Sitting Down With God

                                 I have been sitting here for the last hour listening to God.   His Spirit is moving in me to share a message with everyone.   Around the world, there are people who are being tortured, killed and imprisoned for their love of Jesus Christ.   I have spent the last few hours surfing the web and looking at several different websites dedicated to underground churches and to martyrs of Christ.                   All of them tell similar stories.   Stories of women, men, and children being taken from their homes and loved ones for having the courage to speak of the Gospel.   They know in their hearts that when they voice their beliefs they are condemning themselves to horrible injustices.   ...

GAIN FREEDOM FROM THE WORLD:           Lesson Three, You can’t straddle the fence.   You can’t be of the world and of God too.   You have to make a choice.   You either live in the world or you live like Christ is in you. Galatians 5:1 ESV, “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”           When you are of the world you are a slave to sin.   I know that before I dedicated my life back to Christ that I was a slave to sin.   My heart had gotten so hardened against what was right, that being wrong seemed right to me.   My conscious no longer worked.   I couldn’t hear God’s voice if he was standing at my ear with a megaphone.   In the world, I battled alcoholism and drug abuse. I battled debt and insecurity.   I was angry all the time and my hope was in earthly things.   I got so far dow...