Man is a spirit, has a soul, and lives in a physical body (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
Just as your body can grow and develop with proper diet and exercise, so can your spirit. Here you will find insights on how to connect with God and grow and develop your spirit.
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How To Hear God's Voice through the Inward Witness of the Holy Spirit
God wants to direct your life through your decision making. The Holy Spirit guides us in our spirits (not through our physical body). The #1 way The Holy Spirit leads and guides us is through what the Bible calls, the “Inward Witness.”
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How To Be Saved (A Guide to Salvation)
God planned a life of peace and satisfaction for us through Jesus Christ. But we first must be in His family to fulfill the plan He has for us and for us to go to Heaven. It’s about you making a conscious decision to go in a different direction and to let Jesus Christ be your Lord. Here are the steps:
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Who Is The Holy Spirit?
Who is the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit of the Bible can be explained as God, the third Person of the Godhead, and as a Person. The Holy Spirit works in our lives as a comforter, strengthener, teacher, and so much more!
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How To Pray A Prayer Of Faith
Prayer is a personal conversation directed to God in casual, informal speech that acknowledges our total dependence on Him for resources and guidance for ourselves and others. It is a channel through which God’s will (which is His Word) is brought to earth. The #1 rule in praying for results is to base your prayer on promise in God’s Word. Learn how to pray effective prayers.
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How To Be Spiritually Healthy
If you don’t feed your physical body food, it will become weak. The same happens with your spirit. If you don’t feed it, you will become spiritually weak. Prevent this by feeding your spirit with God’s Word.
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How To Recognize Strife
Does it seem that your prayers are going unanswered? The Bible says if you have strife in your life, it can hinder your prayers and keep them from going through to God. And we don’t want that!
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What Prayer is Not
Prayer is a personal conversation directed to God in casual, informal speech that acknowledges our total dependence on Him for resources and guidance for ourselves and others. It is a channel through which God’s will (which is His Word) is brought to earth. The seven truths below will you help to know how not to pray for your needs to be met.
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How To Study the Bible
Studying the Bible is you going through the Scriptures in detail to discover the meaning and how it can apply to your life. Set aside a quiet place and time once a week to study. (This is more in depth than just reading the Bible.) Don’t get bent out of shape because you don’t understand everything. As you grow and mature, you will understand more.
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How To Control Your Thoughts
Does it seem like your thoughts are out of control? The mind is the combat zone. The Bible tells us to fix our thoughts on what is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, and admirable. Use these four steps toward controlling your thinking.
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Why Read the Bible? And How To Do It
Life is busy. Who has time to read the Bible? It just seems like one more thing to do. But it’s not. There are three really good reasons you should read God’s Word.
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How To Understand and Interpret the Bible
In order to study the Bible and apply it to your life, you will need to first interpret it. (i.e. understand/explain the meaning of the information, words, or actions) Use the Bible itself as the primary source of information about the Bible.
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How To Deal With Insecurities
Insecurity is a major role block to confidence, and it is a learned behavior. Most people who are insecure, don’t know they’re insecure. Insecurity means to feel unsure or uncertain and to doubt one’s ability and identity.
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Dealing with Temptations and Tests
There will be consequences, #temptations, and tests. Consequences are just the outcomes of our own poor decision making. Temptations come from satan. And there are times that God tests us in order to challenge us to move outside of our comfort zone.
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The Five Conditions of Trust
A faith-based relationship is not based on circumstances, feelings or the experience of others. God operates by principle and not by mood or feelings. Consistency requires that we operate by principles and not by moods or feelings.
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What is Trust?
To trust someone is to voluntarily make yourself dependent on that person for some outcome, result, or consequence. Jesus wants us to trust Him even when things look really bad.
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Faith or Fear: Where are you?
The Bible says that we’re the light of the world. We are different from the world. Faith and fear are two powerful forces that are present in this world. Believers live by faith and not by fear. It’s faith in what God says that helps us to get to the other side. Faith or Fear… where are you?
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Choosing to Win Over the Tragedies of Life
All people in this world will experience challenges and problems, but in Jesus we can have peace! Tribulations are a real part of living in this world. Believers can win and can overcome any problem that we face if we respond properly.
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God's Plan for Your Life
Destiny is a place for which someone is headed. It’s something that a person is intended to become. The plan that God has for your life is more important than anything else!
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How To Tap Into the Joy of Giving
Being a servant is a person who performs duties for others or someone who is a devoted and helpful follower/supporter. Being a servant is a condition of your heart. You can be a giver, but not be a servant. But you can’t be a servant and not be a giver.
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Creating the Reality of Who You Are in Christ
You are complete in Christ. When God sees you, He sees you finished & complete. Many Christians are not walking in the reality of their completeness in Christ because of a self-image problem.
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How to Realize and Release Your Potential
Whenever a person discovers and accepts their purpose, then their potential is also there. Your potential is predetermined by your purpose. God determined this before you were even born.
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How to Live Out of Your Spirit to Receive the Blessings of God
What does it mean to “live out of your spirit?” To understand this, let’s go back to the garden. God created Adam, placed him in the garden, and told him to “till the ground.” God gave Adam work; therefore, work is a gift from God.
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How to Recognize the Fruit of The Spirit
Differentness brings distinction. God has called you and I not to be like the world. He has called us to be different. What was Jesus like on earth? Find out more about his nine qualities.