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If you were to write a ‘Statement of Purpose’ for your life, what would it look like? Or put another way, ‘What’s your story?’  It would follow that how you choose to order your life would flow from that.

I’ve been thinking about that . . . I believe my life is a gift from God, (especially since my mother had previously had her ‘tubes tied’ and was 45 years old when she had me!)  Life is a gift from God, and what I do with it, is what I give to God.  Oh, I often fall short, but he…

Thanksgiving

(1 Corinthians 1:1-9)

 ¹Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

 ²Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's:

 ³Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our…

As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend..



I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.

Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM or sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 &70's and while Praising my Lord, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ..…

Romans 15: 1-13 (King James Version)

 ¹We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

 ²Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

 ³For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

 ⁴For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our…

How Great Great is God?…

Let’s be honest—there is a lot of confusion about miracles … we’ve heard

~about television preachers rigging their healing services with ‘plants’, about

~big-tent meetings where people are getting healed on a nightly basis, and of

~long-held sacred beliefs on the healing powers at Fatima, Portugal1,  and then

~some of our denominations do not believe in healing prayer for the miraculous..

~or they do, but don’t talk about it much—certainly don’t…

But God being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which He loved us,even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive togather with christ [by graceyou have been saved] and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenlys places in Christ Jesus so that the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.for by grace you havebeen saved  through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of god not a…

Recently, we have had discussions on the Forum here at AAG.net about whether or not a person is saved eternally by Christ or whether a person can lose (and possibly regain) that salvation. Usually, this question is derived from a misquoting or misappropriation of some verses out of context, where it becomes unclear if God has truly saved us in Christ, or merely set us up for a…

"Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in Me." (John 16:7-8)

It…

The most notorious faith killer in all of life: worry. “For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body than clothing?” (Matthew 6:25).

Being something of a wordsmith, I find the term worry fascinating. To begin with, the word used by Matthew (translated here as “anxious”) is the Greek term merimnao. It is a…

Somehow the idea of "working hard" as a christian is lost in many believers as if Spiritual work should never be strenuos. Such a perspective might have drawn a stern correction from a hard worker like the apostle Paul.  Not only did he set an example of giving one's all in service to Christ, he exhorted his readers to follow his example. We are to work heartily and be "steadfast, immovable,…

In one of His " I am" statements Jesus said He was the " light of the world." Anyone who follows Him, He said would not " walk in darkness" but would "have the light of life." John 8:12

So Jesus is the light of the world, but He also told His disciples, "You are the light of the world." In fact, He compared us to a lamp that is given light by another light and we who follow Him, are the lesser lights.…

‘Working on our next ‘miracles’ teaching, but in the mean time…

I should like to ask you to ponder a few things:

  What is the difference between answered prayer and miracles?  Is there a difference?

   In times of trial, when you are afraid, do you drop to your knees first?

   How much stock do you put in prayer? 

   Do you place more value on someone else’s prayers than your own?

I am reminded

-that Paul wrote,  ‘Pray without…

He slipped in my room and gently woke me...giving me another day to improve myself. Make something better about today than yesterday!  TDJakes,,, I found this on twitter so I will credit Bishop Jakes for the inspirational words... I have recently realized this has more meaning the closer I get to the end of my life, than it did the first half or third of my life...

    I use to bum about what I have not done for the Kingdom,, that I somehow  would get to heaven and be scorned for what…