. Always have compassion for your family members and help them

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In Pursuit Of Happiness To End The Darkness

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In times of hardships and tragedies, usually our first reaction is to start worrying or fear the unknown. Our carnal mind always wants to look at the negative side of our problems and situations. Our minds start to become very imaginative and produce bad thoughts and delusions.

Before I go any further I would just like to state that the flesh and our carnal minds are corrupt. They want the things of the world, the pleasures and everything that is opposite of what God wants for us. For those that are on a spiritual journey, you know the battles that you have with the flesh on a daily basis.

Our imagination can produce some pretty grim outcomes of any hardship that we may be experiencing at the time. We can also latch on to these fabricated thoughts of doom, shut down our well-being and start entering the darkness of worrying.

We have to stop these thoughts quickly before they have a chance to grow. We need to train our minds to switch over to a more positive way of thinking. We can't predict the outcome of the future and what it holds for us. We just have to keep strong in our faith and believe that God knows what is best for us.

When we accepted Jesus Christ, we were supposed to renounce our life and will and turn it over to God. After all, isn't this why we sought Jesus Christ to begin with? Wasn't our lives meaningless, empty and missing something? We certainly don't know what is best for us or how to manage our lives in a way that meets God's will.

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Supporting Christian Youth Programs, Organizations and Youth Centers

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When it comes to our youth these days, they seem to be having problems at school and in the home. These problems arise from many different circumstances. A lot of devout Christians think that it could be because there just isn't enough faith and support. If you may be one of these Christians, then consider giving up some of your time or help support the needs of these youths with donations.

If you are considering on helping, you can start by looking into some of the Christian organizations that are setup for youths. There are many programs and organizations out there, but a majority of them are setup to address adult issues. Youths need to be reached at an early age when they are young and not truly set in their ways. It may be more difficult to reach them after they become an adult.

You may already be aware of this, but the formats for these Christian youth programs are setup in a number of different ways. You can find these youth programs locally, nationally or on the internet. By using the internet to reach out to the youths, you are not limited to the area in which you live in.

With the internet being global, you have a much broader audience to capture. You can also reach out to them by creating a website or blog and post numerous articles and resources will be at their disposal, or you can join many of the different social networking sites and forums that are available.

The best place to start would be in your local community. You can gain experience and

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Sheltered In The Arms Of God - Protection From Our Enemies

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Psalm 18: 1-3, 'I love you God, my strength (my Saviour, you rescue me from violence). God is my rock and my bastion, my deliverer is my God. I take shelter (trust) in Him, my rock, my shield, my horn of salvation, my stronghold and my refuge. From violence you rescue me. He is to be praised; on God I call and am saved from my enemies.'

In these days of unsettling times, we can't trust our security to man (or anytime for that matter). Whether it would be our job, the government, to teach us truth or to save us from our enemies. The United States and England are sister nations to Israel. God blessed all three of these nations abundantly.

Things have changed and so have the people of these once God fearing nations. God's wrath is about to be poured down upon these nations like man has never seen before and it has already started. It is because the people have turned their backs on God, rebelled against Him.

God has once protected these nations from their enemies, but all that is soon to be changed. These nations are going to fall and fall hard they will. Haven't these three nations learned anything from the Old Testament? History does repeat itself. While many will still choose to not heed these warnings, some will and they will be sheltered in the arms of God.

God is a patient God and He will release His punishment slowly, but man is to blind and stubborn. Man would rather die grabbing hold and clutching the very things that brought to him his destruction,

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Is Your Hope For Change In God Or Man

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Where in the world are we placing our hope these days? It seems that man is placing their hope for change everywhere but the right place. Let's find out just where man has been placing their hope.

We take our hope and place it in something with a vision in our mind thinking that this is what the outcome is going to be. Our imagination can run wild and believe that men can make a change and give us a better life than what God has to offer. Ask yourself this, "Has man ever given you happiness, joy, peace and love that will last forever?" Can man give you eternal life? Can man give you protection from your enemies?

No, man cannot give you any of these things and neither can the world. Yet, people continue to place their hope and trust in man like they are some miracle worker. For example, a politician starts a campaign by promising to change this, that and everything else for the common welfare of the people. Since people are easily mis-led, the politicians professionally written speeches tickle the ears of many people. The more the people listen, the more their hope grows in them.

You can see what happens when people place their hope in man, the administration that is controlling the government in the United States these days is doing nothing for the people. People are losing their houses with no end in sight, unemployment is still growing and the banks are taking advantage of the situation. The majority of the people put their hope in one man and this is what

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Why Do You Hate Me My Brothers and Sisters?

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Hate Is That Darkness Of Our Pride

This is a common question some people may ask themselves or just out right in the open like a rap song my daughter showed me. Some people see hate that is directed towards them whether it is because of race, culture, beliefs in religion, a disability, over-weight or just an average Joe that people pick on because they may be different and so they ask, "Why do you hate me?"

