12 February 2017
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God is a Loving, Caring, & Helping God (TMF:585)

Friday, February 17, 2017
Peace to Live By: God is a Loving, Caring, & Helping God (TMF:585) - Daniel Litton
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       Jesus rose from the dead and is today with God in Heaven. Jesus wants to help you. He wants to be on your side, and doesn’t want to be against anyone. God is not a mean, corrupt, or violent God who wants to hurt people. He is a loving, caring, and helping God, and wants to help you today and see others be helped. If you would like to come into a personal relationship with God today, then I want you to follow my lead in this prayer: God, I have realized today that I’m not following you in my life. I’m not following your ways in doing things, but I’m doing things the wrong ways. Today, though, I want to turn from doing wrong and accept Jesus into my life as my Guide. I want to do things the right way. I believe Jesus died for my offenses and can make me right with you. I believe he rose from the dead, is alive today, and will help me in my life. Please Father, help me to start today in making right choices, and being close to you. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Keep God's Word Always On Your Mind (TMF:584)

Thursday, February 16, 2017
Peace to Live By: Keep God's Word Always On Your Mind (TMF:584) - Daniel Litton
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       If you have felt convicted by God, I would say just to confess what you need to confess to him, and then try to keep your mind in his word on a daily basis. It becomes more and more difficult for us to be thinking wrong things if we are continually immersing our minds in right things. It is also good to supplement free time and perhaps drive time with sermons, messages, from Bible teachers that speak to you, ones who are grounded in God’s Word, speaking Truth. That way you can eliminate wrong thoughts, wrong attitudes. This is also a good way for you to cultivate right thoughts. Now perhaps today you’ve been listening to what I’ve been talking about and you realize you are not following the Lord Jesus, and see one or more of these incorrect attitudes at dominant in your life. Well, today, I want you to know that God loves you and want to be in a personal relationship with you. He wants to help you be a better person. He wants to help all of us become more like Jesus, and that includes you today. In fact, God sent Jesus to the earth 2,000 years ago, and he died on a cross to pay our sin debts, all the wrongs we’ve committed in our lives, and to make us right with God.

Wrong Attitudes- A Negative Mindset, Part 7 (TMF:583)

Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Peace to Live By: Wrong Attitudes- A Negative Mindset, Part 7 (TMF:583) - Daniel Litton
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       Remember Satan used Peter to try to get our Lord to believe that nothing bad would happen to him in Jerusalem, all the while Jesus knew what was to come. And Jesus told Peter, ““Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man” (Mark 8:33, ESV). Peter got a harsh rebuke from our Lord. And we can and do fall into the same trap from time to time. Jesus said here that it is important for us to set our minds on the right things—what God wants us to be thinking about—lest we be used by Satan to accomplish some of Satan’s will. Of course, we have to be in our Bibles daily in order to be cultivating right thoughts in our minds. Satan will also use us to hurt non-Christians, in order to try to keep them from committing their lives to Christ. That’s why God wants us to show gentleness in dealing with them so that they are not too turned off by what we say. I’m not saying we shouldn’t state the truth, even when the truth is hard to bear. But we should not be harsh and unloving toward them, for God loves them and wants them to come back to him.

Wrong Attitudes- A Negative Mindset, Part 6 (TMF:582)

Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Peace to Live By: Wrong Attitudes- A Negative Mindset, Part 6 (TMF:582) - Daniel Litton
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       But Satan will also use leaders or even our friends to say things that hurt us. Satan uses our weakness and the weakness of others. You might be at a Bible study, for instance, and Satan will tempt one of your friends to say something that will hurt you. His goal is to try to get you angry at the person, and get you feeling down about yourself. But if we realize that there is more going on here than meets the eye—that really it’s not just the person wanting to hurt us—but really that Satan is behind these attacks, it makes it easier for us to be gracious and not fall into his trap that he set for us. Remember, there is spiritual warfare going on, and Satan wants to get every believer down if he can. We also have to guard ourselves that we are not used by Satan to bring hurt upon others, whether Christian or non-Christian. Peter had this problem particularly, as noted in a few instances in the Gospels. Remember Satan used Peter to try to get our Lord to believe that nothing bad would happen to him in Jerusalem, all the while Jesus knew what was to come. And Jesus told Peter, ““Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man” (Mark 8:33, ESV).

Wrong Attitudes- A Negative Mindset, Part 5 (TMF:581)

Monday, February 13, 2017
Peace to Live By: Wrong Attitudes- A Negative Mindset, Part 5 (TMF:581) - Daniel Litton
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       I also want to note verse 9 and 10 in James, which say, “With it [the tongue] we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so” (ESV). So, we see that we need to watch what we say, and I think it is good when we try to focus on saying positive things—things that build others up—and try to be levelheaded and give people the benefit of any doubt. But Satan will also use other people to bother us, both people who are troubled themselves and even our friends, but utilizing their weaknesses. Remember, often there is more going on than what you see with your eyes. If you’ll remember in Acts chapter that Satan sent a servant girl to follow around Paul and Silas, and the Bible tells us the Paul became really annoyed by this (Acts 16:18). Satan was trying to provoke a reaction in Paul, which in this case what a good action, but nonetheless Satan used it to get Paul and Silas locked up in prison in Philippi.