INSPIRING & CHALLENGING THOUGHTS (3)

1. Inspiring And Challenging Thoughts

a) Enjoy these different inspiring and challenging thoughts that we hope will challenge and encourage you as you run this race for the Lord Jesus.  

2. Satan’s Wiles

a) “We see how little it takes for most people to forsake God in their hearts. Satan has only to offer them a boyfriend or girlfriend, more money or human honor. Often he only has to touch their possessions or cause them to be unjustly treated, or allow something to happen that they cannot understand. Great is the multitude that has forsaken God in their hearts. Their faith has failed, and Satan has rejoiced.

b) You who have failed and fallen away, if you had only understood what was at stake, what the conflict was all about, then you would have rejoiced in your trials.”

3. Temptation — A Reason To Rejoice

a) “Many people consider temptation to be the same as sinning; but if that were the case, how could James exhort us to rejoice? On the contrary, we who believe in victory win the crown of life in the trials [temptations], just as we read in James 1:12: ‘Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.’”

4) The Word Is The Word Of God

a) “Flee from all superficiality and idle chatterers! Do not argue with people about the Word of God. Receive the Word as the Word of God, and believe it just as it is written. Then it will effectively work in you." (1 Thessalonians 2:13.)