What Is Hate?

Hate is a very powerful emotion, so powerful that it can cause someone's feelings to be hurt all the way up to rioting, genocide, terrorism and war. Hate is the opposite of love and hate can come in many different forms like mocking someone, putting someone down, talking ill will about someone behind their back, being spiteful, laughing at someone when they are down, resentments, anger, violence, cruelty, having it in for someone, informing on people, pointing out bad traits about people and the list goes on and on.

All of this comes from a person's pride. All it takes is for someone to be affected by another's looks, actions, the way they live, work or even their skin color to spark that darkness of hate that comes from a person's pride. A person's pride is touched when they see or hear something that they disagree with.

We all have this pilot light inside of us that lights the burner when something we see as negative begins to ire us. Our imagination starts to go to work and we start to picture and dream up all these negative thoughts and these thoughts start to burn inside of us causing us to get upset or feel anger. We can either keep these feelings and thoughts inside of us until we decide to calm down or we can exhaust them in a hateful way. Either way they do damage to us or others.

A Very Unhealthy Emotion

When the calmness that we all like to feel inside of us begins to stir, we start to become stressed. Stress has an affect on every part of our body, mind and soul. It has an affect on our heart, blood pressure, and immune system, it can cause headaches, fatigue, back pain and upset your digestive system, just as well as our moods. We can suffer from anxiety, irritability, inability to sleep well which causes us to be cranky and not being able to perform to our full potental. These are just a few things that people can experience when they practice hate.

Why Hate and Not Love?

What is it that causes us to think, talk and act in a destructive way? Why can't we just be happy and love one another for who they are, what they are and how they may act? Love can change people and the world. It seems that we just let our pride get the best of us like putting the blame on others for everything.

We can take control of our happiness by looking for the positive things in people and trying to bring out the good in our brothers and sisters. It all begins with us as an individual whether you are the first one to say hello, or smile or maybe even overlook someone else's faults. Don't forget, we are not

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Who Is God and Why Do We Say God Works In Mysterious Ways?

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What Is The Mystery Behind God?

I'm sure that you've heard that term over and over again, "God works in mysterious ways." To be honest with you, there is nothing mysterious about God or the things that He does and even in the things that happen. The problem is, is that people just don't get to know Him.

God will not reveal Himself to just anyone, He keeps carnal man at a distance because man is corrupt in his own nature. You see, it takes the receiving of the Holy Spirit before we can become in union with God and through the Holy Spirit, God will teach us all about Himself.

In order for us to receive the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, we have to purify ourselves. Our bodies are like temples, they house our soul. When our souls are corrupt by our own carnal self then they are impure, dirty, full of things of the word, sin and they are unholy. When it comes to the Holy Spirit which is pure and Holy, the Holy Spirit cannot reside within our self because of all the darkness that inhibits our soul.

How Do We Purify Ourselves?
It takes Jesus Christ to show us the way to purifying ourselves. That's why we need to call on Him and build a one on one relationship with Him. What matters most is that we have to have a burning desire to do this, we are going to have to make a commitment to do this and it has to come from our heart in a sincere way. Once you start on that road with Jesus, there's no turning back.

The road is long and a laborous one at that, it will take a lot of work and learning to strip ourselves of our shortcomings and character defects. Jesus will be right there as He guides us along the way. It's a road that must be traveled without fear, worries or doubts, but by faith. As Jesus says, "Renounce your life, take up your cross and follow me." We are going to need this cross to nail our flesh to.

When we reach a certain point in our journey, Jesus will circumcise our flesh, strip away the things of the flesh that cause us to be worldly beings. Then our soul can go through the fire and have all the dross burned off and become pure. Your carnal eyes close and your spiritual eyes open. In 1 Peter 4:12, Dearly beloved, think not strange the burning heat which is to try you, as if some new thing happened to you.

Once this has happened, then as Jesus says in John 14:16, 17, "I shall ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever, that Spirit of Truth whom the world can never receive since it neither sees nor knows him; but you know him, because he is with you, he is in you."

Then you begin on a spiritual journey to learn spiritual things and most important, about God. You'll begin to understand all about God and you'll find that He is not as mysterious as they claim Him to be. May God Bless You

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God's Will For Us

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Revelation 20: 13-15, ‘And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and hell gave up their dead that were in them; and they were judged every one according to their works. And hell and death were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire.’

Revelation 21: 8, ‘But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, they shall have their portion in the lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.’

