Category Archives: Christian Life

Christian Life isn’t all the time “happy-face” and positive. Yes, there are times of joy. Yet, intense life lessons rarely make me smile or laugh when I’m going through them. Endurance, patience, stamina, fortitude, tolerance, persistence, serenity, determination, courage and grit during these periods are God’s opening to make mere words a reality. Here we’ll be honest about the practice of our Christian faith.

Invitation From My Email’s Spam: “Life is short have an affair”

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My first inclination was to delete this phishing scam but,

My second notion was, 

“Wait, this invitation makes some sense.” 

Let me explain.

The majority would no doubt think that an affair is a sexual relationship. It is. But there is another classification for an affair. 

When I looked up affair I read sentences like a matter causing public scandal or controversy; a romantic and sexual relationship between two people who aren’t married; and read synonyms like adultery, fling, and cheating. 

But affair has another view. 

In this view, an affair is a private or personal concern other than a sexual relationship. As in business of any kind. Matters of state. Engagement of troops. An event. Synonyms like appointment, undertaking, or situation identify this view of an affair.

 

Okay if this distinction is made and accepted, may I suggest people have an affair … with God? 

 

 

What are the benefits of having an affair with God?

Here’s three:

  • It’s thrilling, 
  • It’s comforting, and 
  • It’s refreshing.

 

As a matter of fact, there is no satisfaction like the satisfaction God gives—and this is God’s invitation to us. 

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I suspect God desires to be intimate with me. Not in the sexual sense, of course, but much deeper than the sexual sense. In my past, intimacy with God is something I’ve run from because I frankly, feared intimacy with God. An affair with God has consequences and I wasn’t certain I desired to hazard these consequences. Consequences like commitment, devotion, and fidelity. However, I’ve warmed to this idea of intimacy with God. I’m now willing to wrap myself in God’s love. It isn’t a trivial decision to let God love you.
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One Smart Way to Bag Your Dream

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Did you ever ask:

Why am I here?

Well, did you know that you are a part of God’s dream?

What might happen if you dared to allow God to dream through you?

  • Yes, God has a dream
  • Yes, you are in God’s dream.
  • Yes, God can make you a dream come true.

How?

Align your dreams with God’s dream.

What will happen?

  • Excitement and joy
  • Contentment and delight
  • Happiness and satisfaction

You’ll bag your dream by

Cooperating with His Dream!

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If you haven’t asked questions like these, I have: Why am I here at this time in history? Why did God make me this way? What, if anything, am I supposed to accomplish?

I’m pretty sure each of us makes plans and we possess dreams. I started thinking about dreams while reading Dutch Sheets “Dream: Discovering God’s Purpose for Your Life.”

I credit this book by Dutch as the inspiration for this post. The book is a good read filled with memorable lines such as: “There is no greater motivator to hard work than a dream,” or: “Don’t allow anything to steal your dream,” and: “You are designed to dream.”

I have a dream for me but more importantly, God has a dream for me. I’m beginning to see that my life works best when these dreams match. This is the absolute best way to bag your dream.

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If You Wanna Know Here’s How to Know God is Real

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We were walking to our bus stop, heading to work, when Ernie asked, “Do you pray?”

praying handsMe: “Sure, everyone prays, don’t they?”

Ernie: “I’m not sure.”

Me: “Why do you ask?”

Ernie: “Because I’m trying to figure out what prayer is good for?”

I nearly tripped on a crack in the sidewalk. But I recovered and refocused on why do I pray and what is prayer good for?

Me: “Well, I pray to get things, to get help, to …”

Ernie: “So, you pray because you believe prayer is the way to get things done?”

Me: “Sure. You know,” (I thought of the three ways I was taught that God answers prayer 1-Yes. 2-No. 3-Wait.) “I pray because I can’t get the help I need on my own.”

Ernie: “Do you think your prayers change God’s mind?

Me: Trying to Manipulate God is something I’m guilty of even though I realize it’s impossible to do. So, why do I do it? I guess because manipulation works on people, so I figure why wouldn’t it work on God? “No, but yes, because I’m thinking that God may be manipulating me to pray like He wants me to pray.”

Ernie: “So, no.”

Me: “Yes, probably.” Okay maybe not manipulation, how about maneuvering? I mean there’s a formula to praying correctly, right? Like ACTS: 1-Adoration. 2 Confession. 3-Thanksgiving. 4-Supplication (requesting/asking). Or the 7 petitions of the Lord’s Prayer: 1-Hallowed be your name. 2-Your kingdom come. 3-Your will be done. 4- Give us. 5-Forgive us. 6-Lead us. 7-Deliver us. Or praying one of David’s psalms). “Why do you pray?”

Ernie: “Thanks for asking. I agree God knows everything before I pray and I don’t think prayer changes God’s mind. Furthermore, I think a prayer formula has limited worth. God doesn’t listen to me because I pray a prayer scheme so that I can cover all the areas I’m supposed to pray for correctly. What I really think is that God wants me to get real and talk to Him from my heart.”

Me: “Okay, so why is that?”

Ernie: “Well I’m thinking prayer is mostly good for developing intimacy with God.”

Thoughts:

So much has been written about prayer. When to pray. Where to pray. What to pray. Why to pray. How to pray. Who am I to say something significant about prayer? Yet, the other day I read (again) about Jesus slipping away from the chaos of ministry and his opposition to spend all night with God in prayer (Luke 6:12). What’s more this evidently wasn’t a one time event for Jesus, it seems he did this (get-alone-to-pray) frequently (Luke 5:16).

This intrigues me. Much too often I’ve rushed through my prayers and been relieved when the time was finished (usually not more than five minutes). I obviously missed something significant. I think Ernie hit on the something I’ve missed. In prayer I have the opportunity to know God intimately. Intimacy: closeness, friendship, affection, familiarity, confidentiality, and yes an interchange of true love and admiration.

I think I’m beginning to see why Jesus valued this time spent with His father. Their conversation was straight talk. The heavenly father opened His heart to Jesus. Jesus opened his heart to His father. It was a father-son talk I’ve yet to experience.

Still I sort of follow this all-night exchange behavior because I know that when you love someone it’s as if you can’t spend enough time with them. You want to hold on to the intimacy moments. You never want to leave their presence. You never want the time together to be over.

Prayer is an opportunity to become more intimate with God. That’s a little scary for me, yet my heart wants this, my heart longs for this, my heart thirsts for this. God knows me intimately and through prayer I am given the opportunity to know God intimately.

Bonus Music: “Only Thing I Need“—4HIM
“Only Thing I Need”-lyrics 

Prayer is your opportunity to know God is real.

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