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Got something stirring in your soul?
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It Takes A Glow Brainer To Turn A “No Brainer” Into A Know Brainer!
Both a phone with no service and someone without a strong Spirit-signal, find frustration and meaninglessness. However, a glow brainer will give you a strong Spirit-signal. When God shines in your heart, He enlightens your mind! ” For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.”
Sometimes what we think is obvious and refer to as a no brainer, is really a clever deception designed to miss up our life. Some no brainers are really know brainers, requiring much knowledge and discernment.
For example: This looks like a no brainer: “Just because you feel something, doesn’t make it true. Just because you want something, doesn’t make it right.” However, if you think about it for a minute and turn it into a know brainer, you will realize that our society teaches just the opposite and leads us into confusion and deception. Society has brainwashed many of us into falsely believing “If if feels good do it. If you feel it, it’s true and it’s right.”
What we need is a glow brainer! A glow brainer gives us discernment and helps us make wise decisions. Decisions determine direction & drive destiny. Decide deliberately.
A glow brainer helps us to make Spirit-led choices. Choices cause consequences & create circumstances. Choose carefully.
So what can enlighten you and make your brain glow? Surrender to Jesus! (Not the religious one; but the living One!)
You can experience a glow brainer at The Salvation Army Berry Street in Nashville, Tennessee on Sundays at 10:45 am. and/or Tuesdays at 6:00 pm. (225 Berry St); where rather than a 1-man sermon, normal people show and tell what God has done.
Watching the living, resurrected Jesus Christ lead a church meeting without a human program or agenda is a glow brainer, enlightening your mind with the glory of God! Come see!
From The Ice Bucket Challenge to The Salvation Army Flag-Prayer-Walk Challenge
The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is everywhere, raising amazing awareness and tons of money for ALS. Perhaps it is time for another challenge. #icebucketchallenge
Introducing The Flag-Prayer-Walk Challenge. We challenge you to go for a prayer walk on public streets carrying The Salvation Army Flag (or another Christian flag) and post pictures and/or videos on social media or make a donation to The Salvation Army. Use the hash tag #flagprayerwalkchallenge.
The Salvation Army Flag colors: red represents the blood of Jesus; yellow, the fire of the Holy Spirit, and blue stands for a lifestyle of daily following and obeying the living, resurrected Jesus Christ.
A great place to post your pics is the Prayer Walking With The Salvation Army Flag Facebook Page @ https://www.facebook.com/TheSalvationArmyFlag?ref=hl
Ready? Go!
Posted in bucket challenge, Christian flag, ice water, icebucketchallenge, Nashville, prayer, prayer walking, prayer walking with The Salvation Army Flag, publicity, Salvation Army Nashville, trends
Tagged ALS, challenge, charities, fund raising, Ice Bucket Challenge, Salvation Army, salvation army flag, social media
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What’s on tap in your kegs?
What’s on tap in your kegs? 2 kegs are on tap in your heart and ready to roll through your life. One keg contains love, joy, & peace — the other keg: anger, misery, & envy. What’ll you have?
Should we tap into our desires, preferences, opinions, feelings? Or should we tap into the Spirit? “Walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other.” –Paul of Tarsus (Galatians 5:16-17).
Life really is a simple, clear choice.” A man reaps what he sows (taps). Whoever sows (taps) to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows (taps) to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” –Galatians 6:7-8
With which flow will you go? The living water of the Spirit or the stale sensations of the flesh?
Posted in flesh, fruit of the Spirit, Galatians, heart, heart care, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit flow, human heart, living water, preference, ready to roll, reaping what you sow, spirit, spiritual flow, works of the flesh
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Right Living–Holiness–Is it out of date?
“Holiness” = right living/righteousness.
One of the founding principles of The Salvation Army is holiness–right living. Christ-followers are called, not just to get themselves to Heaven, to get others to Heaven, and to serve others on earth. We are also called to live a holy, obedient, and pure lifestyle here on earth. The blue in The Salvation Army Flag symbolizes “holiness.”
Jesus put it this way: “Seek first the kingdom (rulership) of God and His righteousness . . .” Holiness/right living is not automatic. It is a pursuit. We must seek/strive to live right and to obey Jesus. Fortunately, we Christ-followers have the Holy Spirit (the living, resurrected Jesus) living in our heart to give us the wisdom and the power that we need to obey Christ.
So the question becomes a matter of choice: 1) Do I choose to ignore, deny, justify, or overlook my wrongful thoughts, attitudes, words, and behaviors? Or . . . 2) Do I choose to acknowledge them, renounce them, and continually strive to overcome them? Holiness demands from me, choice #2.
“Holiness” is a word that all of us who claim to be Christ-followers should seek to live out in our daily lives, with all of our hearts. Do you? Will you?
How?
Confess any known sin in your life to God and to another human being and ask for forgiveness.
Then begin to fight against those sins with all your might and with prayer, faith, reading the Word, worship, accountability, etc.
Also, ask God to show you any sin in your life that you are not aware of. If you have the courage to do this, the Spirit and your conscience will begin to show you unknown sins in your life. Once you see them, confess them, turn away from them, and fight them will all your might.
Self-protection or self-surrender? (Suspicion or love?)
Self-protection produces isolation, defensiveness, self-focus, and alienation from others. Self-surrender produces openness, understanding, community, and mutuality.
Self-protection quenches the Holy Spirit and will keep God distant from you. Self-surrender opens the flood gates and lets God’s rivers of grace and glory flow from within your heart.
A formal program facilitates self-protection. Open sharing and testimonies facilitate self-surrender. (Perhaps churches should be less formal and more participatory.)
Self-protection produces suspicion, insecurity, worry, fear, and anxiety. Self-surrender produces love, joy, peace, faith, and trust.
“The greatness of the man’s power is the measure of his surrender.” —William Booth (co-founder of The Salvation Army)
Posted in greatness of a man's power, human relations, Salvation Army, self, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-esteem, self-focus, self-image, self-improvement, self-interest, self-mastery, self-sacrifice, self-surrender, selfishness, spirit, surrender, William Booth
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The audience of One — (Who should be on the church platform?)
The audience of One! Most churches have a platform or stage that lifts one person (or a few people) above the rest of the people and creates the atmosphere of an audience watching a performance.
However, the New Testament calls the church a body and says that every part of the body has an important role to perform in ministry to one another. Perhaps, from God’s perspective, everybody present in a church meeting is on the platform (stage) and He is the audience — the audience of One!
When no human is lifted up on a platform above all the others, a fresh message comes across:
1) We are all equal before God.
2) Everybody is free to participate as led by the Spirit.
3) The leader is the living, resurrected Jesus who is, Himself, invisibly directing the meeting.
4) The invisible God is actually present and watching everything we do.
Posted in alternative church, audience, church architecture, church format, church furniture, church leadership, church meetings, church programs, church seating, New Testament, order of worship, organic church, participation in church, participatory church, stage
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