There will be no world to live in like the one we live in now. We have free will in this world to live our life the way WE WANT to live it. Here is where we decide where we want to live after death of the flesh. It’s pretty simple, he who chooses God will have life, those that chose the world will have death. Nothing complicated about that. Some do accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and continue to live a worldly life, not fulfilling the laws of righteousness and proving the promises of God. Also, it would be a shame if Jesus’ life, death and resurrection happened in vain for any one of us.

We can’t live on both sides of the fence at the same time, although many try and even convince themselves that it’s ok. Read the parable of the sower – Matthew 13: 18-23. People have a tendency to become relaxed in their walk with the Lord. In order to reach the place where God’s will becomes ours, we need to first follow Jesus. Jesus says in John 14:6 ‘ I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.’ Jesus will show us and teach us what we need to do step by step.

No one, not any man can lead you to God. Jesus tells us to pick up our cross and follow Him. He also tells us to renounce ourself, which means to give up our life, the worldly life – Luke 9: 23. In John 8: 12 Jesus says, ‘I am the Light of the world; anyone who follows me will not be walking in the dark; he will have the Light of Life.’ Jesus tells us to pick up our cross daily. That is so that we can nail our flesh to it. As Paul writes in Galatians 5: 24, ‘ You cannot belong to Christ Jesus unless you crucify all self-indulgent passions and desires.’ So why is it that so many people hear but refuse to listen?

Read what Jesus says in Revelation 3: 18-21, ‘I warn you, buy from me the gold that has been tested in the fire to make you really rich, and white robes to clothe you and cover your shameful nakedness, and eye ointment to put on your eyes so that you are able to see. I am the one who reproves and disciplines all those He loves: so repent in real earnest. Look, I am standing at the door, knocking. If one of you hears Me calling and opens the door, I will come in to share his meal, side by side with him. Those who prove victorious I will allow to share My throne, just as I was victorious Myself, and took my place with my Father on His throne.’

There are many scriptures in the bible where Jesus mentions what it takes to be a disciple of His, Read Them! Jesus has white robes that have been washed in His precious life giving blood for us to put on, but first we need to purify ourselves from sin so that we don’t stain the white robes. We need to overcome the flesh and let Jesus circumcise our flesh of all that is corrupt. Then we can go to the Father as a child, immature spiritually and ready to be taught and receive spiritual things that will make us grow to mature spiritual adults and become one with God.

Don’t die with sin, overcome by letting Jesus show you the way. Don’t enter heaven through the back door naked and in shame. Pray hard, be patient and show Jesus how strong your desire is and your willingness to want to overcome and please God.


May God Bless You Always With His

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How To Live A Happy Life By Thinking Positive And Changing Our Habits

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What Can We Do To Change Ourselves and The Way We See Things?

The environment that we live in plays a big role in how we live our lives on a daily basis and not just daily, but moment to moment. We have a tendancy to adapt to our environment in such a way that our thinking process and how we re-act to circumstances become habitual and automatic.

Make A List Of Your Thoughts
and Actions

If you were to take a day during the week and observe the way you think and/or re-act to what goes on from time to time in the course of the day, you could spot how you instantly think and/or re-act to negative conditions as well as positive ones. Take the time and write down the first thought that came to mind and how you re-acted to it. It's called taking an inventory of yourself. Write down what happened next, whether it would be more thoughts or what you physically or verbally did next.

Once you have a list of your thoughts and re-actions, seperate the positive ones from the negative.

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Who Is God?

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Is God A Loving God or A Cruel God?

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People have different opinions on who God is and the ones that say that God is cruel will go to the Old Testament and cite passages about when God flooded the world and all those innocent children were drowned or when He had the Israelites conquer nations and kill everyone in those nations and destroy all their idols. God has a purpose for everything that He does, you just have to look for it. Who is God? He is pure love.

Before God flooded the world He gave people fare warning and I would say in the tune of about 125 years, I think that would be considered fare warning. One thing about God is that He will not intervine into someone's life unless He is asked to. When it comes to the children dying in the flood, Noah could not go out and kidnap all the children, the people or parents would have killed him. The parents are the ones responsible for their child's safety and so they

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Returning Back To God and Getting To Know Who God Is

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This podcast is about how we can get to know God and put the "God works in mysterious ways" to rest. It does take faith, commitment and a lot of work and we do this with the guidance of Jesus Christ. He takes us on a journey to unlearn us and then learn us the truth. He will teach us how to ovecome our defects, fight temptations and grow in virtues. He we help us to save ourselves from ourselves. He will lead us back to God.

The Light Of Faith Is Like Darkness To The Flesh

Our soul will dominate our flesh and we will see with spiritual eyes and not our carnal eyes. We will grow to spiritual maturity and be in union with God once again. We will see that what is written in the Bible is truth. We will see that what we went through is also written in the Bible. We will understand that what happened God did for a reason and we'll see why He did it. It's beautiful getting to know God our Father and to be filled with His love burning like a fire in our soul.

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