17 February 2019
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God Has Given Us the Gift of His Son (TMF:1070)

Friday, February 22, 2019
Peace to Live By: God Has Given Us the Gift of His Son (TMF:1070) - Daniel Litton
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       The reality is, we don’t deserve anything in this life that we have. We all have sinned against God, and really deserve to be separated from him. But God sent Jesus into the world, and he died for our sins, rose again, and made us right with God. The Apostle Paul noted, “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:6-8, ESV). God has give us the gift of his Son. Truly, everything that we have in life is a gift from God. We must learn to love ourselves so that we will want to keep improving ourselves, to improve our minds, so that we keep forging ahead. Remember, again, we are new creations in Christ. We have all that we need to make ourselves better. We have the Holy Spirit inside us, God himself, and his power will work through us if we allow it to.

Focus On How Far You've Come (TMF:1069)

Thursday, February 21, 2019
Peace to Live By: Focus On How Far You've Come (TMF:1069) - Daniel Litton
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       Recall Philippians 1:6, and I know we read it a lot. But you need to really think about it: “I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (ESV). This is a hopeful verse. When we start to make progress in our minds, we shouldn’t focus on how far we still need to go, or how high the mountain is, but we need to focus on how far we have already come. If you focus on how far you still have to go, that’s a negative focus, and it will discourage you. If you think about it too much, you may even quit trying and give up your battle altogether. But we have to begin somewhere. We need to take those first baby steps toward improvement, and then we will actually start to see positive change. We need to see everything we have in our lives as a gift from God. We need to be thankful—to have a thankful mindset. The reality is, we don’t deserve anything in this life that we have. We all have sinned against God, and really deserve to be separated from him.

God Wants to Help Us in Our Lives (TMF:1068)

Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Peace to Live By: God Wants to Help Us in Our Lives (TMF:1068) - Daniel Litton
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       Sometimes God wants to help us in our lives, but we won’t let him. We don’t see and accept his help, again, because of unbelief in our minds. Unbelief is a big problem that crops up in people’s minds. If we don’t believe that God is on our side, that he wants to help us, and wants to give us good things, then, we cut-off God’s power. He can’t help us with our problems because we don’t believe he wants to, or even that he will. We may have thrown up a quick prayer about something, or even prayed quite a lot time about it, but have seen no success. And we probably didn’t even realize it, but the reason we didn’t see success in our situation is because we didn’t believe in the first place. In our minds, and probably with our mouths, we prevented the good that God wanted to do for us.

We Can Appreciate God's Gifts to Us (TMF:1067)

Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Peace to Live By: We Can Appreciate God's Gifts to Us (TMF:1067) - Daniel Litton
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       Once we have accepted ourselves, accepted who we are, having a proper perspective in our minds, then we can receive the blessings that God wants to give us. We will appreciate the gifts that God wants to give us, and accept them gladly. But some people believe that because they have done wrong things in the past, or because they haven’t acted perfectly, that God won’t reward them. And that’s not true. God doesn’t hold past sins over the heads of believers. When we repent of a sin, he forgives us and remembers it no more (see Hebrews 8:12). But some people don’t believe that, and so they carry around past sins in their minds. They carry them around as an extra cross to bear. They think about them frequently. Sometimes God wants to help us in our lives, but we won’t let him. We don’t see and accept his help, again, because of unbelief in our minds. Unbelief is a big problem that crops up in people’s minds. If we don’t believe that God is on our side, that he wants to help us, and wants to give us good things, then, we cut-off God’s power.

We Get Our Definiton from Christ (TMF:1066)

Monday, February 18, 2019
Peace to Live By: We Get Our Definiton from Christ (TMF:1066) - Daniel Litton
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       We have to understand that we have our true definition of who we are based in Christ. Because of who Christ is, we are who we are. He is the one who died for us, made us right with God, and gave us new life. He made us new creations in himself, as the Apostle Paul stated, "if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself” (2 Corinthians 5:17-18, ESV). And God gave us his Holy Spirit by whom we live out our lives. Who we really are is defined by who we are in Christ, and not who we think we are, that is, how we see ourselves, or in the way others may see us in this world. We may think this or that about ourselves, and others may think this or that, but all that really matters is what Jesus thinks about us—how he sees us.