[petermaumau]

what do you do when You are overpaid ?do you return the money,what if it was deliberate..and you are broke?
What if someone Is using you,talking Behind your back and when you give them the Other cheek ,they Use you some More?
what do you do when you get to states,find out you cannot work legally but Know you have to do someting t survive?
What do you do when you find yourself feeling envious of someone else ,when you thought you were bigger than that( are you really)

What do you do when marriage bed seems too far and "opportunities " beckon?

what do you do when have bills,no income and no probable source of money in the foreseable future?..Credit card?


Paul said?...the Good that I was to do ,I do not,the evil that I was not to Do ,I do..
-How hopeless we are In our Independence...
How would we make it without Jesus?
phil 4:6
Be anxious about nothing,but in everything ,by prayer and thanksgiving let your requests be known to God...and the peace of God..which surpasses all understanding...

[kigeto]

Peter honestly if God said we'll go to heaven by our own righteousness we'd be in BIG trouble coz there is NOONE who would make it we are just sooo weak and the world we live in doesnt make it any easier.Daily we struggle with our flesh,the world and the Enemy of our souls.Thankfully God is merciful and gracious. The words of a certain song ring so true. May God help us.

Only by Grace can we enter
Only by Grace can we stand
Not by our human endevour
but by the blood of the lamb
Into your prescence you call us
Into your prescence you draw us
and now by your grace we come

[Jeddy-w]

In basketball, the team with the most points at the end of the game
wins. But if we attempt to apply basketball rules to the game of golf, we
will lose every time - golf is played with different rules and requires
a different strategy. Needless to say, it's critical to understand the
rules and values of the game in which we are competing.

A rich man came to ask Jesus how to get eternal life. He had been a
good citizen, treated others well, and accumulated much wealth; but Jesus
gave an unexpected answer: "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your
possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven.
Then come, follow Me," (Matthew 19:21). The rich man failed to see the
connection and went away very sad. "But many who are first will be last,
and many who are last will be first," Matthew 19:30.

Jesus came with a message that the rules of this life are not as they
may seem. The first, by the world's standard, does not automatically
win. When the clock of life ticks its last, it will not be the one with
the biggest bank account, biggest house, or nicest car who will stand
victorious - it won't even be the one who pastors the largest church,
feeds the most hungry, or tells the most about Jesus. Rather, it will only
be those who do the true work God requires; "The work of God is this:
to believe in the one He has sent," (John 6:29). Have we completed the
work of God? Do we even value this "work"?

When Jesus was asked what was the greatest commandment, He said; "Love
the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with
all your mind and with all your strength" (Mark 12:30). The greatest
commandment ought to be our greatest priority and the foundation on which
we build our life, our family, and our ministry. Though other things
may be enjoyable, important, or even necessary, they must never be
allowed to occupy the throne of our life.

Many of us feel like we're falling behind because of our decision to
follow Christ. We see others prosper and start to believe we must
compromise in order to keep pace - but the game rules have changed! The world
around us has the wrong uniform, wrong equipment, and wrong play book.
The great deceiver would like to fill us with doubt, but we must not be
swayed.

No matter how loud the competition yells that we're going the wrong
way, we must boldly continue down the path of truth. The final victory has
already been won and we are on the winning team! When God gave us His
Son and told us to believe, He turned the rules of the world upside
down. Let's never forget we now live and breathe according to a new set of
rules and different set of values!

But even in the midst of temptation he still loves us. He loved us even before we knew him, when we yet far from him he still loved us. He just needs us to surrender & not feel too guilty to call on him even during that time.

[petermaumau]

True ,by Grace we are saved and not Off Our own works...and by grace we live...

[O_D_D]

So, kwa kinaga ubaga, a lil' sin here and there just to make it today, is ok? Hey, the lord is merciful and omni...., isn't he? Isn't there a word for that? Hypocrisy may be?

[Mishi]

Yeah, I have been thinking about the same thing. You know choosing the easy way out. Like when in trouble,and you need to borrow money for something and you know you can't just say I need chums for this so the story that comes out, is so long and so full of lies aki it puts me to shame. And then I have a guilty conscience for the rest of the day wondering what kind of Christian I am.

[petermaumau]

salvation is and was for sinners ...After determining and showing us that there is no way we can ever be Holy enough to be acceptable to him ,God sent His Only Son...to serve as an acceptable sacrifice..
To be saved by grace is to be saved by accepting Our sinful condition..Hence we are more thankful ..We cannot be good enough..so we trust in Jesus..Sin is still not acceptable to God though He is willing to overlook it In light of His Son's Sacrifice..But a believer is not able to dwell in sin for long since as Mishi says,the act is displeasuring to one's own spirit and it affects our fellowship which is christians source of Joy....If You sin without remorse,or with delight..check yourself..maybe you were never saved..

But if we sin,and are in christ ,let us be willing to repent for he is faithful AND WILL FORGIVE US...FOR HE KNOWS
JESUS UNDERWENT TEMPTATION AS WE ALL DO..THAT IS WHY HE IS SO VICTORIOUS....
bUT FOR GRACE WHERE WOULD WE BE

[Mishi]

Hey,

I didn't say I don't get remorseful. I am remorseful after that and I repent and I don't make a habit of sinning or displeasing the Holy Spirit. That's why He is there? He checks you when you start thinking of doing something displeasing to Him but i would be lying if I said I haven't fallen into temptation.

[petermaumau]

Hey Mishi ,
I should Have said I was addressing ODD...
I was actually using your statement as a reference to the remorse we all (myself more often) feel when we do something we may Know we should not have done and feel that ka guilty feeling..I hope I did no sound judgemental since that is a sin too..

[kigeto]

Well maybe ODD is trying to ask where do we draw the line between living holy and the occasional fall(and in his case is falling inevitable?) and taking God's grace forgrated and getting used to sinning since in any case when we repent God will forgive us and anyway heaven is guaranteed us