Thoughts of A Chosen Generation

Hello Chosen, Glad to see you sticking with me. And if you’re new, welcome! I haven’t been keeping in touch with you as often as I'd like but hey, that’s life, it gets hectic sometimes. Going forward, I will try to write to you at least once per month. And along that line, I couldn’t let this month end without bringing you greetings. Happy New Year!!! I truly hope you get all the good desires of your heart this year and beyond. Amidst all our busyness, we do need some time for relax, right? Right! And as we have mentioned before, there is a time for this, so there is no need to feel guilty about it. Even Jesus, sometimes went away with his disciples, from the crowds he often taught to rest. A lot of evidence of this is found in the Gospels. Here are a few passages you may read to find evidence of this: Matthew 14:22-23 ( bit.ly/Matthew14-22 ) Mark 6:30-32 ( bit.ly/Mark6-30 ) Luke 22:41 ( bit.ly/Luke22-41 ). (Photo credit: Alexis Azabache @alexazabache1) ...

Hello Chosen, welcome back! If you’re new, it’s good to have you J Overcoming temptations is a very interesting topic, if I do say so myself. Allow me to just jog your thoughts a bit. Do you think non-Christians are not tempted? Do you think that new believers have finally escaped and will no longer be tempted? Or mature Christians have passed that stage and will not face temptation? Let’s see if we can answer those questions while we explore the main question that we are trying to answer, How Do We Overcome Temptations? Let us first try to understand what Temptation is before we get to how to overcome it. Bishop Robert Ellis describes temptation as an enticement to do evil or a desire to abstain from doing good. Let me guess, you didn’t expect that second part, did you? Well James 4:17 says “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is a sin.” http://bit.ly/Jam4-17 . For that reason, we can say in essence that temptation is a pull towards evil or...

Did you know you are chosen? "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" 1 Peter 2:9  http://bit.ly/2UQqR28 . Therefore I will call you Chosen . Chosen, at some point in our lives we have all felt in some way or another that there is something more to our lives than we are experiencing now. You may even feel as though you are merely existing and not truly living and may be, right now, intensely searching for something beyond yourself- something bigger, something greater, searching for a greater meaning to life. I can relate, as I have also walked the road of trying to find my own purpose in this life, attempting to fill the gut-wrenching emptiness with all sorts of things. But one glorious day, my life changed, I had a powerful and transformational encounter with the true and living God – Jesus Christ who has brought...